EmulationStation mod

meleu

@jacobfk20 Done! It took 8 seconds to exit and the lastplayed/timesplayed were correctly updated.

I have noticed some lvl1 warnings about data type:

lvl1:    requested mismatched theme type for [detailed.md_lastplayed] - expected "datetime", got "text"

But the lastplayed info displayed in ES is correct.

You can see more details in the files I've sent.

jacobfk20

@meleu I get a mismatch warning from the official retropie build but it's to do with ratings. This could be from the theme you're using. Does it report that warning when you run the official retropie branch?

meleu

@jacobfk20
I checked more carefully now, with 3 different themes: Pixel, Simple and Carbon. The mismatch occurs only on Carbon. All the tests were made with the official RetroPie ES. So, it's not an issue with your branch. Phew~

BuZz

I caused the error with carbon - will fix.

quantum.hero

Looking forward to all the features being worked on here! Keep up the great work.

BuZz

@meleu please can you update the carbon theme and let me know if the error is gone now ?

meleu

@BuZz updated and tested the Carbon theme. The type mismatch error is gone.

Arcuza

How are things progressing with the grid view? I would love to have this game browsing mod installed.

lilbud

@Arcuza What is that specifically?

Also, I want folders to work in grid view

mediamogul

@lilbud said in EmulationStation mod:

Also, I want folders to work in grid view

I've been hoping that folder support would be possible as well.

trekdrop

Just so that I don't f*ck up. Do I need to update my manually? Or can I do it through the setup from retropie. I ask because I update though the setup menu and everything is weird... It's all white the text is everywhere. So I just want to know if this is normal or I need to update manually.

jacobfk20

@trekdrop To use this version of ES you need to install it manually.

@Arcuza Things are going fairly slow right now but I'm getting a good chunk of the weekend to work on it.

@lilbud, @mediamogul I haven't looked in to adding folders yet but It is on the todo.

mediamogul

@jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

@lilbud, @mediamogul I haven't looked in to adding folders yet but It is on the todo.

Very keen! Thanks for all your work here. It's very exciting and I look forward to trying it.

trekdrop

@jacobfk20

Do I need to copy the emulationstation.sh file from the download to the pi?

jacobfk20

@trekdrop There is no emulationstation.sh file in that link. It is just an emulationstation file. Unless you're downloading from the github page. But you just copy over the emulationstation file, make it executable with chmod +x emulationstation in terminal and then if you want to boot it instead of the normal ES you copy it to the /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation directory. This will overwrite the ES currently in there so be sure to make a backup.

Erick

@jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

@trekdrop There is no emulationstation.sh file in that link. It is just an emulationstation file. Unless you're downloading from the github page. But you just copy over the emulationstation file, make it executable with chmod +x emulationstation in terminal and then if you want to boot it instead of the normal ES you copy it to the /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation directory. This will overwrite the ES currently in there so be sure to make a backup.

Thanks, and this will give me the updated version off the gridview?

jacobfk20

@Erick No. It will get merged to this fork in the future though. It still has some problems.
If you want to use the latest gridview you can get it here. but it will only have gridview added.

trekdrop

@jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

@Erick No. It will get merged to this fork in the future though. It still has some problems.
If you want to use the latest gridview you can get it here. but it will only have gridview added.

So Nice, looks great! Only one question. My background is white while in the gridview mode in the carbon theme. Can I change that somehow?

jacobfk20

@trekdrop That's weird. Carbon usually works fine with that version of Grid. You can try adding in "grid" in its main theme xml. You can do that with nano:
sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/carbon.xml
scroll down until you see this line:
<view name="basic, detailed">
and add "grid" so it'll look like this:
<view name="basic, detailed, grid">

ctrl+x to save, y, enter.

dudleydes

@jacobfk20 I would like to test your Grid View version of ES. The latest build available here has a filesize of 46.9MB, which is ten times the size of the vanilla ES and previous grid view binaries. Could you confirm that this is the correct version I should be using? Thanks.