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Jeremiah-

I'd be happy to answer any questions and/or try to point you in the right direction. I forgot this code existed, it's been quite a while since I've used it. I originally built it to generate files to use with retropie because the scraper there took forever and failed a lot.

I'll have to refresh my memory and get it built and running again but seeing as it's five years old the first thing I'd do is update it to the latest version of dotnet.

Anyway, let me know what issues you've run into and what you'd like some help with etc. :)

-Phil

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Ok, I've spent some time trying to get things running and have run into a number of problems.

1. The main one however is that the GamesDB API that this code used is longer in operation.
   1. I'm working on getting that updated but I've got to wait for an API key.
2. The version of RestSharp that this code uses is apparently vulnerable to some security issues so I need to get that updated
   1. I'm going to update that
3. The version of .NET that the code was written in is out of date.
   1. I'm going to go ahead and update the code to use the latest version of .NET

The current codebase should be put ignored at the moment, I'm going to branch the code to a legacy branch on gitHub and then the master branch will be updated to core. Once the API Key has been issued then we can move forward with your changes which I like the sound of. :)

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sounds good sir. standing by to assist wherever needed.

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Ok, I've updated the code to use .NET 6 and the latest version of RestSharp. I also organized the code a little bit better. Hopefully it's a little more straight forward to add your code back in. If not let me know where you're having troubles and I'll see what I can do to help.

I also didn't realize the code wasn't even using the gamesdb api yet. I'd like to update that if/when they get me the api key necessary to use the api.

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Are you looking to get xml that looks like the following?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<gameList>
	<game>
		<path>./Balloon Fight (USA).zip</path>
		<name>Balloon Fight (USA)</name>
		<image>./boxart/Balloon Fight (USA).jpg</image>
		<marquee>./boxart/Balloon Fight (USA).jpg</marquee>
		<video>./boxart/Balloon Fight (USA).mp4</video>
	</game>
</gameList>

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Phil,

I've been playing a little more on my side with regard to end state of the gamelist.xml. Like I said, I don't mind tinkering and adding more functionality (once I figure out where I was going wrong...lol). But in case you wanted to maintain the entire project I wanted to offer some more suggestions on what options to potentially have available.
images
boxart
cartart
wheel
flyer
snap (essentially video but either designation should be fine, a simple rename could occur)

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