Moonlight Install and Setup Script for RetroPie

TechWizTime

Here's a really quick post to let you know about a script I wrote to simplify the installation and setup of Moonlight in Retropie.

You can view the repository on Github here

and if you want to check it out in action, here's the video

I'm sure this will take some frustration out of the process for a lot of people. Any feedback, errors, etc let me know. I'm going to be working on more like this for the future so suggestions are welcomed also.

herb_fargus

@TechWizTime

A few points.

A fine video to be sure, but it seems quite a few people have done this in some form or another but nobody seems to have thought to push it upstream where it can just be natively installed through the retropie setup script- that would be of most benefit to the community. None of the main devs have Nvidia PCs so we haven't been able to add it ourselves.

Even if people can't grasp the style guide for the setup script at the very least extraneous scripts can also be added to zerojays retropie-extra repo: https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra

Other thing is I'm rather disappointed at your condoning of illegal 3rd party add-ons for Kodi in your other videos. Such activities are harmful to their project and as an extension harmful to ours as well.

TechWizTime

@herb_fargus

Just a point on the kodi issue, I was in no way condoning those add-on's as I said in the video. I think over all the video's I've done, I'm one to help rather than hinder. I can't justify the actions of others, but I would like to think we are all responsible for what we do. I won't go any further :)

I don't have any PC's without Nvidia GPU's sadly but I am working on a complimentary solution for non-nvidia users. If I can, I'll be working it into a script as well to reduce the chance of mistakes and human error.

I need the time to figure out how to work with github and other repo's. When I can, I will get this added to the Retropie-Extra repo. If you can imagine working a full-time job plus doing the whole Youtube thing is the equivalent of working 2x full-time jobs. Especially when trying to help as many people as I can :)

Feel free to point me in the right direction for anything as it will be quicker then me trying to find the time to research everything myself. Like I guess this would be the best place to start with regards to styling the script correctly.
Retropie Script Styling

backstander

@TechWizTime
This looks like a very helpful script. I'll give it a try next time I rebuild my RetroPie installation.

A while back I was working on editing the Runcommand script to launch Steam games by name from ES:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/57654

Basically so I could have an empty text file with a name like "Fallout 4.txt" and EmulationStation would see that as a game under Steam. When you picked that game, it would use the filename minus the ".txt" to launch that game in Steam (or Uplay, etc.) from Moonlight. What would be pretty neat if the script could run moonlight list and automatically make text files for each game that comes up on that list. I'm not sure what to do about adding the games you purchase after that initial install.

Maybe after all this is working, make a Pull Request to get it added to RetroPie or zerojay's retropie-extra repo like @herb_fargus suggested.

An example of a non-Steam game (actually a Uplay game) working in Moonlight is here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/63708

#!/bin/bash
moonlight stream -mapping /opt/retropie/configs/moonlight/xbox360.map -app "Ghost Recon® Wildlands"

TechWizTime

@backstander

I have to learn more about the whole GitHub scene. I'm happy to upload there, but pull requests and adding to repos is something I need to learn to do in order to contribute to the community more :)

And I will be contributing more :)

steve1977

Would love to see this working, but not successful yet.

I have a Win10 VM with a passthrough GTX1050. I have GFE running from it and have manually added some games. I have tried to play these games from Retropie. It nicely pairs with GFE and I am able to add the pin code within GFE to connect it with Retropie. When selecting Steam on Retropie, it allows me to choose the resolution, but then just returns to it. No game list shows up.

Any thoughts?

steve1977

Any thoughts?

steve1977

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Any thoughts? is there a debug log that i can upload? if so, how to find it? As said, installed successfully with above script, paired successfully with my win10 gamestream / gfe. can select “steam” from retropie and select resolution. but then after a few sec back to resolution screen.

your help hugely appreciated!!!