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    • rasp_renegade

      Where is the gamelist.xml?
      Help and Support • roms gamelist.xml metadata • • rasp_renegade

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      @mitu

      Wow! At some point I did disable the save on exit setting. Thank you.

    • kelvinator3300

      Scrolling Metadata
      Ideas and Development • metadata • • kelvinator3300

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    • RaptorBandito

      Help manually adding boxart using Emulation Station Metadata feature
      Help and Support • box art metadata • • RaptorBandito

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      @roslof

      That did the trick! Thank you. I guess since I looked at the folder path in windows explorer, and it spelled "RetroPie" in lower case as "retropie" I assumed that would be the correct folder name. Thanks for you help!

    • billydent

      Scraped Metadata not "sticking"
      Help and Support • metadata c64 vice bards tale gamelist • • billydent

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      jamrom2

      @billydent no problem. Glad I could help.

    • jmbosch82

      Not saving metadata - Cyperghost script
      Help and Support • shutdown scrript gpio cyperghost metadata • • jmbosch82

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    • Agrajag

      Scrape single titles and bulk?
      Help and Support • scrape metadata • • Agrajag

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      mitu

      When you start a 'bulk' scraping operation you have an option named User decides on conflicts, you can toggle that off and you'll not be asked anything during scraping.

      To scrape a single game, press Select when you've selected the game in the list and then choose Edit this game's metadata, you'll have the option to scrape there that single game/rom.

    • indecks

      Buh.. gamelist.xml is kickin' my butt.
      Help and Support • gamelist.xml metadata scraping • • indecks

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      @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.

    • thelostsoul

      Where are the information favorite, hidden and kidgame stored?
      General Discussion and Gaming • gamelist.xml tags gamelists metadata • • thelostsoul

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      simpleethat

      @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.

    • hiulit

      EmulationStation removes non-default metadata tags in gamelist.xml
      Help and Support • emulation station metadata gamelist • • hiulit

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    • Lamaman1971

      Atomiswave Scrape
      Projects and Themes • atomiswave scrape metadata sammy • • Lamaman1971

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      polpettedorso

      Check angular theme

    • Impman66

      Changing how to display Metadata in ES
      Help and Support • themes es themes metadata display control images • • Impman66

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    • Snake1922

      Migrate custom scrape data
      Help and Support • scrape fresh install new install metadata descriptions • • Snake1922

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      mitu

      Backup your data - see Option 2 of how you can backup - and re-install.

      Scraped data is kept in one of these places:

      the ROMs folder (if you've used an external scraper). the \\retropie\configs\emulationstations\downloaded_images folder, if you've used only the EmulationStation internal scraper(s).

      So if you take the advice in the docs and back-up your ROMs and configs folders, you should be able to keep your games and scraped data.

    • che_don_john

      Mattrixk's 'Spare' theme - removing the meta data from the Retropie system menu
      Help and Support • themes emulationstatio metadata • • che_don_john

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      @Thorr69 Hi, thanks for the suggestion - but would that not also hide it for all my 'systems', not just the Retropie menu?

    • GreenHawk84

      Metadata Not Saving
      Help and Support • metadata edit • • GreenHawk84

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      mitu

      I'm a bit confused - the right permissions for the gamelists are to be owned by the user pi. If you change the file to be owned by root, then Emulationstation (which runs as user pi) will not be able to save any metadata (writing back the gamelist.xml file).

      Make sure the files are owned by the user pi, then try again to see if the metadata is saved. If it's not, show a screenshot of the file's permissions. Also, make sure you didn't accidentally disabled saving the metadata on exit from the Emulationstation settings.

    • vbs

      Emulationstation: Save metadata on change
      Ideas and Development • emulationstaion metadata save data • • vbs

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      @BuZz
      Do you have an opinion on this matter?

      I am thinking about

      an option to enable instant save on every change in the event loop which might introduce lags depending on the system having a background thread that saves changes which would not introduce lags but introduce more complexity into ES
    • Zampadu

      Metadata Release Date cut off
      Help and Support • release date cut off metadata gui • • Zampadu

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    • Smoghog

      Add console year next to games count?
      Help and Support • year custom text metadata • • Smoghog

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      Smoghog

      @rkoster Ah, Nice! I'll have to dig into the xml files for Carbon since that's what I'm using. I don't have much expertise in that area, but it doesn't look like it would be too much trouble with a little tinkering. Maybe someone who has done it on Carbon will chime in as well before I get a chance to.. :D

      Thanks!

    • fluffypillow

      Pegasus Metadata Editor
      Ideas and Development • pegasus metadata editor c++ development • • fluffypillow

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      fluffypillow

      Ok, took way too much time, but the Android keyboard should be fixed now.

    • xwons

      Adding delay before loading metadata and boxart?
      Help and Support • boxart metadata delay lag theme • • xwons

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      xwons

      Thanks, I'll try it!

    • EviLEd

      Skyscraper downloads gamelist and artwork, but does not link artwork <SOLVED>
      Help and Support • skyscraper game list artwork metadata screenscraper • • EviLEd

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      EviLEd

      This appears to be working for the artwork.

      If installed through RetroPie, first create symbolic link: sudo ln -s /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper /usr/local/bin/Skyscraper

      Command line example for SNES in the USA region with use with EmulationStation: Skyscraper -p snes -s screenscraper -u username:password --unattend --nohints --region us

      Command line options

      /retropie/configs/all/skyscraper/config.ini

      Config.ini options

      Config.ini region options

      EDIT: After the artwork is downloaded i was able to generate gamelist.xml.