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You will need to select your ROMs directory and then select the image (or video snaps) directory. Use FatMatch to match all your media files to your ROM names. The program which is going to be your friend for renaming all of your files to match is going to be FatMatch which can be downloaded in from the following locations:ДЇatMatch will check all your ROM file names and try to match them with the files in the folder you have selected.

If youвЂ™re just using AttractMode then you just need to do the first of the two steps (renaming files). xml for emulationstation pointing to the right file images and downloading the metadata from the internet. the ROM needs to be named exactly the same as the media files in their sub-directories. First we need to make sure all the files are named identically in each folder and subfolder. Once you have everything downloaded and in the right folders two things need to be done. If youвЂ™re looking to setup DosBox, things can be a little bit different. You need to setup your files in the following folders in order to be used in attract mode:Д«oxArt Images (.jpg /. Now that you have your ROMs we can begin with this RetroPie: Mass Renaming article.

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Some places to download this media is at EmuMovies, Hyperspin, thegamesdb or at ScreenScraper.

Download the Games and the MediaДЄ good place to get your ROMs is either at Emuparadise, ArcadePunks or at .Д«oxart, wheels and snaps, which are video previews of each game, need to be downloaded.

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This is part of my series of articles on Retro Gaming.

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Other than the benefit of being able to work in both AttractMode and RetroPie (EmulationStation), the other benefit is that you can back your directory structure up, and when you do a fresh install of either system, all you have to do is copy the media over and it should instantly (well after a restart) be up and running. Where RetroPie (EmulationStation) uses XML files, attractmode (from my understanding) relies on matching media files names in the appropriate directory structure and appears to only link to media files and not collect other metadata such as release date, genre etc. While AttractMode doesnвЂ™t really appeal to me (I know it does appeal to many though) I did want to make sure that if I was sorting out my media, that it would be able to work in AttractMode as well as RetroPie (Emulationstation) in case I wanted to try it out at a future date. ItвЂ™s taken a while but IвЂ™ve found a relatively quick way to do this which is the subject of this RetroPie: Mass Renaming article. IвЂ™ve been searching for a fast way to rename my media files and generate a gamelist.xml file which contains all the game metadata (name, description, genre, release date, etc) and which points to the proper media files so that all this data will be available in RetroPie (EmulationStation). RetroPie: Mass Renaming of ROMs and Media Files

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