Retropie Metadata Editor

LiqwdE

Don't know if it's required, but installed samba shares. \retropie and signed in. Now it sees my roms, so woohoo.

But, it's not seeing MAME. Is there a specific mame folder? Cause there are several

kmssd

@amadeus Well I'm smacking myself in the head. You found that I had a file without an extension. The program does run past the scanning but now when I browse the gamelists I get this error,
The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect, see http://pastebin.com/SKwKkk3x

amadeus

@LiqwdE
The current Version v0.1.6 only supports the arcade folder. So maybe place your mame roms there.

Aksen

@amadeus Hey there, I just got around to trying 1.6.0 and I'm getting the same error:

System.FormatException: The DateTime represented by the string is not supported in calendar System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar.

amadeus

@kmssd
Hmmm... this is a strange error. It orrured during one of your images is open to determinate the dimension of it. Maybe this cause in a corrupted or bad file. Can you identify the game and images on which this happened? A Workaround could be to delete this image. Otherwise I could implement a try-catch-block to catch this error.

Regards,
ama

amadeus

@Aksen
The Rom 720 degress contains a release date '19890000T000000' this is not a valid date (for .NET)
I guess best solution is to implement datetime parsing in a try-catch-block. Gimme some time for a fixed version.

amadeus

@amadeus
Today release: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.7.0

CHANGELOG

Remove System 'Mame'
Add System 'Arcade' (THX to Erik)
Add System 'MAME libretro' (THX to Erik)
Add System 'MAME4All' (THX to Erik)
Add try-catch to datetime parsing
Add try-catch to GetSize() of image

EctoOne

Thanks for this program. It makes managing gamelists so much easier on a PC before moving them to the Pi. But could you please add support for zip files for some, if not all, systems? For me it can't find roms for gb, gba, gba, gamegear, mastersystem, megadrive and sega32x. I guess it's because zip is not mentioned in the MainForm.cs for these systems. That's at least my guess when I took a quick look at the source. Also it would be nice if you could copy the Playstation Portable line and set it up for PSX. :)

Thanks again.

Aksen

@amadeus Version 0.1.7.0 fixed my issue :) I can now get through the scanning phase and into the bulk of the program. Thanks!

daeks

@amadeus I tried that version as well but got several encoding issues during the parsing of the gamelist. Is there a way to automatically open all files UTF-8?

LiqwdE

@amadeus

Everything looking great on 1.7.
No problems here for me.

EDIT: Not seeing Atari 7800 roms

So what are the chances of adding the PC (pc engine is available, 2 different ones) and Daphne rom folders?

amadeus

@EctoOne
Ich will add support gor PSX soon.
The (general) support for .zip is a problem... i cant found .zip in the list of supported extensions of the most emulators. This is why . zip is not supported.

amadeus

@daeks
Can you send/pastebin an example for an "encoding issue" please?

Nismo

@amadeus most emulators have zip support, even if you didn't see it on supported file extensions...

Most of my roms are in zip or 7z format.

amadeus

@LiqwdE
Indeed there is an error with atari 7800 system (bad folder name) - I will fix it soon.
Also support for PC and Daphne will be available soon, but kkep in mind:
RME has no support for subfolder, this means the roms / startfiles for PC-Games (.bat, com, sh...) must there in the root of the system folder.

amadeus

@Nismo
Is there some documentation about this somewhere? I dont want it add "blind" to the code....

Nismo

@amadeus I really don't know, I saw a lot of libretro on the wiki that doesn't show zip file support but I added the "zip" extension to es_system.cfg and zip files works for me.

This in most emulators that you can't see zip support.

amadeus

@Nismo
Ok, so i will add .zip and .7z as default supported extension to every system.

amadeus

Today release: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.8.0

CHANGELOG:

Fix an error with the folder name of Atari 7800
Added support for PC
Added support for PlayStation 1 (PSX)
Added support for Daphne
.zip and .7z extensions are now suported by every system

Nismo

@amadeus Very nice update, thank you very much.

I still hope to see video and marquees tags support in the future...

Anyway great job.