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More metadata for the explore menu #1258

Open whocares0101 opened 2 years ago

whocares0101 commented 2 years ago

Regarding my PL https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/13418

I'm also working on grabbing metadata for this, I already crawled mobygames and currently try to match this data with my DAT files. Currently I'm combining all metadata into a single DAT file per system, this could be split into single DAT files as well if needed. Is there a reason there is a single DAT file per category?

For headered DAT files (e.g. NES) is it necessary to include the headered roms as well or does RA handle this?

There may also be new data for already existing categories, what's the best way to add this data?

Here's my current SNES DAT file which can be used with my PL, still needs some work though. The SMDB/SD2SNES is a good set for this. Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System example dat.zip

TheRetroPirate commented 2 years ago

Damn, used the wrong account.

RobLoach commented 2 years ago

Would this replace a bunch of the metadat folders? Mind a PR?

inactive123 commented 2 years ago

Currently I'm combining all metadata into a single DAT file per system, this could be split into single DAT files as well if needed. Is there a reason there is a single DAT file per category?

Please let's follow the established pattern right now that we are currently using. I don't know what is being suggested here but it sounds a bit too dangerous for my taste and I'd prefer if the established patterns were followed instead.

I don't see any reason to break with the current way we are doing things.