Possibility to delete ROMs from inside of the Menu

[naitreia]

Hi,

i would prefer a possibility to delete ROMs from inside of the menu.
Is that possible?
It would help me a lot to filter out some games and i have not to connect to the filesystem.

I think it’s a small but powerful feature and it should be not hard to implement!

Regards
naitreia

[geofftherobot]

You can do this from within EmulationStation.

Press the select button with a rom highlighted and you can delete it. It’s a bit slow as I believe EmulationStation restarts each time, but it works.

[Anonymous]

You can but every time you do this you have to restart EmulationStation. Maybe it can be changed so your not forced to restart ES everytime you delete a single rom!?

[crisis6]

Yeah, restarting is a pain.

[lawbag]

I found the best way when Im auditing ROMs is to have Emulation Station running as normal, and have a PUTTY connect it and delete unnecessary ROMs via the link.

[haris1977]

+1 for this

On the other hand it would be good to be able to “hide” unwanted roms (especially “bios” files that need to be placed inside /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/

[rookervik]

I just leave a Windows PC connected to \\retropie\roms\<system> and delete whatever roms don’t work. For the changes to be shown, an ES reboot is needed. EmulationStation reads the directory structure and gamelist.xmls only at first boot.

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