Updated EmulationStation for Windows

jero

@f-caruso As you know, I am a fan of your work. There are many improvements that I am very happy with. The one that more but taste was "padtokey", since I use it with retro windows games and other emus. But for days it does not work at all, I have the last one of ghitub and it does not solve and I have even tried anterioes coms of 20 days and it does not work for me I have not installed drivers, I have not updated windows and I do not know why it stopped working.

Also about the improvement of game launch, I really like the cover or game snap when I start, I think it's a good idea, but with these images it does not work well for me. from 500 pixels up I think I started doing this.

So it would be before starting

this happens in launch

f.caruso

@jero said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

"padtokey" [...] does not work at all, I have the last one of github

PadToKey is absolutely not part of EmulationStation, so what about github ??? It is part of my EmulationStationPortable.exe launcher which is not available on github...
If it is not working there are 3 possibilities :
1/ you don't launch EmulationStationPortable.exe but directly EmulationStation.exe
2/ you run it as admin but not your games ( or viceversa )
3/ There is a joytokey process in memory -> When joytokey is running, PadToKey is disabled.

About the launching image : ok it's a proportion problem. I'll see what I can do.

jero

@f-caruso I dont use joykotey.I'm sorry, I did not remember that it was not the prdotkey who did it, but the portable one. Well, it does not do anything if I start from the portable, that's why the pardotkey is not going to me.
It really IS portable exe does not work on my desktop with its ES mod, it might be something from windows, so it's not your thing I think

f.caruso

@jero I don't understand everything you say :-( My portable exe & pad2key feature is independant of ES and should work with every version.

Either your es_padtokey.cfg has problems and refuses to load.
Either you have processes/account problems : Windows messages can't be send to other processes if they are not running in the same account with the same privileges (except if they explicit allow it using ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx which is never the case.... ). You can check it addin column "elevated" in taskmanager details.

About the game launch image : fix is commited.

jero

@f-caruso 652/5000
hahaha, I'm going to try to explain that I just missed hahaha.

I use pat2key with portable, but this did not start me and I do not know why since the last configuration that I did in the cfg worked perfectly.

but suddenly portable access did not work. It is more must have these lines so that aaranque if it does not do it for me.

I used selct and start for F4 but I had to put it as well as its original file of the mod to be able to start with the portable, in addition I am slower the boot

f.caruso

@jero Is there a space between % and { ? Should not be

jero

@f-caruso that is copied from your pad2key of your ES mod.what I want is not to use this if I delete or modify it does not start with portable, I can only fit close by f4.

that seems to copy from one cfg file to another put space. I will try and comment

Perfect everything works, thanks, only now it is still slow when I use the portable. Well I'll wait for the next update and if I see that it's just as slow I'll tell you, thanks as always

One last thing I really do not want to use the hotkeyenable to get out since I launch Steam APP and I do not want to, so I use select and start and it's perfect for me, but if I erase it or modify it

it no longer starts with the portable one. since I think "*" is for any program I would like it to be with select and star, or be able to erase it.

f.caruso

@jero J'ai pas tout compris... What is slow ??? Are you sure about your directory hierarchy ? my portable exe is just a launcher for "emulationstation/emulationstation.exe".
<input name="select start" should work. Maybe the problem is your text/xml editor... There are abnormal spaces in what u paste here...

ruckage

Hi @jdrassa , I hope you're well. I noticed you've made some improvements to grid view and would like to make some requests/suggestions if that's okay.

First would be an option to specify what image source is used for the grid images. As it is it always displays whatever image is within the <image> tags but it would useful to also be able to use the <marquee> image.
e.g something like this:

<imageSource>image</imageSource>
<imageSource>marquee</imageSource>

Second thing that I think would be useful and allow more theme options is the ability to display the metadata that is currently missing from gridview (just within the view itself, not per tile) e.g <video> <image> <marquee>. This would be useful to display a large preview image/video/marquee for the selected game as we often do with the other available views. We have all the text metadata available so it seems strange that image metadata isn't also included.

Thanks.

jero

@f-caruso Thank you, you were right for some reason in notepad, I put spaces. Now everything is fine and if my location is correct for portable exe. now everything works thanks

jdrassa

@ruckage To give credit where it is due, most of what I have been working on lately is just integrating work that @f-caruso has done on his fork into the RetroPie repository. The good news is that both of your requests are already implemented there and I plan to bring them over as well.

ruckage

@jdrassa That's good to hear.
A big thanks to you and @f-caruso for all your work.

f.caruso

@ruckage @jdrassa Funny ;--) It's a pleasure to read from you all guys ;-)

LiveFreeDead

@f-caruso Thanks for sharing your work with us. Your time is valuable and just because your doing it as a passion (for yourself) doesn't mean you need to share it public, but you are - not only that your listening to our feedback and actually solving the problems.

Thank you again
Glenn

PittStone

@f-caruso I have this Error in the Logfile:
lvl0: Error finding/creating FileData for "D:/ES/.emulationstation/roms/Syndicate (1993)", skipping.
lvl1: gameList: file extension is not known by systemlist

Its a folder, and this repeats for all other folders. Maybe it can be fixed?

f.caruso

@PittStone Do you have errors at runtime ???

You know : having lines in logs does not mean "hey there's a bug in the code" ;-)
Logs are meant for developpers to help find errors which occur at runtime !!!!

If you have no problem at runtime : there is nothing to fix !!!! This is information... right...

"gameList: file extension is not known by systemlist" -> gamelist describes a game, (not a folder) whose extension is invalid for the system.

"Error finding/creating FileData for "D:/ES/.emulationstation/roms/Syndicate (1993)", skipping." is just a warning, it does it for every folder containing only one game and it is normal. Plus : why isn't there a system subfolder in the path... ??? Check your gamelists....

So... nothing to fix....

LiveFreeDead

@f-caruso
It's been 7 days without any major (or minor) bugs found. Might be time to compile an updated version release to replace the bug filled one that most users will currently get by default (non continuous). I have been using this new version every day, many hours worth, just using it as default, although I've not editing items etc, I did scrape a few items tho.

jero

@LiveFreeDead I think it's a good idea, I don't find mistakes either, and everything goes smoothly. I also think that Caruso deserves a vacation from this job

f.caruso

@LiveFreeDead Hello… The thing is i'm currently in holidays. I can read forums, surf the internet, but I Don't have access to my dev Tools. Ill be back in two weeks ;)

jero

@f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

@LiveFreeDead Hello… The thing is i'm currently in holidays. I can read forums, surf the internet, but I Don't have access to my dev Tools. Ill be back in two weeks ;)

I imagined why I said that, have fun