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    greenberet
    last edited by 26 Dec 2017, 13:27

    On a side note. Does anyone know how to shut your pc down when you use the 'shutdown system' in ES. Currently it take you back to the desktop. TIA.

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      duiz
      last edited by 26 Dec 2017, 19:17

      I'm having an issue where the videos freeze after 10 seconds.

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        gbpucci
        last edited by 31 Dec 2017, 21:34

        Great job !!!!! Is it possible to include background music in this Windows Builds??

        Thanks !!!

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          duiz
          last edited by 9 Jan 2018, 21:47

          I see there's a Hidden toggle in the metadata edit now, but when I turn it on the entry is still visible. Anything I need to do to enable this?

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            mitu Global Moderator @duiz
            last edited by 9 Jan 2018, 21:54

            @duiz The hidden flag is used when you activate Kiosk mode, not for general use. But once in a system screen, you can use the Filter Gamelist menu option to hide the ROMs marked as hidden.

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              duiz @mitu
              last edited by 10 Jan 2018, 04:17

              @mitu Oh had no idea! Is there a way to save it so that ES remembers to filter the gamelist when I reboot it?

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                echcoleman
                last edited by 7 Feb 2018, 13:34

                Thanks for this. Looking forward to standardize retro experience across my machines.

                The latest Continuous Build release does not seem to be working, when I try to run it nothing happens. After the zip is downloaded and extracted, am I suppose to do something before running emulationstation.exe?

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                  mitu Global Moderator @echcoleman
                  last edited by 7 Feb 2018, 13:35

                  @echcoleman Probably configure it ?

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                    echcoleman @mitu
                    last edited by 7 Feb 2018, 13:43

                    @mitu I haven't setup the config file yet, but with the original EmulationStation if it has not been setup you get an error message when launching EmulationStation. This also happens with @jrassa normal release branch version 2.2.2.220.

                    In the new version is the config file required before it will launch at all?

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                      mitu Global Moderator @echcoleman
                      last edited by 7 Feb 2018, 13:55

                      @echcoleman It seems not, it might be indeed a problem with the latest snapshot (02.2.2018). Even with a 'config' file, it produces an error (Win7)

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                        EctoOne @echcoleman
                        last edited by 7 Feb 2018, 14:08

                        @echcoleman if you only use this version and try to just start the exe, it can't work. Because you're missing the emulators and more importantly you're not telling ES where to look for those. I suggest getting the ES Toolkit, which I can't link right now but you should be able to search for it here. Then extract the Toolkit and replace the copy/paste this new version into the correct folder. Then you can start ES by using any of the batch files from the Toolkit package.

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                          echcoleman @EctoOne
                          last edited by 8 Feb 2018, 05:00

                          @ectoone Thanks. Copying over the ES Toolkit and running it's bat file did resolve the issue.

                          Though I noticed something odd, even with ES Toolkit copied over the emulationstation.exe still doesn't work. I actually found that only copying over the bat file was enough to launch EmulationStation with the expected "systems not found" error that I originally expected.

                          Not a major issue since I'll just work with the bat file in future, but just thought I should mention it here.

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                            duiz
                            last edited by duiz 2 Sept 2018, 23:26 9 Feb 2018, 23:22

                            The latest builds don't open anymore, and the ES-toolkit bats results in a crash. Is this a bug issue or some sort of complete redo of the setup? Here's the error.

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                              jdrassa @duiz
                              last edited by 10 Feb 2018, 13:01

                              @duiz Try redownloading. I had to modify the build script to include some additional files that are now required.

                              Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                                duiz @jdrassa
                                last edited by 10 Feb 2018, 18:16

                                @jdrassa Thanks! Works now.

                                Will we have to use the .bat launchers from now on? Usually I kept my install of ES in Program Files, but since this version I've had to move it into the ES Tool Kit folder structure.

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                                  R1n0X
                                  last edited by R1n0X 2 Nov 2018, 02:54 11 Feb 2018, 02:52

                                  It didn´t work for me! :(

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                                    EctoOne
                                    last edited by 11 Feb 2018, 04:44

                                    It does work if you combine it with the ES Toolkit and use a batch from it. Starting just the exe didn't work for me, but I'm used to combine it with the Toolkit anyways.

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                                      R1n0X @EctoOne
                                      last edited by 11 Feb 2018, 12:03

                                      @ectoone

                                      Thanks man!!! It works with ES_Toolkit!!!

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                                        duiz
                                        last edited by 19 Feb 2018, 21:26

                                        I'm encountering numerous bugs and issues with the latest few updates.

                                        Primarely, it's the issue of the xml adding //emulationstation to the image folder path rather than a .emulationstation

                                        The very latest build also seems to have issues reading entries with longer filenames or something cause a good majority of my games show as unscrapped now, while they show just fine in my backed up 219 commit build.

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                                          jdrassa
                                          last edited by 20 Feb 2018, 00:14

                                          @duiz said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

                                          @jdrassa Thanks! Works now.

                                          Will we have to use the .bat launchers from now on? Usually I kept my install of ES in Program Files, but since this version I've had to move it into the ES Tool Kit folder structure.

                                          I am working on a fix so that the .bat launchers won't be required. For now you can work around it by creating an environment variable named HOME that points to the directory that contains the.emulationstation directory.

                                          @duiz said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

                                          I'm encountering numerous bugs and issues with the latest few updates.

                                          Primarely, it's the issue of the xml adding //emulationstation to the image folder path rather than a .emulationstation

                                          Can your provide a specific example of before and after values so I can try to reproduce?

                                          The very latest build also seems to have issues reading entries with longer filenames or something cause a good majority of my games show as unscrapped now, while they show just fine in my backed up 219 commit build.

                                          Can you also provide an example of this?

                                          Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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