up. thanks :D

@h2805270 said in White Noise on the home menu:

"program ES to add a new option to the menu", I know how to edit the es_systems.cfg to add kodi to the main menu

No, that's not it. When I'm thinking of the 'Emulationstation menu', I'm thinking of the menu shown when you press Start on your controller and that's basically programming. However that not be what you're after - maybe you just need a simple script to start a command an an entry in Emulationstation that you can just press to start that command.

@darknior yeah but i dont see it happening i have over 100 ports

Solved it.
The script was installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh not the one in RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh
Now it works. Thanks for the help.

@whirlinurd I usually use mc (midnight commander) when copying folders with raspbian. Never had any read/write rights related issues.
Concerning Vic20 programs and games, .prg format seems to be the most common (both for tapes and cartridges) and that's what I use; so unfortunately I can't tell about .tap files.

@oneswitch Well said. Alas, a multi-reader for the formats you mentioned doesn't seem to exist for the Linux console without an X environment. At least none I could find one on the web.

I was scrolling through the commits of the recalbox emulation station build and I'm curious if the following commits can be merged (maybe just partially) into the retropie version. From what I've seen and understood, those should add support for themeable menus and add an extra menu to directly switch theme settings in the GUI.

Main commit helpBox fix transition tag (not quite nessessary but would be nice to have)

Just to let everyone know I created a renamer for gb64 v15. It is also compatible with other versions and other gamebases. Here it is, it is a simple batch file, created through the database and a spreadsheet. [https://mega.nz/#F!cjBFwIQL!TCjFtUUEjdltJ3mmECPONg](link url)

Instructions on how to convert to other gamebases.

Open Database file (in this case it was C:\GameBase\GBC_v15\GBC_v15.mdb)

Open the Attached spreadsheet file

Copy Full Row of GA_ID, NAME, and Filename from Database to spreadsheet

The rest should be automatic, unless there is more than 25,000 entries. In that case you will need to copy d2-F2 to d250001 - D ?? ??=to wherever file list ends

On first line of new text file type the path to the games for instance C:\GB64

Copy Row D to new text file

Save text file as "Name of gamebase renamer.bat"

run new text file

optional: add Pause at the end of the batch file

Optional: Column E shows number of special characters (this mainly finds the letters with tildies and appostrophies)

@greenhawk84 You may want to give OpenBOR a try again. Lot of advancements made. I've been playing MK Outworld Assassin Wide-screen version without problems

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19326/openbor-6xxx-openbeta-testphase/61

I want to create a scriptmodule for OpenBOR to add version 6315. I see the flag rp_module_id="openbor" that makes the module visiable into script screen. To avoid confusion I want annother name like rp_module_id="openbor_6xxx but want to use the old pathes.

Now all instances of $md_id, $md_config... uses the name that is given by rp_module_id so how to change names? I can include a function strip () { }that sets internal variables to openbor but this is not good code. So how to achive this?

Again: the goal is to use one config directory and one directory that contains several versions of OpenBOR.

Besides thank you BuZz for the platforms flags, I may exclude 6xxx for rpi1.
Is there a dedicated WIKI about script modules?

@thedatacereal I love these old films - so retro ;)

So 80s ;)

I can provide a bitcoin address on request if needed. Thanks.

@surfingramjam Are you referring to sorting the games by 'how many times a game has been played' or 'what date the game was last played'?

Either way, yes, it's doable in terms of manipulating the gamelist.xml.
On the first case, by using the <playcount> tag.
On the second case, by using the <lastplayed> tag.

I could create a script (when I have the time :P) that would be launched from the RetroPie menu in EmulationStation to sort the games.

thanks :D

@used2berx said in Atari 5200: New version of Atari800 (Beta): two triggers (Moon Patrol!!!), hat start and exit buttons:

I don't know. I just followed the two different instructions you had to download the one for the newer and older versions of RetroPie that I've always used since you first started doing this.

Ok, then you just downloaded the binaries.
As they are compiled for arm cpu's (raspberry pi) they will not work in a pc/laptop (they normally have a x86/x64 cpu).

@used2berx said in Atari 5200: New version of Atari800 (Beta): two triggers (Moon Patrol!!!), hat start and exit buttons:

You think this would work on my laptop?

I do not see why not, afaik almost all linux distro's have support to compile software locally.
Maybe you need to install some headers first (i.e. sdl2) but just give it a go.

@clyde Now I understood. Yes if you launch the joy2key command you can use up and down to switch through bash history. But the way you made it is a bit confusing as the joy2key programm is always active in background. This can cause behaviour you do not want to happen. I would suggest to use dialog function for this.

Well it appears that TOSEC hasn't quite completed their datfiles for like Game Boy Advance, SNES and some other Nintendo systems, but they still have a huge set of dat files. They even tagged some bad dumps mainly for the Commodore 64 and Amiga as those tapes and disks aren't as robust as those ROM cartridges. Besides we may not know which ROMs are corrupt that can give out a irrevelant bug report to RetroPie as those bad dump ROMs are not wanted.