@alphabetapie said in Is Setting gamelist.xml As Read-Only OK?:

Also, when I set that part about ES not saving meta data, will that be saved to a config file somewhere (and which one).

EmulationStation's setttings are saved in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg.

@mitu
Thank you! that was the problem The SD card was full like 100% full!. I free-ed up some space and my favourites etc, are being saved. I tested restarting emulation station and re-booting the Pie. All working fine now.

I feel like a fool! Thank you for your help.

Not a complaint, but a request: it might be nice to get a big fat warning if settings cannot be saved due to no SD card space. But from now on I will make sure to leave some space on the SD card.

Found it there. Thank you.

In case anyone in this thread is interested, I just released v2.1.0 of RetroPie Convert Videos.

@cyperghost ok I figured it out :)
it's a little bit of a bug but totally fixable.

ES uses both gamelist.xml found at /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/"console"/ and /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/"console"/

so if there's no gamelist.xml in the console folder under roms, it will use the one found in configs. for some reason it doesn't remove entries, only adds them.

it will also not untag favorites if you DO have a gamelist.xml in your roms but DON'T have an entry in your gamelist.xml for the tagged favorite game.

Best word of advice: scrape like you've never scraped before lol

@jonnykesh have you ever heard of the controller connecting via Bluetooth, retropie detecting the game pad, but NONE of the buttons working on gamepad?? I’m going to try another gamepad, this is most recent 1.23 firmware update with the new-ish SN30 Pro.