@flop said in Fan GPIO and code control:

If your fan makes much noise, you could change the GPIO voltage pin of 5v to 3.3v!.

i dont think thats a good idea....fan draws too much current....

@stevefo There was a thread abput the arcade folder allready:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/253/arcade-folder-how-can-i-find-out-what-roms-use-what-emulators/5

But I will summ that up quickly:
You don't have to use the folder, if you are using mame/fba folders. But if you want to have all roms for mame/fba in one folder, you can use that. But keep in mind that you have to understand the "folder" and how the emulators work first.

Taken from the thread:

When you dump your romset into the arcade directory, you should know which emulator they were built for. You can set em accordingly from the runcommand. If you arbitrarily dump all sorts of roms into it, then good luck sorting em out. I personally prefer to have my MAME sets organized under specific emulators with the best of their respective builds.

And you can also read this wiki page:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/MAME

Taken from the wiki page:

So you can have one zipped ROMset for each of these (mame4all, FBA, NeoGeo, advmame) To avoid having several EmulationStation menus for different arcade emulators, all arcade-based ROMs can be placed in the arcade ROM folder, but you will have to specify which emulator each will use from the Runcommand Menu

So basicly it "cleans" the mess of having different folder for different arcade emulators.
But you have to set it up correctly.

@sexbeer i noticed this today as well trying to do stuff in the rgui on retropie 4.2.

@TMNTturtlguy said in Folders and Marquees/Videos:

ely affecting old themes. I have not noticed as i am not running one of the older themes, but it makes me wonder what it is doing to my theme on others machines. Since i don't have the carousel implemented yet, i would suppose that it would be affected in the same way?
Does anyone know what update is causing this? Is it in the most recent update from source when the black boxes on meta data fields was corrected? or did this start happening when the carousel was imple

Yep everything is good! I never noticed it before or after a certain point as I just decided to do my PC games this week.

@laephis glad it's sorted. Good to know some people upgrade ok from old versions :-)

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10078/nes30-8bitdo-help
I created a new thread in the proper format but its got to be a mapping issue right? Whats weird is I can get Start to work in NES games just not the SNES but all buttons work in the ES

@itsnitro
Ok I will reset my box then try the line of code into built in file manager, then try putting the roms on again

@THRobinson You can play with buttons by shorting pins if you have to.

@luca Normally by hash, name or/and platform/extension

@backstander said in Connecting to "Open" Wifi:

When I saw the subject line I thought of you @mediamogul lol

Better this than "Local hoarder crushed to death by avalanche of 'Far Side' calendars. Survived his by 47 cats".

@epd probably. I am on a 15" screen and it is a noticeable change. Try fear effect. When in a game the character is really noticeable because the background is crap so the charater looks good compared to it when you turn on the enhaced mode.

@Sano said in Exit to Main Menu instead of System menu:

I see a major flaw in this :
If people just browse games without playing, the loop will continue.
Couldn't it be more efficient to look at ES screensaver, in order to stop video preview after a period of time ?
Other solutions include : video without sound, or a fixed number of loops.
Just my point of view :)

Looking forward to see your theme.

"Tell me what you need, I'll explain how you can do without it".
Too much time on linux IRC channels I think ;)

The browsing issue is a good and valid point I had not thought of, hmmm.....

I had thought about doing videos without sound but don't like that solution for 2 reasons:

remaking all of the videos would be a pain many people I talked to liked having the sound during selection as it helps bring back some of the nostalgia

I also do have a screensaver in place but unless I really shorten the delay it doesn't help much with some of the game noises being obnoxious at times.

I think I might actually be ok with a fixed number of loops. However, when I looked through the theme documentation I didn't see any way or option to set this. Is there a property or something I missed that can be used to do this?

Thanks,

@DarkWolf mhhh i have not test the ps4 controller yet. With my Arcadestick and retropie i think it is approximately every 10th step. With recalbox i got the trouble more often. (that is the reason i give retropie a try again)

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@Joshua2005777 The default view in the File Manager (Midnight Commander) should show the user folder. Assuming you are using the SD card to store your files, your ROM files should be located inside the folder Retropie\roms\<System Name>.

@spruce_m00se

The included libretro Read Me file begins with:

Vice 3.0 LIBRETRO WIP
Very WIP port of VICE 3.0 for libretro .
minimal Libretro arch port (minimal nuklear GUI)
Use it at you own risk !

It's first brought up on the forums here. It really doesn't look like a viable option at the moment.

@mediamogul brilliant, i will give it a try, thanks,

@rapidfire

if i delete a rom within emulationstation does it also delete all the scraped data for it aswell?

No, it doesn't

if i want to backup all my data from the sd card using samba shares. which folder contains the scraped info?

On the pi it is /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation or /home/pi/.emulationstation and via samba share it is (I guess) configs/all/emulationstation
this (or these) contains 2 folders with scraped data:

gamelists downloaded_images

How did you sort it? I'm having the exact same problem

@BuZz Yep, now it works.
Thanks you.