Gengal - Gamelist XML Generator

esmith13

@jax Thanks for this great tool!!! I have three change requests and one upgrade request:

Can Gengal be updated to support scanning subfolders and preferably support special characters as well?
An example for this use case is my FBA rom folder has some roms in it but roms from well known companies like sega/konami/irem/cave/taito/capcom/etc have folders in the FBA folder with all the roms by that company. Gengal only scans the roms directly in the folder I select.
Perhaps add a check box to choose to include subfolders or not?
Whenever I scan a rom path, if there are any special characters in any part of the folder's path like '[' or '#', gengal acts like it will create a gamelist.xml (which it does) but it is always empty. If it was a pre-existing list it doesn't update it.
I ask this because it is common for a rom subfolder to start with '#' for example so emulationstation puts it at the top of the romlist, not inline alphabetically.
Gengal creates an empty gamelist.xml at the start of it's job and then later adds that gamelist.xml as a rom entry to the gamelist.xml itself. Can you please make gengal ignore .xml files or at least not write the gamelist.xml to the directory until after it parses it's contents?

Upgrade Request: When scanning MAME/FBA/NEOGEO roms it would be nice if Gengal could compare the .zip rom names against a txt file that listed the friendly names of the roms to put in for the name tag in the xml file. This way, instead of getting 'sfiii' as a game name you would see 'Street Fighter III'. The txt file formatting could simply be one game per line with a tab or semicolon or something as a delimiter between the zip file name and the friendly name ex:

2020bb;Super Baseball 2020
sfiii;Street Fighter III
mslug;Metal Slug

Again, thanks so much for your software as well as for hopefully considering the changes I've listed here!

Eric

paf

@Jax Great tools, congratulations! Two questions:

Is it possible to include text descriptions of games into the xml?
Is Gengal freeware, i.e. could you publish the source code so as everybody could adapt it - for example to include games descriptions :-)

Thanks and regards
Patrick

Jax

Hey folks, apologies as I've been away for a few months.

I'm not actually sure if I still have the source (had some hardware issues!) but I'll have a look. I'll have to get back to you guys about the comments made as I'm currently at work, but to just address Eric's at the bottom here (as I can still see it on my screen):

Recursive scan could be added, I'll have to have a look into it.
Special characters can be a little bizarre with Powershell I'm afraid, but I'll have a look at autodetecting and adding escape characters in the handling routines.
I didn't know it added gamelist.xml as an entry! Well spotted. If I still have the source at home, I'll crack it open and fix that pronto.

EctoOne

@jax Welcome back. If you still have the source code around, it would be great if you could add support for the fixed thumbnail tag.

jeepjunkie

I'm getting some weird jumbled file paths when using Gengal on an existing gamelist.xml file. Anyone else experience this?

<image>./boxart//hompRetroPiromgamegea5 in 1 Funpak (USA).png</image>
<marquee>./wheel//hompRetroPiromgamegea5 in 1 Funpak (USA).png</marquee>
<video>./snap//hompRetroPiromgamegea5 in 1 Funpak (USA).mp4</video>

supneo

Hello, can someone pass me the program? , the mega link no longer works, thanks.

wtavar123

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supneo

@supneo said in Gengal - Gamelist XML Generator:

Hello, can someone pass me the program? , the mega link no longer works, thanks.

No one has it?

carlhungus74

Up... useful program but cannot find it anywhere. Unless there is an alternative ?
Thanks..

jmwilkes76

@carlhungus74 https://www.dropbox.com/s/he3a48pvhp0bl42/Gengal.zip?dl=0

carlhungus74

Thanks a lot for it.

EVEGames

@jmwilkes76 Thank you for sharing that link

jmwilkes76

you guys are welcome. it's my pleasure helpin out.

LorThe3rd

Hi @Jax , any chance to add Chinese support for Gengal? Current version fail to detect chinese. Please consider, many thanks!

chinese support.jpg

XyberDAWG

This sounds amazing, but the download link is broken.

backstander

@XyberDAWG
Try this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/he3a48pvhp0bl42/Gengal.zip?dl=0

pillemats

Does it work on win10?

In my case the Program will Not shown correctly.

I Cant read anything.

matchaman

Sorry for bringing back such an old thread but this tool is always useful for those who use themes without much details from scraping and already have their own art from other setups or frontends.

Since all the download links are dead, the last version of this utility can be found here:
http://www.filedropper.com/gengal

AkiAfroo

@matchaman
thx!

flipyPie

This is what I looking for
I can't believe someone made this application, it's exactly the kind of tool that what I was thinking a couple of hours ago when I was trying to put my own snaps for ES.

Thank so much for this, it's works perfect.

Since I check several links downs, here is my upload of this tool, just in case:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dqQLgwj-qqFIHD-E2vn4RC56p-xprnBP/view?usp=sharing