Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems

red2blue

@cyperghost so how would i go about using that link you sent me in SSH?

Also will this override my retroarch settings?

red2blue

@cyperghost ??????/ idk how to import what you just gave me dude

red2blue

@pjft so i deleted kids mode manually and now its under reg emulation station, under the current new version (idk how since it didnt even fully update) but it doesnt have the favorite "X" button under game list?

Edit: It also doesnt have Favorite's only when i press select

cyperghost

@red2blue Sorry I can't compile
I'm stuck at 100% binary will not be linked!

red2blue

@cyperghost regardless i dont even know what to do with the link you gave me. I tried everything for the last hour...

All i want to do is press x to favorite a game.. idk how recalbox had this months before retropie and its still not functional lmao

cyperghost

@red2blue You can use this
https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive/blob/master/PI2and3/emulationstation2.3.1RP %40pjft %40hex favorites and powersavings v2

This is a merged branch of Powersavings and Favorite
But it's not official!
You can download and must rename it later to emulationstationand copy it to opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation

red2blue

@cyperghost again, i dont know what to do with the link you sent me.

cyperghost

@red2blue That are precompiled binaries.
You SSH as root and exchange binary old with binary you have downloaded

Rename it to emulationstation and copy it to opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation

Make it executable and you can use this. Meanwhile I try to compile the official branch!

red2blue

@cyperghost bro youre speaking another language to me. can you please do step by step with commands

red2blue

i give up

cyperghost

@red2blue

That can't be done ad-hoc! Sorry!
Please SSH in, with user Pi
got to home directory with cd ~

If you are on windows mashine I can recommend WINSCP for graphical exploring data structure.

EDIT: to official branch
SSH with user: pi // password: raspberry

Enter folowing commands:

cd ~
wget https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive/raw/master/PI2and3/emulationstation2.3.2RP_favorite
mv emulationstation2.3.2RP_favorite emulationstation
chmod +x emulationstation
sudo mv emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
sudo reboot

red2blue

@cyperghost said in Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems:

@red2blue
That can't be done ad-hoc! Sorry!
Please SSH in, with user Pi
got to home directory with cd ~

If you are on windows mashine I can recommend WINSCP for graphical exploring data structure.

Please hold on...

type wget https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive/raw/master/PI2and3/emulationstation2.3.1RP%20%40pjft%20%40hex%20favorites%20and%20powersavings%20v2

type mv emulationstation2.3.1RP\ @pjft\ @hex\ favorites\ and\ powersavings\ v2 emulationstation

type chmod +x emulationstation

type sudo mv emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/

type sudo reboot

does this allow it so i can press "X" to favorite a game?

cyperghost

@red2blue No not X, it's Y.
Favorite must be enabled in options Menu > Custom Selections... You'll see if you press START on Controller.

You'll see. I tested the approach posted above in my PI and it works flawless.
These binaries are only for a Pi2/3!!. If you have a Pi1/0 they do not work!
But keep in mind, that is an unofficial branch!

cyperghost

@All @red2blue

Binary for official branch of favorites was compiled - that was EUREKA hard
download for PI2/3 system is here!

https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive/blob/master/PI2and3/emulationstation2.3.2RP_favorite

@pjft Thank you for your efforts. That seems to work very very nice.
But we @red2blue and me ran into diffculties to compile that.
I manually cloned the git master and then used cmake & make. No chance for official way or script @hex and @meleu

meleu

@cyperghost I'm gonna try here.

pjft

As mentioned in several occasions across the forums, you really need quite a bit of memory to compile ES, so you need to exit ES in the first place, and then run RetroPie-Setup and update from source.

cd ~/RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup

And then choose to Manage Packages > Core Packages > EmulationStation > Update from Source.

The Binary should not be updated.

cyperghost

@pjft I did this
Entered via SSH and killall emulationstation
checked also with ps -a there was no running process in relation to ES
and then used sudo ./retropie_setup

My PI compiled to 100% and did not link the binary. Then I lost network connection and the status LEDs were green and red were permanently on! Maybe bad current! But I just had success by manual steps. Can someone please provide checksum of binary?

Mine is 4,803,320 byte
CRC32: 7B30D56E
MD5: a829b90d9ebaf3745f48c7c4fa259c10

Zigurana

To comment on the stalling compilation when updating from source:
I've tried compiling on my Pi3 and stopped when it appeared to hang at 87% after an hour or so.

When I set the CPU/GPU memory split to 16MB for the GPU (via raspi-config), compilation succeeds in about 25 min.

Note that you need to set the split back to something sensible after compilation (256MB for the Pi3).

cyperghost

good catch.
Can you please provide CRC32 checksum?

pjft

Yeah, it is stalling at 100% in my case. Will probably submit either a bug, or update the script with a bigger rpSwap.

Thanks.