Where can I learn more about retropie code?

[KANE81]

Help using retropie

Where is the best place for newbies to learn how to use retropie function codes?

[herb_fargus]

Source code is here:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

You can play with the modules

Some docs on functions here:

https://retropie.org.uk/api/

Best way to learn is just to get into the code and play with things til they work. That's all I've done.

[meleu]

@KANE81 I think I know how you feel. I've made/contributed with some (maybe two?) scriptmodules and yet feel a bit lost many times. :)

The tips @herb_fargus gave above is the way to go.

Although not directly related to the RetroPie-Setup code, playing with runcommand-onstart.sh and -onend.sh can be fun/useful to practice your bash programming skills. You can read about it here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#runcommand-onstart-and-runcommand-onend-scripts

And here are some topics that may interest you:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4621/some-questions-about-retropie-script-modules

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2370/is-it-possible-to-call-an-retropie-setup-scriptmodule-from-command-line

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4271/write-access-shares-in-md_inst-best-practises-question

[KANE81]

@meleu Thank you!

[KANE81]

@herb_fargus Thank you!