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    • hiulitH
      hiulit @Clyde
      last edited by

      @clyde Almost got it! Been working hard, refactoring stuff :P I guess I'll be releasing a new version soonish.

      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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        MadHorse
        last edited by

        @hiulit @Clyde thank you very much for your help.

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        • hiulitH
          hiulit @MadHorse
          last edited by

          @madhorse whoops, sorry, hehe! You were the one with the issue, actually, and I was replying to @Clyde :P

          My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

          • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
          • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
          • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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            MadHorse @hiulit
            last edited by

            @hiulit said in [SCRIPT] RetroPie Limit Last Played Games:

            @madhorse whoops, sorry, hehe! You were the one with the issue, actually, and I was replying to @Clyde :P

            hehe no problem :)

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            • ClydeC
              Clyde @hiulit
              last edited by

              @hiulit I trust you'll work as hard for @MadHorse as you'd have done for me. ;)

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              • hiulitH
                hiulit @Clyde
                last edited by

                @clyde @MadHorse Of course ;) hehe!

                My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                • hiulitH
                  hiulit
                  last edited by

                  Here it is!

                  RetroPie Limit Last Played Games v2.0.0

                  Read the new docs, as there have been a few changes.

                  Added

                  • Option to install/Uninstall the script from EmulationStation's RetroPie menu.
                  • GUI mode.
                  • Debug mode - To test the script. No harm will done to the gamelists ;)
                  • Log files - Found in /home/pi/Retropie-Limit-Last-Played-Games/logs).

                  Fixed

                  • Uncommented code preventing to actually remove 'last played' games.
                  • Fixed #1 - Only show systems that have a gamelist.xml.

                  Changed

                  • Refactored the code to create backups. Now the folder is called gamelist-backups (inside the $SYSTEM_ROMS folder) and contains all the game lists backups, named [DATE]-gamelist-backup.xml.
                  • Added more error/success output messages.
                  • Better control of what games have to be processed.

                  Examples

                  ./retropie-limit-last-played-games.sh --nth 25 --systems

                  This will set the number of 'last played' games to limit at 25 and then it will show a dialog from where it can be selected as many systems as needed.

                  ./retropie-limit-last-played-games.sh --nth 25 --systems --debug

                  This will set the debug mode on. It's perfect for testing the script before actually 'harming' the gamelists.

                  ./retropie-limit-last-played-games.sh --gui

                  This will start the GUI. It will ask you to enter a number to limit the number of 'last played' the games shown. Then it will ask you to choose the desired systems to apply that limit.

                  Options

                  • --help: Print the help message and exit.
                  • --install: Install the script in EmulationStation's RetroPie menu.
                  • --uninstall: Uninstall the script from EmulationStation's RetroPie menu.
                  • --nth: Set number of 'last played' games to limit per system (10 by default).
                  • --systems: Show dialog to select systems to limit.
                  • --gui: Start the GUI.
                  • --debug: Set debug mode to test the script.
                  • --version: Show script version.

                  My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                  • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                  • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                  • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                  • ClydeC
                    Clyde @hiulit
                    last edited by

                    @hiulit Great work! (without having tested it)

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                      MadHorse
                      last edited by MadHorse

                      @hiulit, first, thank you so much for your work, your work is really appreciated.
                      Second, yout script is awesome, it's working perfectly.
                      Installed the script on the Retropie menu, launched the script, choosed to keep 1 last played game, at the end of the execution you need to restart Emulationstation to see the results.

                      Now my last played list contain only 40 games, one per system :)

                      Thank you again, you did a great job.

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                      • cyperghostC
                        cyperghost
                        last edited by cyperghost

                        @hiulit I don't want to do a PR but you can add these lines to perform a restart. You can write a small yes/no dialog to perform a restart to ES.

                        # Restart ES!
                        touch /tmp/es-restart
                        chown pi:pi /tmp/es-restart
                        kill $(pidof emulationstation)
                        

                        Best wishes ;)

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                        • hiulitH
                          hiulit @MadHorse
                          last edited by

                          @madhorse Hey! You're welcome! I'm glad you find it useful :D

                          And you made a good point about EmulationStation having to be restarted to see the changes. I'll add a message to the script .

                          My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                          • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                          • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                          • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                          • hiulitH
                            hiulit @cyperghost
                            last edited by

                            @cyperghost hey, I was just thinking about adding a message but I like your idea better. Thanks for the code ;)

                            My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                            • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                            • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                            • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                            • hiulitH
                              hiulit @cyperghost
                              last edited by hiulit

                              @cyperghost btw, can this code be run under 'sudo'? Because my script has an option be installed in the RetroPie menu and I think the scripts executed from there are run under 'sudo'.

                              My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                              • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                              • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                              • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                              • cyperghostC
                                cyperghost @hiulit
                                last edited by cyperghost

                                @hiulit Yes but then the file has to be chowend to pi:pi
                                Added to the codebox

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                                • hiulitH
                                  hiulit @cyperghost
                                  last edited by

                                  @cyperghost the file being 'tmp/es-restart' or my script?

                                  My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                  • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                  • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                  • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                  • cyperghostC
                                    cyperghost @hiulit
                                    last edited by

                                    @hiulit The restart file
                                    Because ES entitiy deletes the file on restart and if it was created by root it won't work

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                                    • hiulitH
                                      hiulit @cyperghost
                                      last edited by

                                      @cyperghost got it. Thanks! I'll try it ;)

                                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                      • M
                                        MadHorse
                                        last edited by

                                        @hiulit I've found a little "bug", if there are more games that have the exactly same lastplayed it will give you this errore:

                                        Number of 'last played' games to limit is set to '1'.
                                        
                                        psx
                                        ---
                                        'gamelist.xml' for 'psx' found!
                                        > Creating 'gamelist-backups.xml' for 'psx' ...
                                        'gamelist-backups.xml' for 'psx' created successfully!
                                        ./retropie-limit-last-played-games.sh: line 124: [[: 0
                                        1: syntax error in expression (error token is "1")
                                        ./retropie-limit-last-played-games.sh: line 124: [[: 0
                                        1: syntax error in expression (error token is "1")
                                        No 'last played' games to remove.
                                        
                                        All done!
                                        

                                        After i change the time, i just add 1 second, everything is working without a problem.
                                        I think it's almost impossible to have more games with the same lastplayed date and time unless someone manually edit the file and make some mistakes, so probably is not a big deal.

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                                        • hiulitH
                                          hiulit @MadHorse
                                          last edited by

                                          @madhorse Hmmm... I'll take a look at it. But what are the odds of having the same date on different lastplayed tags? How is it even possible to open 2 different games at the same time? :P hehe! Anyway, I'll look into it.

                                          My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                          • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                          • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                          • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                            MadHorse @hiulit
                                            last edited by

                                            @hiulit said in [SCRIPT] RetroPie Limit Last Played Games:

                                            @madhorse Hmmm... I'll take a look at it. But what are the odds of having the same date on different lastplayed tags? How is it even possible to open 2 different games at the same time? :P hehe! Anyway, I'll look into it.

                                            Exactly, in fact i manually edited the gamelist.xml to add some games because i didn't want to scrape it, copy and paste the <game> section and then changed the name and the path, by doing this i also duplicated the lastplayed date and time.
                                            I just pointed out because if someone needs help for the error

                                            ./retropie-limit-last-played-games.sh: line 124: [[: 0
                                            1: syntax error in expression (error token is "1")
                                            

                                            you know why, but i don't think you need to spend much time over this problem.

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