Gamelist.xml inside folders

[Codafire]

Hi, im trying to create a custom gamelist.xml inside a subfolder of retropiemenu with some extra options created by me, the gamelist.xml of the main menu its working but when i enter in the subfolder i created inside retropiemenu it displays the name of the files but the gamelist xml dont work, any idea?

[sleve_mcdichael]

I don't think ES will find gamelists in a subfolder: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#scraper

ES will check three places for a gamelist.xml in the following order, using the first one it finds:

[SYSTEM_PATH]/gamelist.xml

~/.emulationstation/gamelists/[SYSTEM_NAME]/gamelist.xml

/etc/emulationstation/gamelists/[SYSTEM_NAME]/gamelist.xml

[Codafire]

@sleve_mcdichael Mmmm, interesting, and there is anyway of displaying the games in subfolders editing the main gamelist? To have hacks, and other special stuff in subfolders witch his images?

[sleve_mcdichael]

Yeah having games inside subfolders should be no problem, as long as their path falls inside the "system path" (~/RetroPie/roms/snes, etc.) defined in es_systems.cfg. If you try to point a gamelist for a system at a rom file outside of this system path, ES won't like it and will skip that entry.