Thumbnail search path I tried all of the 3 options
to cut it short my issue is similar to @final_87 post further up…
This is the issue I believe. If you are using a Standard MAME image repository then you need to sort your thumbnails in subfolders using the standard MAME folder names.
Therefore if you thumbnails are snaps, then they should be in: c:\Users\Mario\Desktop\MYTHUMBS\snaps, if they are title screens they should be in: c:\Users\Mario\Desktop\MYTHUMBS\flyers, etc.
OK great it’s working that way!!..so we have to link directly to the mame folder not main rom folder as in Base Rom Path… Thanks again for your help…just saved me having to rename about 800 roms.
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I hope this thread is still alive, I don’t need this playlist buddy for mame (yet). I need it for making playlists on a PS3 and retroarch on PS3 is seriously buggy and almost doesn’t work, it doesn’t work consistently. I can sort of make playlists right now, but the biggest difference I can see is that on line 5 of each room
If the PS3 makes a playlist… On line 5 I get “12345678|crc” and if I make the playlist on my PC with playlist buddy I get “detect”
I’m happy, to provide more screen shots and things I have tried if this thread is still alive and if someone is willing to help me.
Getting my playlists and thumbnails to work on PS3 was a doozy. First off, the prereq’s.
I’m running the latest 4.84.2 rebug CFW. In regards to Retorarch, I use the latest nightly as the older builds seem to have issues.
I have retroarch installed my PC along with a ROMs folder to set everything up. I created the playlists using the online “Retroarch Playlist editor” as Buddy does not support the json format yet (hoping it comes soon). Once the playlists were created, they have to be modified so Retroarch can process them on the PS3. Use “notepad ++” to modify the “path” entry to point to “/dev_hdd0/ROMS/MAME/” (where I store my Roms on my PS3, not your PC Rom path) in the playlist file (MAME.lpl in this instance).
Once finished modifying the playlists, they have to uploaded to the following location on the PS3:
Dev_HDD0/game/SSNE10000/core/playlists
I had to learn how to use Clrmamepro in order to create my DAT file so buddy would download the appropriate thumbnails (experimental mode used). Mame2003 thumbnails downloaded have been put into :
Dev_HDD0/game/SSNE10000/core/thumbnails/MAME
And so far, so good with my MAME playlist and thumbnails on the Playstation 3.
Onto my issues now. Just trying to pull down thumbnails for NES games using experimental or local thumbs and RA Buddy is giving either generating no images or invalid png files (corrupt files) when it comes to non-MAME emulators. I am not using a DAT file (I personally thought it wasn’t required for non Arcade based emulators), le sigh. The quest continues.
Hello markwkidd, the link on the top of the site to the Current-Version point to the wrong version (V1.0).
i think to correct link should be ?!
hello, i got than little name-bug with fbneo and mame2016 (using the correct metadata and RetroArch.Playlist.Buddyv1.22_2019-01-09) …
maybe you want to look on it, if you have time for that… 
When you perform a manual scan on RetroArch you have the option to select an ‘Arcade DAT File’ and when you do this it will create a list with the proper game names instead of the normal compressed ZIP files which in some situations are just not so much self-explanatory.
Can you make it so RetroArch Playlist Buddy do the same thing ?
This script is pretty neat. Unfortunately for me the output LPL file does not seem to be in the correct format. Instead of a format like “items”: [ { “path”: “/storagepath/game file”, “label”: “Game Title”, “core_path”: “DETECT”, “core_name”: “DETECT”, “crc32”: “00000000|crc”, “db_name”: “Playlist Info.lpl” },
I just get a flat file with the file paths, titles, and a bunch of lines that say “DETECT”, without the formatting and the field name above. Does anyone know how to resolve this?
This is the old playlist format, that is still supported (retroarch - settings - playlist - Save Playlists Using Old Format)
When you start retroarch it is converted automatically to the new format if the above setting is turned off
Does this support *.z64 files? I tried generating playlist for *.z64 files and the playlist file is empty.
Sorry for the necro bump but i have just found this app. Firstly - thank you! It is incredible and what i am looking for. I have one issue. I downloaded the mame.zip and extracted it (the thumbnails) and i configured your app to use this as the local source, however it creates the ‘Named-Boxarts’ folder but does not put the media in it. If i click on the ‘Download Image’ button then it goes off and downloads them. Is this happening for anyone else?
Hello to everybody,
I have RetroArch on NSP and would a MAME 0.223 playlist clear. Someone can tell me how to do or can share me files? thanks
Did you want the mame xml? You can get it from the source: Releases · mamedev/mame · GitHub Download the mame____lx.zip. Use that as the database file.