Local Development
This document describes everything you might need to know in terms of doing local development of retrokit.
General Maintenance
There’s a certain amount of upkeep required for metadata that’s used in retrokit. Over time, new rom database files are released, new metadata becomes available, new manuals are discovered, etc. and those all need to be tracked in retrokit so that they can be used.
Metadata
To update DAT files, scrape new games, and update metadata:
bin/metakit.sh update
To update DAT files from no-intro, you must first download the daily pack and store it
at tmp/No-Intro Love Pack (PC XML).zip. To download the daily pack:
- Navigate to https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=download&op=daily&s=64
- Select “P/C XML”
- Selet only the “Main” set
Once you download the file, you can run bin/metakit.sh update_dates for all of the
no-intro systems.
Manuals
To find new manuals:
bin/metakit.sh find_manuals
Typically this is done on both a quarterly basis and when dat files are updated for a system (for any new games that have been added since the last time they were cached in this repo).
Systems Maintenance
c64
When a new version of C64 Dreams is released, the following commands should be run in order to synchronize the metadata:
bin/setup.sh install admin/c64-retroarch
pc
When a new version of dosbox-staging is released, the following commands should be run in order to synchronize the metadata:
bin/setup.sh install admin/pc-mapperfiles