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| The settings.conf file in a collection defines the settings for that particular collection. See below for a list of configuration parameters that can be specified in your collection's settings.conf file. | The settings.conf file in a collection defines the settings for that particular collection. See below for a list of configuration parameters that can be specified in your collection's settings.conf file. | ||
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| + | ^ Variable ^ Default value ^ Description ^ | ||
| + | ^ list.path | /collections/<collection name>/roms | Location of your roms | | ||
| + | ^ list.includeMissingItems | false | Include games in the include.txt even if the rom does not exist. | | ||
| + | ^ list.extensions | | Comma separated rom extensions (e.g. zip,nes) | | ||
| + | ^ list.menuSort | false | Defines whether the items in a collection will be sorted alphabetically | | ||
| + | ^ list.romHierarchy | false | Defines whether the roms directory should be searched hierarchically. There is a performance hit by enabling this, so only use it when needed. | | ||
| + | ^ list.truRIP | false | Defines whether the roms directory should be searched hierarchically based on truRIP format. There is a performance hit by enabling this, so only use it when needed. | | ||
| + | ^ launcher | <collection name> | Specifies which [[launchers|launcher]] is used when a game is selected from the menu (reads from launchers/<launcher name>.conf). This value can be overwritten per game by putting the launcher name in a single line .conf file in collections/<collection name>/launchers/<game name>.conf. | | ||
| + | ^ metadata.type | <collection name> | Specifies the meta file used in the meta.db to pull additional information like manufacturer, year, genre, etc. from | | ||
| + | ^ meda.<filetype> | collections/<collection name>/medium_artwork/<filetype> | Overwrites the path used to pull medium artwork from | | ||
| + | ^ media.system_artwork | collections/<collection name>/system_artwork | Overwrites the path used to pull system artwork from | | ||
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| + | All the settings above can take advantage of the following variables: | ||
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| + | ^ Variable ^ Description ^ | ||
| + | ^ %BASE_MEDIA_PATH% | The root directory where all artwork resides, defined by baseMediaPath in the [[global_settings.conf|global settings.conf]] file | | ||
| + | ^ %BASE_ITEM_PATH% | The root directory where all roms resides, defined by baseMediaPath in the [[global_settings.conf|global settings.conf]] file | | ||
| + | ^ %ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME% | The name of the current collection | | ||
settings.conf.txt ยท Last modified: 2018/10/20 15:42 by phulshof
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