Subj : Retro gaming
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Sep 06 2024 23:42:45

  Re: Retro gaming
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Sep 06 2024 08:20 pm

 DM> I found some ROM sets on archive.org pre-setup with cover art, etc. Saved
 DM> me a lot of time curriating.

Ah, thanks for the tip.

I tend to not really like having too many games to scroll through.  I made a backup of what was on the card initially, and then removed many of the ROMs and kept the ones I typically like to have on a device.  The cover art for many of the games were already on the SD card, which saved me some time.  I also found a utility for generating a gamelist.xml file, though it's fairly simplistic in that it looks for every file in a directory and writes a gamelist.xml with the filename, name (with the extension stripped off), and a cover art image, which it assumes has the same name as the ROM but with a .png or .jpg or something. I still had to do some manual work in specifying the actual cover art filenames. Also, the tool I was using doesn't write things like the release date, publisher, etc. (not smart enough to do that, and I'm not sure if there's a database for those kinds of things for such a tool to use).

Nightfox

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