Gengal - Gamelist XML Generator

numotiv

Any chance of an upload somewhere else? I can't for the life of me get the link to work.

A2ra3L

Probably a REALLY stupid question but I tried to scrape my roms today with sselph, universal XML and the built in scraper and none of them found any of my Atari 2600, NES or SNES roms. Will this create an XML file that will allow universal xml to find them and scrape them or do I need something else? I am still very new to this :P

theWinterDojer

@jax How do I use it to update an existing xml? I only see the option to add my ROM folder.

EctoOne

@thewinterdojer If you want to update your xml with videos/marquee i think you need to use suffix mode from the tools menu or press F5. I'm not sure tho, so make a backup of your xml first.

lukeslens

Curious what is going wrong here. Whenever I try to update the xml, it spits out this weird garbled mess of a filepath. I've tried it on numerous ones thus far and it all looks like this...

<image>./boxart//hompRetroPiromn6007 - GoldenEye (USA).png</image>
<video>./snap//hompRetroPiromn6007 - GoldenEye (USA).mp4</video>

I'm THIS close to being able to solve being able to fix a lot of gamelists with this tool, but this little bug is preventing me and I can't figure it out.

robertybob

I cannot open the .exe , I double click on it but nothing happens :(

momaw27

Hi Jax!

Wow! Great program!

I'd like to suggest an option to add.

Would it be possible to create an .xml that truncates the region code from the game list within EmulationStation?

While my rom sets include the region code... Ducktales (USA).zip... the gamelist currently displays Ducktales (USA).

I'd like my game list within EmulationStation to display the title without the (USA)... just plain Ducktales

Thanks for your hard work and giving us something that DRASTICALLY makes our lives easier!

kb1ujs

@lukeslens I ran into this myself tonight. I'm guessing your gamelists use absolute paths. Gengal appears to be able to only write out relative paths.

Psibash

Random question...So this will create the gamelist.xml files...but it will not include the ratings, number of players, type of game, game description, etc...right? If not...is there a way to add those informations to the xml files?

EctoOne

@psibash you mean like a scraper? Something like the built-in one, sselph's or universal xml scraper? For my understanding this editor is to "fix" entries in scraped xml files.

Psibash

Ah yeah i understand since it can update existing gamelists. Thanks for the reply! :)

g0nz0uk

This tool is great, so good it updates rather that recreates the gamelist.xml, thanks for all your hard work.

cmac86

The tool does not work for me. When i try opening it i get an error. Windows 7 64bit. Tried rebooting and still no luck. Any help would be appreciated as i've downloaded all my artwork to pc and when trasnfering to folder emulationstation doesnt pick it up. I need to create a new xml gamelist file so it knows where to look for artwork from XML Scraper V2. Thanks alot and looking forward to some replies

Error relates to a signiture problem. I am not sure why or how I can get around it. Thanks

fuzznuzzbit

@jax Thanks for putting this together, it's been very helpful.
Would you consider adding the ability to filter by extensions and scanning sub-directories? This might be helpful for folks who are using subfolders in the ROM folder for things like genres. In my case, I have as many of the "All Killer, No Filler" roms for Arcade games in the Arcade main rom directory and everything else is in a subfolder. Images \videos\marquess for all arcade roms remain in \roms\arcade\images. This appears to be the default with selph scraper.
This app has been really great. Thanks for all the hard work - it's saved hours and hours of time for me in experimenting with different images in themes and making my system look great. Thank you again!

mrwasi

Tried to open the exe file in Windows 10. Nothing happens.......

eVenom

Bitdefender treats Gengal as a threat and deletes it

fnkngrv

@evenom set an exception for it. Easy peasey.

dcm91

I've downloaded but i cannot open the exe, it just says that it stopped working and asks me to send more information about the problem. I really need this!! Any ideas how to get it working? Thank you

maxbeanz

@dcm91 Did you install this which is required ? Windows Management Framework v5

SuperMagicom

@jax I love Gengal but the gamelist.txt is never in alphabetical order. There's always a section with A-? at the bottom. It's easy enough to move it manually but if it's something you could possibly fix that would be better. Cheers!