How do I generate a romlist names for FBNEO (Final Burn Neo)

[presidentsenpai]

I recently imported the latest arcade Final Burn Neo romset. I have already checked them with CLR Mame pro using the appropriate dat from their repository (https://github.com/libretro/FBNeo/tree/master/dats).

Initially, I used the Gamelist.xml option and it did correctly name many roms (1884/3733 ), but it appears all naming conventions in FBN are not the same as mame, and so many roms were left with their original file names.

Next, I tried to direct additional files to my dat file which did not work, likely because that file-type is not supported. Renaming the dat to a XML brought similar results to using list XML, where 1884/3733 roms were named.
Maybe I am overlooking something, or doing something wrong?

Thanks for the help!

[Mark Norville]

The thing about XML files and rom sets they have to be the same.

So example

Tetris (USA) rom has to be Tetris (USA) in your XML file if not then it will not work.

You can download tools that can generate XML files based on your rom set I have uploaded some HyperSpin tools https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zl78fz_wmJMgrk_nw37R98jFYPBRxWQ2/view?usp=sharing

Regards

Mark

[presidentsenpai]

Hey Mark, thank you!

Do you have a resource guide I can follow to read about the tools? There is alot here and I'm not sure where to start...

[Mark Norville]

Sadly not no, a lot of them are pretty easy to use, and reasonably straight forward.

Always make a back up of your XML files first though before you try any of them, I will have a quick look to see which one you would need, but I cannot do a lot at the moment as I am in the middle of transferring a lot of files and I might not have the drive that contains the tools.

Give me two mins and I will have a look.

Yeah I can't help not tonight, the only thing that I have set up are the arcade roms and also a few consoles, but that is all the stuff that I am transferring across to a new HD.

I just had a look at some though, a few of them have text file read me's to say what to do.

Here are Youtube videos on a search for Don's HyperSpin Tools https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dons+hyperspin+tools

You might find some of that useful, or a load of rubbish as they are pretty long videos and I have not watched them, but it is a start for now.

Once I have my system back up and running which will be late tomorrow (Weds or even Thurs) as I still have more files to transfer then I can go through them.

It has been years since I have used the tools and even XML files so I am trying to remember a lot of what I had forgotten about.

Regards

Mark

[presidentsenpai]

hey Just wanted to update. So it took a little recon on my end, basically I ran CLRMAME on my FBN romset and then changed the FBN dat to be an XML after my check was done.

The XML was input as an additional resource, so basically the same as before.
And in doing so, I had the same results.

I was, however; mistaken on the issue. My roms weren't unnamed, they were appearing twice. Once with the appropriate name, and once with the rom name.

I simply went into the romlist file and manually deleted the duplicate entries and this is what resolved the issue. Not sure if that's the intended functionality but its all in order now

[Mark Norville]

Excellent, glad you are all sorted.