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I have an Arcade collection with a curated include.txt (as well as an exclude.txt to make sure I didn't include any games that are NSFW).  No path to the roms is provided, I'm relying on my mame.ini to specify where MAME should look for the roms.  Everything works fine.

I have a Capcom and NeoGeo collection, both with their own Arcade.sub files.  Nothing magical here, just a list of every Capcom game and every NeoGeo game that I want sublisted from the Arcade collection.

Whenever I go into Capcom or NeoGeo, every game in the Arcade include.txt shows up.  I don't want this.  I only want to see the games that I have listed in the Arcade.sub files for each collection.  How do I prevent all of the other games from appearing?

Thank you.

I've been using RetroFE for the better part of three years now, and I love it.  But I'm starting to build a new rig, modding an Arcade1up, and I wanted to bring my 3 year old load out up to date.  It has not been easy.

When I did my initial install, I started with the base package from the EmuMovies FTP, and used it as a guide and a template on how to set up the rest of the systems.  I went about downloading all of the art assets and movies, and migrated directories to where the base package taught me to place them so that nothing needed to be specified in the settings.cfg files, RetroFE would just find everything in the default locations (collections/SYSTEM NAME/medium artwork and collections/SYSTEM NAME/system artwork).

Fast forward three years later, and I want to bring all of the artwork and movies up to date.  The tool that seems best for the job is the EmuMovies Sync. Not only will it update my art files, but it will match the asset names to the current file names I have, according to the latest No-Intro dats.  The problem is, it wants the directories in an entirely different structure.  And I'm not going to try to move the RetroFE directories back to the way EmuMovies Sync wants, there's just too many systems.  So the path of least resistance, it would seem, is to start over again, using EmuMovies Sync, and modify the settings.cfg to match the way EmuMovies wants to download the files.  This way, I get the new files (and the old files over), and then whenever I'm ready to update again in 3 years, I just run Sync again and let it pull the missing assets.

But that only gets me part of the way because now I need to generate new include.txt files.  What I've been doing is going into each rom directory and running dir /b > include.txt, and then opening that file in a text editor to strip all of the .zip extensions from every line, and adding that back into my collections folder.

I don't really know if I'm doing things the best way.  Does anyone have other suggestions to try?  I'm willing to keep going like this until I have every system I need done, but it's going to take a few nights to do it right.  It's going to be even tougher for the few systems where I split out Japanese games from the rest, like my NES collection vs. Famicom collection, SNES vs Super Famicom, Turbo Grafx-16 vs PC Engine, etc.  Also, does anyone know how to easily generate include.txt files for the various arcade collections that Hyperspin supports?  Like Namco Classics, Konami Classics, etc.?

Thanks.

I've been trying to come up with a way for RetroFE to launch Steam games like Street Fighter IV.  I tried setting it up in the following fashion: My collection is a directory where I collect all of the Shortcuts (*.lnk files) to each steam game, and I add the names of those games to my include.txt file.  For a launcher, I thought it might work if I simply used "start".  In my first attempt, RetroFE couldn't find "start", which makes sense because start is not a file, it's a command terminal instruction.  So I tried creating a start.bat file which just contains "start %1".  That didn't work, however, because unless you're in the directory where the lnk file exists, it just opens a command prompt starting in the target directory instead of launching the file.  Can anyone think of another way to solve this?  Thanks very much.

Hello.  I know there was a filtering thread from a few months ago, but I wanted to chime in with another (and separate) request.  I'd like the ability to filter out any title identified by the Hyperlist XMLs as Mature so I don't have to worry about what kinds of games my kids stumble upon.  As for a way to implement it, I imagine you could add a new option in the settings.conf which accepts a comma delineated list.  Something like:

Filter = Mature,Mahjong

So that any game which is identified by the XML as belonging to either of those categories is filtered from the list without a specific mention in exclude.txt.  This could be implemented at both the global level (RetroFE's settings.conf) or on a per-system level (each collection's own settings.conf).  I would be very grateful for this feature, and I imagine it would help a lot of other users.  Would this be feasible?  Thanks very much.