Emulation station kids down?

[Zigurana]

Hi! Sorry, but the EmulationStation kids branch was very outdated (last update a year or so ago). In the meantime, many improvements to ES were made, which were not part of this branch.

Last week, an important part of the kid-mode branch functionality was delivered into the retropie - master branch (kiosk mode only, so hiding of menus). The second part is underway (hiding of separate gsmes/items).

I therefore removed the kids-mode branch, and you can no longer install it via the experimental packages.

My advice: update your Emulationstation from source, so you get the menu shielding functionality, and follow PR#525 to track the progress of the rest.

[Titchgamer]

@zigurana

Cheers for that, I have just upgraded to 4.3 so how do I hide menus with that?

I will follow the post you sugest also :)

[BuZz]

If you have the latest RetroPie-Setup you won't get the Kiosk mode stuff as it's not in the stable branch yet. There will be an emulationstation-dev module in experimental soon that will allow using the latest ES code.

[Titchgamer]

@buzz

Thanks Buzz.

[BuZz]

@titchgamer you can try and install emulationstation-dev from experimental if you update RetroPie-Setup to v4.3.1

[Titchgamer]

@buzz

Thanks mate will try it maybe tommorow :)

[Titchgamer]

@buzz Well I tried it but it didnt go well....

Not sure if there is something I can do to fix that or not?

[cab_mann]

Ahhh man, same here :(
@Titchgamer any ideas?

[Titchgamer]

@cab_mann Nope sorry!

[cab_mann]

I'm wondering about re-installing emulationstation straight on top of where I am now....

[Titchgamer]

Ime just trying further updates to the cores etc but no idea if it will help :p

[cab_mann]

I've removed the dev branch through retropie setup and now installing emulation station....
its looking okay atm.....

[cab_mann]

nahh....

[Titchgamer]

Well I updates all cores etc and now I have retropie working again....

Except that it has "lost" all my settings/roms/etc etc

Even though they are still in the folders it cant seem to detect them!

[cab_mann]

you got further than me!

any pointers?

[Titchgamer]

Well ime going to start afresh again LOL

[cab_mann]

gutted! lol

[Wombat]

Glad I saw this thread. I wont be trying the emulationstation-dev route. :)

So any more information when we can install kid/kiosk mode?

[jonnykesh]

@wombat Update, then everything is now set up for KIOSK mode.