Newbie questions about Attract Mode ROM names/lists
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:08 am
Just got my setup last week. My only prior experience dealing with frontends was using MaLa for a desktop PC and a but of using Emulation Station for Retropie, so please excuse my ignorance on the subject. I had a few questions and searches about them didn't produce any results so I'm forced to make a topic here.
1. When generating a ROM list, is it possible to have the names generated with the full ROM title like other frontends, rather than just simply the game name? For instance, I've got a half dozen entries for "The Simpsons" on my list with no way of differentiating between the 2P, 4P, JP, or US versions.
Edit Looks like I found the answer to that under the "hide brackets" option in Attract Mode settings
2. Is there any way to have Attract Mode scroll the ROM names horizontally when highlighted, so you're not just limited to seeing the first couple words of a name? Even if the name entries were correct, you'd have no way of telling because you never see the full ROM name with the info at the end.
3. How can I update the database (or whatever the proper term is) so a ROM scan will pick up and display everything in the folder? There's quite a few valid ROMs that never get picked up in the scan so I have no way of choosing them, forcing you to manually load them through the Retroarch menu. Initially I thought they were being skipped because the bundled FBA/MAME versions weren't compatible with them but that's not the case, they're just not being picked up as valid ROMS when the folder is scanned. As a comparison, some of these do show up properly titled when using Emulation Station on Retropie. Others, if they don't have a valid entry, will at least show up just as Whatever.zip in the ROM list, so they can at least be loaded by FBA through the frontend.
Any help with this at all is appreciated.
1. When generating a ROM list, is it possible to have the names generated with the full ROM title like other frontends, rather than just simply the game name? For instance, I've got a half dozen entries for "The Simpsons" on my list with no way of differentiating between the 2P, 4P, JP, or US versions.
Edit Looks like I found the answer to that under the "hide brackets" option in Attract Mode settings
2. Is there any way to have Attract Mode scroll the ROM names horizontally when highlighted, so you're not just limited to seeing the first couple words of a name? Even if the name entries were correct, you'd have no way of telling because you never see the full ROM name with the info at the end.
3. How can I update the database (or whatever the proper term is) so a ROM scan will pick up and display everything in the folder? There's quite a few valid ROMs that never get picked up in the scan so I have no way of choosing them, forcing you to manually load them through the Retroarch menu. Initially I thought they were being skipped because the bundled FBA/MAME versions weren't compatible with them but that's not the case, they're just not being picked up as valid ROMS when the folder is scanned. As a comparison, some of these do show up properly titled when using Emulation Station on Retropie. Others, if they don't have a valid entry, will at least show up just as Whatever.zip in the ROM list, so they can at least be loaded by FBA through the frontend.
Any help with this at all is appreciated.