EmulationStation manually configuring gamelist.xml to open DOS folders
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Hello everyone,
I'm manually scrapping my PC folder, I keep all my games in their respective folders, and I want to keep acessing them so I can run each game's setup script when I feel like it.
From what I've read about emulationstation's gamelist specification, I can use the <path> tag to point to a folder, like so:<game> <path>./Alone in the Dark 1992/</path> <name>Alone in the Dark</name> <image>./Alone in the Dark 1992.jpg</image> </game>
Is this the correct way to do it? Or should I use this setup with <folder> instead of <game>?
Best regards. -
I also scraped manually.
Not only MS-DOS - everything :)
Best way to get artwork you really like and make your setup unique.Concerning DosBox i found an easier way than yours.
I also kept the game-data in their folders, but wrote scripts for each game starting DosBox with the specific .exe, .bat or .com-file of the game.
That was a good way to have a gamelist full of startable entrys - and not folders.In this gamelist i just opened the metadata of a game and entered the path to each artwork in "image path", i,e.: "/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/pc/aloneinthedark.jpg".
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That's a good method!
But I still would like to keep access to the folder... Can I add metadata to the folder?
Best regards -
@dult-np said in EmulationStation manually configuring gamelist.xml to open DOS folders:
But I still would like to keep access to the folder... Can I add metadata to the folder?
You can, but I think the process is manual - scraping might not work for folders.
As an alternate method - you can use a.conf
file for each game and keep the game folders inrom/pc-data
. The.conf
method allows you to map your PC games' folders, map CD rom images add configurations/mapper files per-gam, add additional commands to run during startup. The.conf
file should be easier for scraping.See these topics for details:
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