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    Displaying human readable game titles for Non-MAME systems.

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      battlecat
      last edited by

      Hello:

      Lets say you have some Atari 2600 roms correctly working on RetroPie. Correctly working meaning that you can start them and play them and exit them.

      Is there a way to have Emulation Station detect the rom and like MAME display a human readable game title?

      Is there a way to get Emulation Station to "scrape" the box covers and data for them?

      Sorry if this is a common question. I just wasn't able to find any documentation that deals with this.

      Thank you,
      BC

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators
        last edited by herb_fargus

        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

        https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          battlecat
          last edited by

          Thank you! I have no idea why I didn't see that page before.

          What about the ROM name issue with human readable titles?

          Thanks again,
          BC

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          • herb_fargusH
            herb_fargus administrators
            last edited by

            scrape them and you'll see they are human readable.

            If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

            Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              battlecat
              last edited by

              @herb_fargus said:

              scrape them and you'll see they are human readable.

              Thank you! I will give this a try.

              -bc

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