aloula / get_game_names

Golang gamelist XML to TXT extractor for RetroPie and Recalbox

Simple Go script to extract game names from XML gamelist files

It can be used with retro consoles based on EmulationStation as RetroPie, Recalbox or Batocera. It reads the gamelist.xml files recursively, extract the game names and save it to a gamelist.txt file

Instructions:

1. The pre-compiled packages for RPI, Linux and Windows (not tested) can be found at builds

2. Usage: get_game_names <path to gamelists files>

3. Example:

pi@retropie:~ $ ./get_game_names .emulationstation/gamelists/

 _____       _                _____              _
| __  | ___ | |_  ___  ___   |   __| ___  _____ |_| ___  ___
|    -|| -_||  _||  _|| . |  |  |  || .'||     || ||   || . |
|__|__||___||_|  |_|  |___|  |_____||__,||_|_|_||_||_|_||_  |
                                                        |___|

Starting game names extraction...
Done!!!

4. The gamelist.txt will be created in the same location