Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mame/lr-mess

Folly

@DTEAM said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

tsimquest

Yes I saw that one too.
Added to the tigerh.ini for 250 and later.

testudo

I cleaned up the Gamelist file, replaced some low-res images, added entries and images for more games. Feel free to add the update to the project. Link to the new file is updated in the original post.

DTEAM

@testudo said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

I cleaned up the Gamelist file, replaced some low-res images, added entries and images for more games. Feel free to add the update to the project. Link to the new file is updated in the original post.

Thanks !Done! Now on the project GoogleDrive

DTEAM

@Folly @mitu

Quick question, when we show artworks for a system in a theme, we have the possibility to show a marquee, an action scene picture and a box (sometime combined) or a marquee, a video and a box for a single game.
Why when I use only one video (in cygnus blue flames), automaticly, the rest of the list show a blank grey default video screen even if I put pictures of an action scenes in jpg for the other games.

When you use one video, it set it by default for the rest of the list. How we can change that? This is worst for the all games list or favorites.

DTEAM

@DTEAM said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@Folly
nstarfox.zip (artworks) is now on the GoogleDrive with Background.png

nstarfox is now in the gamelist

duglor

@DTEAM We could also try to get thegamesdb and skyscraper to put archimedes pix and metadata on their sites...............

kiro

@DTEAM @Folly Hi! I've started working on a script to import your gamelists, but it seems that I have some xml errors, at least in the one I tried (all_in_one)... you use '&' a couple of times, which is not an accepted xml character standalone (should be '&'). Just saying, as some XML parsers will fail because of this, not sure if emulationstation will fail to read it though.

mitu

@DTEAM said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

Why when I use only one video (in cygnus blue flames), automaticly, the rest of the list show a blank grey default video screen even if I put pictures of an action scenes in jpg for the other games.

I'm not really familiar with theme design in ES, but if you think this is a bug, open a separate topic and add the version you're using and the gamelist that's producing this issue.

DTEAM

@duglor said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@DTEAM We could also try to get thegamesdb and skyscraper to put archimedes pix and metadata on their sites...............

Unfortunately, they have pretty high standards and I'm not an artist. They use boxes art instead of the handheld consoles pictures. For videos, it could be good. Maybe somebody will take that as a project someday, but for now, our Google Drive is the alternative.

kiro

@DTEAM as discussed with @folly, I'm in the process of integrating your artwork in my DB, if there's a problem with that pls let me know!

DTEAM

@kiro said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@DTEAM @Folly Hi! I've started working on a script to import your gamelists, but it seems that I have some xml errors, at least in the one I tried (all_in_one)... you use '&' a couple of times, which is not an accepted xml character standalone (should be '&'). Just saying, as some XML parsers will fail because of this, not sure if emulationstation will fail to read it though.

I saw the error for " All in one"(line 188). I'll fix that.

kiro

@DTEAM It's more than just that line I believe ... open in an xml editor and all errors should pop up.

kiro

@DTEAM & @Folly :I've imported the all_in_one into the retroscraper DB as a test of the import script...information should be available tomorrow morning.

I've also relaized you guys have a system I do not have in the DB 'Sega Visual Memory Unts' or svmu for short... I've created the system in my backend, and it is now available as 'svmu' (the same name I presume you use) so scraping roms under that system will feed back into the scraper DB. It will not yet have any descriptions or anything, this is for next week when I'll be back.

DTEAM

@kiro said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

@DTEAM It's more than just that line I believe ... open in an xml editor and all errors should pop up.

In my original gamelist.xml file (all in one), we can see:

		<name>InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games &amp; 42 Songs</name>
		<desc>InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games &amp; 42 Songs (G5410)
vt1682.cpp
</desc>

In the one on Google Drive we see this:

<name>InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games & 42 Songs</name>
	<desc>InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games & 42 Songs (G5410)
vt1682.cpp
</desc>

Something happen during the transfer to change & to &. Same problem for other games in the list.

duglor

Great Work, all. Thank You!

Folly

@DTEAM @kiro

I tried to make some improvements to the all_in1 images :
(some are still the same)
(my google-drive link removed)
Now on google drive @DTEAM :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TWX6dY213PH424-FZO289jJ9nDMq-ypO

If you both like the improvements then they can be replaced.

@DTEAM you should keep the originals in a backup folder.

If I have the time I will try to make videos too.

DTEAM

@Folly @kiro

I uploaded your images and the good gamelist.xml file on Google drive. It should be fixed for "All in one" system. I'll double check the other files.

Folly

@DTEAM

Do you keep a backup of the original files in there too ?

DTEAM

@Folly

Yes and no. When it's tested sometime I clean the old stuff. I have a backup of the Google Drive.

Folly

@DTEAM

I think we need to keep them because if we find better editing tools we can do the editing again from the older originals.