Retropie Metadata Editor

tien_huu_1408

Very cool! Thanks for your nice work. Hope you could develop for macOS or Linux debian version. THanks

Ekstreme

This is awesome. Something like this would be great integrating with the web interface others are developing

meleu

@Ekstreme said in Retropie Metadata Editor:

This is awesome. Something like this would be great integrating with the web interface others are developing

What a pitty it's Windows based... :-/

@amadeus nice work anyway! :-)

amadeus

@wmcclelion
Thank you and yes, i can share the source for sure. But at the moment it is implemented "quick and dirty", so it is not very solid. (e.g. losing the network connection to the raspberry will crash the programm)

It's written in C#.

amadeus

@meleu
Whats about Mono?
Can you use Mono to run the application under Linux?

Shakz

Good start to a useful app!
Little feedback. I am running winblows 10. I am running as administrator.
It connects to the pi fine...but any time a roms dir is missing it crashes...gives an error.
I got around this by creating the missing dirs. nds virtualboy in the roms dir and n64 in the images directory.

This would be most useful to me for PSX games as well as mame arcade stuff like that....the these directories are not scanned :-(

Any time I add an image I get an error saying it does not have access to \retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\downloaded_images<system>
but when I click save the game image is uploaded.
Thanks for your work!
Forrest

BuZz

It sort of works on Ubuntu Linux (64bit).

I installed mono and the forms library sudo apt-get install mono-runtime libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil then did "mono RetropieMetadataEditor.exe" - gui shows, but it died when I clicked connect (directory not found exception). I guess the network bit isn't working, but if it could work on a local folder, it would be easiest enough to use via mounting the retropie share manually etc.

weirdocollector

Some feedback...

It would be great if the Path Images field could be made freely editable, as I've noticed that the program automatically appends the rom directory name.

I have my scraped images inside a separate directory into the respective rom directory, and I cannot make the Editor point to that image path.

Shakz

@weirdocollector Yes would be cool to just be able to edit a config file for some of the common things...like directories...maybe even the username and password for those running this on an ubuntu machine etc.

amadeus

Thank you for your feedback to all!

First: I put the VS Solution of the application to codeplex. Fell free to take a look but take care: at the moment it is still "quick an dirty"...
https://rme.codeplex.com

Second: You can download a new Version from Codeplex. This Version fix the error reported by Shakz (exception on missed rom directories)
DOWNLOAD

All other feature request or bug fixing stuff i will do in the next days, if i got some time...
It also need some documentation i guess (system/software requirements, which systems are supported, whar are the features...)

VinnyHaw

@amadeus

Hi there. I tried downloading both the original and the one you posted on Sept. 25th.

The original one crashed everytime I tried to connect to the pie. The newer one freezes when I try to connect.

amadeus

Hi VinnyHaw, can you open the roms and configs shares in the explorer of the computer, which try to running RME? Take care, that the path configuration in RME ist correct and corresponding with your RetroPie configuration. (RME contains the default configuration of RetroPie)

PedroPod

Hi amadeus, first of all, thank you for this it's awesome. I'm having a problem with it though. I have sega-CD games and sega 32x games, and the program doesn't seem to find these at all. Is there anything I could try to fix this?
Thanks again for an awesome program
Peter

amadeus

Hi PedroPod,

there ist now new Release for Download:
Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.2.0

Support for Sega 32X and Sega CD was added. Have Fun!

Regards,
ama

ebtalk

@amadeus Does this work with adding video tags? Will it overwrite any previous metadata on there?

amadeus

@ebtalk
Video tags are not supported at the moment.
If you use the save button, the whole gamelist file of the current system will be written - based on the previously loaded data.

PedroPod

@amadeus Thanks so much for this, now it's all setup perfectly! I really appreciate it thank you :)

Nismo

@amadeus Thank you very much, very useful program. Are you planning to add videos and marquees tags soon?

amadeus

@Nismo
At the moment I have not planned.

BTW: What are marquees tags? What video tags can do I can imagine (display a video instead of an image) but what are marquees tags for?

Nismo

@amadeus Marquees are used to add marquees images for arcade systems or wheel art for consoles, but you can use it to display any kind of image. It's just another image apart from md_image.