@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.

@woutertron is there any chance that you use Discord chat, or would be willing to?

There is a libretro/RetrArch Discord server where all of the active mame2003-plus developers (as well as a lot of other RA and core devs) can be reached. This is a direct link to the Discord channel, where I can be PM'd or tagged in #programming: https://discord.gg/C4amCeV

The other way that mame2003-plus developers tend to communicate is via github. It so happens that grant already has an issue stubbed out to talk about documentation related to input and input remapping: https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-plus-libretro/issues/329

That would be a great place to start if you're interested! :D

I got ahold of them no good :( but we have another dev to ask, no worries red batman, ill push this to go forward, i got a answer from another dev but he said he would make a mod but not for 1 person and for only 1 game/ 2d games unless we get alot of people asking for it but thanks for reply and keep the hard studying up buddy thanks

@cyperghost said in Autoconfig wizard tool after booting on first install?:

@niculinux No one hinders you to start such a project. Most things can be set up by dialogs now so you may integrate most wanted features in just one menu. But I really doubt the essential need.

I'm not really into programming, take it like a "wish" but i hope someone of good will may buils sn experimentsl oacksfe someday 😉

@Sterophonick sorry if being leech but can you please help me adding MagicMirror port to retropie

@niculinux said in Base Retropie on Ubuntu instead of Raspbian?:

Essenctially because upsting/upgrading versions in Ubuntu is more simple than Debian.

No, it's not. Does Ubuntu provide a version for Raspberry PI which is easier and better supported than Raspbian ? RetroPie already supports Ubuntu - on the PC.

@jkacza Sorry to say but i lost the scripts a while ago. Did a fresh install of RetroPie and forgot to back them up. Didnt bother to rewrite them as i moved the pi to a flirc case and there isnt much room and useful mounting points for a led.

But iirc the scripts were simple. Used this as a template:
https://raspi.tv/2013/how-to-use-soft-pwm-in-rpi-gpio-pt-2-led-dimming-and-motor-speed-control

Connected a RGB led to the gpio pins and wrote scripts for startup, game launch and game end.

libretro reicast does work on the pi, but the performance is trash.
I've been testing and the libretro reicast just works, isn't as functional as the standalone one, there are bugs and is slow. the only advantage is the naomi support.

EDIT: I should have said that is still experimental and you have to compile it yourself.

@johnodon said in What buttons should I press? A controller cheat sheet:

@chipsnblip said in What buttons should I press? A controller cheat sheet:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/runcommand#adding-custom-launching-images

You can also set how much time this will be displayed before launching the game. What would be a nice option is if you could set it to stay onscreen until a button is pushed. I don't think this is available today.

John

pressing q or escape on the keyboard will close the image and launch the game, then you can set image_delay to a high number of seconds. the only thing left to do would be map one of those 2 keys to your controller, but i'm unsure if this would require any changes to the scripts in ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/runcommand/

@mitu

Thank you mitu, I appreciate your reply, will go have a look into that.