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  ES devs and testers, this tool is for you!
  emulationstatio script development testing github • • meleu

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  Thank you for sharing, I was looking for this :D
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  Getting Started with ES Development.
  development guide how-to self-help • • Hex

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  @sx-111 They're described on the 1st page of the project EmulationStation has a few dependencies. For building, you'll need CMake, SDL2, Boost (System, Filesystem, DateTime, Locale), FreeImage, FreeType, Eigen3, and cURL. You also should probably install the fonts-droid package which contains fallback fonts for Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, but ES will still work fine without it (this package is only used at run-time).
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  mame2003-plus: 250 new games, new input system, new features, new bugs
  mame • • markwkidd

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  @robertvb83 I spoke too soon yesterday about when I would finish an implementation of the "fancy" button naming system that would be viable long-term and at full scale. I found that I could not seem to make headway on my other input project without the naming system squared away. Sooo I went ahead and refactored everything for the third time. Now I think it's ready for mass production. Would you -- or anyone else -- be interested in taking a role in testing this and helping submit a few more sets of button names to make sure everything is indeed working? Right now the button names still only appear in Neo Geo and Street Fighter 2 & clones. Adding new button names In anticipation of eventually opening this up to users to submit button names I have written a doc outlining what information is necessary to add button names. It's not too onerous: https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-plus-libretro/wiki/Submitting-Button-Names For people who know how to submit PRs on github or are willing to learn, it's also not very difficult IMO to add code for button names yourself now.
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  Versatile C++ game scraper: Skyscraper
  scraper gamelist.xml scraping github skyscraper • • muldjord

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  Skyscraper version 2.4.6 released: https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper Added 'overview' support for AttractMode. It will now create the necessary cfg files to show the game descriptions Added '<kidgame>bool</kidgame>' output to Emulationstation gamelist generation Added 'ages' support in 'screenscraper' module. Will convert PEGI and ESRB to numeric Added 'ages' support in 'thegamesdb' module. Will convert PEGI and ESRB to numeric The 'kid friendly release'. As per user request, I've implemented the <kidgame> Emulationstation tag and added classification scraping support for both the 'thegamesdb' and 'screenscraper' modules. This means that you can now make use of the "kids" mode in Emulationstation, which will then hide all non-kid-friendly games from the lists. IMPORTANT! If you want to scrape the 'ages' on games you already have cached, you have to scrape using the '--updatedb' flag. Otherwise it will just scrape with the pre-4.2.6 cached data which doesn't contain the ages resources. Lastly, I've also added 'description' support for the 'attractmode' frontend module. I'm not an Attract-Mode user myself, but I've done basic testing on it, and user 'qqplayer' has verified that it works as expected. :)
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  Pathfinder for Custom Collections - correct pathes for custom collections
  custom collections cyperghost share • • cyperghost

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  @thelostsoul said in Pathfinder for Custom Collections - correct pathes for custom collections: It is the same path, so no need for sed right? Is this a "BUG" or do I miss something? Same thing happened with "Kirby's Block Ball (U) [S][!].gb". Oh and with two other game boy games too. So it must be a game boy thing here, maybe because of the file endings. Or maybe not, it happened with snes entries too. Here entries when sed was used, while it was exactly the same: Clock Tower (J) ]T+Eng1.01_AGTP].smc Live A Live (Japan) [En by Aeon Genesis v2.0Deluxe].sfc Alcahest (J) [T+Eng1.0_FH].smc I hunted that down. Please update the script... it's an error in find routine! The find command seems to be unable to hunt ] chars. So I escaped that. You can try manually. Go to that directory and use find -name "Clock Tower (J) ]T+Eng1.01_AGTP].smc" and you will get no result. Type find-name "Clock Tower (J) ]T+Eng1.01_AGTP*" will get the result. Now type "Clock Tower (J) ]T+Eng1.01_AGTP/].smc"` and you will get a result. Don't ask me why! and some more. All entries like these above. Another thing. It did not find alternative for Mario Bros. Classic (E) [!].nes and Mario Bros. (JU) [!].nes No chance! The string compare is *Mario*Bros.* and *Mario*Bros.*Classic* You can edit the ignorelist in line 13 and add Classic, then Classic will be escaped with a star and the search string is *Mario*Bros.* vs *Mario*Bros.*** and this will be a hit! PS: Please tag my name, I just searched the forum today and saw an update done to this post. So the bug was very easy to resolve but took some time because I don't checked that post ;) EDIT::: Reverted the changes.... they don't work escaping /] is a failure
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  OpenBOR finally working fine on RETROPIE with ES
  openbor trick • • darknior

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  Sorry, I misunderstood and got my hopes up when I saw this: We are compatible with v3.0 Build 3400 Mods ! And newer mods should work as well as now unknowncommands will just be ignored. If I had the technical know how, I'd be all over this. Thanks, @darknior for your work!
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  hascheevos.sh - a tool for RetroPie/RetroAchievements users
  script collections retroachievemen cheevos • • meleu

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  @meleu said in hascheevos.sh - a tool for RetroPie/RetroAchievements users: @hansolo77 Whoops! My bad bro! I forgot to commit some changes I had only locally. Could you update and then try it again? No worries! We're all on the same team. ^_^ I'll give it a go here shortly. I might not be able to report back until tomorrow though. I just got off work today at 2:00pm, and have to be back at work tomorrow at 3:00am. They're having a special "presidential" corporate visit to make sure our store is set and ready for Memorial Day. SMH, they already did that last week, and they're expected to just visit and say "Thanks" tomorrow, but still, Management is all up our butts wanting things to be perfect. The holiday ain't even until Monday lol. Quick mention... When I run it now, I'm getting a lot of errors of this variety: Checking "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba/aliensyn.zip"... --- 0103136b3bf5ad61e4f5187168797bcb --- game ID: 11972 WARNING: undefined RetroAchievements.org user (see "--user" option). "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba/aliensyn.zip" has no cheevos. :( But it does look like it's identifying a game id now.
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  Any kind of quick search functionality
  emulationstatio search title • • rrdein

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  I am also interested in a general research on the various systems
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  ES Video within the grid view
  emulationstatio gridview • • A12C4

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  @duiz Weird, I just tried it and it works fine. I'm not even getting the lvl1: OptionListComponent too narrow! error. I'm only getting lvl1: NinePatchComponent missing texture! and I don't know where it comes from, I tried multiple themes and some have it and some not, but they all work. At least I can't see something broken.
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  Making premade gamelist.xml with xtra media collections
  gamelist.xml easy config premade scrape • • Used2BeRX

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  Thanks to my bud Nemesis I've learned a lot about the code in this script. I'm no coder, but using existing code I was able to make a few changes so far that I wanted in this script. I'm re-running it now, and all of the desired changes I made this time around are taking effect. :) I was able to add code to add and find all data for Famicom Disk System games that are in NES subfolders without having to have manually changed the "Platform: " line to erroneously read "Nintendo Entertainment System" instead of the legitimate tag of "Famicom Disk System". I was also able to add a <boxfront> tag as a placeholder for all Box Front images, so now we have one for Box Front, Cart, Titles, Action and 3D Boxart images. I was also able to make the code put the Cart images in the <marquee> tag, so now a skin that uses both tags can display both the Box art and the Cartridge art simultaneously. The next thing I want to do is a bit trickier. I've heard from somebody here that if you don't have a video for a game, the <video> tag can be used as a third image type. I'd like to add some code in there that will search for the video as it is already doing, but if it doesn't, it will add either the Title image or the Action image shots in that tag. Once all this is taken care of, I'm hoping Nemesis and I can come up with a quick script that will change which images populate the <image>, <marquee> and <video> tags on the fly after the gamelist.xml is created. Right now, on the Pi Zero it takes about 3 hours for the script to run on the NES alone. But after it is created it should only take a few seconds to run a script that will change which folder each image tag points to for every game. Another thing on the list now is to add every single tag from the synopsis.txt files to the gamelist.xml file so when I convert them and then use @mitu 's script to convert it to a spreadsheet, I can make all the edits I want in the spreadsheet and then convert it back to a gamelist.xml file and finally back to the synopsis.txt files without losing any of the original data. This is exciting. If we can get this working it's going to make editing game information for both the XBox and the RetroPie easier than it ever has been before. Thanks again for all that hard work @meleu
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  "Universal Controller", an Android app for emulating various platform controllers
  controller android virtualgamepad virtualkeyboard • • 3brooks

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  Bumbedibump, I released version 1.3 of the app, addressing the issues I know of (e.g. less waste of screen real estate, bug fixes in some controllers). It now also supports ColecoVision, with overlays! Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.threbrooks.bluetoothkeyboard Github link (a script needs to be installed on the Pi for it to work): https://github.com/threebrooks/UniversalController Please let me know if there are any issues, and rate it if you like it.
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  Detect Idle State - Power Off Screen
  hdmi script power off idle • • QuixoticDev

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  Announcing Pegasus Frontend
  development frontend c++ pegasus qml • • fluffypillow

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  @fluffypillow On a Pi 3b. The resolution switch happens from a run command on start/on end script. tvservice -c "NTSC 4:3 P" ; fbset -depth 8 ; fbset -depth 32; tvservice -s and tvservice -c "NTSC 4:3" ; fbset -depth 8 ; fbset -depth 32; tvservice -s I followed this guide to set it all up. I will look into the rest. Thanks.
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  How to add text to a picture dynamically?
  image launching dynamic text • • MrRalphMan

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  @mrralphman You can use the ImageMagick suite of programs to do that with a simple command line - see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/.
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  Sharp X68000 Multi-Disk games questions
  x68000 lr-px68k • • msheehan79

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  @spud11 I don't see why they wouldn't work, the Pi 3B doesn't have any fundamental changes so everything should be fine.
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  Multi Switch Shutdown Script!
  cyperghost shutdown script shutdown switch • • cyperghost

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  I'd love to see this working for the Kintaro 9000 case. They've been working on the meta data issue for a while now.
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  crt-pi shader users - reduce scaling artifacts with these configs in lr-mame2003, lr-fbalpha, lr-nestopia (and more to come)
  lr-mame2003 shaders crt-pi crt-pi shader crt-pi-vertical • • dankcushions

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  thank you, thats working
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  FanGPIO - PWM fan control script
  gpio fan temperature pwm • • soulgriever

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  @soulgriever I figured it out. There were 2 problems. One might just be unique to me but the other is a problem with your install script that will affect anyone trying to use this. The line: echo "sudo /home/pi/.FanGPIO/FanGPIO" >> /etc/rc.local will just add the command to start FanGPIO to the end of rc.local. The problem is the last line of rc.local must be "exit 0" and anything after "exit 0" won't run. The way your script works, the command is added at the very end after the preexisting "exit 0" so FanGPIO never runs at boot unless you manually edit rc.local to move "exit 0" to the end. The other problem, possibly just my fan is that 25% power isn't enough to actually get it running. Even running FanGPIO manually before I figured out the issue with rc.local my fan would not start spinning after my Pi hit 40°C. But then I noticed when I would try running it manually the fan would jerk slightly for a split second like it was trying to start and it would emit a faint buzz until I killed FanGPIO. That told me it wasn't getting enough power. I edited FanGPIO.c to raise where the fan starts at to 50% and that was enough to get the fan going. I don't know if 25% is generally a bit too low of a starting point for most fans used with the Pi or if my fan is just picky.
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  lr-NP2Kai: A PC-9801 libretro core
  neko project 2 pc-98 lr-np2kai np2 • • SuperCatFooz

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  Update: I figured out how to write setup scripts! Here's the script for you to copy into a .sh file: #!/usr/bin/env bash # This file is part of The RetroPie Project # # The RetroPie Project is the legal property of its developers, whose names are # too numerous to list here. Please refer to the COPYRIGHT.md file distributed with this source. # # See the LICENSE.md file at the top-level directory of this distribution and # at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/master/LICENSE.md # rp_module_id="lr-np2kai" rp_module_desc="PC98 emu - Modified Neko Project II port to libretro" rp_module_help="ROM Extensions: .d88 .d98 .88d .98d .fdi .xdf .hdm .dup .2hd .tfd .hdi .thd .nhd .hdd\n\nCopy your pc98 games to to $romdir/pc98\n\nCopy bios files 2608_bd.wav, 2608_hh.wav, 2608_rim.wav, 2608_sd.wav, 2608_tom.wav 2608_top.wav, bios.rom, FONT.ROM and sound.rom to $biosdir/np2" rp_module_section="exp" function sources_lr-np2kai() { gitPullOrClone "$md_build" https://github.com/AZO234/NP2kai.git } function build_lr-np2kai() { cd ./sdl2 make -j4 md_ret_require="$md_build/sdl2/np2kai_libretro.so" } function install_lr-np2kai() { md_ret_files=( 'sdl2/np2kai_libretro.so' ) } function configure_lr-np2kai() { mkRomDir "pc98" ensureSystemretroconfig "pc98" addEmulator 1 "$md_id" "pc98" "$md_inst/np2kai_libretro.so" addSystem "pc98" }
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  Arcade Manager: install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI
  arcade overlay bezel manager tool • • cosmo0

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  @jca2112 said in Arcade Manager: install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI: Just tried out Arcade Manager -- glad to see something related to MAME rom management available on the Mac platform. Yeah, I'm on Mac too, which is why cross-platform was really important to me :) Question: Is there an automated way to uninstall overlays? I used the Arcade Manager function to install Realistic overlays, then decided to change and install Artworks overlays, but some of the Realistic overlays were left behind. (I assume because no Artwork version was available?) Is there a way to uninstall ALL the overlays so I can start over? No, not at the moment. As a workaround, you can do the following: open the roms folder where the realistic overlays are, and delete all .zip.cfgfiles open the config share and delete the folder all/retroarch/overlay/arcade-realistic(this is not necessary, it will just save some disk space) re-run the artwork overlays installation Or you can just delete the .zip.cfg files of the leftover realistic overlays if there are not many. Also, is there a way to use bezels/overlays files JUST in the roms folder? (Instead of having to install into the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/ overlay folder?) Would it just be a matter of changing all the rom .cfg files to point the input_overlay = /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/ to a /roms/ folder instead? Basically I want all the roms (and related overlays, files, etc.) all to be on an external USB, rather than having it on the internal SD card. That way when you take the USB and all the games, all the overlays, etc. go with it. Actually I tried to do that, but it's quite complicated. Let me think about it, maybe I'll find some way by re-computing the path for each folder.