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So I "upgraded" to the latest Windows release (10.21) on my test laptop and am having a host of problems.
First, my collection names don't show up in the top-left corner, only the manufacturer (been happening for several versions now)
Second, RetroFE crashes every other time I try to launch it.
Third, the strangest of them all, it retains a "default" memory of games names and won't read any of my hyperlist XML files. I spent an hour trying to figure out if my XML had any mistakes, only to find out that all of my custom XMLs are being ignored. Is there a way to force refresh all of the hyperlist data?

Where exactly do I go to strip the blue bar from the bottom of the screen in Aeon Nox?

When you are viewing the games in a collection, there is this bar along with a mirror-like reflection of the box art. How can I make that vanish?

I am using a Pi 3B+ with Raspbian Stretch using the line:
bash <(curl -s https://bitbucket.org/phulshof/retrofe/raw/default/Scripts/Raspi2/install.sh)Install is NOT working. It makes a RetroFE folder in root but not all is there. I have tried with and without SU access. Can anyone advise?

Recently I had decided to update my Sega Genesis XML file to reflect any additions to my collection. For a while, each game I added would show up when I would scroll over to that particular game in the menu.

For example, if I add just "Aah Harimanada" to the original XML file, and then go into the Genesis collection, the information shows up. But it got to a point where that would stop working as I added more missing titles. I ended up restoring the default XML file and manually added all my new titles in one shot. None of the newly added titles show now.

I also added a collection called "Sega Mega Drive" with the exact same XML file (renamed "Sega Mega Drive") and I am not having this problem. I went a step further and changed my metadata.type in the settings.conf for my Sega Genesis collection to a different name, for example, "Sega Genesiss" and renamed the XML file accordingly. After I did this, none of the titles in my collection would show information.

I believe there is some kind of bug that is affecting this. Attached is the XML file I have created. I have loaded this into a couple of different computers now with the same result, and only the "Sega Genesis" collection is affected by this. Is there something wrong with my XML file? It's the second time I have created this, and none of my import games from Japan or China are showing information from the XML file. What gives?

Would it be possible to start a section where we can submit story files? I don't remember how I acquired the ones I have, or which ones I modified, but what I do know is that I have created said files for collections that have up until recently have received scant attention (Apple IIGS, some Amiga titles). I would love to share these with the community. I don't think such content would violate any copyrights. Thoughts?

Hello again, gents. As I have been building my own massive RetroFE empire over the last few months, there have been a few headaches along the way with regards to launching games on certain systems. I wanted to touch upon a couple of launcher-related topics. The first one pertains to launching PC-based games that use multiple floppy disks. For the Commodore Amiga, what works for me is using WinUAE, configuring each game (I have a very small Amiga library because of this) within the program and saving the configuration of each game to a .uae file. For the launcher I run WinUAE and point to the .uae file in the item arguments instead of pointing to the actual ROM files themselves. That works great for me as all necessary disks are already included in one shot. Now I have had some limited success with Commodore 64 thus far. It seems like I can launch cartridge-based games without a problem with WinVICE, but loading floppy-based games is still a mystery to me. Ditto with Apple II games. If anyone could drop some wisdom on me I would greatly appreciate.

The second thing I wanted to discuss regarding launchers is if there could be a section (or thread) here on the site covering a "how-to" for creating launchers, system by system so that the same questions would not be asked over and over again. While many of these are easy to set up, others are insanely difficult, and some are better than others. I would definitely like to contribute some of my own setups here on the forum. Not just to help the community, but also to keep an online manual of sorts should the process ever need to be repeated in the future. Is this doable? Would it be OK to start posting in the tutorials section for each system that has been successfully configured? This wealth of knowledge is something you could never put into a manual but would be invaluable.

Can someone help with running the proper command line for Emma 02? Trying to launch a ROM from the front end but there is no documentation for Emma 02 and Mame emulation of the Studio II is nonfunctional.

I'm trying to make a collection for Neo Geo based on my bigger MAME set but it keeps listing every ROM in the folder instead of just Neo Geo games. What am I doing wrong here?

Attached are the xml in hyperlist and settings for the collection.

Names are mame standard