Could be either of them, but I was referring to EmulationStation.

@goestohollywood Don't worry about the order in the file: ES is always shuffling that around anyway if you have 'save metadata' enabled. The list SHOULD be in alphabetical order inside ES either way (or else it's conforming to any <sortname> tags you might have).

@mitu Thank you very much! It works!

@Nathan1031982 Skyscraper (and perhaps Sselph's Scraper too, but I haven't used it) will write gamelists in alphabetical order when it processes them.

After you play a game, ES updates the last-played and play count data. It removes the old enty with the old data, and writes the new entry with updated data at the end of the file.

You can re-write your gamelist with Skyscraper if you want an alphabetized snapshot of it to use for another project but you can't make it stay alphabetized if you play any games.

@mitu,

Oh yes you're right, if I go down to the directory I can see the images...

Thanks..

Cool idea and looks nice.

You might consider using <sortname/> [1] in the gamelist instead of modifying the display name of the ROM upon preprocessing.

What duration adds the preprocessing to the ES start?
Do you rewrite every extra information to the gamelist every time (video, thumbnail, ... and hiscores)? I would assume only rewriting the hiscores would be sufficient as they change more often than the "static" scraped data.
Last but not least: What are your plans to publish the sources?

[1] https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/GAMELISTS.md#game

@asdone77 said in theme gamelist text alignment problem:

How can the text of the gamelist be centered and left alignment at the same time。

I don't think it can. What do you mean?

@tomaz said in [ES-dev Bug Report] Attempting to modify Description metadata exits ES with a malloc error:

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/779 should fix this

As expected, works perfectly. Cheers!

@retroguy said in Shortcut Commands for game list:

I'd rather just push a key and change the metadata value for hidden.

There's no action for that implemented. Either edit as you're doing now or edit the gamelist.xml file directly and add the hidden tag there.

@lolonois and yet, it tracks their last-played date and even groups them into a last-played category if you enable it. As long as you have network access, you have an accurate clock I think.

@atmozphera

(EDIT : Aha, a bit too late I see, You already figured it out)

Hope it's helpful, I did a small test for you using this small gamelist (/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/gamelist.xml ) :

<?xml version="1.0"?> <gameList> <game> <path>./Aardvark (2019).zip</path> <name>Aardvark (2019)</name> <image>./downloaded_images/Aardvark (2019).png</image> <genre>Atari 2600</genre> </game> </gameList>

The files are structured like this :

pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie/roms/atari2600 $ find -name "*" . ./gamelist.xml ./Aardvark (2019).zip ./downloaded_images ./downloaded_images/Aardvark (2019).png

You will see that it has a space in the name, but that doesn't matter, it just works.
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@mitu Worked!

@sleve_mcdichael said in 32x Game Titles showing rom symbols after scraping:

Are you running SS through the setup script or from the command-line? If script, do you have generate options >> remove bracket info (enabled)? (This is global, but maybe if 32x is the only system you've scraped since it changed or something.)

Beyond that, the contents of your /home/pi/.skyscraper/config.ini file might shed some light on what's happening. You can post it here if you can't make sense of it.

``` Use code blocks (start and end with three backticks on a new line) so special symbols aren't interpreted as formatting. _*[{}]*_ Or upload it to (edit:spelling) pastebin.com if it's very long. ```

Yep toggling that option on solved it. Thanks!

@billydent no problem. Glad I could help.

Yeah having games inside subfolders should be no problem, as long as their path falls inside the "system path" (~/RetroPie/roms/snes, etc.) defined in es_systems.cfg. If you try to point a gamelist for a system at a rom file outside of this system path, ES won't like it and will skip that entry.

@mitu
Thanks for the straight answer. This works !! It looks so much better. I'm not sure why so many people like their themes gamelists all in uppercase letters ?

@mitu ok thank you. Maybe I can add this as a feature request (on GitHub or in the forum?) and try and work with someone more talented than me on the coding of this.

EmulationStation will use the gamelist.xml ROMs folder, if found, otherwise it looks in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/<system>. The 2 files are not combined, just one of them is used, in that order.

If you enabled the 'Use Local Art' option in EmulationStation's settings, it will try find a video matching the game by looking under roms/<system>/media/<ROM_NAME>-video.mp4, so even if there's no video declared in gamelist.xml, it might still find a video associated with it.

In fact, what would be the best way to ensure that I get both videos and correct information into my setup?

Don't mix the scrapers if you want video - the internal scraper doesn't support videos so it might overwrite the video tags if you re-scrape with it. Use the external scraper and see which videos have issues - some arcade videos are incompatible with RPI's hardware video codecs and might not play correctly.