that release was from 2 years ago. we have the latest version (you can update from source if you want to get the latest nightly)

@herb_fargus the issue is that sometime the runcommand does not bring up the configuration menu. It would be great if it could be launched for the selected game in emulation station from an option in the select menu.

Just a quick bump to know if the devs plan on adding this feature or not :>

@TheCatMan2000

You might look into this as a possibility.

@raymerc no time to learn code like the present! We all didn't know how to code at one point in our lives

@herb_fargus - what is protocol here? Can you move this post to help & support or should I create the same topic there? I tried to delete, but it is telling me I can only delete within 3 minutes of posting.

@Panikk I kinda figured as much, but one can dream! :)

Thanks for the reply!

An update: I had time to play with the code this morning. It compiled and linked and I'm currently scraping my roms. It is slow but probably no slower than if you use a single thread and don't pass -thumb_only with my scraper standalone. Since it is downloading the full image then resizing and bandwidth is my bottle neck right now.

The code needs a ton of clean up and review from people who know how to write C but looks promising.

@BennyProfane Ok, it is already set, it will be on the next build.

@ZogZogAkita said in Password option for RetroPie menu:

I did not understand the purpose of Konami code tricks. Can it be used to restart Emustation in Admin mode ?

Yeah. When 'Kid Mode' is on, for obvious reasons the option to change the mode back to 'Full' isn't available (as it won't take kids long to discover how to switch it back).

So the Konami code trick is used when in Kid mode to restart ES in Full mode again.

The youngsters of today will never have heard of the famous Konami cheat code!

@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