@Puchi25 said in Hiding Emulators Without Deleting Roms (Help!):
I've got game collection art grouping the console games together and now i'm trying to hide the original emulators without deleting any of the games inside of them.
This won't work with custom collections. To quote @pjft, the developer of custom collections (original post here):
The custom collections rely on games that ES knows about.
ES only knows about games that it loads.
ES only loads games from systems that it knows.
ES only knows about systems defined in es_systems.cfg.
In short, removing a system from es_systems.cfg will remove games for that system from a custom collection.
If you wish to create a collection for console games, then you will need to manually create a new system in ES. Full documentation can be found at: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Add-a-New-System-in-EmulationStation/
This process involves creating a custom es_systems.cfg file so please follow the advice given by @quicksilver. Adding a new system in the default es_systems,cfg in /etc/emulationstation means that should you install an emulator at a later date, the file could be overwritten, removing the new system.
