Enhance RP docs with "Tools/Helpers" page

herb_fargus

It does seem like there is an awful lot of helpers out there in the forum ether.

Rookervik made a theme helper for emulationstation:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60872572/EmulationStation/ES Theme Helper3.rar

If at all possible it would be nice if all these helpers were sourced on GitHub somewhere just for consistency instead of having all these varying executables that will inevitably have broken links.

Also I'm not sure how many are actively maintained

herb_fargus

XML editor by rookervik (also Windows based.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4471/updated-gamelist-xml-creator/

Universal XML creator by @screech

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5291/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2-easy-scrape-with-high-quality-picture

Seems there's not much Linux love in the world

HurricaneFan

@herb_fargus Yeah, being on a Mac kinda sucks when all the scrapers and tools are written for windows.

meleu

@daeks My 2 cents:

Linux/RetroPie based

Joystick selection tool: https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection/
"Launching image" generation tool: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7193/runcommand-launching-images-for-any-theme/
RetroPie-Manager (quite useful, but the development is dead): https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2303/retropie-manager-web-app-recalbox-manager-fork-mod

Jeck11

We have to include the OP's YARMan Web (former RetroPie WebGUI) + Metadata Editor (BETA)

herb_fargus

There is also the rpi-video-manager by floob

meleu

@herb_fargus said in Enhance RP docs with "Tools/Helpers" page:

There is also the rpi-video-manager by floob

https://github.com/biscuits99/rp-video-manager

robertybob

@herb_fargus In a new RetroPie repository, or would it be ok for anyone to host them? I'm happy to volunteer for the latter if it meant the tools weren't permanently buried down in the forums.

herb_fargus

@robertybob I don't have a preference. Would be preferable for the creators to host the source themselves with binary releases but short of that if they don't or won't then I don't see any issue with you consolidating them. My main concern is just for the software to disappear because it was hosted on some shady download site

felleg

Linux:
Set overscan
https://github.com/ukscone/set_overscan

robertybob

@herb_fargus @Rookervik the theme helper link doesn't work any more, do either of you still have it and can upload it again?

Rookervik

Only reason there's so much Windows crap is because Windows has a LOT of visual software-creation suites. No programming needed, just plug things in, on-screen, and set some connections in the background and you have a program. Not much of that on Linux or Mac I'm afraid. I can't code, but I can plug stuff in and export an exe :D

See if this link works. I can't stand Github. So, sorry if it's annoying finding the file.

Theme Helper: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qix1hjwy701dlel/ES Theme Helper3.rar?dl=0

robertybob

@Rookervik Thank you so much! It's such a useful tool. I think it would go really well in the ES Toolkit that @mattrixk has put together.