Option for title sorting

[cassette]

I guess this is more of a question, but I don't think this is handled in any way currently. So basically the prime example of this is that arcade games must be named in a very specific name for them to work with MAME, which conflicts with alphabetical sorting because the full name of the game is often different from this name. So for example, ideally I'd expect "Mars Matrix" to be after "Mars", but because of their filenames they are quite separate from each other and it's very difficult to know how to reach a certain game.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

If the sorting is enabled for a collection, it will use the full name for that purpose, and not the filename.

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[cassette]

Cool! What do I need to modify, though? Some sort of line on settings.conf of he Arcade collection? Can't find anything except "list.menuSort" but I don't think that's it.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Can you upload your log.txt file, please? I'll have a look.

A screenshot of the problem may also help.

Does your Arcade collection currently even show the full name and other extra information?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Did you solve this issue yet?

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[cassette]

Very sorry for the late response, I've been gone.

Ok, so I take it you're saying it should sort by title instead of filename by default?

.log: http://pastebin.com/Xz7WpT2f
Image: http://imgur.com/a/2Pak4

About extra information, it shows the visual stuff as you can see, but I'm not on a skin that displays more stuff and I don't know of one to try.

By the way alt-tabbing makes RetroFe crash on my end.

edit: I noticed, maybe I'm wrong or blind, but some games aren't showing? For example I should have an entry for Virtual-On as "von.zip", but it's not there.

This is my settings.conf

list.romHierarchy = true
list.includeMissingItems = true
list.extensions = zip
list.menuSort = true
launcher = mame
media.artwork_front = %BASE_MEDIA_PATH%/%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%/item_artwork/front
media.logo          = %BASE_MEDIA_PATH%/%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%/item_artwork/logo
media.screenshot    = %BASE_MEDIA_PATH%/%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%/item_artwork/screenshot
media.video         = %BASE_MEDIA_PATH%/%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%/item_artwork/video

[Pieter Hulshoff]

In the screen shot, I see that it's showing the file names rather than the full names. That means that RetroFE did not match the meta information to your collection. Your collection is called Arcade, but my guess is that your meta file is called MAME.xml. Add the following line to your Arcade settings.conf:
metadata.type = MAME

[cassette]

Ohhhhhhhhhh, that was it!!!!! You're the best, thank you very much!! (by the way, Virtual On wasn't showing because the actual title is "Cyber Troopers Virtual-On" whoops)