Is there an automated way to make a games-list?

Nicky_S14

If I was to make a gameslist, how would I go about that? I can manually go through hundreds and hundreds of games, copying names... but that is crazily time consuming, and I don't know of a way to do otherwise.

Would there be any suggestions? Thanks

mitu

Are you trying to create a gamelist.xml file for Emulationstation or extract the list of games present in your system ?

Nicky_S14

@mitu I'm trying to exract the list of games present in the system, sorry if it was badly worded.

mitu

@Nicky_S14 The easiest way is the extract the data from the gamelist.xml files where Emulationstation keeps this information (see here). Some time ago I wrote a small Python script that extracts automatically this info and puts it in a .xlsx file that you can open in Excel (see here).

Clyde

@Nicky_S14 You can also get a plain text list of all games by using the xml tool xmlstarlet in Retropie's console. You get to the console by pressing F4 in Emulation Station.

Install the tool.

sudo apt install xmlstarlet

Change to the rom folder where the gamelist.xml resides, e.g. arcade.

cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade

Display a sorted list of all games (i.e. <name> fields) in the gamelist.xml. You can browse the list with the cursor keys or PgUp/PgDn, and quit the viewer by pressing q.

xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//name[1]' -v . -n <gamelist.xml | sort | less

Optional: Save the list to a text file called gamelist.txt.

xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//name[1]' -v . -n <gamelist.xml | sort > gamelist.txt

edit: And after two years, I noticed a typo in the cd command. It's now corrected. 😌

Clyde

@Clyde said in Is there an automated way to make a games-list?:

You can browse the list with the cursor keys or PgUp/PgDn, and quit the viewer by pressing q.

Oh, and you can search the list by pressing / followed by the search term and Enter.

loula

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29093/gamelist-xml-extractor