You shouldn't need to create manually any folders, they are created (with the correct name) when the corresponding emulator is installed. RetroPie already comes with emulators installed, so the basic folders should be already present. The thing is these folders aren't appearing on my SD card that had Retro Pie on it. If you're looking at the SD card's contents on a Windows PC, you will only see the boot partition, the 2nd partition holds the actual system (and the RetroPie installation), but Windows doesn't know how to read the Linux filesystem on it - so you won't be able to see the folders. So, if I were to create folders manually, where would I create them on the USB? No, you don't need to create the folders manually. If you want to transfer your ROMs over, take a look at the Docs. If your RetroPie system is connected to your network, the easiest method for transfer is via File Shares from your PC.

@UberLumby Yeah, I just stumbled upon subfolder scraping by accident myself. Also didn't expect the scrapers to do that. (Like I noticed the "hide preview" button in the forum editor right now by clicking on it accidentally on my way to the "submit" button. 😆 )

@mitu Thank you very much for your answer.

Ok thanks

That teaches one to tidy up behind oneself after compiling, lest you'll find the remains later when you don't remember putting them there. 😊 (Alas, data remains don't tend to decompose by themselves like other remains do.)

Doesn't matter, I worked it out. I had the <folder> tag placed in the wrong place. Regards,

I guess I will either change RocketLauncher/LaunchBox to the RP standard, or just have two separate folder structures. I can remember that "snes" is "super nintendo" ;) I do love the RP setup. Nothing beats the combination of RP, ES and RA for simplicity and features. I know I can do a few more things with RL/LB/BB/RA... but it's a lot more complicated!

@arambecker No my approach would be a bit more. A tool to find duplicates. As I said in my first post. If you have selections of several regions. Maybe 1000 roms it would be usefull to search for a gametitle and to select duplicates. Game 1 (J) Game 1 (U) Game 2 (JUE) Game 3 (J) Game 3 (E) You already programmed delimiter so there needs "just" to generate an automatic search term. That's not the way your script is intended to work and I think it will need a heavy rework. But this would be usecase, too ROM Names > Automatic generated search term Game 1 (J) > Game 1 ( Game 1 (U) > Game 1 ( Game 2 (JUE) > Game 2 ( Game 3 (J) > Game 3 ( Game 3 (E) > Game 3 ( Maybe @meleu can say more to this? Welcome on board :)

I just wrote a "snes" folder to the roms map on the usb drive and put a game in that was't available in the existing rom list on my raspberry. The game is transferred and working. It looks like i don't need the raspberry to create the rom folders to transfer more roms. Writing the subfolders manually in the "roms" folder seems to work.

@romzy7887 What changes have you made though? more details are needed.

I tried what you suggested but it didn't work. Not sure why. But I did come up with a solution that works. <?xml version="1.0"?> <gameList> <folder> <name>a</name> <path>./a</path> </folder> <folder> <name>b</name> <path>./b</path> </folder> <folder> <name>c</name> <path>./c</path> </folder> <game> <path>./a/aaaa.zip</path> </game> <game> <path>./b/bbbb.zip</path> </game> <game> <path>./c/cccc.zip</path> </game> </gameList>

@yussafm Good questions. Easy to try a few tests on your own, as not everyone is using it the way you propose. My advice is to avoid folders by letter, as Emulation Station lets you easily jump directly to letters, you can page up page down, and with recent enhancements, there are many ways to build your own custom game lists (and using that technique, you could add favorites, make lists by letter, etc.). As for timing, I think you will have to do some of your own tests. There are factors like your SD card speed (or whatever you are using to store your ROMs). I would expect it to affect boot times somewhat, as the ROM lists are gathered, but you will have to try it and find out if it's acceptable for your needs. Maybe someone else will reply with their specific examples. My loads are very fast, but I only have a few hundred ROMs.

@KillerQ I had a post about an issue you're going to run into when using subfolders: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10427/regarding-image-metadata-displays-in-retropie/18 Hopefully in the future ES gets an upgrade that fixes this or the guys making skins for us can find a workaround for this.

@Robotechvfx That’s a really nice image- I hate to ask, but can you post a link to it? I’d love to use it on my system.

@TMNTturtlguy said in Folders and Marquees/Videos: ely affecting old themes. I have not noticed as i am not running one of the older themes, but it makes me wonder what it is doing to my theme on others machines. Since i don't have the carousel implemented yet, i would suppose that it would be affected in the same way? Does anyone know what update is causing this? Is it in the most recent update from source when the black boxes on meta data fields was corrected? or did this start happening when the carousel was imple Yep everything is good! I never noticed it before or after a certain point as I just decided to do my PC games this week.

@pjft Thanks! Dream come true with this one. Installed and everything appears to be working great. I love the screen saver, the temps are running nicely and i have not issues with screen savers, text, or video previews. One item that is not a big deal and I solved for my build is the volume level of the screensaver videos compared to the volume of the video previews and actual games. I had to set my system volume to 92% in order to make the game and preview audio align with the screen saver audio. Originally the screen saver audio was playing about 2 times my game audio and it blew me away! Another thought to add to what I am sure is a very long list of wants and desires of many is the ability to have a custom screen saver/single screensaver. My thought here is that you keep the random video screen saver the way it is, but can you add another option that would run a video from a designated folder? We could then create a custom screen saver video, or simply put your favorite video in a folder location and only that video would play. I am thinking it would be fun to have a custom video i would create in adobe after affects similar to what we can do for the custom splash screens. - Anyways, like I said, that is a wish list item and by no means an immediate need or fix. Thank you for your hard work and to @fieldofcows for this addition to ES! Edit: @pjft Any thoughts on how this build of ES 0.6-ssctl might react to the new retropie 4.2? I am assuming that when i run the update all it will load the base ES and i will then go back in and replace with 0.6-ssctl. Just wondering if you have any thoughts before i give it a try. Thanks

I'm a big fan of the arcade folder. I like keeping everything in one area