[SOFT] GameList Editor 2022

[adelcampo]

NeeeeB's GameList Editor has been my favorite tool on PC for refining and exploring gamelists, and I was a bit sad to see that it had stopped development years ago. I talked to NeeeeB and agreed to bring it back to life :).

I proudly present to you... GameList Editor 2022!

• Full Video support! with playback! -also buttons for changing and deleting the video. Also basic video scraping and a new Missing Videos filter
• Recognize ANY system. No longer limited to a few preconfigured folder names.
• Scraping is now in top shape! It now supports TLS 1.3 to be able to talk to the server again. The former implementation was obsolete and no longer working due to new security requirements from the server. It is now up to date.
• Scraping is much more resilient -far less crashes when malformed XML or unexpected structure came from the server.
• Languages are back better than ever! The translations were not included in this fork releases before (by mistake). The resources are added back with the latest new labels in all supported languages.
• Adds logos and scraping info for 20 more systems: '3do', 'amiga' (generic), 'amigacd32', 'arcade', 'atari5200', 'atarilynx', 'cdtv', 'coleco', 'daphne', 'gx4000', 'intellivision', 'naomi', 'neogeocd', 'openbor', 'ports', 'saturn', 'snescd', 'x68000', 'atomiswave', 'ti99', 'snesmsu1', 'gameandwatch', 'nds', 'odyssey2', 'tg16', 'tg16cd', 'pspminis'.
• Active support. Feel free to open Issues or participate in Discussions to share feedback about the tool and make it better. Those sections are now available in this fork.

NOTE: On high resolution screens you may want to right click on Properties in GameListEditor.exe, click on Compatibility, Change high DPI settings button, mark Override high DPI scaling behavior... to System (dropdown). Ok and Ok.

Quickstart for New users:

• Select your language in Options / Language.
• If you want to scrape games, enter your Screenscraper.fr user and password in Options / Network / Configure.
• Select File / Choose folder and point to your PC folder or even network RetroPie / Recalbox containing your game systems folders with roms, etc.
• Note: This tool is not intended for massive scraping but for collection refining - you may use https://www.skraper.net/ for massive scraping purposes.

 

Info for developers / contributors:
There are some very significant changes to the inner workings of GameList Editor as most of the tooling was 5+ years old and in many cases obsolete.

• GameList Editor is now in Delphi 10.4
• Internet Direct (Indy) did not support TLS 1.3, so it has been migrated to TNetHttpClient (included in Delphi 10.4). It no longer requires additional DLLs in the main directory.
• Dependency on Windows Media Player ActiveX (included in Windows 7 and later -including Windows 11). Implemented in your development environment following: https://chapmanworld.com/windows-media-player-in-delphi/
• DxGetText used for translations is also deprecated and not working in Windows 10/11, but J. Rathlev has made his own Windows 10/11 version -you can download it from https://personal-backup.rathlev-home.de/translate.html . Translations can be made using the same process as described in http://dxgettext.po.dk/documentation/how-to

For more details on the classic tool: Link to Original GameList Editor post

https://github.com/andresdelcampo/GameList_Editor
https://github.com/andresdelcampo/GameList_Editor/releases

Enjoy!!
Andrés

[myjosito]

@adelcampo Without any doubt one of my favorite recalbox tool at that time !
Thanks a lot for sharing and reviving this program

[Paulska]

@adelcampo
thanks man ill try it out.

I use Skrapper but that doesn't check if image for a particular rom has already been scraped. It just deletes everything and starts over.

Does this version of yours check for previously scrapped games? or at least check if image is already there?
or is it per game scraping?
thanks

[Paulska]

@paulska nvm
this is for single edits only.
still awesome that it gives option to delete orphan games. (like removing eu from your library)

Thanks again for the work.

[adelcampo]

@paulska Exactly... I tried to remark it in the description -for mass scraping better keep using other tools like Skraper.net, but when it comes to refining a few games -missing images, missing videos, reorganizing with default picture for the ones missing it, and in general fine tuning... this tool was my favorite -looks awesome, it had been made with a great care for User Interface / User Experience- and I did not want to see it die :).

[puananiila99]

i want to know more about this

[Tom73]

Thank you, nice work.

[Tom73]

@adelcampo

Tested the GameList Editor and read my directories correctly. However, no covers are shown to me. I can't change them either. I'll get the Error Message "The roms/console/images directory is not found". But the correct path is: "roms/console/media/images". Can you fix this please?

[adelcampo]

@tom73 That is very strange... my set has a mix of systems like gb\mixart, gb\snap, and others like fbneo\media\images, fbneo\media\videos and both show without problems. Could you check your gamelist.xml file and make sure it had the right paths set? Is it working with any other program? Did it work and stop working after doing something?
If your gamelist.xml is pointing to the wrong directories, you can easily do a Replace all occurrences in the file with Notepad to change to the right directory.

[Tom73]

"console" is only a example path for snes or nes or mame etc. Sorry I didn't express myself clearly.

It is working with skraper.

[adelcampo]

@tom73 yes, the console part I assumed. Have you checked the gamelist.xml file to see if the image and video paths are correct? -that they include the "media" folder in between, and not directly the images folder? I don't know if Skraper has a separate configuration that allows it to point to the right folders when downloading them, but if gamelist.xml is wrong, that is the first place to address -to make sure it points to the right folders there. Once having a correct gamelist, if you find any scenario in which GL Editor corrupts in any way the file, let me know (how to reproduce the corruption) and I will be happy to fix it.

[Tom73]

This is my folder structure:

The GamelLst Editor look into "roms/megadrive/images" and not "roms/megadrive/media/images"

Why is that? I didn't change anything, it is a clear recalbox install on the sd cart.

[adelcampo]

@tom73 I would assume the roms and media did not come in a clean Recalbox install? If you used Skraper to get the media, did it also update gamelist.xml? Did you copy it as well back to the SD card? -assuming you scraped it outside of it.
That file is located in roms/console/gamelist.xml and it has entries for each game, each with its own path to image and video. If gamelist.xml is pointing to the wrong directory, there is little we can do. The only thing is find out when that gamelist.xml started to point to the wrong folders, but my suspicion is that you may have scraped it outside, and copied the updated media but not the updated gamelist.xml to the card? You seem to keep ignoring my request to check gamelist.xml?

[Tom73]

This is how my gamelist.xml look like:

<game>
		<path>3 Ninjas Kick Back (USA).zip</path>
		<hash>E5A24999</hash>
		<lastplayed>20220401T143721</lastplayed>
		<playcount>1</playcount>
		<region>248</region>
		<players>1-2</players>
		<genreid>257</genreid>
		<genre>Action,Plattform</genre>
		<publisher>Psygnosis</publisher>
		<developer>Malibu Games</developer>
		<releasedate>19940531T230000</releasedate>
		<video>media/videos/3 Ninjas Kick Back 90df0193f8f8c470c7903c9dacef4bb0.mp4</video>
		<image>media/images/3 Ninjas Kick Back 09f9529d49ed6b18a560dfe1209280c1.png</image>
		<desc>Sie müssen einem alten Samurai helfen, einen Dolch zurückzuholen, den er einst 

[adelcampo]

Looks like we probably do have a corner case issue in the app here... I am taking this offline with Tom to find out more and get a hotfix made as soon as I find out what is triggering that.

[priyachaudhary]

i am searching for the game list editor 2022.

[Alvin]

@ priyachaudhary
@adelcampo said in [SOFT] GameList Editor 2022:

Looks like we probably do have a corner case issue in the app here... I am taking this offline with Tom to find out more and get a hotfix made as soon as I find out what is triggering that.

[adelcampo]

@priyachaudhary - GameList Editor 2022 was linked in the first post, here is the releases page where you can download it: https://github.com/andresdelcampo/GameList_Editor/releases/tag/2022.02

[adelcampo]

@Tom73 There is a new release fixing the issues you found: -both this time, the hotfix I gave you only fixed changing pictures. https://github.com/andresdelcampo/GameList_Editor/releases/tag/2022.04

[Tom73]

@adelcampo

Thank you for the hotfix. Unfortunately haven't had time to test this yet. As soon as I have time I will do so. Thanks again for that.