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Third party applications/tools / Media Scanner
« on: May 17, 2017, 03:15:24 AM »
Media Scanner scans your rom and media folders against a hyperlist xml, no-into dat (not recommended), or clrmamepro dir to dat. It will create a folder in the same directory as the database. For each media type filled in Media Scanner will output an extra, a have, and a missing text list. Also it will create a minted.txt that contains only games that have all media. All directories will be saved in Media Scanner.ini. If you only want to check mint against a couple media types do a full scan first then clear the fields you don't want included in the minted check.

Media Scanner.ini [Settings]
RomExtList
UI Setting - Custom list of rom extensions. Default: zip|7z

MediaExtList
UI Setting - Custom list of media extensions. Default: png|mp4|jpg|ico|txt

MediaNames
UI Setting - Custom list of media names. Used to override media names in UI (affects output text names). Default: Media1|Media2|Media3|Media4|Media5|Media6|Media7|Media8|Media9


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Third party applications/tools / RetroFE Playlist Creator
« on: May 14, 2017, 07:45:41 AM »
I've seen a few people ask for this.

Super easy to use.
  • Extract to your Favorite location
  • Open the App
  • Enter your Credit Card Info (JK  ;D)
  • Select a hyperlist xml
  • Press the "Create Lists" button
  • Wait for the Message Box to say "Done!"

A folder, named after the hyperlist, will be created in the same directory as the application. Inside will be more folders named after the xml keys (genre, players, etc). Inside those folders will be text files named after the various category values (Sports.txt, Action.txt, etc). Any problems let me know and I'll try to fix it.

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / New Forum Categories
« on: May 14, 2017, 07:31:18 AM »
Would it be too much of a pain to add a new forum category for 3rd party apps or something like that?  ;)

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Option to move or hide mouse on game launch
« on: May 03, 2017, 03:57:32 AM »
Is this something you could add Pieter? If hiding is an issue maybe just move the mouse to (0, 0) or better yet (ScreenWidth, ScreenHeight). The mouse is visible when using bezels and while its not really an issue, my ocd says otherwise :P

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Feature Requests / Suggestions / Make () and [] tags obsolete for media assets
« on: April 17, 2017, 08:49:08 AM »
When the front-end is looking for media it should look for whatever media with and without tags.

When loading assets look first for the full name then look for the name without the tags.

This is where a lot of naming problems come from. The actual romname is correct but the tags are different. This is true if someone downloads the story files on emumovies and uses newer versions of HyperList xmls to name their roms.

It would make media assets more universal to ignore the tags except when launching roms. All media and story files made as a shareable collection could be named without tags making them universal among different versions of a given naming convention.

Make sense?

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General Discussion & Help / RetroFE Meta Database
« on: April 17, 2017, 03:53:25 AM »
I am wondering if the database gets recreated every launch or if the data is persistent? I would like to import data directly to the database instead of using hyperlist xml files. If this is possible I could easily write a program that will scrape data directly to the database. I already have the code to search and fuzzy match results from GameFaqs, MobyGames, and TheGamesDB just laying around.

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Off Topic / No-Intro Mega Meta Collection
« on: April 11, 2017, 02:42:32 AM »
This is a collection of stories and meta data for the No-Intro rom sets. Data is scraped from multiple sites. These collections pertain to the FULL set of roms so there will be info for multiple regions of a game if it exists. As much as I hate rom tags all romnames will be a 1:1 match to the No-Intro database. If you can't find your game in this collection then there probably isn't much meta for it floating around the web...

Anyone finds any errors let me know so I can fix them.
XML files are compatible with HyperSpin and RetroFE.

If you change
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<menu> to <datafile>and
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</menu> to </datafile>it will be compatible with clrmamepro as a parent clone dat so you can make a 1G1R collection.


No-Intro Meta

Included with each System
  • XML - Merged from theGamesDB, ScreenScraper, and GameFaqs - MobyGames will be added soon
  • Platform Story from theGamesDB
  • Game Stories from theGamesDB, ScreenScraper, GameFaqs, and MobyGames
  • Platform History from Video Game Console Library, or Wiki (Portable Systems)

Systems

Change Log:
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6/12/2017
    Moved downloads to Mega

6/4/2017
    Updated Sega 32X Meta to new format
    Added NEC TurboGrafx-16

5/17/2017
    Updated Nintendo Game Boy Advance Meta to new format

5/14/2017
    Updated Sega Genesis Meta to new format

5/12/2017
    Updated Super Nintendo Entertainment System Meta to new format
    Added Platform History to completed systems

5/06/2017
    Added Nintendo Entertainment System story files from MobyGames
    Separated story packs in Dropbox folder

5/04/2017
    Updated Nintendo Entertainment System Meta to new format

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4/15/2017
    Added Nintendo Game Boy
    Added Nintendo Game Boy Advance

4/12/2017
    Added Story files (SystemName.txt) for existing Systems
    Soon I will be adding RocketLauncher info files as well

Edit:
    All XML files have been updated!
    Updated rating string to match HyperList format. example: "E - Everyone" is now "ESRB - E (Everyone)"
    Added the last Sega CD story. 171 of 171

Added:
    Sega 32X
    Sega CD
    Sega Game Gear
    Sega SG-1000

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