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Please Test: Creating Custom Collections

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    HurricaneFan @pjft
    last edited by 25 Jul 2017, 20:24

    @pjft That works if its not too complicated for you to implement.

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      EctoOne
      last edited by 25 Jul 2017, 20:35

      Question: Does this work when I have collections created with one of the scripts that @meleu created beforehand? Or do I have to start over and revert all changes I made on my setup? I'm still on the version before collections were introduced and now I'm kinda scared that updating would break things.

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        pjft @EctoOne
        last edited by 25 Jul 2017, 20:53

        @ectoone I don't expect it would affect that in any way, but it's easy to try. Worst case you don't use these collections though, as I mentioned, it shouldn't affect it much. Can you describe the high level trickery happening there?

        Is it es_systems and run command hackery?

        Should be good, but while you're at it if you want to add some of those to a collection and try them out, let me know how it goes.

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          EctoOne @pjft
          last edited by 25 Jul 2017, 21:05

          @pjft It's this script I used https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10849/create-a-custom-es-system-able-to-launch-games-for-many-systems/

          And right now I'm not in the mood of testing things. I'm trying to setup Android Studio on my laptop to get into Android themeing, but getting the Software to work seems to be harder than the actual themeing...

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            TMNTturtlguy @EctoOne
            last edited by 25 Jul 2017, 21:22

            @ectoone @pjft I also have this script on my builds. Unfortunately as my summer story continues, I am traveling this week, but i hope to have a few hours this weekend to test this out, i know that is a long ways off, but that is the only chance I will have to help. If things are not resolved by then, i will post my results.

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              EctoOne @TMNTturtlguy
              last edited by 25 Jul 2017, 22:13

              @tmntturtlguy Don't worry. Sooner or later I will probably have to update ES and see what happens. But TBH, I hate updates when there's nothing important to me and I have a working system that I like. That's why I have to bother with Android Studio now, I had to update my Tablet from Kitkat to Marshmallow because the support of certain Apps was dropped. :(

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                pjft @cyperghost
                last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 09:16

                @cyperghost said in Please Test: Creating Custom Collections:

                Small small bug
                There is already the note! Your system does not support the auto-systems and the custom collections!

                Yeah, don't try to manually rename files for the custom systems. That's not really expected, even though it didn't break you might find weird behaviors when navigating :)

                Can you elaborate what the small small bug is? What do you mean that the system does not support the auto systems and custom collections? :)

                @cyperghost and @HurricaneFan - tell me: would the bug effectively only manifest itself when exiting the gamelist view back to the system view? Meaning you'd be in a collection and then when exiting back to the system carousel it would explicitly navigate to a different system, is that it? Give me more information so I can tackle it for good :)

                Thanks!

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                  pjft
                  last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 14:31

                  Ok, so a new update.

                  Here's the binary.

                  What changed:

                  • Generates custom metadata for folders under "My Collections" (thanks for commenting on how miserable the experience looked, @HurricaneFan, as that kind of forced me to think about it a bit more!)
                  • Fix system view navigation (I think - please check, @cyperghost and @HurricaneFan . I had narrowed down a misbehavior when using the "My Collections" system and exiting the gameview, but maybe I fixed a different thing to what you were experiencing).
                  • Filters in "My Collections" work
                  • Few other tweaks and fixes

                  Thanks all!

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                    HurricaneFan @pjft
                    last edited by HurricaneFan 26 Jul 2017, 14:35

                    @pjft I'll get this tested today. Thanks for all the hard work you've put into this and other improvements for ES.

                    EDIT:
                    I copied the new binary over but I'm not seeing the custom metadata and the snes bug is still there.

                    Was your link pointing to the latest and greatest binary?

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                      HurricaneFan @HurricaneFan
                      last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 14:51

                      @pjft ES is showing version V2.4.1RP, is that the latest build?

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                        pjft @HurricaneFan
                        last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 15:00

                        @hurricanefan The version will be the same, but actually I did not update the instructions I gave you in case you were following them :)

                        mkdir /home/pi/tmp-es
                        cd /home/pi/tmp-es
                        rm emulationstation
                        wget https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation/releases/download/0.3/emulationstation
                        chmod +x emulationstation
                        cd /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation
                        sudo cp /home/pi/tmp-es/emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation

                        The file should have 5554720 bytes.

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                          HurricaneFan @pjft
                          last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 16:53

                          @pjft Thanks, I definitely had a different sized binary. Super weird. It's updated now and I'll test when I get time later today.

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                            cyperghost @pjft
                            last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 17:04

                            @pjft No bug still is there!
                            But it's even worse!

                            No I see one entry for custom collections I named it testsystem
                            If I enter custom-collections via carousel then I can activate testsystems and see my added roms there >> normal work

                            The Super NES bug is ... I see also testsystem but if I press a then I start the first game from Super NES Rom (2020 Super Baseball here) --- really weird.

                            How to produce
                            Got to Game Collection Settings:
                            Automatic Game Collections 3 selected
                            Custom Game Collections 1 selected testsystems
                            Group unthemed custom collections ON
                            Sort custom system and collections ON

                            Restart ES.
                            Now the last system in list (Super NES in my case) followed by auto-allgames auto-favoritesand auto-lastplayed can be acessed as custom-collections and but will launch ROM of system!

                            Sort custom system and collections OFF
                            No problem! Everything works!

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                              pjft @cyperghost
                              last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 17:06

                              @cyperghost can you send me a video from a phone or something?

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                                cyperghost
                                last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 17:08

                                @pjft
                                I think I can ... what is curious!
                                If I'm in the SNES/Custom-Collection thing move up I can select different games!
                                Even if there is only the system testsystemsis displayed.

                                X for random also works! So it's just a small issue I think! Wait one hour please, okay?

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                                  HurricaneFan @cyperghost
                                  last edited by HurricaneFan 26 Jul 2017, 17:14

                                  @cyperghost, @pjft I see the snes bug too. Super weird. If I am in gamelist view and go from Sega CD to SNES which is next system in my list, it triggers the Custom Collections view but I hear the video playing for the snes games, even though I don't see any of the details of snes game.

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                                    pjft @HurricaneFan
                                    last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 17:16

                                    @hurricanefan @cyperghost got it. No need for video now.

                                    This was not the bug I had ran into earlier :)

                                    Thanks.

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                                      pjft @cyperghost
                                      last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 17:17

                                      @cyperghost A question, though: what do you mean "it's even worse"?

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                                        cyperghost @pjft
                                        last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 17:38

                                        @pjft Well in version 0.2 the SNESbug was 100% triggered to custom-collections so I could navigate through the collection.

                                        In version 0.3 I can see the custom-collections only but I can select any SNES Rom blindly. Or press X for random selection :)

                                        Just for fun!
                                        New feature: This is real random you don't see the game you selected until it's loaded

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                                          HurricaneFan @cyperghost
                                          last edited by 26 Jul 2017, 17:53

                                          @cyperghost @pjft I was able to blindly select an snes game in 0.2 and 0.3. That wasn't new to me.

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