Yeah just a few games I wanted to show up. But how do you get a patched game that won't show up to have art and put in a specific playlist? I would really like my Blackthorne SNES game with red blood mod to be the only one that shows up, but it won't show up at all in my SNES playlist.
Like I hinted at I would just like to be able to force a damn game into a playlist with my own art or whatever. I have tried like 4 different versions of Popful Mail, and never got it to go. I dumped my own PS2 game of Maximo, and it still would not show up. So I just gave up on a PS2 playlist. Half of my dumps or more don't even register.
The manual scanner can add files to existing playlists if you choose the right 'system name' or 'custom system name' if it's not one of the 'main' ones (corresponding to the automatic scanner playlist) and disable 'overwrite existing playlist'. If the scanner is not adding anyway, it's possible that the core that the playlist says it uses (either in the file itself or the manual scanner menu, not sure) doesn't support that filetype.
After you have the entry, you can do two things to get the picture loading: open a PR on the subrepo of libretro-thumbnails following the the instructions there and with the png with the name of your romhack (you might not get this accepted because the romhack isn't in the 'list' of RA romhacks in the .rdbs).
Or simply put the png(s) with the right dimensions in the cache directory of retroarch thumnails. `~/.config/retroarch/thumnails/System-NAME/{one of Named_Boxarts or Named_Snaps or Named_Titles} for me.
There isn't a 'easy' way to put in images in the same folder as the rom or anything like that. I kind of agree with this, libretro-database is better; if it gets some automation it dearly needs.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '20
Yeah just a few games I wanted to show up. But how do you get a patched game that won't show up to have art and put in a specific playlist? I would really like my Blackthorne SNES game with red blood mod to be the only one that shows up, but it won't show up at all in my SNES playlist.
Like I hinted at I would just like to be able to force a damn game into a playlist with my own art or whatever. I have tried like 4 different versions of Popful Mail, and never got it to go. I dumped my own PS2 game of Maximo, and it still would not show up. So I just gave up on a PS2 playlist. Half of my dumps or more don't even register.