The latest versions of RetroArch do not create MAME playlists
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Description
This is not a post asking for help to generate a playlist because this can be done using an old version of Retroarch like version 1.7.5. This post is intended to make known a bug that has already been complained about by several people in the community and that for some reason is still dragging the latest versions of RetroArch: No MAME playlists are generated, for whatever reason.
I hope you can review it and fix it as I consider this a major bug, especially by order purists like me for whom manual scanning is not very helpful.
Greetings and thanks for your attention.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the issue using the latest RetroArch version and a MAME collection, comparing playlist generation with version 1.7.5 if available. Trace the manual-scanning and MAME playlist-generation entry points to determine why no playlist is created. Done means a current build generates a usable MAME playlist and the behavior is covered by a regression test.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100