Possibly to combine two gamelists for one console?

[goestohollywood]

I'm on Windows 10, running RetroArch and EmulationStation. I had a folder that had all my games scraped, but got more that I want to add to it. I didn't want to rescrape everything, and used a third-party scraper to do so. Now I have two folders for the same console with two gamelist.xml files. Is there a simple way to merge the two into one folder/gamelist.xml file?

[mitu]

You can copy the contents of one gamelist into the other, but make sure you omit the start and end tags from the copied file - the lines with <gamelist> (at the beginning) and </gamelist> (at the end).

So if the source gamelist is like:

?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
	<game>
		<path>./Pitfall! (1982) (Activision).rom</path>
....
....
</game>
</gamelist>

copy just

<game>
		<path>./Pitfall! (1982) (Activision).rom</path>
....
...
</game>

part. Add the copied content just before the </gamelist> line in the destination file. Make sure you take a backup of the destination file before you modify it.
After you merge the gamelist, don't forget to copy the actual scraped data to the new folder.

[goestohollywood]

@mitu got it. i guess my OCD-ness won't like that it's not in alphabetical order unless I manually do it, but I appreciate it

[WeirdH]

@goestohollywood Don't worry about the order in the file: ES is always shuffling that around anyway if you have 'save metadata' enabled. The list SHOULD be in alphabetical order inside ES either way (or else it's conforming to any <sortname> tags you might have).