RetroTools - cross platform helper utility (WIP)

RetroArch General
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Source Code: https://github.com/Hypnotoad90/RetroTools

[B]Download:

[/B]Windows: https://github.com/Hypnotoad90/RetroTools/releases

Binaries for other platforms coming soon, follow the build instructions in the readme on GitHub to build from source.

RetroTools is a set of tools to assist you with setting up RetroArch.

At present this contains three utilities:

  1. A Dir to Playlist tab, which allows you to generate a playlist file by pointing it to a rom directory.

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  2. An ‘m3u generator’, which allows for quick and simple generation of an m3u file for multi-disk games.

  3. And finally a ‘box-art helper’ utility, which helps you easily add box-art for your games. This tool will create a set of sub folders corresponding to all of the games in a selected playlist. Then, you simply add box-art images (must be .png but can otherwise be named anything) to the appropriate sub-folders. Afterwards, this tool will appropriately rename these images and move them to your selected RetroArch box-art directory. This allows for quick addition of box-art for your games without having to manually rename each image and check against the specific name in the playlist for each entry.

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Note, this is a work in progress - more features will be coming soon. Please let me know of any features/tools you’d like to see in this to help you setup RetroArch more quickly/conveniently - as well as any bugs/issues you come across. Pull requests are welcome.

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Update: playlists should now be generated with separators (i.e. forward or backward slashes in the file paths) native to your operating system, rather than always using forward slashes.

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This is really cool. Can you include the option to use more than one file extension per playlist? Some of my platforms use multiple file types for ROMs.

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This tool is great. It should be distributed along with RetroArch :slight_smile: Thank you so much!

As a suggestion, I second the comment above about being able to detect more than one extension at a time And I would suggest an option to scan subfolders — The best use I would have for this tool is for CD based games, and those I keep on individual folders. A way to scan all .cue files inside a directory including subfolders would be ideal!