I use to set bios roms as “hidden” (you can do this in that page containing each file info: name, producer, cover path, year of release, and so on...) you will still see hidden files in “normal” use, so I switch to kiosk mode (where hidden files are not shown) when have to do some modification or trick, I easy switch back to “normal” mode by a short controller combo password (default is up up down down left right left right A B) and then when done switch back again to kiosk mode. this way everything works great, and I am also sure that casual users (friends, or my kids too) can’t mess up with my system (kiosk mode disables almost all configuration switch and options)

Turns out the only gamelist that was created was in ~/RetroPie/roms/retropie/gamelist.xml , (there was only this single one on my whole disk, and I did search for hidden files, too). But in the retropie_setup.sh -> tools -> scraper options, I had disabled (or forgotten to enable) that the .xmls be put in their respective rom directories. So I deleted the single gamelist and image folder (that contained metadata for >10 systems), scraped again, since I really couldn't be bothered with manually sorting metadata for >4k Roms into different folders, and this time everything was saved to the right locations! Thank you very much for providing me with the correct locations, the problem is solved now and the thread can be closed.

Thank you Clyde. If I had a second micro sd with this size, I would do more experimentation. @Clyde said in [solved] Stops booting after small changes on gamelist, even if i revert: That said, I do not understand you completely. Do you say that eject in Nautilus does work now, but didn't back then? Yes, but on the other hand, I did not test this with adding files. So the eject works, because there is nothing written (maybe). My best guess is that something prevented a clean ejection of the card's file system and that Retropie had to do an fsck one or two times and repair the unclean file system of the card. I don't know whats going on here, but this is my guess too.

@mitu Nope, I'm using the dev build on my Pi as well. And the other two setups on my PC, which worked, used the same build. I assume it has something to do with my es_systems.cfg and/or the way I've set up the dummy files. Maybe I see if I can rework the setup but like I said, I currently don't care.

@webz0r I'm not sure how you would do this, but you don't need to worry about keeping the gamelist.xml in alphabetical order.

@xwons The reason for that is that the Retropie image runs on Linux whose file system is case sensitive. Thanks for sharing your solution for others.

Thanks it was the way they format what I type in. I modified it for easier reading.

Thank you guys. I'm not gonna make a scraper, just a gamelist editor, so I'm safe now on what to do ;-)

@dankcushions said in [SOLVED] - Video Snaps not Playing: @wiggy808 you're clicking the wrong thing. don't click 'topic tools', click the three vertical dots to the right of the 'reply quote ^ 0 v' bit under your post. Very observant! I missed that detail in @wiggy808's post. 😌

@hazzerboraco said in gamelist.xml not being read emulationstation 2.8 windows: And no, save metadata on exit was turned on. Nobody asked about this. Can you provide a screenshot ?

@thedatacereal not sure how to do your suggestion. :( Update: GOT IT! Yea, win!

The issue has been fixed in the latest dev release, can you grab the @jdrassa's continuous build for Windows and check it out ?

I don't think it's a perfect fit for all your problems, but in this project: https://github.com/PRElias/win10_emulation_station/tree/choco-auto-install I built a powershell script which put video and marquee TAGs based on the name of your ROMs on you gamelist. Copy the gamelist_manager.ps1 to your ROMs folder and execute it as admin. Worth a try

@paf said in Game description in detailed view does not scroll correctly: The power saving modes (other than "disabled") are not compatible with scrolling description text So disabling power saving solved my text scrolling problem. I hope this will help others to. Man thank you! This bugged me for a long time and I always thought it is something with the Emulation Station Themes and just kinda ignored it. Many thanks posting the solution, you helped me at this point.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter too much. You can just leave it in the folder structure that your preferred scraper creates, or change it entirely. As long as gamelist.xml points to the correct location, use whatever strikes your fancy. The exception to this is that runcommand prefers there to be an images folder inside each system if it is going to use individual rom launching pictures. I don't know if there is a way to change that default location.

@fruitybit Seems the wiki page is not clear enough or offers some outdated (?) information. Glad it works out.