GameList Editor 2024.08

This release includes pre-release 2023.12 R2 which added back limited support for Wine. GameList Editor will work again with Wine, by disabling the Windows Media Player control -in general video playing. Tested with an Ubuntu 24.04 VM with WineHQ.

This release also adds the Same Folder filter, to make a bit easier to work with multiple folders within one system. Select a game from a specific folder and the filter will show you all other games in the same folder.

For Windows users is that the video is now scaled inside the video player, to make better use of the available space.

Gamelist Editor 2023.12 R2 (with Wine support)

This re-release adds back limited support for Wine GameList Editor will work again with Wine, by disabling the Windows Media Player control -in general video playing. Tested with an Ubuntu 24.04 VM with WineHQ.

The only noticeable change for Windows users is that the video is now scaled inside the video player, to make better use of the available space.

GameList Editor 2023.12

This support release fixes an issue showing the game Last Played Date within "More Infos..."

GameList Editor 2023.09

This release adds support for kidgame tag (for Kid friendly games). It also adds it to multiselection edition, as well as a new filter for it. And as usual, multilanguage support for the new content.

GameList Editor 2023.08

This release adds the following filters based on the currently selected game:

• Same Region
• Same Date
• Same or Earlier Date
• Same or Later Date
• Same Players
• Same Rating
• Same or Lower Rating
• Same or Higher Rating
• Same Publisher
• Same Developer
• Same Genre

It also allows mass deletion using multiselection when in God mode.

Now it is easier than ever to select those games you did not want -by Genre or Date, or Rating, etc- and mass delete them. But beware! There is no undo for this one!

GameList Editor 2023.07

GameList Editor is still alive! This 2023 release introduces the Batch editing feature. You can now alter any information field to multiple games at the same time. with just a single click to the Save Changes button! Just select several games and write what to change.

Secondarily, it also fixes a small issue with Video tab showing when multiselecting, and upgrades the project sources from Delphi 10.4 to 11.3.

Enjoy!!

GameList Editor 2022.04

This monthly release fixes a long-lived issue where the first directory of paths could be removed when loading the game list or when changing a picture/video.

Please keep reporting any issues you find!

GameList Editor 2022.02

This is a minor upgrade over GameList Editor 2022 that includes the following improvements:

• Delete games safely. It will no longer remove physical media files if they are referred by other roms too.
• Tab order fixes in Main form and Scraper tab

GameList Editor 2022 is here!

What's New?

GameList Editor is now in its best shape it ever had!

• Full Video support! Added basic video scraping and a new Missing Videos filter to the existing video playback and change/delete video metadata functionality.
• Scraping is now in top shape! It now supports TLS 1.3 to be able to talk to the server again. The former implementation was obsolete and no longer working due to new security requirements from the server. It is now up to date.
• Scraping is much more resilient -far less crashes when malformed XML or unexpected structure came from the server.
• Languages are back better than ever! The translations were not included in this fork releases before (by mistake). The resources are added back with the latest new labels in all supported languages.
• Active support. Feel free to open Issues or participate in Discussions to share feedback about the tool and make it better. Those sections are now available in this fork.

And of course, the other enhancements released earlier this year:

• Support for ANY system. No longer limited to a few preconfigured folder names.
• 20 new systems and logos added.

NOTE: On high resolution screens you may want to right click on Properties in GameListEditor.exe, click on Compatibility, Change high DPI settings button, mark Override high DPI scaling behavior... to System (dropdown). Ok and Ok.

Info for developers / contributors:

There are some very significant changes to the inner workings of GameList Editor as most of the tooling was 5+ years old and in many cases obsolete.

• GameList Editor is now in Delphi 10.4
• Internet Direct (Indy) did not support TLS 1.3, so it has been migrated to TNetHttpClient (included in Delphi 10.4). It no longer requires additional DLLs in the main directory.
• Dependency on Windows Media Player ActiveX (included in Windows 7 and later -including Windows 11). Implemented in your development environment following: https://chapmanworld.com/windows-media-player-in-delphi/
• DxGetText used for translations is also deprecated and not working in Windows 10/11, but J. Rathlev has made his own Windows 10/11 version -you can download it from https://personal-backup.rathlev-home.de/translate.html . Translations can be made using the same process as described in http://dxgettext.po.dk/documentation/how-to

Video support!

This release adds support for watching, changing and deleting (mp4) videos -as well as editing the gamelist.xml metadata. Video preview relies on Windows Media Player ActiveX included in Windows 7 and above.
Video scraping is not yet included, but it will be upon request.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!