@edmaul69 You're right. I forgot to mention, before actually deleting it, it should be checked if if it is required by other roms.

@spikeuk76 this is a workaround that will accomplish what you want:

@UDb23 yeah it's a little hidden in the wiki, perhaps I'll make it a little more verbose:

For reference: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/EmulationStation#my-es_sytemscfg-is-being-overwritten-on-updates

I just followed the guide here.

https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/blob/master/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md

You can follow the thread on it over at raspberrypi.org

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=155167

@KL1 said in Ubuntu Mate 16 on RPi3:

I don't want to start my Linux journey with unneeded problems.

With Linux you will run into problems. It's not windoze (though that also has its own set of problems - diff is with Linux you can fix the problems). It's also part of the fun as it gives you a chance to learn about how the computer works. It's a learning curve but well worth it. Raspbian is recommended because it's optimised for the pi, Ubuntu is a good option for a pc, and as an aside both raspbian and Ubuntu are derived from Debian.

Hey @LGShepherd . A guy named @obsidianspider did something similar to what you want. Look here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3731/variables-with-runcommand-onstart-sh

@vanhalen2466
I think you can achiev it with some shell scripting knowledge, mpg123 and runcommand-onstart. But I'm not sure if the soundtrack and the ingame sound will play together harmoniously...

[Edit: oh... maybe you need to kill mpg123 in runcommand-onend]

Its this sort of thing that would be good to avoid:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3654/i-did-retroarch-updates-and-now-i-can-t-exit-games

If it is implemented someday it would be gentle to alert the user about sensitive data (TBH I can only remember retroachievements account data, nothing more).

I've found several scripts that I think could be adapted to work if anyone is familiar with scripting, at least for playing videos -

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2043619
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1368224
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#mpeg

@BuZz said in Changing the order of emulators?:

@obsidianspider said in Changing the order of emulators?:

I've done this with mine and it works well. Just be sure to keep a backup before you do any software updates as it will be overwritten.

/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg will be overwritten if changing the order. If you copy it to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg it will override the one in /etc/emulationtation and never be overwritten (but you will have to keep it up to date).

This is a big help. Not wanting to reorder everything was a big reason I have been slow to update.

Good to see people's interest! I'm having a hard time with Super Nintendo as the number of games is just insane for that system!!! Yet I'm making progress and I won't let it go before it's 100% done.

By the way if you know some good places to get box arts in good definition for that system that would be great. Especially the Japanese box arts as they're extremely hard to find in decent quality. Thanks!

@meleu I don't. Runcommand will continue even if there is an error. Please try to not constantly send me questions and requests.

@herb_fargus said in Development:

@Arcuza you can call emulationstation with emulationstation --debug which will give some info and I presume you can code in more debugging along with development if you needed explicit details on changes

Yeah, that's been the way I 've been doing it up until now. it works, but it makes the cycles really slow. What I'm hoping is that via the VS route, I can not only use the intellisense l, but also all the debugger functionality that comes with it.

I' m not sure, but it seems like I'll need to recompile one of the dependency libraries (FreeImage) to match the type (debug dynamic multithreaded). I'll let you know how that works out.
Like I said, the release version is already compiling, so nearly there, I hope.

@hiulit well there's always room for improvement ;) we used to have all that stuff included but we removed it a while ago

First post updated to 4.0-rc2