Aha, I actually figured out how to make it work, for anyone reading this in the future!

The problem is for whatever reason the entry that emulationstation creates just starts with "roms/gbc." It works once you simply replace "roms/" with "./" in front of that, which is what is listed for the paths for games before the rom name too (and I suppose substitutes for the entire filepath to the root folder). So adding this to my sgb gamelist...

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Creates this in my emulationstation system for SGB:

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Which is exactly what I was hoping for. Clicking through those two directories takes me to all my SGB-compatible GB and GBC games, and I didn't need to add duplicate roms to do it as the gamelist points to the GB/GBC rom locations I have for those systems. Woohoo!

@kiro said in Bezel Project: I have my mame roms divided in my arcade folder by subdir letter tiles A-Z. What do I do?:

and it seems it just sets the 'system' bezels and not the bezels rom by rom. Am I wrong?

The config and overlay directories of the bezelproject are place in :
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/

I just checked.
These bezels are basically rom bezels.
For arcade only it's doesn't matter because the mame driver can run only 1 rom.
So the rom and the system are the same.

I ran a Philips CDI game, which can obviously run more games, just like GameCube.
Looking in the /dev/shm/runcommand.log you can see which config-file RetroArch is looking for :

[INFO] [Overrides]: No game-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/SAME_CDI/arcade classics (1996)(namco - philips)(eu)[compilation].cfg".

Above is the error when a config isn't found, so now you know what you have to name your config-file.

yes, actually i removed the dot and notice that subfolders characters color is tan, so enulationstation do regnize these, ok the case is closed! :)

@tackett1980 I don't think such option exist, well at least if it does it would be something like the scrapers can do. Maybe the scraping program called Skraper can help you. That is the one i use for scraping roms. It collects data from screenscraper.fr scraping database.

Otherwise i don't know any other options, but maybe someone else here does.

I found a workaround:

I added a .scm-File to the root aof the scummvm-games-folder.

For atlantis i have the atlantis.scummvm-file insidde the atlantis-folder and a atlantis.scm-file outside that folder.

In es_systems.cfg i changed the command:

<command>RetroArch\retroarch.exe -f -L "RetroArch\cores\scummvm_libretro.dll" "PATHTORETROGAMES\retro\ScummVM\games%BASENAME%%BASENAME%.scummvm"</command>

and changed the extension to scm.
<extension>.scm</extension>

This means EmulationStation sees the .scm-file as the rom and adds it to the gamelist without annoying subfolders.
When starting the rom, wo don't care about the fake .scm-file. We grab only the basename and assume there is a folder with the same basename with the scummvm-file inside it.

@pittstone no problem. Just wait for it to be merged into the main branch. Know that someone has fixed it :)

@AndrewH I hadn't considered that, but high scores have never been a particular concern for me*, so it's not something that's going to keep me up at night. I can see how it might bother other people though.

*I'm just happy if I get through a game, I don't really care how high the score was.

@KillerQ It would just go in the same folder as the other roms, so if it's a folder called "favourite" within the NES directory, it would be placed in nes/favourite/favourite.gb, then in the gamelist.xml the path would be <path>./favourite/favourite.gb</path>.

FYI for anyone browsing this in the future The first line of those 4 blank ones is the name of the folder, the second is the description, the third is the link to a thumbnail and I have no clue what the fourth one is. Might be worth adding this as a bug in the github though! The devs may be unaware that editing the meta data on a folder is not populating the fields like it should!

@pjft Yeah, i will have to do some thinking on this one. I am glad it was something so simple and not something I missed while testing out all of the configurations! If you put the rom name into the gamelist the mail folder won't have any images/videos/metadata, so that won't work well either. The other thing I am going to look into is how to hide folders from the list. I have looked around threads and haven't come up with a solution. I am thinking of trying to see if there is a way to add the folders i don't want to see, like the bios folders, to the gamelist, and then tell the gamelist not to display that game/folder. Kind of like how you can # in the .txt files to turn things on and off. Any thoughts on that?

Pi Model: pi3 B
retropie Version 4.1

sorry,I forgot to enter this information . I hope I have made other errors

@BuZz said in Not finding ROMs in certain SubDirectories:

subfolders are not supported when using gamelists afaik.

Do gamelists house the database-esque lists for every emulators ROMs? (I really know nothing about them to be truthful...just assumed if games weren't showing up I could try and delete the gamelist so it can be rebuilt)

All I know is I have ROM's for NES, SNES, Genesis, and now N64, complete with subfolders. Don't know if deleting the gamelists, or rebuilding all those packages fixed it but it's working so I'm happy.

I'm not sure if it's possible to do what's been discussed so far.

What should work though, is when the emulator is starting there's a box that comes up and you can press 'a' to go to a config page and you can set a different default emulator for that game, as well as some other settings.

Obviously this could be a pain to do for A LOT of games, but if you have that many games you want to change the default emulator for, there's a way to change the default emulator for a whole system (I'm not really sure how to do this but I remember seeing it can be done).

@Teleboas please, mark this topic as "solved".