game2m3u - Suggestions for Improvement

[chewvodka]

Unless you've programmed the script in a such a way to block it on purpose, adding .iso as a viable extension should be considered. There are a lot of images out there that use that format, and not having it preset as a possible version just seems a little off.

Also, maybe have a future revision to add another option, something like -h, --hide to automatically set the game as hidden in an EmulationStation game list. That way when users run the script, it will create the m3u file, and hide the regular roms from the gamelist, preventing (for instance) 3 filenames of the same game in the list, and giving you only one.

Other than that, I really like the script. I ran a test of it on Batocera and it runs great. Thanks for the effort, a tool I'll definitely continue to use in the future, and recommend to others!

[gotbletu]

I never ran across any iso images that has Disc 1 in its filename; but i add it back in just in case you do.

Havent use EmulationStation in a while but i think it has its own xml playlist, it does not use m3u.

you can use -d flag to group each multiple disc game in its own folder
$ game2m3u -d

then set your Emulationstation to scan for cue/m3u only; it should only generate a list of one game.

else if you mean this bug, im not sure if they fixed it or not, since they never closed the bug
Aloshi/EmulationStation#476

[chewvodka]

Found another issue...

3DO - I have a bunch of Asian roms that are in cue/iso format. When I try to run the script on the folder, it only produced 1 .m3u, and that one was right.

Contents of Folder:
https://pastebin.com/7ubmVBZq

Contents of created Supreme Warrior - Ying Heung (1995)(Digital Pictures)(JP)(ja-zh).m3u:
https://pastebin.com/jKQAPaJG

It should only do the .cue's right? And there are a lot more multi-disk games in the folder...

Otherwise, thanks for writing the script, it's working great.