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      Dukafleed
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      thanks god for such an app, i really like the idea of managing my roms in PC rather in retropie

      as some guys mentioned, merques and video preview are a good future achievment, and i will be happy to help you with testing any giving time.

      thank you

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        Dukafleed
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        i noticed one small silly issue,
        i downloaded the first version to tryit out, i make my own changes to rom path and such
        then i deleted it and downloaded a latest version, i noticed that my prev changes still stick

        you should include a "default" setting so if we screw up you can fix it, and
        you should allow a way to include (defualt path ) and (custom path)

        another thing that most current users have Gamelist inside rom folders along with boxart and media
        so a SNES rom folder will include boxart,merques, snaps, flyers(usually same as boxart) <----those are in folders each and then roms and gamelist

        i would be great to be able to ready from gamelist and from romlist (attract mod) and away to copy info from one to another

        attract mode romlist are not in system roms but in .attractmode\romlist

        waiting on your commend

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          amadeus @Dukafleed
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          @Dukafleed
          Look on your Computer in Folder C:\Users<YOUR LOGIN NAME>\AppData\Local\RetropieMetadataEditor and delete the folder and files you find there. The configuration you made will be gone. But a Button „Restore Default Configuration“ ist a good Idea. I will note it on the Change Request List.

          I will make the Path Gamelist dynamically – like the Path Images already is. I guess, this will help the people which hold their gamelist on another path as the dafault location.
          I really dont understand what you mean with „attracted mode“ and romlist. I never heared of it before, but Im also not so familar like with retroipie and stuff like the other people her. I jsut download and use it. Is there any documentation about this attracted mode and the romelist?

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            amadeus @amadeus
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            Latest Release: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.12.0

            CHANGE LOG

            • Added .gen as supported Extension for SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis
            • Path Roms in the configuration is now more generic
            • Path Gamelists in the configuration is now more generic
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              Dukafleed @amadeus
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              @amadeus
              thank you for the quick response,
              regarding retropie, the gaming environment is based on Emulation station, the current update uses gamelist.xml for metadata .. this file are "now" located inside each systems rom folder

              for example SNES gamelist will be inside ...pi\home\roms\snes as gamelist.xml
              also i like to explain that with the new theme updates in Emulationstation, you can view games metadata, game video snap (few seconds of gameplay as an mp4), game margue(game logo) and game artwork(poster) all within the system rom "like Snes"
              now were done with basic emulation station and into attract mode

              attract mode is a new front of emulationstation (new way to view game system and roms) meaning the retropie will boot directly to attract mode (not emulationstation) and from there, i would pick my game system and then my game and play as if i was in emulationstation.....
              attract mode uses the same rom collection and folders..with art work, video snaps and game logo but it does not pull the game info from gamelist.xml but, it uses something call romlist (Atari 5200.txt - Microsoft MSX.txt and so on) those romlist are location in pi\home.attract\romlist
              those romlist files are similar in database structure to gamelist.xml and should be easy to understand if you pull the data from those to an excel file..

              more about attract mode here http://attractmode.org/docs/Readme.html

              sorry for the long post

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                Dukafleed
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                also, i would like if you add a new feature in the "Editor" to be able to automaticly "pull or update" game meta from http://thegamesdb.net/ using filename or hashtag or with a simple manual seatch by ID or by name ID
                thegamesdb.net API is the right place for your next stage

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                  backstander @amadeus
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                  @amadeus
                  Actually Attract Mode is an alternative front end to EmulationStation:
                  https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/93/attract-mode-with-retropie-alternative-to-emulationstation

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                    amadeus @Dukafleed
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                    @Dukafleed
                    sorry, but unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the knowledge to implement support for attracted mode or thegamesdb.net in RME. I do not even manage to get NeoGeo or MAME Roms on my Retropie to run... ;-)
                    Perhaps someone else has interest in implementing these features? If so, then do not hesitate to get a codeplex account and write me a mail. I will add you as developer to the rme project.

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                      Nismo @amadeus
                      last edited by Nismo

                      @amadeus Can we expect video and marquees tags support in the future? Thanks for this great tool.

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                        amadeus @Nismo
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                        @Nismo
                        Because i dont use video or marquees tags in my retropie installation, I have no way to test it. I will only implement the features (in the future) I collected on the Feature Request List.
                        The same here as I already wrote to Dukafleed: Maybe someone other has interest to implement it? Feel free to contact me.
                        Sorry, but my child and my job consume most of my time... :/

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                          Nismo @amadeus
                          last edited by Nismo

                          @amadeus Almost can you make the editor doesn't delete videos and marquees entries if they exist? Thanks again.

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                            amadeus @Nismo
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                            @Nismo
                            Can you pastbin me a XML sample?

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                              Roxsteady
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                              You guys are incredible

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                                Nismo @amadeus
                                last edited by Nismo

                                @amadeus Of course:

                                <game id="37996" source="screenscraper.fr">
                                    <path>./Alien Brigade (Europe).zip</path>
                                    <name>Alien Brigade (Europe)</name>
                                    <desc>Alien Brigade is a side scrolling shooter....</desc>
                                    <image>./images/Alien Brigade (Europe).png</image>
                                    <rating>0.8</rating>
                                    <releasedate>
                                    </releasedate>
                                    <developer>Atari</developer>
                                    <publisher>Atari</publisher>
                                    <genre>Action</genre>
                                    <players>1</players>
                                    <video>./videos/Alien Brigade (Europe).mp4</video>
                                    <marquee>./marquees/Alien Brigade (Europe).png</marquee>
                                  </game>
                                

                                I hope this helps. I tried the feature request webpage you send to me but it's difficult to me to understand how it works.

                                Regards.

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                                  amadeus @Roxsteady
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                                  @Roxsteady
                                  Who is why incredible?

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                                    amadeus @Nismo
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                                    @Nismo
                                    No problem and thanks for the sample XML, I already added it to the request list by myself.

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                                      Nismo @amadeus
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                                      @amadeus Thanks to you for this great piece of software.

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                                        amadeus @Nismo
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                                        @Nismo
                                        Latest Release of RME supports a simple Read-Write-Support for Video- and Marquee-XML-Tags.
                                        Now it is prevented that tags are deleted, if they already exist in the XML.
                                        You can also update the content in RME.

                                        Would be nice, if you could test it and give me a short feedback.

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                                          Nismo @amadeus
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                                          @amadeus great job mate, i'm a litle busy at this moment but i'll try as soon as possible.

                                          Thank you very much for considering my request, and for the fast update.

                                          Regards.

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                                            EctoOne
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                                            Can you add support for amiga? uae files to be specific. You can set it up to to start games with those straight from Emulation Station (seen here. At the bottom).
                                            As of now i continue to batch rename them to zip, rename the amiga folder into neogeo and do it from there. After that i replace zip in the gamelist.xml with uae.

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