Retropie Metadata Editor

amadeus

@j1ggy
Hi, i deployed today a new Release: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.4.0

In this new version, it is now checked whether the image/cover directory exists. If it is not, it is created automatically.

Regards,
amadeus

j1ggy

Wow, that's some amazing response time. Thank you!

Aksen

Hey @amadeus ! I really like the idea of this tool but unfortunately it wont work for me because I keep my images in:
\retropie\roms[console]\downloaded_images\

but the metadata editor wants to look in a solid directory with the console wildcard at the end:
\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\downloaded_images[console].

Would it be possible to add an option for those like me? I would really love to use this tool!

kmssd

How do you use this program? When I click connect, it starts to load information but crashes at NES.

amadeus

@Aksen: i will think about it....need sometime for it :-)

amadeus

@kmssd
Can you send me or post some more information about it? Is there any error message or a stacktrace?

kmssd

@amadeus There is a long error code, I would probably have to message to you some way. The short version says,
String cannot be of zero length.
Parameter name: oldValue.

amadeus

@Aksen
Today I released Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.5.0
In this Version the Image Path is more generic, it works with a placeholder for the current system.
Work find on my Retropie Environment. Maybe you will test it in yours and give me a short feedback :-)

Please take care to update also the Local Image Path, otherwise EmulationStation will not find the Image.

Aksen

@amadeus said in Retropie Metadata Editor:

@Aksen
Today I released Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.5.0
In this Version the Image Path is more generic, it works with a placeholder for the current system.
Work find on my Retropie Environment. Maybe you will test it in yours and give me a short feedback :-)

Please take care to update also the Local Image Path, otherwise EmulationStation will not find the Image.

Alright! I've run it and I got an error:
http://pastebin.com/CftTfAFm

Here's a screenshot of how I set it up:
http://imgur.com/Ixq3omw

I think it's because I'm pointing it to a rom directory that is on a computer, not a pi. I like to get clean, prepped rom directories that I can archive on my NAS or give to friends, and I've tended to do my metadata/images cleanup there before I deploy to a pi. That's why I keep the images and metadata in roms subfolders.

I don't have my raspberry pi with me, so I can't test that until tonight. I made a small roms folder with ./nes/ and ./snes/ and scraped with universal xml scraper. RetropieMetadataEditor.exe finds my roms, gamelist, and images! and then I get the error and it stops before moving past NES

amadeus

@Aksen
Can you pls send/pastbin your gamelist XML of NES? I guess the Releasedate or Lastplayed Timestamp is not in the format yyyyMMddTHHmmss... that causes the exception.
I have to think how to handle different Timestamp Formats... i thought, the Format of the Timestamps is stable.

amadeus

@kmssd
I Need a Stacktrace to analyse this exception. Maybe you can Pastbin it like Aksen?!?

Aksen

@amadeus said in Retropie Metadata Editor:

@Aksen
Can you pls send/pastbin your gamelist XML of NES? I guess the Releasedate or Lastplayed Timestamp is not in the format yyyyMMddTHHmmss... that causes the exception.
I have to think how to handle different Timestamp Formats... i thought, the Format of the Timestamps is stable.

Here's the gamelist.xml in question!

http://pastebin.com/UJqHL7du

LiqwdE

@amadeus

Downloaded the program today. Running Windows 10. I can SSH into the pi fine. I can Winscp into the Pi fine. But when I hit connect to retropie it shows runs the initialization but finds no roms. Im missing something.

Also, Will you be implementing more systems? I could really use this for Daphne, PC, and Scummvn =)

Nismo

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Nismo

@amadeus finally this version support video?

kmssd

@amadeus I think this is it, http://pastebin.com/AAp7vb7i

amadeus

@Nismo
Nope, sorry but video tags are not supported at the moment.

amadeus

@LiqwdE
Roms for which systems are not found?

To your system request:

ScummVM is already supported
PC is not supported at the momen
What is 'Daphne'? I can't found it on Systems in Retropie page

amadeus

Hi folks,

here is a new release of RME: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.6.0

This one...

Fixed an error when parsing a timestamp with the value '00000000T000000' (THX to Aksen)
Fixed an error that occurred when a file without extension was found in the "rom" folder. (THX to kmssd)

I would be glad about a short feedback from you, whether the bugs were fixed - or not. ;-)

Regards,
ama

LiqwdE

@amadeus

Daphne is a laser disc emulator. Dragons lair, space ace, etc.. it's currently in the experimental packages. Works good though.

Not detecting any system currently. Does this require samba shares to be running?

The github wiki shows all the emulators down the right side of the page.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation