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    • TMNTturtlguyT
      TMNTturtlguy @pjft
      last edited by

      @pjft No need to be sorry! Once again I have just created some very very far edge cases. I have options for my current builds -

      1. keep they as they are since they work the way I want them too..
      2. find new hacks to make the updates work the way i wan them too!
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      • cyperghostC
        cyperghost @pjft
        last edited by

        @pjft I can agree to @HurricaneFan the SNES bug is gone.
        Thank you so much for creating this into ES
        This is a great step :)

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        • pjftP
          pjft @TMNTturtlguy
          last edited by

          @tmntturtlguy I hope the update doesn't break anything that you currently have set up, so at least that's that :)

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          • HurricaneFanH
            HurricaneFan
            last edited by

            @pjft I'm seeing a new bug. If you remove a game that was already in a collection, EmulationStation crashes with a Segmentation Fault. I have to do a hard reboot of the pi to get it working again.

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            • pjftP
              pjft @HurricaneFan
              last edited by pjft

              @hurricanefan Hm.

              Let me test that. That shouldn't be happening, but after testing more now, I see it happens to Collections under My Collections.

              Let me look into that. Thanks.

              You would probably be able to ssh into the Pi and reboot it from there when that happens though. Hopefully. :)

              EDIT: Apologies. Rookie mistake after a small refactoring yesterday. Thanks for flagging that. Will update the binary shortly.

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              • pjftP
                pjft
                last edited by

                Thanks.

                Updated the branch and the binary, so you can re-do the commands to get the latest version.

                Fixed the crash you reported, as well as an instance whereby trying to select a random game in an empty collection would - as expected - not behave well :)

                Thanks for testing!

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                • HurricaneFanH
                  HurricaneFan
                  last edited by

                  @pjft Adding and removing works as expected now. Thanks!

                  On a side note, Can Custom Collections the system be sorted differently in the system view?

                  Right now, My setup shows Mega Drive, Custom Collections, Nintendo 64. What causes it to display between M and N?

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                  • pjftP
                    pjft @HurricaneFan
                    last edited by

                    @hurricanefan the actual name is "my collections", that's why. :)

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                    • HurricaneFanH
                      HurricaneFan @pjft
                      last edited by

                      @pjft Ohhhh, and the theme I'm using calls them Custom Collections. Gotcha.

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                      • TMNTturtlguyT
                        TMNTturtlguy @pjft
                        last edited by

                        @pjft Sorry to interject, but tying this into my earlier question about being able to modify the order of the systems......Since this is not in the es_systems.cfg how will this scenario work?

                        I have a custom es_system.cfg that i organize by game "brand" so i have the following order (not alphabetical)

                        Arcade
                        Capcom
                        NeoGeo
                        Atari 2600
                        Atari 7800
                        NES
                        SNES
                        N64
                        GB
                        GBC
                        GBA
                        NDS
                        Megadrive
                        Sega32x
                        SegaCD
                        Dreamcast
                        Gamegear
                        PSX
                        PSP
                        Turbografx
                        ZxSpectrum

                        Where would the my custom collections be inserted in this case?
                        Could we modify the name of the folder to zz my custom collections in order to have this be the last in the alphabetical order?

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                        • pjftP
                          pjft @HurricaneFan
                          last edited by

                          @hurricanefan what's the theme? This is very much in the beginning so we might ask the theme makers to change that - either one way or the other.

                          I agree it's not very consistent, my bad.

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                          • pjftP
                            pjft @TMNTturtlguy
                            last edited by pjft

                            @tmntturtlguy there's two sorting orders. One will sort them all alphabetically with the systems. The other will keep all collections at the end, and won't change the order of the systems.

                            Edit: that's probably the one you want and the one I use.

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                            • HurricaneFanH
                              HurricaneFan @pjft
                              last edited by

                              @pjft I keep all my testing right now with the Art Book theme. I really like how clean that theme is and have been trying to get all my roms into it for testing.

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                              • cyperghostC
                                cyperghost @TMNTturtlguy
                                last edited by

                                @tmntturtlguy You could extend your es_systems.sh and copy your favourites around. You can also create a "Minimum" theme. You only add "My custom collections"

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                                • cyperghostC
                                  cyperghost
                                  last edited by cyperghost

                                  @pjft I catch still the little bug that the note announces

                                  Your theme dies not support game collections.
                                  Pleasae update your theme, or unsure that you use a theme that contains the folder:
                                  

                                  I get the error if I press start > Game Collections and go back with B-button or via Back-menu.

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                                  • pjftP
                                    pjft @cyperghost
                                    last edited by

                                    @cyperghost what theme are you using, what options do you have set, what collections do you have enabled (actual names) and what folders does the theme have?

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                                    • cyperghostC
                                      cyperghost
                                      last edited by cyperghost

                                      @pjft
                                      I use IO theme but it also happened to MagazineMadness (and both got the items for all 4 systems)
                                      I have all 3 auto systems enabeld (auto-favorites, auto-allgames, auto-lasplayed)
                                      I have 2 custom collections (testsystem, Beat'em up)

                                      Annother one:
                                      The custom collections show "2 Games available" - I think you can change it via hardcoding to "% Collections available)

                                      Folder are here
                                      IO - https://github.com/mattrixk/es-theme-io
                                      MagazineMadness - https://github.com/RetroHursty69/es-theme-magazinemadness

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                                      • pjftP
                                        pjft @cyperghost
                                        last edited by

                                        @cyperghost can you get me the exact names of the collections you're enabling (maybe from inside the es settings file), the folders in the themes you're using, and the options you have enabled? The reason for that is that the code logic for that warning contains pretty much mostly string comparisons between folder names, and something must be off but I just can't replicate it consistently here. Thank you.

                                        I considered your suggestion on the collections caption, but that would be different to what ES currently does, as even if your system only has folders in the main root path, it still shows the number of games within its entire tree. This way it's showing how many games you have available inside there - and each sub collection has the number of games in the description.

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                                        • cyperghostC
                                          cyperghost
                                          last edited by cyperghost

                                          <?xml version="1.0"?>
                                          <bool name="BackgroundJoystickInput" value="false" />
                                          <bool name="CaptionsCompatibility" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="DrawFramerate" value="false" />
                                          <bool name="EnableSounds" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="MoveCarousel" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="ParseGamelistOnly" value="false" />
                                          <bool name="QuickSystemSelect" value="false" />
                                          <bool name="SaveGamelistsOnExit" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="ScrapeRatings" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="ScreenSaverControls" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="ScreenSaverOmxPlayer" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="ShowHelpPrompts" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="SortAllSystems" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="StretchVideoOnScreenSaver" value="false" />
                                          <bool name="UseCustomCollectionsSystem" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="VideoAudio" value="true" />
                                          <bool name="VideoOmxPlayer" value="false" />
                                          <int name="MaxVRAM" value="100" />
                                          <int name="ScraperResizeHeight" value="0" />
                                          <int name="ScraperResizeWidth" value="400" />
                                          <int name="ScreenSaverTime" value="60000" />
                                          <string name="AudioDevice" value="PCM" />
                                          <string name="CollectionSystemsAuto" value="all,favorites,recent" />
                                          <string name="CollectionSystemsCustom" value="Beat ’em up,testsystem" />
                                          <string name="GamelistViewStyle" value="automatic" />
                                          <string name="OMXAudioDev" value="both" />
                                          <string name="PowerSaverMode" value="default" />
                                          <string name="Scraper" value="TheGamesDB" />
                                          <string name="ScreenSaverBehavior" value="dim" />
                                          <string name="ScreenSaverGameInfo" value="never" />
                                          <string name="ThemeSet" value="io" />
                                          <string name="TransitionStyle" value="instant" />
                                          

                                          Got it... it's the unicode value of Beat 'em up!

                                          EDIT:
                                          I renamed to "custom-Beatem up.cfg"
                                          That's it!

                                          Do you may to resolve? I think it does not make sense to load an extra UTF-8 bibliothec into ES if it is not nessecary.

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                                          • cyperghostC
                                            cyperghost @cyperghost
                                            last edited by

                                            @pjft
                                            I tried to recreate and now it works. Even the entry Beat 'em up stands clear in XML! Don't know why? Where there any changes in code between 0.2 and 0.3 that could make that happen?

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