filter romlist to show games with video snaps only

[jay1984]

Hi guys i'm trying to do the following on my Raspberry Pi

"filter roms, show only roms with video snaps"

i'm currently running AM on a cabinet with 14" 15khz CRT in 240p
my theme is custom and just shows full screen video of the rom and the title of the system.
select down change game, select left or right change system.

As i have millions of roms there is a lots of games with no video snaps
id like to be able to skip roms thats dont have a video snap.

 

[hermine.potter]

>on filesystem:
Here


>within AM:
Don't know to filter it. But there is a trick. here

for example zsnes and get all games with .jpg artwork (remove games without artwork):

-create collection/romlist. So you get all games (games with and without artwork).
my config:

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executable           C:\attract\EMU\zsnes\zsnesw.exe
args                 -m "[romfilename]"
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\zsnes\ROMS
romext               .smc
-scrape artwork
AM scrape artwork to C:\attract\scraper\zsnes\flyer
if a romfile doesn't have artwork, no artwork-file/.jpg is there.

-modify rompath and romext to artwork-folder and rom extension .jpg:

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executable           C:\attract\EMU\zsnes\zsnesw.exe
args                 -m "[romfilename]"
rompath              C:\attract\scraper\zsnes\flyer
romext               .jpg
-create romlist
you get a list, with all existing .jpg files under C:\attract\scraper\zsnes\flyer (and no games, without artwork/.jpg)

-modify rompath and romext back:

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executable           C:\attract\EMU\zsnes\zsnesw.exe
args                 -m "[romfilename]"
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\zsnes\ROMS
romext               .smc
because of romfilename and artworkfilename are identical, you got a cleaned list (games without existing .jpg artwork).

Note:
if you create collection/romlist again, you will get everything again and have to repeat the steps.