Roms in custom collections not showing up

[Yobiwan]

I've got 42 systems and 16 collections. I would like to add "pokemon" and "finalfantasy". These collections are present as systems, but roms lists are empty... Only 1 rom in pokemon collection. Paths are OK in the cfg files. What's going on ? It seems to be a glitch, I don't understand.

Pi4 4gb
256GB uSD Sandisk Ultra
Retropie 4.6
Argon one case
Argon power supply

[Yobiwan]


[Yobiwan]

Problem solved ! I created the cfg files on my windows 10 desktop : I changed pokemon.txt into pokemon.cfg, then pasted the roms paths. Emulationstation doesn't like it. I had to copy a pre-existing custom-collection.cfg, paste roms paths into it and rename into custom-pokemon.

[Clyde]

It may have to do with the fact that Windows text files use CR+LF (Carriage Return + Line Feed) for line endings, wheras unixoid systems like Linux use only LF.

You can convert text files between the different formats on Linux (i.e. RetroPie, too) with the tools dos2unix and unix2dos.

This command installs both tools as well as mac2unix and unix2mac:

sudo apt install dos2unix

Then you can convert a file with

dos2unix pokemon.txt pokemon.cfg

and vice versa with unix2dos.

[Yobiwan]

@Clyde Very informative. Thanks ;)

[simpleethat]

@Yobiwan for Windows I personally like notepad++ for editing text files.

You can add an XML tool that helps if you're editing your gamelist.xml files and accidentally mess up the syntax.