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Saving Fast Forward/Achievements in retroarch.cfg

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    Used2BeRX @meleu
    last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 13:32

    @meleu "~/.bashrc" didn't work with a "file not found", but "/home/pi/bashrc" worked.

    Here's the link: http://codepad.org/vU0lktOT

    This is the clean working version without an attempt at a setfont command.

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      meleu @Used2BeRX
      last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 14:00

      @Used2BeRX said in Saving Fast Forward/Achievements in retroarch.cfg:

      @meleu "~/.bashrc" didn't work with a "file not found", but "/home/pi/bashrc" worked.

      bingo! The file MUST be named /home/pi/.bashrc (the ~ char is shortcut to your home directory, as you are the user pi, it means /home/pi).

      If you would like to know what is the purpose of this file, maybe this link can help:
      https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/129143/what-is-the-purpose-of-bashrc-and-how-does-it-work

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        backstander @Used2BeRX
        last edited by backstander 15 Jun 2017, 14:02

        @Used2BeRX
        I quickly compared my .bashrc with your bashrc and they look pretty much identical. One note though, it is named incorrectly and needs the period at the first of the name. Without the period the system won't find it. Unix (Linux & Mac OS X) will put a period at the beginning of a filename to make it a "hidden file". Windows and DOS usually doesn't like this and if you try to edit a file named this way, Windows will remove the period.

        To fix/rename the file you'll want to type something like this from the command line:

        mv ~/bashrc ~/.bashrc
        
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          backstander @meleu
          last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 14:16

          @Used2BeRX
          In Unix, the ~/ is simular to what Windows does for %USERPROFILE% or %HOMEPATH%.

          My first computer ran MS-DOS (Windows 3.1) (remember having to make special boot disks to play games?) but I was first introduced to Linux back in 1997 by a Computer Science friend of mine. I also will be turning 40 this year. I personally like RetroPie because it is so customizable but like @meleu said, Recalbox (which is very similar to RetroPie) is much easier to use and setup but not nearly as customizable as RetroPie. Think of RetroPie kind of like Android and Recalbox kind of like iOS.

          I do agree that some background is programming might make learning Linux a little easier but I think if you stick with it , you'll be navigating Linux like a pro faster than you think!

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            Used2BeRX @backstander
            last edited by Used2BeRX 15 Jun 2017, 14:17

            @backstander @meleu I'm sorry guys. That was a typo. the file is named /home/pi/.bashrc

            It does have the period. I did edit it on my Windows PC and send it back, but I didn't edit it in Explorer. I edited it with WinSCP, and it didn't remove the period.

            Any idea how I can put a line or two in there to get the system to load with a bigger font by default?

            EDIT:

            I figured it out! I'm going to write up a guide on how to do it and I'll link it here when I'm done. :)

            EDIT2: Here's the guide. Thanks guys.

            https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11030/instructions-how-to-permanently-enlarge-alter-font-and-font-size

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              backstander @Used2BeRX
              last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 15:50

              @Used2BeRX
              Nice tutorial! Lat15-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gz does look even better! Now I can see while sitting on the couch!

              Just to make it more readable for newbies, you might put the code in markdown code blocks. Here's the documentation about it:
              http://commonmark.org/help/

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                Used2BeRX @backstander
                last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 15:50

                @backstander @meleu I added something after you guys saw the instructions that you're going to want to keep in mind if you try this out.

                IMPORTANT ADDENDUM:

                Some programs may not play nice with the larger size. I found that jstest (for testing your joysticks) does not work right with a TerminusBold font size greater than 20x10. Every time you press a button it writes a new line on the screen with the output instead of just switching on and off like designed.

                You have two options here.

                1. Keep the text size permanently the way you like it and just remember to enter the setfont command to a size small enough for jstest (or other problem programs).

                2. Bring the font size down to 20x10 or whatever necessary with a different font and you don't have to remember the setfont line.

                Personally, I would go for number 1. Using jstest is the only time I've noticed this to be a problem and I don't imagine I'll be using it often. I'd much rather have the text on the screen very large 100% of the time until the few times I would need to change it.

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                  Used2BeRX @backstander
                  last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 15:59

                  @backstander Good call. It looks a lot better now.

                  Glad I could help you out. Pretty damn sweet, huh?

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                    backstander @Used2BeRX
                    last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 16:16

                    @Used2BeRX

                    Pretty damn sweet, huh?

                    Yes it is and it looks like @meleu is in the process of adding this to the official RetroPie wiki/docs.

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                      Used2BeRX @backstander
                      last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 16:23

                      @backstander Nice. :)

                      Now all I have to do is get my Pi back to where it was before I broke Sudoers and see if I can actually get the retroarch.cfg files to save and work properly. Almost forgot that's what this thread was originally about.

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