What would you like to see in future Retropie releases

[Cjax08]

What I would REALLY like to see is a way to lock down your retropie setup. Similar to the kids mode but integrated into the main ES. It would be so convenient to be able to easily lock down retropie and ES settings except for settings like maybe connecting to wifi, jumping to different letters in game lists, shutting down from menu, etc. Small things that need to be regularly accessed on a finished set up. I know there is already a thread with people talking about the possibilities of something like that, and I personally can't wait till one day some generous genius donates their time to figure it out.

I know it's been said no major changes are coming to 4.3 and I understand that, but if we are talking about desired features then that is a big one. It's honestly the only thing that has kept me back from putting together retropies for friends and family for birthday/Christmas gifts. Knowing that they will probably break something after a few days lol. The one I did make for a friend as a housewarming gift needed fixing after a week.

[thex]

Suggestions for a SMALL screen installation

1. The ability to increase font size on the Main Menu (start and select menus)
2. A RetroPie configuration to add/remove a "Power Menu" on the main system list.
   This makes it easier to find and power down small screen size systems

Outside of RetroPie - add a column to the ES Themes page to identify "optimized for small screens?"

[sirhenrythe5th]

@cjax08 i removed the Retropie configs section from the ES Menue by editing the systems.es

As far as kids are concerned this should be enough. The only way to change settings is to enter the terminal and enter the right commands.

[HurricaneFan]

@cjax08 I'd like some form of lock down too. I've setup a pi for a friend and his kids kept messing with the built in scraper settings even though I'd already scraped everything.

[twd]

@hex @jdrassa wow progress already I didn't expect that , it's only been a few hours. I do think the subject probably deserves its own thread, just for searchability reasons

[Cjax08]

@sirhenrythe5th

Yea I know it can be done that way, but at the end of the day it is a hacky way of accomplishing it. Just purely ideally speaking, an option to turn on and turn off lock mode would be best. If I'm not mistaken the developer for kids mode has said himself that he is way behind on maintaining it and keeping it up to date with normal ES updates. The options on his version are so convenient that in my opinion they should be merged with standard ES anyways. It would be much easier and convenient to lock it down for kids and others to play and then just enter a password or even just select unlock in order for me to change another, rather than having to access the command line and do it that way.

[Hex]

@cjax08 said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

Yea I know it can be done that way, but at the end of the day it is a hacky way of accomplishing it.

No you are wrong. That is the recommended way of doing it. I remember @BuZz mentioning somewhere that ES will never support kids mode as there is a dedicated es-kids for that.

[Hex]

@thex said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

Suggestions for a SMALL screen installation

I am working on widening menus by default if on small screen.

[herb_fargus]

@hex that's news to me. I'll let @BuZz and @Zigurana hash that out as I see no issue with inclusion provided the code is stable and tested. I would probably use it myself as I prefer minimalist interfaces

[thex]

@Hex ,
That sounds great! does widening it also make the font bigger?

[Hex]

@thex Probably can be done. Will try

[cyperghost]

@thex said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

Outside of RetroPie - add a column to the ES Themes page to identify "optimized for small screens?"

I started to make this happen with this list
But I already got a small talk with @hex - which small theme is really small.
So currently we have 3 optimized for 3,5"

• IO (cool theme, maybe the smallest in footprint!)
• GambeBoy Zero - GBZ3,5 (very cool theme)
• TFT theme

[pjft]

@hex I'm not sure that is accurate, in terms of the kids features not ever making it to the main ES. I think it's more a matter of time and testing, but I'm certainly keen on helping @Zigurana get those there.

[Hex]

I have no problems with kids mode. Just that I will not be working on that.

[edmaul69]

@hurricanefan change the permissions of the gamelist.xml files in

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/

So they dont have write permissions, they at least cant save to the gamelist.xml files. I would do the same thing with your images as well so they wont change any either.

[HurricaneFan]

@edmaul69 I didn't even think of that. That's a neat idea.

[lilbud]

@pjft I really hope es-kids becomes offical, cause I like to use it on my arcade so my brother doesn't screw up everything majorly

[psyke83]

@buzz

In fact 4.3 is basically around the corner. I have been rebuilding binaries etc recently to prepare for it.

FYI, lr-picodrive is currently broken on RPI3 with the latest source. I didn't file a bug due to it being an upstream issue (and I'm still trying to see if it can be fixed), but I'm letting you know here in case you want a working core to be distributed in the 4.3 image. The issue is due to the latest commit in the cpu/cyclone submodule (specifically: 66dda842eae01f47f5389b931ec9567fb0bbb6a1).

[ward614]

@buzz I will have to try reconfiguring my controllers then. When I last updated three weeks ago the shoulder buttons stopped working in the menu, but remained functional in all of the systems/games.

[lipebello]

I don't know if there's a way to prevent an image from slide or fade, but if there isn't, it would be awesome feature to have. I had success messing with zIndex to lock a layer on Fade mode, but the image still slide when the transition is selected.