@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

I'm aware of the favorites mod.

But I was looking for something more geared at collections like having all MARIO games in one section within ES

@Tempistrane Do any files show up? Is SSH enabled on your pi?

@drake999 Follow this guide instead.

@ShawnS: No worries. It would have been cool if it were possible.

@UDb23 yeah it's a little hidden in the wiki, perhaps I'll make it a little more verbose:

For reference: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/EmulationStation#my-es_sytemscfg-is-being-overwritten-on-updates