@alturis I'm not fully sure about the theming aspects of it, and how that's structured.

The custom-collection theme folder has the theme settings for all the custom collections that will be grouped under the "my collections" err... collection, as sub-folders.

You won't be able to further customize them there - there is a single theme/layout for each ES "system".

If, however, you're looking to add specific custom collection artwork, add them to the root of the theme. Look at some of the other custom collections (mario, kids, shmups) in that theme for a good example. These will show at the main carousel level, though, not inside the "My Collections" folder.

Thats weird, I did try and delete /home/pi/cfg/default.cfg
it even says it's autogenerated.
Regardless deleting it now it works, thanks a lot :-)

Thank you @mitu for the quick and, arguably, more importantly, accurate information. Too many times I have been given a solution that just leads me down a rabbit hole that never ends but this was a one-stop solution.!

@kmetz7547 you could ask PiPiggies.

@herb_fargus That IS my custom es_systems.cfg, but I've checked the other one and it's not doing anything that should conflict with that.

EDIT: Oh, wait! The SAM lines were in a weird place in the other es_systems.cfg and I hadn't spotted them. I don't actually see anything different in them to mine, but replacing mine with that one worked, so yay! Cheers :)

@cyperghost I got drawn here by @Vanpotheosis' post and thought it could be a good idea to add a little something that may be useful to other drive-by readers. :) I didn't know Linux Reader before, it may be a good advice to some of my Windows-using friends.

@cyperghost said in ROM Save Files:

@Vanpotheosis

I guess people want to show you how smart and elite they are in their linux prowess ;-)

First time that someone called my suggestion as linux elite like by using a Windows programm - sounds strange. But I recommend you to get in touch with SSH and the terminal. It offers the valuest way.

That was @Verced, not @Vanpotheosis. ;)

@spudsmctoole It did :)

@mediamogul Exactly what I needed. Many thanks :)

Do you happen to have a laptop? Even an old one?

EDIT: Doh! Necrothread!

@herb_fargus Yes, it is the strangest thing. I did recreate everything except for the rpconfig menu. It shows only the word "rpconfig" instead of "retropie config" and there is no help, no icon in the icon/video window to the right. It works, but is just not pointing to things. Are you saying to look for other es_systems.cfg or go through the entries in that file?

Most games have a start video or preview, especially arcade games, it's just how they were designed. RetroPie is a collection of emulators and the games are normally as they were when they were new.

I'm not sure this is a way of skipping other than using the Retroarch hotkeys for fast forwarding, though I've not explored that myself. Hotkeys etc are well documented in the official wiki though.

@stoo I guess maybe it chooses the latest version of the specific region then. Thanks for checking!

@willie1280 said in ROM version doesn’t match MAME version...whaaaaat??:

So for Black Tiger as an example. Line 380 (bktigerb) says it's parent is "blktiger". Does that mean it needs line 407 in order to run "OK" in Rpi3?

Yes exactly. You can either have both .zip files in the desired rom folder or you can merge the contents together into the one zip file (into the child zip file).

There are also other games that have a BIOS requirement that can again have the contents of which rolled into the game zip. Or for lr-fbalpha specifically the bios zip file can just reside in /home/pi/BIOS and I think you could do this with parent game zip files too in lr-fbalpha but doesn't seem neat and tidy to me.

@mitu said in PSX scraping woes:

@baviaannl Have you checked the video files - played them in another video player ? Maybe they're encoded differently and (even) VLC cannot play them. If it's not the gamelist, maybe it's the videos.

VLC on my Mac can play these files OK, tried a few media players without any issues.

@kaptainsteve Welcome. Please see Controller Configuration in the docs and report any remaining problems. If I remember correctly (I'm not at home at the moment), the "B" button starts a game from the list in Emulation Station.

@baviaannl There are some solutions listed in this Q&A on superuser.com.

@gforce In this case, if you prefer to edit the configuration file, have a look at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#config-hierarchy to determine where to add the configuration parameters.

@spudsmctoole I'm guessing that's a no, then?