Favorites being sorted within game lists

[naubin]

Hi.

I had a good search and couldnt find the answer to this one...

In some emulationstation forks I have seen a really nice bit of functionality and I dont know if I can easily replicate it... seen it in ArkOS on RG351P and Batocera.

It is the ability to show favorite games within a system sorted at the top of the game list with some sort of indicator such as a * or ** . So an example would be:

** A game
** C game
** F game
B game
D game
E game
G game

I realise I can do this manually but it this is done on those other systems automatically when you mark them as Favorites with Y.

Is there a known fork or something that I could use that has this?
And maybe could I suggest this as a feature request for the main RetroPie build?

Thanks for any pointers

[mitu]

@naubin said in Favorites being sorted within game lists:

Is there a known fork or something that I could use that has this?

Probably Batocera's EmulationStation fork, if you mentioned them ?

[naubin]

@mitu thanks. Yes I did look at this and had a go at compiling but it was unsuccessful. It seems to be hooked into that entire OS and so was giving me multiple errors and little documentation I could find.

I was hoping there was a build that had been tried and tested with some docs on how to compile and integrate into the RetroPie framework?

[mitu]

The only supported version in RetroPie is the version included already - github.com/retropie/EmulationStation.

[naubin]

@mitu yes of course and was only really asking if anyone had any knowledge of an extension or a fork that might have this functionality. Not asking for any support on it. Thank you.

[mitu]

@naubin said in Favorites being sorted within game lists:

Not asking for any support on it. Thank you.

I know, but I don't think there's any other ES fork (or fork of an active EmulationStation fork) with this feature and that could be used with RetroPie. The only active forks I know of are the ones used by Batocera (which I think was forked from RetroPie's version at some point ?) and Recalbox, but - as you discovered - they're both tied - in one way or another - to the underlying OS.

Maybe an alternate frontend like AttractMode or Pegasus has the feature you need ?

[naubin]

@mitu ok thank you. Maybe I can add this as a feature request (on GitHub or in the forum?) and try and work with someone more talented than me on the coding of this.