Nested ROM Folders and Game List

[SaltMountain]

Found a helpful Reddit comment that seems to point to the right location. I have SSH access on my Pi so I'll try editing the respective <path> and <extension> lines.

[saccublenda]

@SaltMountain said in Nested ROM Folders and Game List:

@Ashpool

The RetroPie docs that @saccublenda linked says its lossless, at least.

I guess I did not remember correctly then.

[testudo]

@SaltMountain said in Nested ROM Folders and Game List:

@testudo

Probably 98% of the way there. As a newcomer, I dont know where to find the equivalent "Game List Settings" he showed in Duckstation would be in Retropie.

You just need to create the .m3u file for your .chds like shown in this section starting at 1:20. You do not need to follow any of the additional steps displayed in the video.

• Make sure the .m3u file you create is saved in the same game rom folder as the .chds.

• The gamelist where you may have to manually create the <folder> entry is an .xml file is located in your rom folder. For the Pi I believe the path would be: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/gamelist.xml

• Make a back-up of the .xml file.

• To create the gamelist folder entry, just search the .xml file for the game rom name.

• Copy the lines for that Game from <game> down to </game> and paste to make a duplicate entry. Then

• Replace <game> with <folder> and </game> with </folder>

• Then you need to change the <path> entry from the the game rom file to match the folder name:

<game>
<path>./Final Fantasy IX/Final Fantasy IX (USA) (Disc 1) (v1.1).chd</path>

Delete game rom file path portion, leaving only the folder name and save the modified file.

<folder>
<path>./Final Fantasy IX</path>

[SaltMountain]

@testudo

Yeah this is the step that I need to do. For whatever reason, my psx folder has no gamelist.xml

[testudo]

@SaltMountain said in Nested ROM Folders and Game List:

@testudo

Yeah this is the step that I need to do. For whatever reason, my psx folder has no gamelist.xml

Your gameslist.xml file is probably located in the Emulation Station folder then: /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/psx/gamelist.xml

It is fine there as well.

[SaltMountain]

Wanted to close this off after I thought about how I wanted to organize this.

Here's what I've done.

1. I converted all the .bin files into .chd files to save on a little bit of space all around.
2. In roms/psx/ I created a hidden .chd folder where I have subfolders for each game and their respective .chd or .CDX files.
3. In roms/psx/ I have a several .m3u files, one for each game, that each point to the .chd directory, and the individual game folder where the relevant game files are located. This allows me to keep the roms/psx/ relatively clean which is what I was going for.

I really appreciate everyone's help in getting me to clean up the roms directory!