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    New ES Feature: Random Collection - Testers and Theme makers needed

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    • pjftP
      pjft
      last edited by

      Hi everyone. Just before the weekend, a short update:

      • @Lolonois I updated the labels following your feedback. Thanks! I did not have it in me to switch the number selection to a widget for now for lack of time, but happy to take that change if you want to go ahead with it.
      • @windg I added an option to select a collection with entries you want to exclude. Good to add all those scripts, or just games you don't want to be selected for the Random collection.

      Hope this is useful! Have a great weekend everyone.

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      • windgW
        windg @pjft
        last edited by

        Thank you very much !

        My English isn't at a good level.

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        • pjftP
          pjft @windg
          last edited by

          @windg By all means, hope it's useful!

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          • LolonoisL
            Lolonois @pjft
            last edited by

            This is how it would like with the Slider Control:

            snapshot.png

            These are the applied changes.


            Initially I did not read about the exclude function here, which puzzled me initially. But with the hint to create a new custom collection and use that one to exclude games it makes sense.

            However, I do not see entries like "+Start xy" in my lists, maybe because I have set "Parse Gamelists Only" set to On. But I do understand the motivation to deliberately exclude games for reasons.

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            • LolonoisL
              Lolonois
              last edited by Lolonois

              Feature-wise nothing will be changed with the PR 859 [1], some changes "under-the-hood".

              Heads up: Only for the testers of the initial version announced here, there is a change in how the settings are stored. To save you the work to manually re-apply your selections you made, I have provided a script [2] which does the conversion of the respective parameters in the es_settings.cfg. Put it on your Pi, run it as user pi with python3 <scriptname> before you run the ES with PR 859 applied.

              If you start to explore this feature the first time after PR859 is merged, no action is needed.

              [1] https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/859
              [2] https://gist.github.com/Gemba/4729e3560264511ea06aadb18f439112

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              • pjftP
                pjft @Lolonois
                last edited by

                @Lolonois Thanks. The script works as intended. For those that don't do a lot of python work, you may need to install the lxml extension before running the script:

                sudo apt install python3-lxml
                
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                • mrmadcatzM
                  mrmadcatz
                  last edited by

                  Is this available for any theme? I can't seem to find the option to turn this on after updating from the RetroPie Setup Script

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @mrmadcatz
                    last edited by

                    @mrmadcatz You need to install the -dev version of EmulationStation, from the experimental packages section.

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                    • mrmadcatzM
                      mrmadcatz @mitu
                      last edited by mrmadcatz

                      Ah! I didn't realize it had to be updated via experimental packages for the dev version. Giving it a try now. Thanks @mitu!!

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                      • mrmadcatzM
                        mrmadcatz
                        last edited by mrmadcatz

                        Any advice on how to add an icon for a theme like snes-mini? I can't figure out how to add one for an automated collection. I forked the original repo and was going to work on adding an icon, but I'm not sure where to put it or how to implement it.

                        Actually, I think I've figured out how to add an icon to the es-theme-snes-mini theme. What would be the best way to submit this? I know ruckage no longer seems to be active with this theme, so a PR of my fork to the original repo may not be the best here.

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                        • pjftP
                          pjft @mrmadcatz
                          last edited by

                          @mrmadcatz Hm. You may submit a PR to the original repo, but certainly feel free to commit it to your fork, if you'd like to maintain it.

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                          • mrmadcatzM
                            mrmadcatz @pjft
                            last edited by mrmadcatz

                            @pjft Will do. Here is the icon I came up with. It's as close to the "theme" as I could get, but I think I did alright:
                            auto-random.png
                            This is an alternate:
                            auto-random_alt.png
                            And one more:
                            auto-random_alt2.png

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                            • pjftP
                              pjft @mrmadcatz
                              last edited by

                              @mrmadcatz Wow, this looks cool! Thanks for putting it together :)

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                              • mrmadcatzM
                                mrmadcatz @pjft
                                last edited by mrmadcatz

                                @pjft Okay, these are the finals that I landed on. I think I imitated the actual icons & logos in the original with 99% accuracy.
                                for art/icons and art/icons_usa:
                                auto-random.png

                                and for art/nes_icons and art/nes_icons_usa:
                                auto-random.png

                                I also updated the various folders in the backgrounds folder to ensure that however the user has their theme configured via the config.xml used to customize the theme, a corresponding background will be present.

                                I created a pull request to the original ruckage/es-theme-snes-mini upstream repo. Not sure if it'll get accepted, but here's to hoping. Otherwise, I can share my personal Fork of the repo with you that has these icons in it if you'd like (or if you can direct me where to submit them for RetroPie in general, it would be much appreciated).

                                Either way, cheers and thanks for the awesome new auto-collection.

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                                • pjftP
                                  pjft @mrmadcatz
                                  last edited by

                                  @mrmadcatz Thanks! I don't know know the exact process to submit a new theme to be included on RetroPie.

                                  @mitu is there a process to get a theme added to esthemes? Couldn't find much in the Themes docs.

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @pjft
                                    last edited by mitu

                                    @pjft said in New ES Feature: Random Collection - Testers and Theme makers needed:

                                    @mitu is there a process to get a theme added to esthemes? Couldn't find much in the Themes docs.

                                    Yes, it's a PR to add a line to the esthemes module, like this.

                                    In this case though, @ruckage's theme readme asks for not redistributing modifications of their theme, so I'll ty to respect that and maybe not approve any forks to be included. However, if you can add it just as a patch/diff to the existing theme, (like this), then I'm ok with it.

                                    EDIT: fixed the PR example link.

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                                    • pjftP
                                      pjft @mitu
                                      last edited by

                                      @mitu of course! Thanks for the context and guidance.

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                                      • mrmadcatzM
                                        mrmadcatz @pjft
                                        last edited by

                                        @pjft @mitu Thank you both! Anything needed from me for this?

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                                        • mituM
                                          mitu Global Moderator @mrmadcatz
                                          last edited by

                                          @mrmadcatz for now, can you post a link to https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8391 or (again) the image, just for reference ? Thank you.

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                                          • mrmadcatzM
                                            mrmadcatz @mitu
                                            last edited by mrmadcatz

                                            @mitu @pjft
                                            Here is the reply on the post as requested by mitu.

                                            I submitted a PR for my fork to ruckage's upstream repo, but doubt I'll hear back. Otherwise, here are the rest of the images I added. I created, copied and renamed background files in each necessary directory to go along with these:

                                            background/bg_tron/auto-random.png
                                            auto-random.png

                                            background/bg_tron_blur/auto-random.png
                                            auto-random.png

                                            background/bg_tron_blur_usa/auto-random.png
                                            auto-random.png

                                            background/bg_tron_usa/auto-random.png
                                            auto-random.png

                                            background/blurred_shots/auto-random.png
                                            auto-random.png

                                            background/nes_mini/auto-random.png
                                            auto-random.png

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