[Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES

hansolo77

cyperghost

@pjft Where are the favourites stored? Is there a own gameslists.xml? I wasn't able to locate it.

pjft

@cyperghost They're in the actual games' metadata.

cyperghost

@pjft - Thank you
Okay... I see it via "Edit Metadata"! Got It!
But where is the metadata stored?
I always thought it's ~/.emulationstation/ which is a symlink that leads to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/ and there the overlays, marquees, videos.... are stored for game description :)

pjft

@cyperghost No - they're stored with the actual games' metadata. In the gamelist files.

cyperghost

@pjft Thank you for patience
I must be deaf, dumb & blind....
Of course it's in the gameslist of the system under the tag <favorite>true</favorite>

pjft

@cyperghost Not at all! Sorry if I wasn't clear in the first place.

lilbud

@cyperghost said in [Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES:

I must be deaf, dumb & blind....

Do you play a mean pinball?

cyperghost

@lilbud said in [Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES:

Do you play a mean pinball

Don't know what you mean :)

Capeman

I'm slacking off at work today. I liked the style of the recalbox favorites logo, but i feel like it's kind of simple and boring, so i'm working on my own.

mediamogul

@capeman

Very nice! I especially love the hearts being blasted away. I found a little of time to rework mine a bit too. 'All Games' is still a tough nut to crack, but I think this approach gets a little closer to the idea.

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Capeman

@mediamogul I very much enjoy your logo for last played! Bravo!

Question to anybody on here. When i activate favorites on here, it shows the logo on the carousel, and if i add a game by editing it's meta data it shows on the favorites menu, which is all great... BUT when i restart emulation station, favorites goes away and games i tagged as favorites dont show up after i re-enable it.

~~I use custom gamelists, is it because i dont have the <favorite> tag on my meta data? Do i need to add it to every entry to make it work? Would that explain why it disappears every time I restart?~~

I tested the part i crossed out, and having <favorites> tags for each game in my gamelist doesnt seem to help.

In fact, editing the metadata isnt even saving in my gamelists, would using a custom created gamelist cause this issue? I edited an NES game to be favorite YES, and in my gamelist.xml, it still says <favorite>false</favorite>... So im currently googling how to fix that...

Also do i need to add an entry in es_systems.cfg to make it so the favorites menu doesnt disappear on reboot? - Dang, i usually dont have issues like this haha.

HurricaneFan

@capeman Do you have "save metadata on exit" turned off?

hansolo77

Have you tried adding the game to favorites from the quick button (X for RetroPad, Y for Xbox, Triangle for Playstation, etc)? This might be related to the bug I reported with the ES crash. I found that if I try just editing the metadata (select button) and telling it to be a favorite didn't work. You have to first have the Favorites collection enabled, then go through and add it to the list with the button.

Capeman

@HurricaneFan I'm not sure, where would i find that setting? Is it in the retroarch.cfg?

@hansolo77 ~~OH! I'll try this and report back.~~ Hey, this function does add favorites to the menu, but they don't save to gamelist, so it must be the saving setting being turned off.

HurricaneFan

@capeman https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3979/edited-game-rom-metadata-not-being-saved

Screenshots on where in Emulationstation are in the link above.

Capeman

@hurricanefan AH! YES this fixed saving favories, im not sure why i had it off.

Now my only problem left is that the "Favorites" menu on the carousel disappears every time i restart emulationstation. Do i need to add something to es_systems.cfg? I use a custom one of those also, so i might have something missing. Any ideas? Thanks guys!

HurricaneFan

@capeman If you use a custom es_systems.cfg, I think you might need to add it to your custom file.

Capeman

If anybody could pop open their es_systems.cfg file and post the system entries for the 3 auto-xxxxx systems (if they even exist), i would appreciate it very much.

HurricaneFan

@capeman If you SSH into your pi, you can find them yourself.

The original es_systems.cfg that your custom one is overriding is located here: /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg