Updated EmulationStation for Windows
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Is there any way/trick/fork that allows EmulationStation ro read roms/cues from subfolders and make them work?
I'm not talking about custom folders you can make in the frontend, i mean subfolders in your hard drive. I never managed to make it work and i don't know how a correct gamelist.xml with this functionality looks because all scrapers end up with gamelists that don't work.
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@f-caruso ive installed your exe for windows, everything runs smootly and awesome, but ive encountered a problem when installing a theme, everytime i enter a game the screenshot/video are not correclty placed and the art.jpg or bg.jpg or w/e, is not displayed or correctly displayed.
The theme installed directly from the app is: next-level-v4-TMCTV, the screenshot/video can be seen but are mislocated and the background cant bee seen.
Ive also installed manually a theme called oldroom in its 720p version, 1.9. Same thing happend, everything works, but the background isnt displayed when entering the game info.
Any help here? TYnx a lot for your effort and work! :)
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@f-caruso I just wanted to mention that some of the themes for EmulationStation (when using the Retrobat version) appear to have spacing issues. As an example, take a look at my NES page in the SNES-Mini theme:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FtiW3227m3YUUQPrcsO4gkb7zowxq-Rp/view?usp=sharing
Is there any way to make adjustments to any settings to fix these issues? It also effects the way text in some of the words appear on the screen (in my Comic Book theme, the word "Favorites" is truncated to "Favoris" and you can barely read the word "Choose" on the bottom of the screen.)
Thank you for your input :-).
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To all : This thread is not a retrobat support thread, and, as I don't work anymore on my FCAMOD fork ( which is a retropie fork ) but only on batocera's ES fork ( which is a batocera fork that is to be in retrobat v3 ), there is no reason we "pollute" retropie forums providing support for this batocera & retrobat ES. So, I'm asking you, please, join either retrobat facebook group or batocera's discord server / forums if you need support for my ES forks & I won't answer anymore on this thread about them. Thanks for your understandings.
some of the themes for EmulationStation (when using the Retrobat version) appear to have spacing issues.
You are using a 4:3 resolution (1024x768 or so) for a 16:9 screen & a 16:9 theme. Change the screen resolution to a 16:9 resolution ( or use a theme designed for 4:3 ).
@alberion Verify you don't have the same problem.
the image is wrong
Can't help without any version information.
@LiveFastCyYoung
There won't be a standalone Windows version?
The standalone version still exists on git. But without the necessary scripts & new config files you won't be able to have the new functionnalities & it will work just like the FCAMOD fork.
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@f-caruso Hi! I've been searching but didn't find the places you mentioned, could you give me the exact direction where I could continue asking you for info?
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@jdrassa I apologise if this is a silly question. But is there any way of getting an earlier (2.9) pre-compiled version of your Win32 EmulationStation build? I just updated to 2.10.0 and my iMac (running Parallels Desktop) is just white screening, the log filestating issues with I'm guessing the iMac ATI card and OpenGL? 2.9 ran beautifully. I'm 2 years into an ES theme and I can't figure out how to get older version from GitHub!
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NOTE: Actually if anyone has a win32 version of jdrassas 2.9 binary they could share I'd appreciate it.
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Hi @f-caruso congrats for you job. do you have plans to support netplay ?
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@nadilsonsantana I founded on retrobat V3 =D..thanks ^_^
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@f-caruso Hi, Where can I find your 3 themes for sample, for exemple of "clock" please ?
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@f-caruso What forum can we use to follow your progress on the Batocera fork? I've been using it for a couple weeks and it's great. Got an update today and it broke the theme I was using so I would like to be able to see what changes were made and communicate with you further.
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@LiveFastCyYoung I'm sorry I don't connect here anymore these days. You'll find everything you'll need at the bottom of batocera.org home page. There's a forum where i'm not very active, but I'm often active on batocera's discord.
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@f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:
@LiveFastCyYoung I'm sorry I don't connect here anymore these days. You'll find everything you'll need at the bottom of batocera.org home page. There's a forum where i'm not very active, but I'm often active on batocera's discord.
Joined the Discord. Thanks!
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I'm still struggling with my CD based games. I can't make Emulation Station to work smoothly with them because i have each game in it's own subfolder. The gamelist.xml can't handle that.
So i figure what if i make a separate .cue folder just for EmulationStation and dump all edited cue files there, but this time in one folder. So i did this trick: I opened all cue files in notepad++ and replaced this:
FILE "
To this:
FILE "G:\Emulators\Games\PCE CD\
This way all the cue files should direct to the correct bin files automatically since the paths in the cues are correct. However the games won't load. I have to have the bin files in that folder too, despite not being used by the paths i made. So what am i doing wrong? Can't the cues be separated from bins if the paths inside the cues show where the bins are?
Also, is there any other way for EmulationStation to read subfolders? I still haven't figured out why it can't do something so common.
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One more thing i haven't found how to do is, how to add another rom path for the same system?
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@Imgema said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:
One more thing i haven't found how to do is, how to add another rom path for the same system?
I don't think EmulationStation supports this. One system has one folder assigned.
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It seems the "jump to..." function doesn't work when you have your roms into subfolders.
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One last issue i think i found. There doesn't seem to be a button that jumps to different letters in the game list. Or one that jumps a screen. You can only browse games one by one. Considering the "jump to..." option doesn't work if your roms are in subfolders (in my case the Playstation) browsing it's list of 500+ games is s slow process. I do remember the RetroPie version having a button that skips letters or screens in the list.
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@Imgema skipping/scrolling can be done with the L/R triggers.
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@mitu said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:
@Imgema skipping/scrolling can be done with the L/R triggers.
I press them and all it does is the same function as left/right. That is, going to the previous/next system on the line.
I'm using this build https://github.com/fabricecaruso/EmulationStation
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