Updated EmulationStation for Windows

Squilenator

@Nismo I'm curious, what is your native language? I would love to translate to my native language too, like the emulationstation of recalbox.

Nismo

@Squilenator my native language it's spanish, I have the old windows build from fieldofcows translated to my language.

Squilenator

@Nismo That is really cool, I think I will try to translate to Brazilian Portuguese, how did you got access of the strings to translate? Are they inside the .exe file?

Nismo

@Squilenator you need to edit the source code, and compile by yourself.

Or wait for @jdrassa make possible localization support, but I think would need a lot of work so don't expect anything soon...

Regards to brazil.

jdrassa

See update above. I have pushed out a new build with the ability to theme the carousel on the system view (great job @Zigurana!)

Squilenator

Does anyone else see the box art jumping 1px to the left and then coming back while scrolling on some themes? It usually happens with my nintendo ds/n64 boxarts (650x580) and rarely with the snes boxarts (680x500) and somehow it gets fixed if i change the <origin> tag from 0.5 0.5 to 0.51 0.51 on some themes (nbba/material/carbon/futura). Is it something to do with the aspect ratio of my landscape boxarts maybe?

Jeck11

@herb_fargus said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

@jdrassa wait as in your automated build work and they run?

Well you just saved me an evening and a weekend! Time to update my portable game station!

Are you going to share the update? I loved your old one.

robertybob

@Jeck11 Are you keeping an eye on this?
https://github.com/HerbFargus/Portable-Game-Station/releases ;)

Jeck11

@robertybob said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

@Jeck11 Are you keeping an eye on this?
https://github.com/HerbFargus/Portable-Game-Station/releases ;)

No... obviously I'm an idiot. ;)

Thanks!

Squilenator

@jdrassa bug reporting here, the shutdown/restart system don't work on windows 7/8.1, dunno about windows 10 tho.

jdrassa

@Squilenator This build is based directly off of the RetroPie fork of EmulationStation. This appears to be a bit of linux specific functionality contained within. My main intent behind providing these Windows builds is to make them available for theme makers who find it easier to use while creating themes. I will add this issue to my TODO list, but I can't say that it will be a high priority. I also I am not really interested in maintaining a separate windows code base and I am not sure how receptive the RetroPie team will be to windows specific code changes.

Nismo

@jdrassa Hi mate, I finally updated to the latest build, but I have notice that I lost the fix from @fieldofcows made months ago for an old bug of Emulationstation, that doesn't make work L and R buttons to fast navigate up and down inside the gamelist.

I have tested it for months and works perfect.

Can you add it to your build, and if it's not in the main retropie build do a PR?

Here is the code:
https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/commit/97f56a1c0c2e0ff70a2ca6cdaafc3b83af44e75f

Edit: I did the PR, I hope I dit it in the right branch: https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/pulls

Edit 2: I think that is the wrong branch... I don't know where to do the pull request.

Thanks.

Nismo

@jdrassa Also I don't see the use random video as screensaver option in menu, but that's not all, if you try to set something in menu settings, when you come back emulationstation crashes. EDIT: solved by deleting my old es_settings.cfg

It's a pity because in the old @fieldofcows fork for windows all was working perfectly.

And it's a pity because the main intention for emulationstation was to be multiplatform but it's becoming "only for linux". :(

Nismo

@jdrassa
Also the system change sound still not there... https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/commit/3c5bd864c07e45ab4cc2c43fc5b0c3a851492197

:(

jdrassa

@Nismo
I will take a look at the fast navigate bug fix and I still need to look into the system change sound.

As far as I know, the random video as screen saver option only exists in @fieldofcows repository. Until he pushes it to the RetroPie repository, it won't be included in any of my builds. I suspect the crash you encountered was due to an unrecognized setting value (probably the video screensaver), which is why deleting the settings file corrected it.

I don't think emulationstation is becoming "only for linux". I recognize the value of supporting windows which is why I put in the effort to setup automated builds, but I am not interested in maintaining a fork that diverges from the RetroPie repository.

Nismo

@jdrassa I understand you perfectly, you are one of the few great persons that still support windows builds. Thank you very much for that, I appreciate it a lot.

I was thinking that video screensaver was added months ago to the main branch, sorry for that.

Have you added the shutdown/restart system to your "to do" list?

Have you take a look to my PR? I think it's in the wrong branch.

Thanks.

duiz

Where can we download the new automated builds for Windows? I'm not too familiar with github and the likes...

mattrixk

@duiz The first post in this thread has a link to the most recent Windows build, but for the lazy:

https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/tag/2.1.5-116-win

Just save the EmulationStation.zip

As an alternative you can download the Full ES Toolkit binary which includes the latest @jdrassa Windows Build, but is also pre-populated with the whole ES Toolkit, which includes 100 (fake) roms, with prescraped gamelists, images and videos. It also comes with a custom theme called BaseVid which supports Video Previews and the Carousel Mod, so you can learn how they work.

DavidinCT

Thanks for this. I am running the WIndows version off emulationstation.org. As I already have it running on the machine I want to use it on, what is different that I have to do to set this one up ?

Do I extract the files on my current machine and it will take from my current config file, or do I need to do something different ?

I have never setup a RetroPie device only installed the Windows version of emulation station (that I love !)

jdrassa

@DavidinCT Download, extract and find out. If your config files are in the default location, It should find them. I normally use the windows build for testing and use a script to override the default config location, so I can guarantee anything.