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Announcements / Re: Pi3 image
« on: April 03, 2018, 03:11:09 PM »
I ordered the new Raspi3B+ and wanted to install a fresh RetroPie to it. How far is the progression with RetroPie and RetroFE? I really would prefer RetroFE. AS far as I know my old RetroPie setup for my Raspi3 wouldn't work anymore, because the Raspi3B+ needs atleast Raspian Strech.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Filtering or portable mode?
« on: December 17, 2017, 10:58:00 AM »
But with 0.8.13 and 0.8.14 the 3rd Level Lists are empty.

"Main" (works normal, shows all Systems)
-> "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" (works normal, shows all subcollections)
----> "Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Coop All" (just empty)

"Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Coop All" is a collection folder with an "Super Nintendo Entertainment System.sub" and an playlist-folder inside.
In the "Super Nintendo Entertainment System.sub" the games are just listed with the rom name...
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...
Donkey Kong Country (Europe) (En,Fr,De) (Rev 1)
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Germany) (En,De) (Rev 1)
Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (Europe) (En,Fr,De)
...
...and in the playlists folder they are in genre lists like "action.txt" with...
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...
_Super Nintendo Entertainment System:Donkey Kong Country (Europe) (En,Fr,De) (Rev 1)
_Super Nintendo Entertainment System:Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Germany) (En,De) (Rev 1)
_Super Nintendo Entertainment System:Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (Europe) (En,Fr,De)
...

Any Idea why it worked previously and not after the update?

Edit:
Log showing opening a NES subcollection on 3rd level:
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[2017-12-17 11:58:34] [INFO] [Layout] Initialized
[2017-12-17 11:58:34] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Checking for "D:\RetroFE\collections\Main\include.txt"
[2017-12-17 11:58:34] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Scanning directory "D:\RetroFE\collections\Main\roms"
[2017-12-17 11:58:34] [INFO] [Menu] Found: "D:\RetroFE\collections\Main\menu.txt"
[2017-12-17 11:58:41] [INFO] [Layout] Initializing D:\RetroFE\layouts\Aeon Nox\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System\layout\layout.xml
[2017-12-17 11:58:41] [INFO] [Layout] could not find layout file: D:\RetroFE\layouts\Aeon Nox\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System\layout\layout.xml
[2017-12-17 11:58:41] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Checking for "D:\RetroFE\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System\include.txt"
[2017-12-17 11:58:41] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Scanning directory "D:\RetroFE\collections\NES"
[2017-12-17 11:58:41] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Could not read directory "D:\RetroFE\collections\NES". Ignore if this is a menu.
[2017-12-17 11:58:41] [INFO] [Menu] Found: "D:\RetroFE\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System\menu.txt"
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [Layout] Initializing D:\RetroFE\layouts\Aeon Nox\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System - All\layout\layout.xml
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [Layout] could not find layout file: D:\RetroFE\layouts\Aeon Nox\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System - All\layout\layout.xml
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [NOTICE] [Collections] "collections.Nintendo Entertainment System - All.launcher" points to a launcher that is not configured (launchers.). Your collection will be viewable, however you will not be able to launch any of the items in your collection.
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Checking for "D:\RetroFE\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System - All\include.txt"
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Scanning directory "D:\RetroFE\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System - All\roms"
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Could not read directory "D:\RetroFE\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System - All\roms". Ignore if this is a menu.
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading subcollection into menu: Nintendo Entertainment System
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Checking for "D:\RetroFE\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System - All\Nintendo Entertainment System.sub"
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Scanning directory "D:\RetroFE\collections\NES"
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Could not read directory "D:\RetroFE\collections\NES". Ignore if this is a menu.
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [Menu] File does not exist: "D:\RetroFE\collections\Nintendo Entertainment System - All\menu.txt"
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: Action
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: Adventure
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: Beat-%27Em-Up
[2017-12-17 11:59:02] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: Board+Games

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Filtering or portable mode?
« on: November 26, 2017, 02:07:24 PM »
The custom XML doesn't seem to work with 0.8.13 anymore. What is needed to do to make the default layout capable of handling more than 2 menu levels?

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Announcements / Re: RetroFE 0.8.0 - Release Candidate 1
« on: May 19, 2017, 12:34:23 PM »
My RC1 is often crashing while initialising. Is there any way to debug RetroFE to find out whats going wrong?

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Tool like ROMlister for Non-MAME games?
« on: May 17, 2017, 12:13:05 PM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on May 04, 2017, 06:54:15 AM
Quote from: Dunuin on May 04, 2017, 01:01:47 AM
I'm now coding my own script to generate playlists by genre and number of players. It is also already downloading artwork from thegamesDB.net, crawling game infos from Hyperlist XMLs + No-Intro P/C XMLs + thegamesDB.net, creating story textfiles and exporting all game infos as a new hyperlist XML for feeding the meta db.

But I can't find infos about how a hyperlist xml must look like and what parts of it will be imported to the meta db. For example, what should I do if a game has the two genres "Driving" and "Shooter"?
1.) only use one genre of it and ignore the other one
2.) use 2 genre-tags, one for each genre
3.) use both genres in the same genre-tag separated by ",", ";" or "/"?

Moreover, can I use any genre in RetroFE or do I have to use predefined genres like here?

And is it possible to use multiple manufacturers? Right now I've got the manufacturer from the hyperlist and developer + publisher from thegamedDb and I don't know which one the meta db needs.

Is there any documentation avaible?

There's no documentation available (yet), but RetroFE supports a single genre and both manufacturer and developer as tags. RetroFE can use any genre name you want to use, but the "official" genres have artwork available, so if you want your theme to display them you'll have to create/find art for the genre you define.


Can you post an example of what a complete hyperlist game entry with all supported data fields would look like? Right now my script is exporting Hyperlists like this...

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          <game name="Shadowrun (Germany)" index="" image="">
<description>"Shadowrun (Germany)"</description>
<cloneof>Shadowrun (Europe)</cloneof>
<crc>e420e96f</crc>
<publisher>Data East</publisher>
<developer>Data East, Beam Software</developer>
<manufacturer>Data East, Beam Software</manufacturer>
<year>1993</year>
<genre>Role-Playing</genre>
<rating>ESRB - T (Teen)</rating>
<score>3.3</score>
<players>1</players>
<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>
...but I have also crawled things like "min players", "max players", "coop", "region", "languages" and "alternative game titles" and don't know if the meta db supports them.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Filtering or portable mode?
« on: May 14, 2017, 09:37:34 PM »
Works great. Thanks :)

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Filtering or portable mode?
« on: May 09, 2017, 12:01:02 AM »
I want it to look the games menu.
How do I tell RetroFE if a collection should look like the games menu or the main menu?

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Filtering or portable mode?
« on: May 08, 2017, 01:20:36 PM »
I've got some new problems...

I tried to create different sub collections to filter my games, so I could select them like...

Main -> Bandai WonderSwan -> 1 Player (Bandai WonderSwan) -> Action (1P Bandai Wonderswan)

"Bandai WonderSwan" is the collection with all roms and artwork.
"1 Player (Bandai WonderSwan)" is a empty collection and displays only the other sub collections listed in its menu.txt
"Action (1P Bandai Wonderswan)" is a sub collection without roms and artwork and should show all the Action titles listet in the "Bandai WonderSwan.sub"

Now the problems
1.) I'm neither able to get the game infos from the meta DB to show up nor the snap of the games in my "Action (1P Bandai Wonderswan)" collection. I can see the boxart at the bottom and switch between the games listet in the "Bandai WonderSwan.sub", but the upper half of the screen is just empty.
2.) I can not exit the sub collection. I can press ESC to go back to the Main screen but the sub collection keeps be open atop of it (see attachment).
3.) sometimes RetroFE is randomly crashing while starting

But the log is only showing DEBUG and INFO messages and nothing tagged as error.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Tool like ROMlister for Non-MAME games?
« on: May 04, 2017, 01:01:47 AM »
I'm now coding my own script to generate playlists by genre and number of players. It is also already downloading artwork from thegamesDB.net, crawling game infos from Hyperlist XMLs + No-Intro P/C XMLs + thegamesDB.net, creating story textfiles and exporting all game infos as a new hyperlist XML for feeding the meta db.

But I can't find infos about how a hyperlist xml must look like and what parts of it will be imported to the meta db. For example, what should I do if a game has the two genres "Driving" and "Shooter"?
1.) only use one genre of it and ignore the other one
2.) use 2 genre-tags, one for each genre
3.) use both genres in the same genre-tag separated by ",", ";" or "/"?

Moreover, can I use any genre in RetroFE or do I have to use predefined genres like here?

And is it possible to use multiple manufacturers? Right now I've got the manufacturer from the hyperlist and developer + publisher from thegamedDb and I don't know which one the meta db needs.

Is there any documentation avaible?

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General Discussion & Help / Tool like ROMlister for Non-MAME games?
« on: April 21, 2017, 02:38:52 PM »
Hi,

Is there any tool to order or generate lists of No-Intro roms by number of players or genre like ROMlister for MAME games?

I tried hard but wasn't able to find something like that.
 

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Filtering or portable mode?
« on: April 20, 2017, 06:20:14 PM »
You are right. With the "_Arcade:" in front of every name it is working.

Thank you very much  :D

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Filtering or portable mode?
« on: April 20, 2017, 03:46:41 PM »
E:\RetroFE\collections\settings.conf:
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fullscreen = yes
horizontal = stretch
vertical = stretch
layout = Aeon Nox
hideMouse = yes
showParenthesis = yes
showSquareBrackets = yes
firstCollection = Main
autoFavorites = true
videoEnable = yes
videoLoop = 0
exitOnFirstPageBack = yes
attractModeTime = 0
rememberMenu = yes
collectionInputClear = false
baseItemPath = ..\ROMs

E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade\settings.conf:
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list.path = ..\ARCADE\PD\ROMs #merged ROMs are located like "E:\ARCADE\PD\ROMs\1on1gov.zip"
list.includeMissingItems = true
list.extensions = zip
list.menuSort = true
launcher = rocketlauncher
metadata.type = MAME

E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade\include.txt:
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005
1on1gov
10yard
1292apvs
progolf
#... and so on

"E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade\exclude.txt" is empty.
Artwork is located in "E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade\medium_artwork".
There are many playlists like the following one which are working all fine:

E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade\playlists\04_Shooter Flying Vertical.txt:
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1941
pc_1942
1942
1943kai
1943

But no playlists in the "Arcade MP" sub collection are working:

E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade MP\settings.conf:
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list.includeMissingItems = true
list.extensions = zip
list.menuSort = true
launcher = rocketlauncher
metadata.type = MAME

E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade MP\Arcade.sub:
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1on1gov
1941
1943kai
1943
1943mii
1944
1945kiii
19xx
# ... and so on

Many playlists like:

E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade MP\playlists\04_Shooter Flying Vertical.txt:
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1941
1943kai
1943
1943mii
1944
1945kiii
19xx

No include.txt and no exclude.txt.


So what am I doing wrong? Within the Arcade MP sub collection I can't switch between playlists. There is just that "AllGames" Picture.

As soon as I add the file "E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade MP\include.txt" with all games in it I am able to switch between playlists but  these playlists don't use artwork. Artwork is only used in the "AllGames" icon playlist.

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General Discussion & Help / Re: Filtering or portable mode?
« on: April 19, 2017, 02:12:07 AM »
Is it possible to use playlists inside of a sub collection?
I have created some playlists but unlike with the "Arcade" collection no playlists are showing up.

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[2017-04-19 02:54:38] [INFO] [Layout] Initializing E:\RetroFE\layouts\Aeon Nox\collections\Arcade MP\layout\layout.xml
[2017-04-19 02:54:38] [INFO] [Layout] could not find layout file: E:\RetroFE\layouts\Aeon Nox\collections\Arcade MP\layout\layout.xml
[2017-04-19 02:54:38] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Checking for "E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade MP\include.txt"
[2017-04-19 02:54:38] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Scanning directory "E:\RetroFE\..\ROMs\Arcade MP"
[2017-04-19 02:54:38] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Could not read directory "E:\RetroFE\..\ROMs\Arcade MP". Ignore if this is a menu.
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading subcollection into menu: Arcade
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [CollectionInfoBuilder] Checking for "E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade MP\Arcade.sub"
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [Menu] File does not exist: "E:\RetroFE\collections\Arcade MP\menu.txt"
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 02_All No Clones
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 03_Shooter Flying Horizontal
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 04_Shooter Flying Vertical
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 05_Shooter Scrolling
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 06_Shooter Rest
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 07_Fighter 2.5D
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 08_Fighter Versus
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 09_Fighter Scrolling
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 10_Fighter Rest
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 11_Driving
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 12_Platform
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 13_Breakout
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 14_Pinball & PinMAME
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 15_Wrestling
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 16_Sports
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 17_Rhythm
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 18_Puzzle
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 19_Maze
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 20_Multiplay
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 21_Mini Games
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 22_Mature
[2017-04-19 02:54:39] [INFO] [RetroFE] Loading playlist: 23_Misc
[2017-04-19 02:55:17] [INFO] [SDL] DeInitializing
[2017-04-19 02:55:17] [INFO] [RetroFE] Exiting

And I read somewhere that only games will show up in subcollections, if the ROM file is avaible in the parent collection to prevent double games and it is not enough to list the games in the include.txt. I have a merged MAME romset, so is it possible at all to use sub collections?

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Re: Make () and [] tags obsolete for media assets
« on: April 18, 2017, 02:42:46 AM »
Isn't it possible to cache the results so the fuzzy logic needs to be run only once?

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Re: Filtering & Tagging
« on: April 18, 2017, 02:27:41 AM »
Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on January 25, 2017, 07:46:00 AM
2. Playlists; this is already available in bit bucket.

The playlists are great but static, which is a disadvantage is some situations. For example:

1.) you want to filter games by system, genre and number of supported players and you have 40 systems, 30 genres and 4 players. So you need to setup 40 * 30 * 4 = 1200 playlists...each filter value adding to it will multiply the amount of work.
2.) you need to do alot of preparatory work before you can filter out games and can't do it impulsively
3.) everytime you update your romsets you have to edit all playlists and add/remove the new games

I would like to have something like a simple filter-menu. You press a button on the controller/keyboard and a menu pops up. With the Up and Down keys you can switch between menu items (number of players, genre, system, region/language, ...) and with the Left and Right keys you can step through the predefined values the metadb is using (1P, 2P, 3P, 4+P) (Platformer, Puzzle, Shooter, ...).
The filter will be used on top of the static filtering by checking the items of the collection/subcollection/playlist against the dynamic filter and the metaDB.

So you could easily filter out any games your not interested in at the moment in seconds. And you can do it all without keyboard and mouse. Such a menu would also be a good place for your search function by the way.

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