Unable to add text files to previews

Hello all,

I am unable to add text files to ROM previews. After a bit of a struggle I got box art to work, then moved on to add preview images. Used Skrapper for both (box art for the game when browsing, and screenshot for the preview image). I would love to add preview text, such as release date, name a quick overview of the game or in my case- the order. /I would like to play the retro games I was unable to play as a kid, but in their lore accurate order/
The things I’ve tried so far:

Adding .txt file to the catalogue>system-name>rom-name>text.

Adding .dat file to the same directory.

Adding .txt/.dat file to the root directory in catalogue

Adding the files inside a folder with the same name as the ROM (the same path as above)

Trying both UTF-8 and UTF-8 with BOM

If its any help I tried with Castlevania and Fire Emblem. Most my tests I did only for the Castlevania ROM and I am not sure when it happened but now my preview box for it is blank, while for all my other ROMs it says “No information found”.

Thank you all in advance!

P.S. I very new to retro handhelds and emulation

The text files are located inside the SD card/muos/info/catalogue/system name/text file.

This is what I did. I didn’t put each of them in any sub folders. I just name them similar to the rom file.

A surprising fix occurred! My files were in the same directory as you mentioned, but for whatever reason they were all empty and showing as 0.0 kB. Even though the files I uploaded had text in them. I just saw that on the web interface there is a little eye, next to the dots menu. I clicked it and was able to copy paste the text from my original file to the file on the SD card and after I saved it everything worked!

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