@mitu

Thanks Mitu. I ended up using locate to find any corresponding gamelist.xml for the Naomi folder(s) and wiped them, then I just started from scratch, adding one game at a time and it looks like it finally took the information. I must have missed something in there, but just copy/pasting by hand finally nixed the issue.

It was so weird. Before that it was even naming stuff totally wrong. Like I had MegaMan 3 for NES Playchoice listed in the Naomi folder. And a LOT of the games were being listed as Power Instinct, which is not on the Naomi. No idea why it was generating games that weren't in the folder at all.

As @YFZdude mentioned, the genesis folder is a symlink (shortcut) to the megadrive folder, so there's no need to remove it - it's not actually taking any space. You can leave it as is, it's ok - the scriptmodules expect a megadrive ROM folder and updating the MD emulators will re-create the folder.

@SeraphisCain Thanks - there is a gamelist there, but the titles on it are not the ones affected by the issue. There are only a handful of titles and there's no metadata defined. A red herring, I'm afraid.

I appreciate your help, but I'm ready to give up. I don't think it's going to get worked out.

Thanks anyway.

@IanDaemon that's exactly what I plan to use it for. All of the game sequels done with Roman Numerals can be displayed as the publishers intended but also in sequential order.

@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.

I have finally resolved it myself: the Bash Script itself was named "Master Edition" by accident, which led to this particular gamelist entry being ignored, with the bash script name being shown as the title instead, and since it has been ignored - no video.
Can be closed, but I will not delete this for now, in case anyone else encounters this or some of the friendly users who answered want to know where this went.

Just saw this app related to this topic. Its not exactly what I am looking for, just want to link it here: RetroPi Media - gamelist.xml generator

Hi,
yeah, it's definitely the correct gamelist.xml

I switched on my PC today, and the problem remained.
So, in an effort to find the exact sequence to trigger this, I built a test .emulationstation folder from scratch. 3 roms, 1 system, 1 hidden rom.

And, it worked perfectly. <hidden>true</hidden> tags hid the one hidden rom.
So, I put back my original .emulationstation folder.

And, now, <hidden> works fine for me.

No other changes were made. (I renamed the folder, and just named it back)
So.
Not sure what to say to you guys now!

If I can reproduce it in future, I'll note how I did it.
Some of the time in the last day or two, I enabled Kiosk sometimes via the UI, and sometimes by editing the .cfg file by hand.
I didn't think ES wrote any changes apart from into the .emulationstation folder.
Each time though, like I said, I could see <hidden> was true in the entry, in Full mode.
And Kiosk was enabled properly, since I couldn't make any UI changes.

In my software, I'm going to add support for hiding certain genre's, and that should complete the work on it for the time being, I think.

@saccublenda
If i remove the gamelist.xml from the amiga folder the loading screen take couple of min'.
if its still theres takes around 20min' ...

Try moving your amiga roms to another directory to see if the 2 minutes of loading time are due to the large number of roms.

and yeha 9990 and around 5000 reg' in the gamelist.

Ok, that is a number close to my previous estimate. Actually your gamelist contains 10233 entries, and as I expected there are many duplicates, that is the same game is listed as adf, hdf or uae. I suggest you to remove these duplicates both from the rom directory and from the gamelist. This should reduce both the number of roms and the size of your gamelist, and reduce the loading time. I have gamelists with ~ 2500 entries and they take few seconds to load.

Are you sure you don't have an additional gamelist.xml in the ROMs folder (megadrive) ? EmulationStation will look there first and then in the gamelists/megadrive folder.

@mitu Excellent! Thanks for the help! I will try this in the next few days. And thanks for your help in this community!

@muldjord said in Skyscraper: problem with re-naming rom names without bracket info:

Do you perhaps sometimes run Skyscraper from command-line and sometimes from the RetroPie script? And do you then maybe have two different versions?

Maybe I misunderstood and by two versions you meant two different scrapes for a system instead two versions of Skyscraper?
In this case I'm pretty sure I only used Skyscraper from terminal for CPS systems as those were the only ones that originally didn't scrape from RP-script.

@gugue Just like you have .cue files, you can have .cue folders - game1.cue - and they'll show up as games in the list.

@Rion
Got my emulation stuck on the reboot screen...
@meleu
i did try that one too but really seems that too many games list make the loading screen on the reboot longer

At first blush this sounds decent. I'm not sure how ES is coded, but flexibility is almost always a good thing.