@thelostsoul said in Gamelist Addon - an assist tool to manually add new game entries: About the automation, yes I want that implemented in the main app too someday. Just in case you did miss it, I actually did miss it. Thanks for the directions.

@Yobiwan Deleting the file from roms/scummvm works. Did you enable the 'Parse gamelists only' option in EmulationStation by any chance ?

Hi @laserbones , you can use ARRM to update only the metadata you want. See Wiki : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=scrape_text_only_en Download link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

@mitu Yes this is a quick hack for people running ROMs from NAS. Specifically, for accessing via SMB shares. stat() has no speed problem with local ROM collection at all. If we look at it further, may be there's a better solution.

@mitu Thanks so much! :)

Ah. Thanks. Thought I was going crazy for a sec there. =D

@Rion Thanks. I used your files. Really useful. Especially the multi bat is very useful in my setup. I was toying around yesterday with clrmame and romcenter to organise a 0.78 file, but I found it quite hard for a noob. Your files do help a lot !

Thanks!!!!!

@bananapi761 the -dev package is always a source install, otherwise the package would not the latest version.

@WeatherPi Maybe you could host your scripts on GitHub and hopefully the community would contributes and help you add new features. Might be better to have short games that take a couple hours to finish unlocked for a day but maybe longer RPG style games should be unlocked for several days? I'm not sure if your friend likes to focus on RPG's to finish them or if he plays RPG's at all. Maybe RPG's only unlocked over the weekend and have a small handful of unique shorter games unlock each weekday (like different ones every weekday)?

Thanks! That was the case. Problem solved.

Haven't been on the forum in awhile and happened to be looking around and saw this. Not sure if you're still looking for info on this.. but i'm a big fan of romhacks, I found the biggest obstacle to be creating the gamelist. Getting a nice romhack list setup in ES or Launchbox takes a fair amount of manual effort. Obviously none of the scrapers will scrape & create gamelists for you because their romhacks and there is no official list, but if you have romhack naming convention figured out how you like and have them all named, you can get a base XML created from Unviversal XML Scraper (https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/releases) and go from there. I name my romhacks like this: In ES, I created separate "systems" for romhacks and even English translated roms if I felt there were enough to warrant it. to create the separate systems, I copied the system from the theme folder, renamed it and edited the theme.xml to replace the "ControllerOverlay" art & "logo2" art with a different image (both are normally the controller.svg file, I just a png image, which..mine doesn't line up perfect, but it's good enough for me) so when you're scrolling through you can differentiate between them easily. You also need to edit the es_systems.cfg and copy the system you want, and rename the affected fields for that. So for SNES, I actually have 4 different systems in my Carbon ES theme folder, and in the ROMS folder: snes snes-hacks snes-msu snes-trans For filling in the gamelist fields for each hack, I just kept it simple and did a description, I didn't worry about year/developer/etc. And I just used the box of the original game as the image, I didn't try to find screenshots or specific box art for romhacks. As far as your question on patching, I can't really answer that, I pre-patch all romhacks, I'm not sure if emulators can do on-the-fly patching or not. Also compress roms as .zip, just normal compression rate, nothing crazy. I'm sure there are easier/better ways to do some of this stuff, but this is what I came up with at the time. Hope this info is useful to someone.

@retromoonman I tried to scrape the game in your example with your created template and it works fine. For this game most of media are only available in japanese, so you ll have to add jp in your media order. See wiki : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=media-assignation-en#order_of_priority_of_the_media_according_to_the_country

close emulation station before editing it

@sohailoo Thanks for the info. For metadata, you will need to install Selph's scraper from the setup script. Once done, then exit ES and run the following command from the terminal or a SSH session: cd RetroPie/roms/psx /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -img_format=png -image_dir="./boxart" -image_path="./boxart" -download_images=false -image_suffix="" -marquee_dir="./wheel" -marquee_path="./wheel" -download_marquees=false -marquee_suffix="" -video_dir="./snap" -video_path="./snap" -download_videos=false -video_suffix="" The above is an example for creating a gamelist XML for Playstation (PSX). For the other systems, the working directory needs to be changed with a command such as cd ../snes/ before running the scraper. For arcade roms, remember to include the -mame parameter in the scraper command.

i just noticed the same issue occurs with sega cd and sg-1000

Hi, are there any news? What is a working gamelist editor under windows? I find this: https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/9265/soft-gamelist-editor Seems working, but i.e. the mame-libreto -folder will not displayed. My trick: Rename the mame-libretor to (i.e. not used) "snes" => than the games are displayed. Also found the the "ARRM" editor, but for me not clear how it should work... lot of features ... Any other gamelist editors there ?

@BobHarris that's most likely the issue then. I'll have to search for it myself then, as it is also one of my favorites when i was able to play.