@roquen See the link below for instructions on how to hide the boot text, which should get you closer to your desired end result.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-hide-the-boot-text

@JiggaWatt said in Improving the atari 800/5200 install.:

creating CART versions of my 5200 roms

How do you do that?

Unless something has changed, ES is just a pretty wrapper around es_systems.cfg which tells you where the roms are, and what command to run to launch the emulator. RetroPie did a bunch of work to help customize the launching but seems like you could write an HTTP server that could receive a request then stop ES, run the launch command, then restart ES afterward all based on the data in es_systems.

@Nismo
It can... but generally speaking using the RetroArch quick menu breaks the process defined in the Retropie wiki for updating configs. Doing this can lead to a lot of confusion and undesired behavior. Basically it will overwrite the existing config file for that emulator and from then on the emulator will not include the ALL config file.

Again, not such a bad thing if you actually want it to do that... but from then on you can no longer follow any of the wiki instructions for updating the config for that emulator.

I believe the AutoConfig file also has the hotkey button info in it. Again, you can save autoconfig from RetroArch, and again this will lead to more problems if you don't understand the implications.

Im not sure if this is common knowledge or not so I apologize if it is. This info is not on the libretro wiki page so I am just writing it now.

Scummvm Libretro Core. (Windows Guide [Should Translate to Linux])
Running a scummvm game from command line you actually don't ever have to open the scummvm GUI. All you need is to make sure of is that the game is extracted, and has an entry in the scummvm.ini file like this:

[dig]
description=The Dig
path=C:\Emulation\ScummVMGames
gameid=dig
guioptions=sndNoMIDI

Then you need to make a small text file named after the short hand name for the game. This file only has to contain a single line of text that is also the shorthand name of the game.

Examples would be: "C:\Emulation\ScummVMGames\dig\dig.rom" inside of dig.rom is just the word "dig".

Then you would call the game direct from command line: retroarch -L "C:\Emulation\Emulators\RetroArch\cores\scummvm_libretro.dll" "C:\Emulation\ScummVMGames\dig\dig.rom"

This gets much easier if you have a pre seeded scummvm.ini file like this one and just edit the paths:
http://pastebin.com/CbmvqqYR

@BuZz well that makes more sense. Never heard of that handheld though, looks like something I'd have wanted out of the Argos catalogue back in the day.

@NintendoFan64 said in My Idea::

No, I mean the portable version of it.

So, you want a TV tuner?

I'm aware of the favorites mod.

But I was looking for something more geared at collections like having all MARIO games in one section within ES

Thank you for writing back @meleu I think my "method" is somewhere inbetween. The fact is my non-merged full 0.37b5 romset (2241 roms) matches perfectly the 0.37b5 snaps (2241 snaps, a lot of work saved!) so what I do basically is:
1.- add
screenshot_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/images/"
to
/opt/retropie/configs/mame-mame4all/retroarch.cfg
2.- move roms to Retropie/roms/mame-mame4all
2.- move snaps to Retropie/roms/mame-mame4all/images
3.- run
/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -add_not_found=true -append=true -download_images=false -image_dir="images" -image_path="images" -image_suffix="" -img_format="png" -img_workers=0 -no_thumb=true -thumb_only=false -thumb_suffix="" -use_ss=true -use_gdb=true -use_ovgdb=true -workers=4

Then gameslist.xml is created. I think those steps might be useful to users who already have a preference for snapshot packages.

However, I wonder what would be the best approach in the following scenario where there it no a rom <--> snap match:

1.- add
screenshot_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/images/"
to
/opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg
Move all 3438 No Intro SNES roms (Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (20161130-222348_CM).dat) to
Retropie/roms/snes
Move all 3352 .png snapshots (No-Intro 20061119 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Screenshots.7z) to
Retropie/roms/snes/images

One more problem, snapshots name do not match rom names but it is relatively easy to sort it out.
Eg. Actraiser (U).png versus ActRaiser (USA).zip
So I have run a number or find and replace to swap U for USA, J for Japan and so on. Once .png files match their counterparts in the roms folder, the same scraper command is run to generate gamelist.xml
In any case, it is clear that there are less snapshots than rom files so there will be roms without snap. Any ideas on how to find out (list) what are those roms?

PS. I am going to have a good look at that link. Thank you for it.

That was very easy and worked perfectly. Did see some improvements (and still some issues and even regression issues) so I know it worked.
I always just assumed the update from source was only liberto items / core retropie stuff. Thanks!

@herb_fargus said in Xbox Original Emulator.:

@mrbwa1 part of the lack of interest is there are relatively few exclusive Xbox games so most games can be played on a ps2 emulator

True. Most XBOX exclusives can be played on the Xbox 360 anyhow.

Also, I forgot to add that the original XBOX live is long dead, so anything playable is only for single player campaign or local multiplayer.

@asymptote I'm currently working on a metadata change to EmulationStation that will hopefully allow this to happen. It's quite a way off at the moment but watch this space...

@derebo I've more or less done that: https://github.com/HerbFargus/Mame-Extras

Though my gamelist are pretty simple being a human readable name and a link to the snap. It will be improved in the future to include more metadata

@LSolrac2

@Shakz I don't know how to launch RetroArch loading a specific saved state file. This feature is a must-have to start making it doable.

@Septcanmat you can create a remap file and load it on-the-fly through
RGUI > Quick Menu > Controls > Load Remap File

If you post the content of your /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/YOUR_JOYPAD_NAME.cfg maybe we can help you better.