LPLmaker

This will take roms and add them to a playlist for RetroArch to use when they don't auto add because of CRC checking.

Note the generated playlist will be automatically rewritten by RetroArch in the current format.

Configuration

You can adjust the behaviour of the script by creating a configuration file, an example on which to base it is provided. The script will look for a configuration file named lplmaker.conf on both ~/.config/ and the directory from which it is invoked, and will load both if found (./lplmaker.conf will be loaded after ~/.config/lplmaker.conf, so it can be used to override some values).

For each playlist to be generated, the following fields must be defined:

• RomDirs: The directory, relative to RomsDir, where ROMs for this playlist are located.
• CoreLibs: The library name for the appropriate core, usually {name}_libretro.so. Using DETECT will make RetroArch try to detect appropriate cores and let you pick.
• CoreNames: The name of the core. Use DETECT to let RetroArch adjust it.
• PlaylistNames: The name of the playlist. Will be used as the filename (with .lpl extension) and displayed in the UI.
• SupportedExtensions: A space-separated list of valid extensions for this playlist.

And the following fields can be defined:

• ScanZips: (Optional) Set to 1 to look inside zip files for the extensions above. The core must have support for zipped ROM loading. Requires the zipinfo command.
• QueryMame: (Optional) Set to 1 to query MAME for the ROM title (only makes sense on arcade ROMs). Requires the mame command.

Zip file scanning

Zip files can be added to the playlists in two ways: either adding zip to list of extensions (SupportedExtensions), or enabling zip file scanning (ScanZips).

The latter is a better option in most cases, the exception being arcade systems.

About

This is a modified version of the Bash script created by @jsbursik, which in turn was derived from the script written by u/ShiftyAxel on reddit.