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.

All fixed. I used selph scraper instead and the issue seems to be corrected.

So in the end I did end up making the gamelist myself. The good thing is that the game and the thumbnail are the same file for Pico-8 games :) pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms $ cat /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/gamelist.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <gameList> <game> <path>./Across_the_river.p8.png</path> <name>Across_the_river</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Across_the_river.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Combo_Pool.p8.png</path> <name>Combo_Pool</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Combo_Pool.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Dank_Tomb.p8.png</path> <name>Dank_Tomb</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Dank_Tomb.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Hungry_Harry_3d.p8.png</path> <name>Hungry_Harry_3d</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Hungry_Harry_3d.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Kelins_delivery_Rain.p8.png</path> <name>Kelins_delivery_Rain</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Kelins_delivery_Rain.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Stories_at_dawn.p8.png</path> <name>Stories_at_dawn</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Stories_at_dawn.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./The_Wee_Dungeon.p8.png</path> <name>The_Wee_Dungeon</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/The_Wee_Dungeon.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./U-Turn.p8.png</path> <name>U-Turn</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/U-Turn.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Dusk_Child.p8.png</path> <name>Dusk_Child</name> <image>./Dusk_Child.p8.png</image> <playcount>2</playcount> <lastplayed>20190414T055919</lastplayed> </game> </gameList>

non of the psx games will play either

@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.

@Shinobi we don't support third party images. Please read the sticky topics as agreed when registering. (This may not technically be an Image but we can't advise on 3rd party add-ons and I know is there are motion blue images also). https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first Gameslists are created via a scraper btw. Info in docs.

From a cursory look two possible solutions: Make sure your priorities.xml file for the folder/system ZX Spectrum does use screenscraper first, then gamesdb, then import for the title. For manual import you need a template (definitions.dat) with all ###xy### strings (including ###TITLE###) and a actual XML-snippet with the concrete values. The only differences between the template and the XML-snippet must be the the ###xy### strings and the concrete values. Keep withspaces, no reordering, nothing. And -but I guess you did- the file to be imported must be named like the romfilename but without extension. HTH PS: Good to see you solved it just before my reply. :-)

I already try this and the result is the problem returning when I add a new game to favorites. Yesterday I do some tests and the problem occur with Snes, Megadrive and Nes gamelist.xml. I don’t know the the reason and not see any difference between the files.