@sleve_mcdichael cheers and thanks again for reporting back. :-) One more thing: As a courtesy for other other forum users (and robots from some search engines): Could you please edit the title of your first post and add [solved] somewhere? Thanks.

Updated sample video links showing the proposed functionality as Anonfiles was shutdown.

Got four likes in the meantime. But the functionality in general does not seem to be widely anticipated?

@majorocd said in Game description file location:

So do you know if it is possible to move /opt/retropie/configs to the SSD?

Not without a reinstall and without re-formatting the SSD to ext4.

If you wish to keep the artwork on the SSD, you'd have to either

copy the downloaded_images folder on the SSD and then make a symlink from $HOME/.emulationstation to it. When moving the SSD to a new system, you'd have to re-create the symlink there, so the downloaded_images points to the SSD folder. move the downloaded_images folder on the SSD and adjust the paths in each gamelist.xml file to point to the new location. Useful if you don't want to add new games and/or scrape again.

PR is filed: https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/695

Let's keep any extended discussion here.

FWIW it is currently only in the development branch of emulationstation.

Leave Emulationstation.
ssh with account pi to your pie:

sudo su cd Retropie-Setup

Then you will have to do the "three chord":

./retropie_packages.sh emulationstation-dev sources #1 ./retropie_packages.sh emulationstation-dev build #2 ./retropie_packages.sh emulationstation-dev install #3

If you want to adjust the delay do use this line before proceeding to step 2 and 3.

HTH

@mitu Which folder can I find the code to edit? Would you please describe it in detail? Thanks!

@mitu said in How to modify the description of EmulationStation?:

@Leonard-Lin You'll have to edit the code and change it, then recompile.

@Clyde Great! It works perfectly. And thanks also for the detailed explanation!

@paf said in Game description in detailed view does not scroll correctly:

The power saving modes (other than "disabled") are not compatible with scrolling description text

So disabling power saving solved my text scrolling problem.

I hope this will help others to.

Man thank you! This bugged me for a long time and I always thought it is something with the Emulation Station Themes and just kinda ignored it. Many thanks posting the solution, you helped me at this point.

Just a suggestion for the devs: it would be cool if we could manually scroll the game description with the right analog stick, and if the stick isn't touched or the controller doesn't have one it would scroll by itself (adjusting the autoscroll time would be cool as mentioned above)

even a pop up or on screen option by pressing a button

Good to see people's interest! I'm having a hard time with Super Nintendo as the number of games is just insane for that system!!! Yet I'm making progress and I won't let it go before it's 100% done.

By the way if you know some good places to get box arts in good definition for that system that would be great. Especially the Japanese box arts as they're extremely hard to find in decent quality. Thanks!