Collection Randomizer
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Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I had an idea today:
It would be fun to have a "Collection Randomizer" of sorts that grabs random games based on random criteria every day.
I've been learning to code a little bit, but this might be out of my wheelhouse, unless anyone has some pointers on where to start.
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Something like https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/35117 ?
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@mitu This is very close to what I'm talking about.
You seem know a lot and be involved in RetroPie community a lot. May I ask, do you have any resources on where someone might start learning how to develop for RetroPie?
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RetroPie is nothing more then a set of shell scripts on top of a Linux installation, it's not an OS by itself. If you want to:
- extend/modify the RetroPie scripts, then you need to know Bash and look through existing scriptmodules to understand how scriptmodules in RetroPie are made.
- modify the front-end to implement your topic idea, then you'll need to know C++ and look into EmulationStation's sources to see how it's all made up. @pjft's recent contribution on how to implement a new collection type is a good start.
EDIT: RetroPie's uses its own fork of EmulationStation, but it also builds and runs on Windows, so if you're familiar with Windows you can develop on that environment (using Visual Studio, or Mingw, etc.)
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@mitu This is SO helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this info. I genuinely appreciate it.
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