separating snes/super famicom games
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@FlyingTomahawk
In your es_systems.cfg example the TurboGrafx-16 istg16and nott16.I could be wrong but I think when you use like
<platform>pcengine</platform>it will scrape the Europe art and if you put<platform>tg16</platform>it will scrape the USA art. Not sure where the Japan art fits in this but I would assume it's with the "pcengine" platform. -
That's good to know. So I'll change the <platform> entry to "tg16" for the Turbografix entry. I'll leave the famicom and superfamicom <platform> entries alone since I don't know how they will scrape.
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Not sure about that one. I didn't do it in my RPi and had no issues thus far. But if he says you should do it, do it and see what happens. If you have any issues just revert it back.
Inside the carbon-custom folder you should have an art folder (includes all the necessary images for the theme.), various system folders and in each of them the theme.xml file and another art folder with the system.svg logos.
and usually at the bottom the carbon.xml file and probably a readme.txt file. -
Yeah thanks for pointing that out, my bad. Fixed it.
Not sure about the platform thing. Last time I scraped some PCengine games it gave me mostly TG16 images. Isn't that a rom thing? If it is a Japanese version rom it will scrape Japanese images? Something like that I thought, not sure though. -
@groviar
Here's the list of supported platforms for Steven Selph's Scraper:
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/wiki/Supported-Platforms...but it doesn't tell you exactly what to put in the
<platform>entry. Does anyone have a list like that?Not sure about the platform thing. Last time I scraped some PCengine games it gave me mostly TG16 images. Isn't that a rom thing? If it is a Japanese version rom it will scrape Japanese images? Something like that I thought, not sure though.
Yeah, Steven Selph's Scraper uses the hash of the file to check against a database of known hashes to get box art. I think the one built into EmulationStation might rely on this
<platform>entry more. -
@groviar @FlyingTomahawk - changing nes to famicom in the <command> portion of es_systems.cfg will tell retroarch to look in the /opt/configs/famicom folder for its emulators.cfg and retroarch.cfg files when launching a rom. It's not 100% necessary, but would help if, for instance, you are doing the "All" folder thing and want the savegames for nes and famicom to be saved in the correct folders.
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I see... then I guess it's up to him.
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platform is definitely there to help the scrapers - it would help them distinguish between a famicom rom and a nes rom with the same name, as @FlyingTomahawk mentioned
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Okay so then should I definitely change the <platform> entry for the TurboGrafx-16 to "tg16"? How about the Famicom? Should I change the <platform> entry to famicom since it's on the list of scraped systems? That list doesn't mention superfamicom so I guess I should leave that as "snes"?
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to be honest I don't know. Try to use famicom once and if you can't scrape any games then change it back to nes. Same goes for the super famicom.
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Okay, so here are my new entries in es_systems.cfg:
<system>
<name>famicom</name>
<fullname>Family Computer</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/famicom</path>
<extension>.nes .zip .NES .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS famicom %ROM%</command>
<platform>famicom</platform>
<theme>famicom</theme>
</system><system>
<name>superfamicom</name>
<fullname>Super Famicom</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/superfamicom</path>
<extension>.bin .smc .sfc .fig .swc .mgd .zip .BIN .SMC .SFC .FIG .SWC .MGD .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS superfamicom %ROM%</command>
<platform>snes</platform>
<theme>superfamicom</theme>
</system><system>
<name>tg16</name>
<fullname>TurboGrafx-16</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/tg16</path>
<extension>.pce .ccd .cue .zip .PCE .CCD .CUE .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS tg16 %ROM%</command>
<platform>tg16</platform>
<theme>tg16</theme>
</system>All the other entries are exactly as they were in the original es_systems.cfg file. I don't see the super famicom listed in sselph's scraper, so I left that <platform> entry as snes. If my entries look okay to you guys, I'll copy it back over to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg.
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Looks good to me.
The only thing I cannot tell you 100% OK is the <command> line. Not sure that needs to be changed. Give it a try and see how it goes. -
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The only thing about the <command> line is I'm not sure I'd know if something went wrong. I wish I could be sure how that affects things.
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The only thing I cannot tell you 100% OK is the <command> line. Not sure that needs to be changed. Give it a try and see how it goes.
Good eye! Yeah those need to be the same as the original like the tg16 should be:
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ pcengine %ROM%</command> -
Ah, okay. So then I want to leave the <command> lines as they originally were:
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS pcengine %ROM%</command>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS nes %ROM%</command>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS snes %ROM%</command>
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That is what I thought too at least that is how I have it in my RPi.
I created Capcom Play Stystem and NeoGeo using the FBAlpha as base and the command line is set to fba since I want to use those settings for all 3 systems (FBA, CPS and NEOGEO) -
@groviar
You can "Make" your own command directories like:
mkdir /opt/retropie/configs/tg16
and then just copy the data from the pcengine over to the tg16:
cp /opt/retropie/configs/pcengine/* /opt/retropie/configs/tg16/But I don't see the benefit for doing this (unless you want them to use different default emulators and use completely different controller mapping or something else different).
in other words don't do this lol
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Okay I'll just change the <command> lines back and then copy the file over.
To confirm, do I want to leave all 84 carbon themes in the "carbon-custom" folder?
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It's 1am over here and I have to take a shower and get some beauty sleep.
I hope you'll handle it otherwise backstander and other guys from the forum might/can chime in anytime too.
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