Cue and Bin File (hidding the bin only when there is a cue)

screech

Hi,

I'm the dev of this software : Universal XML Scraper

I'm comming from your friend's community Recalbox ;)

Some person ask me if it's possible to hide bin file in ES game list (not in the gamelist.xml).

On recalbox they're is a great function, a <hidden> tag in gamelist.xml who hide the file when it's "true".
So I use it to "auto hide" the bin when a cue exist when I scrape with my tool automatically.

I haven't found any solution on retropie...

I found a post with a config modification to "not show" ALL the bin. (so showing only cue...)

But sometime, people have mixed file : 1 game with cue+bin, 1 game with only bin...
So if ALL the bin were "not show" in the list, they miss some game.

I would like to know if they're a solution to hide bin only when a cue file matching exist ?

Thank you very much.

herb_fargus

@screech every bin should have a cue.

If it doesn't they are easy enough to generate.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Playstation-1#why-arent-my-bin-files-showing-in-emulation-station

screech

It's what I do on my system ;)

But it's not all the user doing that ;)

If it's a "prerequisites" on Retropie, it's OK for me ;) I can put the *.bin in excluded files ;)

Thank you @herb_fargus

herb_fargus

@screech by default retropie *hides the bin file by not including it in the esconfig as to not have duplicate games, otherwise there really isn't any method like a hidden tag in ES for the retropie fork. It's possible that may become a function in the future but I don't see it happening anytime soon, so yes, the current recommendation for the retropie user is to have a cue for every bin.

screech

Noted ;)

Is there a list somewhere with all the extension possible in Retropie ?
I look on the wiki and found only a list of "system"

Maybe I can take the problem the reverse way and including only supported extension by Retropie instead of excluding some when I found one bad guy ^^

herb_fargus

@screech it's all in the code: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/platforms.cfg

Though some may be in the individual modules as well

vbs

@screech said in Cue and Bin File (hidding the bin only when there is a cue):

Maybe I can take the problem the reverse way and including only supported extension by Retropie instead of excluding some when I found one bad guy ^^

I think that's a good idea. In my case UXS for example also scraped "srm" files which are save game files created at runtime in the ROM folder.

screech

Thanks a lot @herb_fargus Not used to use github (even if I use one myself ^^)

And I just see .bin are used in Atari for exemple :S so I can't exclude them from being scraped...

(I need to add a "system list" with extension ;) in my code to keep that working without touching configuration too much for the user ^^)

So it's solved ;) It's on my side now ^^

Rion

@vbs @screech You're right. I added *.srm to the exclusions list manually but it should be excluded by default.

tendo_nerd12

i saw someone copy a .cue file and change the name. I have not be able to do the same and been having the same issue with my psx. I need to find a .cue file first to give it a shot.