EmulationStation mod
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I've been following this thread for a few months now and I'm liking pretty much everything that has been brought up.
Do you if there is any chance this will get an official release within Retropie as, being a complete noob to all things PI (only just got a Pi 3 last week) i'd love the opportunity to use this without having to mess around too much with coding that I have no clue about.
Keep up the great work guys.
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@herb_fargus said in EmulationStation mod:
@jacobfk20 I see. well that may cause some confusion as it will take the .emulationstation folder over the /etc/emulationstation where the retropie scripts will generate the es_systems.cfg in the /etc location anytime you add a new system so I'm not sure what the best way is to address that
I presume this is a result of the save and apply button rather than just having a save button that caches it on restart
The best way to address that is to delete the one in ~/.emulationstation amd symlinked from the one in /etc/emulationstation.
I did it yday and no more confusion of it anymore.....
Btw, this ES build seems slow to start, it won't recognize the controller for about 20secs at start.
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@RetroPieNerd said in EmulationStation mod:
Created a script on GitHub Gist just in case someone wants to install it on RetroPie.
Could you please help with System Update via ES?
It just throw an error for some missing script.... -
@cresfang Which build are you using? The older version does not have the latest pr that sped up boot time. Also, the System Update From Latest Binary is for some friends that test for me. Anyone can make their own update script if they want but I will be removing that option eventually.
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@jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:
@cresfang Which build are you using? The older version does not have the latest pr that sped up boot time. Also, the System Update From Latest Binary is for some friends that test for me. Anyone can make their own update script if they want but I will be removing that option eventually.
I'm using the one in your GDrive (precompiled) dated 2016 Sept 7.
Is it the old one? I get that from https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWG5kDXyr5NRTlWbVZGcjRwSUE
If yes, where I can get the precompiled version? Or I need to compile it myself?Thanks you so much for answering ^^
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@cresfang np :) I do not host the latest version as it's not quite ready. You can build it from scratch if you want to try it out. Just follow @RetroPieNerd's script above and it does a pretty good job. It has some problems getting the wificonnect script though.
Gridview needs a theme in the latest build to be decent and Material is the only one currently that supports it currently as far as I know. -
@jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:
@cresfang np :) I do not host the latest version as it's not quite ready. You can build it from scratch if you want to try it out. Just follow @RetroPieNerd's script above and it does a pretty good job. It has some problems getting the wificonnect script though.
Gridview needs a theme in the latest build to be decent and Material is the only one currently that supports it currently as far as I know.Thanks, yup I just installed that script, and will be compiling it soon.... ^^
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@jacobfk20 @cresfang
I have hopefully tryed to fix the wifi thing, report back to see what you think...
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@cresfang Good to hear :)
@RetroPieNerd Man, you fixed that 4 days ago.. I'm always behind.. It's compiling right now and I'll let you know if it works. Thanks :)
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@jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:
@cresfang Good to hear :)
@RetroPieNerd Man, you fixed that 4 days ago.. I'm always behind.. It's compiling right now and I'll let you know if it works. Thanks :)
Btw, can I compile it in normal Ubuntu PC then use the binary in RPi?
Coz compiling in RPi takes too much time.... -
@cresfang No. Unless you cross compile for ARM from x86. I've never tried that before so I really can't help you on that one.
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@jacobfk20 thx... I'll try cross compiling it tom and post the way here... :)
I just got the tutorial for cross compiling from Ubuntu PC for RPi... :) -
@cresfang I wouldn't think it would be too hard. I'm sure as long as your compiler supports it then you can just set a flag to compile for arm instead. I would do this but I work mostly on windows and compiling ES on windows is a whole nightmare. Though I do have a Mint VM that I will build ES on for the x86 build.
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@jacobfk20 Yup, I'm aware of the nightmare as I tried it before on Win10.... XD
the idea is: I can help to provide precompiled RPi binary here if I can automate on every new commit you made in github.... build bot....And I'll do this on my office's server (Dual Xeon - 8 cores).....
Btw, whats the diff of the two ES in your repo?
Which one is the updated?There's: EmulationStation-RPiE & EmulationStation
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@cresfang The RPiE is the old repo I started before I even joined this community. It is no longer updated.
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Precompiled build here: https://mega.nz/#F!AQJhBIZD!o2E4FB5VJlZBPTHBXol3zw
I added the date to the filename according to last commit @jacobfk20 made at the time I compile it.
Rename to remove the date before moving to RPi.I'll try to compile after any new commit made in github Release-beta branch.
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Hey Guys wondering if anyone can tell me where I'm screwing up.
Following @jacobfk20 instructions at the top of the thread and I can not get the system to boot after at wont even load a splash screen.... Any ideas? I'd really like to get this working as my handheld build would really benefit from this.
Thanks to anyone who can help :)
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@monstermadeofman The common problem with it failing to run is from it not having permission to run. You can fix this by running
chmod +x emulationstationYou will need to run that in the same directory that the copied emulationstation file is in. -
Awesome dude thank you. Will I need to run that everytime or will it work every time after the first go?
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@monstermadeofman One time only.
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