mame2es

Quick, dirty, and offline Emulation Station files generator from MAME data files.

Generates resources/mamenames.xml from MAME's gamelist.txt.

Algo generates gamelists/<system>/gamelist.xml with minimal metadata using from MAME's --listxml, and pointing to local snapshots and marquees.

Usage

usage: java -jar mame2es.jar
  -help                 Shows usage
  -verbose              Verbose execution
  -dir <arg>            Input directory (optional; to generate gamelist.xml and custom-collections.cfg)
  -out <arg>            Output directory (optional; current directory by default)
  -gamelist <arg>       MAME gamelist.txt input file (optional)
  -listxml <arg>        MAME --listxml input file (optional)
  -catlist <arg>        progettoSNAPS.net MAME CATVER.ini input file (optional)
  -mamebioses <arg>     Emulation Station resources/mamebioses.xml input file (optional)
  -mamedevices <arg>    Emulation Station resources/mamedevices.xml input file (optional)
  -pathprefix <arg>     Emulation Station gamelist.xml <path> tag prefix (optional)
  -imageprefix <arg>    Emulation Station gamelist.xml <image> tag prefix (optional)
  -imagesuffix <arg>    Emulation Station gamelist.xml <image> tag suffix (optional)
  -marqueeprefix <arg>  Emulation Station gamelist.xml <marquee> tag prefix (optional)
  -marqueesuffix <arg>  Emulation Station gamelist.xml <marquee> tag suffix (optional)

Compiling

mvn verify

Please note that the resource data/mame64-0.220/listxml.xml is not under source control because it is huge (241.205.820 bytes); re-create it using MAME CLI: mame64.exe -listxml > listxml.xml

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Coded by theNestruo