@huxley518 Hey, oddly working on a similar thing in Python to generate a custom gamelists to for a curated set of games across all systems. A bit more of what I've been doing is here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32674/arcade-high-scores-in-the-system-menus-adapted-grid-theme-with-videos but what I'm working on at the moment is pulling out high score data and putting it into a game's description. By using the favourites menu I can pull in all my favourite games and have in one single menu. All the games' data I've curated is in a .csv file.
Here's a snippet of my arcade gamelist.xml all of which is generated each time my cab is turned on before ES starts up.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
<game>
<name>001 : 1942</name>
<video>/mnt/usbhd/videos/1942.mp4</video>
<path>/mnt/usbhd/roms/arcade\1942.zip</path>
<image>/mnt/usbhd/images/arcade\1942.png</image>
<marquee>~/.emulationstation/themes/carbon-2022/art/systems/arcade.svg</marquee>
<releasedate>19700101T000010</releasedate>
<favorite>true</favorite>
<desc>1942
(Capcom, 1984)
Arcade
DARREN^N 364810 Round 9
D.-&? Z^ 60240 Round 2
DARREN 51820 Round 2
c CAPCOM 40000 Round 0
TEST 36670 Round 2
STEVE 36550 Round 2
ALL 35000 Round 0
!%()^{}^? 33910 Round 2
RIGHT 30000 Round 0
RESERVED 25000 Round 0
EXEDEXES 20000 Round 0
10630 Round 1
VULGUS 9999 Round 0
SONSON 8888 Round 0
HIGEMARU 7777 Round 0
EXEDEXES 6666 Round 0
NAKASATO 5555 Round 0
1500 Round 0
1400 Round 0
1300 Round 0
1200 Round 0
1100 Round 0
1000 Round 0
900 Round 0
800 Round 0
</desc>
</game>
<game>
<name>002 : 1943: The Battle of Midway</name>
<video>/mnt/usbhd/videos/1943.mp4</video>
<path>/mnt/usbhd/roms/arcade\1943.zip</path>
<image>/mnt/usbhd/images/arcade\1943.png</image>
<marquee>~/.emulationstation/themes/carbon-2022/art/systems/arcade.svg</marquee>
<releasedate>19700101T000020</releasedate>
<favorite>true</favorite>
<desc>1943: The Battle of Midway
(Capcom, 1987)
Arcade
DAZ 66500
12 44600
!&: 30300
*^ 27300
.9! 25200
</desc>
</game>
<game>
<name>003 : 1941: Counter Attack</name>
<video>/mnt/usbhd/videos/1941.mkv</video>
<path>/mnt/usbhd/roms/arcade\1941.zip</path>
<image>/mnt/usbhd/images/arcade\1941.png</image>
<marquee>~/.emulationstation/themes/carbon-2022/art/systems/arcade.svg</marquee>
<releasedate>19700101T000030</releasedate>
<favorite>true</favorite>
<desc>1941: Counter Attack
(Capcom, 1990)
Arcade
DAZ 443800 Rank 1
DAZ 223300 Rank 0
Z*. 38500 Rank 0
*.- 31800 Rank 0
CAP 30000 Rank 7
COM 25000 Rank 0
CAP 24000 Rank 0
COM 23000 Rank 0
CAP 22000 Rank 0
COM 21000 Rank 0
</desc>
</game>
