How to hide "unknown" text on configuration menu?

[ilkayefe]

Hi. After i scraped my games i saw "unknown" text on configuration menu. I tried to change date and players count to empty but it didnt work. Can somebody help me?

[simpleethat]

I'm fairly certain you can go in and manually edit the gamelist.xml file and add information to the config menu gamelist. Other than that I believe it is based on the theme and that is beyond my knowledge.

I believe the gamelist.xml file for the Retropie menu is located at: /etc/emulationstation/gamelists/retropie

If you add:
<rating> </rating>
<releasedate> </releasedate>
<developer> </developer>
<publisher> </publisher>
<genre> </genre>
<players> </players>
to each entry below the <desc>whatever text</desc> field it might force emulationstation to display a blank space instead of 'unknown' (as your current gamelist.xml doesn't have the fields it wants to pull the information from.

If you go that route I would just make sure to backup the file before making any changes just in case.

[ilkayefe]

@simpleethat Hi, i tried that way.But still there is writing players and unknown at release dates place.I have a idea. Can i use another theme for only configuration menu? I could edit theme and remove these datas.But im new to retropie.Can you help me?

[simpleethat]

@ilkayefe I don't do anything when it comes to theming but you can starthere

[Efriim]

Hi, If you use a different theme than it isn't as noticeable.
I recommend these but there are a lot of themes to try. The top three are barely noticeable and the last three are almost invisible.
Omnija/metro
lilbud/switch
ruckage/snes-mini
...
...
chicueloarcasde/Chicuelo
lipebello/retrorama
lipebello/spaceoddity

[ilkayefe]

@Efriim Hi. Thanks for your reply. I solved my problem with creating a custom theme file and removing these variables for only configuration menu.

[Jimiga]

@ilkayefe Hi! I found your question here and I'd like to do exactly the same thing - I think!
I want the date / developer etc to show when, and only when, there's metadata for that information. I just want a blank space where it currently says "Unknown", as I think makes the design a little ugly to see UNKNOWN stamped in several places.

Could you possible share with me your xml, and where you had to edit it, to change this yourself? Thank you!