@synack Hey that looks really handy! Thanks!

@Tao I know, I am a Linux user and I also know Opensource is not the same as free software

@allenpie
In my case it Lubuntu 16.04 x64. I have 4 Xbox 360 Wireless Controllers that work fine with the Microsoft USB dongle.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/1773

@vbs It's not a bad idea (I have thought a lot about it - especially when I was doing the reorganisation of the retropie-setup menus), I just think it's really only retroarch which would benefit (maybe a couple of others) - so it's whether the work is worth it. I'm pretty certain it will be me who has to maintain this long term too. I'll see how retroarch develops though and reconsider it in the future if it seems required.

@BuZz said in Retropie menu on EmulationStation:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu

I feel sad and happy at the same time. You solved the problem, that's it! I did it all as 'root'.

I suck with linux, I'm never going to learn this, i don't even know which user i should use to make a lousy update.

Shall i assume that i must use the pi user, for all the operations?

After exiting retropie_packages.sh setup, do i have/must setup any extra permissions on the command prompt?

Thank you for your time.

@BuZz - sorry, new here. Thanks for the reply. i don't understand why i would start a new topic, when my question is about the first comment in this topic. As far as i can tell, i already followed the advice. i did a search and this was the closest thing that came up about my question. i've put many, many hours and late nights, in the past week researching this project and just trying to figure this out. Thanks for any help and direction.

@chapas It's not related - please open a new topic (even if you have the same problem, it's not helpful to post to the end of an old topic)

also

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@Arcuza I think it's possible, but needs some hacking in a few files (e.g. es_systems.cfg, retroarch.cfg, gamelist.xml) and I think the game list in emulationstation would be a mess.

@hansolo77 Thanks. :) There isn't a like but you can vote up posts etc which is the same sort of thing.

@screech said in Proposal: Consolidate filesystem locations:

Not really the same subject, but it's about path on retropie ;) :

why retropie have
Rom here : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%System%/
Gamelist here : /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/%System%/gamelist.xml
Image here : /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/%system%/

/home/pi/.emulationstation/ is a symlink to /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/ - so they are the same path.

Emulationstation work great with all thing at the same place
Rom here : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%System%/
Gamelist here : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%System%/gamelist.xml
Image here : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%System%/downloaded_images/

By default sselph's scraper uses those locations.

I only had the really long shut down the first time. It now only takes about 15 seconds. In fact, before I rebuilt my SD card from scratch, It usually took about 45-50 seconds to fully boot with metadata. Now it's taking around 25 seconds. So my splash screen video I'm using now takes longer to fully play than the system does to load up. Still, I think even a simple progress bar on the "EmulationStation Loading" screen would be a nice thing to have. But something like that is going to require more than displaying a simple static splash screen.

Sorry, thanks, fixed.

@BuZz Thanks, I didnt realize that.

I discovered TriPi so for the next pi build I will be using that rather than doing all individually like I did with my current RetroPie box.

The VPN into home network to access steam games remotely works as a user in this thread got it working: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1082 Unfortunately I cant seem to send him a message on GitHub.

@mdg33

Improvements will have to be made to the RetroArch cores before RetroPie can become a truly viable solution to light gun gaming. The groundwork has been laid for mouse compatibility with lr-nestopia, lr-genesis-plus-gx, lr-snes9x-next and lr-mame2003, but really only mame2k3 is a fully working solution, due to the recent addition of absolute pointer coordinates. Besides lr-nestopia, the rest don't even recognize a mouse of any kind on the Pi like they do on x86 hardware.

Fortunately, as with anything else of this sort, there will come a day when a developer will find this sort of thing important to them and the whole thing will get ironed out. For example, look at the newest improvements to RetroAchievements in RetroArch. It languished as a half-implemented feature for some time and once the interest was found, it it got finished. You can bet that one day in the future, some developer is gonna want to break out their gun and play the NES 'Duck Hunt' or SegaCD's 'Snatcher' on their Pi and the final nuts and bolts will be added.

@demesauce Did you ever get this to work ? Ia have the same issue..