EmulationStation - Main Menu - Remove Exit Option

almulder

I am trying to find a way to remove the Quit Option (Shutdown,reboot) from EmulationsStation Main Menu. (not to be confused with the exit option that seems to pull up everywhere.)

I have a Nespi case with power and reset buttons (Safe shutdown and restart) and if my nephews just select the Quit shutdown option, the unit keeps the fan running and the button stays pressed in. I want to force them to use the button on the unit.

I have been searching, but unable to what and where to edit.

Thanks,

stoney66

@almulder Have you looked at kiosk mode?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Child-friendly-EmulationStation

almulder

I do have it in kiosk mode, but the Quit option is still there. I have read that the --no-exit option should hide it, but I have tried adding it into several different files with no luck and then I read that the --no-exit is not for the main menu but some other exit option.

Just reading alot of contradicting info and just confused now. I was hoping to find someone who has made this work and tell me what file they changed and a layout of how it looks. (Maybe there are a few files that need to be changed to make it work, just not sure.)

mitu

Use the Kid mode instead of Kiosk, it disables the menu altogether. That aside, the situation seems like an oversight on the case design + the shutdown script supplied by Nespi. The fan should shutdown when the OS is shut down.

almulder

The fan connects to their board not the pi board (power is also through their board not the pi board (they did this to reduce the load on the board, so the micro usb power port on the pi is not used.)

Ok so kid mode, how can I update all roms and systems to be seen in kid mode? I don't want to do them all manually, that is why I was using kiosk mode

willmurray461

I think that all you have to do is edit the autostart.sh file by typing

sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

then just replace the text "emulation station #auto" with

/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh --no-exit

chicuelo

@willmurray461
I tried that option both via FTP and editing manually but had no luck, maybe anyone could make it work

mitu

@willmurray461 That option unfortunately just removes the Quit Emulationstation menu option from the Quit menu, but doesn't remove the rest of the entries (Reboot/Shutdown/Restart ES).

almulder

I have no issues using KidMode, but is there a way to add the kidmode option to all the games (Menus I can do manually, but to do 1000's of games would be a nightmare) Can someone write a script to maybe do this?

Sano

Ok, can't write a "real" script right now, but if you have a default configuration you may try something like :

for sys in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/*; do cp $sys/gamelist.xml $sys/gamelist.xml.bak && xmlstarlet ed -L -s "/gameList/game" -t elem -n kidgame -v true $sys/gamelist.xml; done

This will look all systems, make a .bak copy in the same directory before modifying the gamelist.xml to add the kidgame XML element on each game.

Use at your own risk ( it's late here), but the theory is here :)

Edit : Thanks @mitu !
In the light of a fresh morning, this seems to be ok, I was not so tired :)

Additional notes :

you may have to install xmlstarlet first : sudo apt install xmlstarlet
you have to quit ES before running this script

almulder

Cool thanks I will give it a go when I get a chance.

almulder

@sano
Is there anyway you could have it check if the <kidgame> is already there and if so change value to true. I noticed when I scraped some new games the code was not there and I reran and now it has it listed twice. I can restore my backups, but it over written my originals so my backups have the <kidgame> on them.

But otherwise it worked great.

Thanks for your help.

almulder

Found a work around. I can run this and it will delete all the kidgame entry's and then I can rerun the other one. Thanks anyways. :)

for sys in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/*; do cp $sys/gamelist.xml $sys/gamelist.xml.bak && xmlstarlet ed -d "/gameList/game/kidgame" $sys/gamelist.xml.bak > $sys/gamelist.xml; done

Sano

@almulder
I just get @home and see your posts.
Congratulations on finding a solution by yourself :)

almulder

@Sano Sorry to bug you, but maybe you can help me with one other xmlscarlet issue I have I need to rename an emlement. it is curently called thumbnail and i need to rename it to marquee. I have the code below, but no luck. It displays on screen while running that it has changed, but the files never get updated. I have even logged in as root and same issue. the files are never updated. but the output shows it was done.

for sys in /home/pi/addonusb/roms/*; do cp $sys/gamelist.xml $sys/gamelist.xml.bak && xmlstarlet ed -r "/gameList/game/thumbnail" -v marquee $sys/gamelist.xml; done

I have even tried to just focus on one system.

xmlstarlet ed -r "/gameList/game/thumbnail" -v marquee /home/pi/addonusb/roms/snes/gamelist.xml

Same thing, just displays on screen, file does not update.

Sano

You did right the first time, so I don't understand why you're struggling with this :)
By default xmlstarlet just prinnt the result.

There are 2 ways to modify a file :

what I did : put the -L (or --inplace) option : -L (or --inplace) - edit file inplace
what you did : redirect the output to the gamelist.xml file with a >