Where is the gamelist.xml?

rasp_renegade

I see a gamelist.xml in all the roms folders but it does not seem to be valid. Theses were all migrated from pi2 to p13 and now on my pi4. Is there a new location for the files?

Genos98

@rasp_renegade /home/pi/.emulationstation

rasp_renegade

@genos98

Ahh, thank you!

rasp_renegade

@genos98

There are missing systems in this folder. I do not have N64 or Sega 32x in there. I cannot seem to find where the roms pull their metadata from. Do I just manually create folders there and ES will automatically use the XML I put there?

rasp_renegade

Anyone have suggestions?

mitu

EmulationStation looks in 2 places for a gamelist.xml:

the rom folder (roms/<system>/gamelist.xml)
in $HOME/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system>/gamelist.xml

It loads which file it finds first. If none is found, it saves a gamelist in the 2nd location, when exiting/restarting.

rasp_renegade

@mitu

There is a gamelist.xml inside the /roms/N64 folder. There is no folder for this system inside /.emulationstation/gamelists. When I do a search for some roms in the XML that resides in /roms/n64, there is nothing there.

mitu

Remove the gamelist.xml from the roms folder then, restart EmulationStation and check to see if it's created in the 2nd location I mentioned. Remember, the file is created by default only when EmulationStation exits, so you may need to restart it again to see the new file.

rasp_renegade

@mitu

I see whats going on. One of the roms I searched in the XML for appeared when I scraped it. So scraping is the only way the gamelist.xml is populated it seems. Easy enough, I will scrape ones that are missing metedata then fill in the blanks on the XML.

mitu

@rasp_renegade said in Where is the gamelist.xml?:

So scraping is the only way the gamelist.xml is populated it seems. Easy enough, I will scrape ones that are missing metedata then fill in the blanks on the XML.

Not really. EmulationStation will write the gamelist.xml on exit, unless you've disabled saving of metadata in its settings.

rasp_renegade

@mitu

Wow! At some point I did disable the save on exit setting. Thank you.