Script to create RocketLauncher game data ini files from LaunchBox xml's

[teeedubb]

This is a Python2.7 script to generate RocketLauncher game data ini files from the LaunchBox xml files so that the info displayed in RL's Pause screen is the same as what is in LB. If populated, it will use the 'Title', 'Publisher', 'Developer', 'ReleaseDate', 'Genre', 'StarRating', 'PlayMode', 'Rating', 'WikipediaURL', 'Notes' fields from the LB xml and will skip games with no data. It creates a backup of your existing RL ini files in the RL game data ini folder. RL will overwrite these files on udating, so you will need to run the script after that. Not sure if its possible to work around this.

You need to update the two variables to point to the folders that contain the LB and RL data files (beware of the forward slashes).

 

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from __future__ import print_function
from itertools import izip
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import os
import shutil
import re
import sys
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

try:
	txt_encode = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
except:
	txt_encode = 'utf-8'
reload(sys)  
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

lb_dir = 'd:/emulation/LaunchBox/Data/Platforms'
rl_dir = 'c:/emulation/RocketLauncher/Data/Game Info'

###
rl_dir_backup = os.path.join(rl_dir, 'backup')
for system in os.listdir(lb_dir):
	if system.endswith(".xml"):
		system_name = system[:-4]
		print(system_name)
		xml_lb = os.path.join(lb_dir, system)
		ini_rl = os.path.join(rl_dir, system_name+'.ini')
		h = HTMLParser()
		if os.path.exists(ini_rl):
			if not os.path.exists(rl_dir_backup):
				os.makedirs(rl_dir_backup)
			if os.path.exists(os.path.join(rl_dir_backup, system_name+'.ini')):
				if os.path.exists(os.path.join(rl_dir_backup, system_name+'.ini.old')):
					os.remove(os.path.join(rl_dir_backup, system_name+'.ini.old'))
				shutil.move(os.path.join(rl_dir_backup, system_name+'.ini'), os.path.join(rl_dir_backup, system_name+'.ini.old'))
			shutil.move(ini_rl, rl_dir_backup)
		tree = ET.parse(xml_lb)
		root = tree.getroot()
		lb_label = ['Title', 'Publisher', 'Developer', 'ReleaseDate', 'Genre', 'StarRating', 'PlayMode', 'Rating', 'WikipediaURL', 'Notes']
		rl_label = ['Title', 'Publisher', 'Developer', 'Released', 'Genre', 'Score', 'Players', 'Rating', 'Url', 'Description']
		with open(ini_rl, 'w') as f:
			for game in root.findall('Game'):
				info_game = ''
				for lbl,rll in izip(lb_label, rl_label):
					if game.find(lbl) != None and game.find(lbl).text:
						if rll == 'Title':
							info = '[' + h.unescape(game.find(lbl).text) + ']'
							info = info.replace('\r', ' ').replace('\n', ' ') + "\n"
							info = re.sub(' +', ' ', info)
							info_game = info_game + info
						elif rll == 'Released':
							info = h.unescape(game.find(lbl).text)[:4]
							info = rll + '=' + info + "\n"
							info_game = info_game + info
						else:
							info = rll + '=' + h.unescape(game.find(lbl).text)
							info = info.replace('\r', ' ').replace('\n', ' ') + "\n"
							info = re.sub(' +', ' ', info)
							info_game = info_game + info
				s = ('Publisher', 'Developer', 'Released', 'Genre', 'Players', 'Rating', 'Url', 'Description')
				if any(x in info_game.encode("utf-8") for x in s):
					f.write(info_game.encode("utf-8"))
					f.write("\n")

 

Edited April 10, 2017 by teeedubb

[johnugamer]

Just tested this out and it works great. Much better implementation than the default way RocketLauncher creates its game data inis from launchbox. Fixed a couple issues for me, mainly fade screens for mame games now show the actual name of the game, not the zip name. Thanks!

[teeedubb]

Sweet, thanks for testing.

I've posted about keeping the custom ini files through a update in RL and the Devs are talking about implementing it.

[Styphelus]

For those of us who don't know anything about programming, how do we use this?

[teeedubb]

Save the script above as lb-rl-game-data.py somewhere on your PC, and update the lines beginning with 'lb_dir =' and 'rb_dir =' to point to your launchbox and rocketlauncher game data directories ( a dir full of xml or ini files named the same as platforms in either program). Watch the forward slashes.

Download and install Python 2.7. After Python is installed you should be able to simply double click on the lb-rl-game-data.py file, if not, run the following in a cmd prompt (win+r > cmd > enter)

"c:\path\to\python.exe" "c:\path\to\lb-rl-game-data.py"

Edited April 16, 2017 by teeedubb