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General Category => General Discussion & Help => Topic started by: thatgammon on June 10, 2020, 08:40:41 PM

Title: Metadata on collection
Post by: thatgammon on June 10, 2020, 08:40:41 PM

Im trying to show manufacturer and year on my mame collection.

I understand from searching here that is lb_manufacturer and lb_year?

Is this correct?

I would like to know how to call such data from the metadata.xml or mame.xml etc.. and how to call it in the layout..

Thanks in advance.. My first post here.. im sure of many...

EDIT - So Ive worked out from the manual, its reloadable text type "manufacturer" and "year".. All good.

         Does the mame.xml have to be in mame folder or in meta/hyperspin or something else please?

Title: Re: Metadata on collection
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on June 13, 2020, 05:00:56 PM

meta\hyperlists I believe. The latest MAME.xml should be in the last RetroFE release already.

Title: Re: Metadata on collection
Post by: thatgammon on June 14, 2020, 09:19:09 AM

Thanks for your reply...

Yes mame.xml is in meta\hyperlist and has the data i need. Have tried putting in in just \meta and in emulators\mame and now have deleted..

<reloadableText type="year" x="1000" y="799" xOrigin="left" yOrigin="top" fontSize="26" alpha="1" layer="15"/>

type for non xml data ie collectionIndex works so problem is the xml isn't being called.. Am sure is one thing Ive over-looked.

Thanks in advance.  :)