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    • herb_fargusH
      herb_fargus administrators @jacobfk20
      last edited by

      @jacobfk20 Its always confusing at first - plenty of things about it still confuse me ;) always more to learn

      If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

      Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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      • lilbudL
        lilbud @jacobfk20
        last edited by lilbud

        @jacobfk20 Upon running your new test build, It deleted all of my game lists. But kept the images. making every entry in ES the default box art, (the nes cart that says ROM)

        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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        • mattrixkM
          mattrixk @jacobfk20
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          @jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

          Do you have this somewhere else so I can have it for reference?

          I have posted some ideas elsewhere, and gotten some ideas from other people, but I've been meaning to make a list like this for a little while now, and this post finally gave me the opportunity. It would be nice knowing how to code this stuff so I could give it go myself, but I'm going to stick with front end development for now.

          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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          • J
            jacobfk20
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            @lilbud I'm sorry I just single handily destroyed your gamelists. That kinda bums me out but thank you for being brave and trying it. I'm going to try a fix it now.

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            • lilbudL
              lilbud @jacobfk20
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              @jacobfk20 I'm just lucky I put off moving my MAME roms on to the pi. Good thing I waited, I have a whole set of 1400-something

              Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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              • PokeEngineerP
                PokeEngineer @lilbud
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                @lilbud

                Why don't you just copy them onto your Pi instead of moving them?
                That's what I do just in-case something bad happens, like having your gamelist deleted for instance...

                Don't sweat it.
                When in doubt, take a BYTE out of life.

                😎

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                  jacobfk20
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                  I reverted the test build back to the last build on google drive to make sure no one else destroys their gamelists.

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                  • lilbudL
                    lilbud @PokeEngineer
                    last edited by lilbud

                    @RetroPieNerd Thats what i meant, wherever the roms were, nothing will save me if my gamelist is deleted.

                    Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                    • PokeEngineerP
                      PokeEngineer @lilbud
                      last edited by

                      @lilbud

                      Oh, okay.

                      Don't sweat it.
                      When in doubt, take a BYTE out of life.

                      😎

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                      • herb_fargusH
                        herb_fargus administrators @jacobfk20
                        last edited by herb_fargus

                        @jacobfk20 I was looking through your code and I saw a few references to directlaunch. is that something that you reincorporated? If so were you able to address the crashing issues mentioned here? https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues/37

                        Also my C++ is a tad rusty so trying to decipher each feature added in the one commit is proving difficult ( but just for reference on my branch here I was able to add basically all the features except I left out the gamepad stuff and wifi/network stuff as for my own builds I don't really need them- especially since I use my PC with emulationstation.)

                        In case you're interested the following is an example of a module for the setup script the branch I've done. It won't work with your current build as you don't have the emulationstation.sh file

                        http://pastebin.com/7cjQtQJt

                        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                        • InsecureSpikeI
                          InsecureSpike
                          last edited by InsecureSpike

                          now i know this is probably a long shot but, with updated code and changing from xml, to another database, would it be possible to add a feature like in attract mode, where the rom folder content gets re-generated upon page/menu selection, so emulation station doesn't need restarting when adding new content.

                          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
                          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                          both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                            jacobfk20
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                            @herb_fargus I built on top of Aloshi's main branch that still has directlaunch. I can understand trying to go through the code and finding what is used with grid view and what is not. I think I will just make a branch that is for grid view as well and get it as bug free and polished as I can and keep other features in other branches.

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                            • herb_fargusH
                              herb_fargus administrators @jacobfk20
                              last edited by herb_fargus

                              @jacobfk20 directlaunch was only added to retropie, it was never part of Aloshi's main branch so you must have built on an older version of the retropie fork (or merged in the pending PR on aloshi's branch yourself) but anyways yes, compartmentalised features would be good ;) I'll keep playing with your code, keep up the good work.

                              If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                              Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                Arcuza @herb_fargus
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                                @herb_fargus I know a bit XML, XSLT (XPath), C and SQL, but I've only done it on Windows.

                                I would like to have a filter based rom browsing so that you can game lists that are "all racing games for NES or SNES" or "all RPG games done by Square" or "all PSX games supporting 4 players" or "all games older than 1990"

                                Is it possible to add that to ES? Where do I start?

                                Thank you for your support

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                                  Pyjamarama
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                                  taking Xmls to a database will be the greater breakthrough for Es. As it is now, Es is superb.
                                  But having all the data into one database will give speed,flexibility and unlock possibilities like eg favorites without hassle and expensive XML parsings.

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                                    jacobfk20
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                                    @herb_fargus I forked retropie's ES and made a gridview branch. https://github.com/jacobfk20/EmulationStation/tree/Gridview
                                    it contains only what is needed to do my grid view which includes adding some things to SystemData.

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                                    • herb_fargusH
                                      herb_fargus administrators @jacobfk20
                                      last edited by

                                      @jacobfk20 ah brilliant! Will test now.

                                      If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                      Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                      • herb_fargusH
                                        herb_fargus administrators @jacobfk20
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                                        @jacobfk20 works great, the one issue I've been having is it wont refresh the gamelists once I add more roms to the romfolder so all I see is just ports and the retropie menu even though I have snes roms in the snes folder, I'm testing it on my pc so it may be something I've done with my setup, can anyone else confirm?

                                        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                          jacobfk20
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                                          @herb_fargus Are you saying that Super Nintendo isn't even showing up on System View?

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                                          • herb_fargusH
                                            herb_fargus administrators @jacobfk20
                                            last edited by

                                            @jacobfk20 actually nvm, for some reason it was creating an es_systems.cfg file in the .emulationstation folder rather than /etc/emulationstation I just had to delete the one in .emulationstation and it now shows up as it should. might be the way the module is coded perhaps, I'll have to look further into that.

                                            If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                            Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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