RetroPie 4.2.22 Image testing (will become RetroPie 4.3)

BuZz

@fnkngrv by installing manually over Ubuntu minimal on odroid. The existing docs should still be fine.

fnkngrv

@buzz said in RetroPie 4.2.22 Image testing (will become RetroPie 4.3):

@fnkngrv by installing manually over Ubuntu minimal on odroid. The existing docs should still be fine.

ok, thanks. pardon my ignorance, but you are talking about testing here so how is it distinguished for doing an install on Ubuntu? I assumed that what you shared on your google drive images for the Pi would have it incorporated, but if testing and doing a fresh install from bash on the XU4 would still be pointing to the current 4.2.20?

PokeEngineer

@charononus

@BuZz probably won't have a Stretch release ready for a while because of all the changes that were made in Raspbian Stretch and changes that need to be made to adapt to it.

A Former User

Stretch will be 5.0, won't it?

psyke83

I found an issue that you may want to consider evaluating for the 4.3 release: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2125

Without this change, the automatic invocation of choose_emulator seems very unstable with joy2key. The mapping sometimes works, but often stops during selection, leaving me stuck inside the menu. I noticed this before but only got around to isolating it now.

This change appears to fix the issue 100% (I'm testing repeatedly & can't trigger the issue). It won't break or disable the cancel button for the manual system/rom emulator selection when invoked from runcommand's menu.

Edit: the xmb minimal assets also didn't get updated in this image. This is not a big deal but just reminding in case you wanted it included.

sergioad

Hi friends, could you before the feature freeze or final version add the function to add a star to favorite ROMs?

BuZz

@psyke83 please open a ticket for both of these. Not had that input issue though. Will review patch later as not on pc. Cheers.

PokeEngineer

@sirdrexl

I do not know.

psyke83

@buzz The xmb issue is already filed: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/2121

The PR for the runcommand issue explains how to reproduce the issue in the second comment: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2125

BuZz

@psyke83 thanks. Had a memory lapse. Will update the xmb requisites and review pr.

sergioad

@buzz Do you think my suggestion could get into 4.3?

herb_fargus

@sergioad he's already made it clear this is to test the stable build for release. Not to add new features.

sergioad

Ok, apologies :)

SystemLogoffSA

Just wondering, when this launches, can I just go update in the retropie menu and not have to flash the system?

Darksavior

@systemlogoffsa Since this upcoming release will still use raspian jessie, you can update. In the past, it was recommended to start fresh when going from wheezy to jessie, but not sure how it'll be when retropie moves to stretch.

Maxus

,lbmj

BuZz

@maxus 4.3 has a few extra fixes since 4.2.22

darknior

Thanks a lot for this hard work :)
So many cool improvements !!!

Is there an easy way to update my 4.2.2 image to 4.3 now ?
Because i configure all my emulators and systems and i don't really want to do it again.
In RETROPIE-SETUP we can update the emulators packages, ES, and some other things but not all the system like for exemple the USBROMSERVICE :(
Or i don't understand some thing ?

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/updating-retropie
Maybe doing an Basic install or Update all packages (I have some from BIN some from SOURCE) ?
But i'm not sure it will update all the 4.3 news ...

Thanks

BuZz

@darknior update all packages updates to 4.3. usbromservice will get updated automatically now.

darknior

@buzz Thanks for your answer and your update : https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2126
It will help users :)

I will backup my SD to try it.
But to understand fine, will you update all the SYSTEM from BIN ?
If i have some emulators or ES from SOURCE, will they be replace from BIN ? (After i must UPDATE them from SOURCE again)

Because you don't use RELEASE VERSION in RETROPIE-SETUP to update or not a PACKAGE. We can't know if we have the last one, or not ... and i think you can't know it too and you must force update to be sure?