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RetroFE uses the following information to create the item lists for the menus:
More information about this can be found in the collections section of this documentation. As can be seen though: RetroFE does not use the meta xml files to create these lists!
The files in the meta directory are used for one thing only: to fill the meta.db database. This meta.db in turn is used to fill in the extra information such as full title, genre, rating, score, etc. in the created menu item list for games. Extra information for collections is pulled from the settings.conf and/or info.conf file of the collection.
RetroFE supports three types of meta information:
HyperSpin xml files are xml files as supported by the HyperSpin front-end. RetroFE supports the following tags (, and will ignore the rest):
truRIP (super)dat files are xml files as supported by the truRIP group. RetroFE supports the following tags (, and will ignore the rest):
MAME xml files are the output of the -listxml output of MAME.