@alexis-puska thanks for the reply,

can you give me some instructions on how to instaall this, sorry i was following a guide before and not sure what i need to do.

Thanks

also does your version have the saturn wide screen massive map?

Thanks

I figured out the issues, but apparently it is JUST a launcher, when I exit via alt+f4 the dolphin gui shows up and asks for verification, then retro arch appears, so it's actually worse as far as going keyboard free. Oh well, was worth a shot :)

Nevermind. Moved the conv to github.

For those who want no desktop environment: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18810/retropie-installation-on-ubuntu-server-x64-18-04-1

John

@hurricanefan Heh, yeah... It just kind of grew. It's not a complete list, as I'm sure the "Collection" section will continue to grow as I go through more of my Gamelists.

@BuZz

Yep, simple markup is definitely needed for this, at least several different menu item types: regular (button), input, checkbox and maybe numeric slider. This should be enough to stay within the EmulationStation. Onscreen keyboard is needed anyway, even without this nice feature.

Of course fork is a good way to implement this, but I like RetroPie and I want it be better for everyone. So I shared this idea and wanted to hear you opinion first.

@BuZz said in ROMS to be downloaded on the RetroPi OS:

However the problem we have isn't that. It's people selling/distributing RetroPie with thousands of other people's copyrighted games.

Many popular open source emulator have this problem.

It's going to be rather annoying if you plan on "clarifying" your point every time this comes up (And it won't have the effect you want ).

I'm saying you need to be very clear that selling ROMs isn't inherently illegal when you talk about this. These companies know what they're doing is illegal and usually wrong as well but public perception on the legality of ROMs and emulators in general matters. Nintendo in particular has been spreading misinformation about this for decades because they want more control over the future of technology to belong to megacorporations like them and to change the law to make projects like RetroArch actually illegal. Just saying "selling ROMs is illegal" normalizes this impression which would make passing laws to that effect much much easier for them.

I think if RetroPie was to distribute a facility to download ROMs that are legally in the clear, this might help dispel the misconception that sharing ROM files is inherently illegal.

@Zigurana
By lightweight, I meant from the user interface experience. The stock full allows for scraping games, changing UI settings, etc. My custom console I am making won't have any of that, and since it's already pretty stripped down in kid mode, I can just branch off of that and do my modifications, instead of redoing what has already been done.

Now I just can't figure out how to get my changed PNG files for the default UI elements to be applied. Just changing them doesn't update them in source, and I think res2h needs to be used to convert them after they are created. I tried doing it on frame.png, which I changed, and now I can't compile so I am trying to resolve that issue. Just changing the .png and saving over the old one doesn't work.

@BuZz said in New 4.1.20 RetroPie images for testing:

If this is supposed to be funny - it's not. It just shows a complete lack of understanding of the issue.

I completely understand the issue.
I think that retort just shows a complete lack of understanding of how the webcam "hack" was done. The webcams sent a upnpc command the victims routers to open ports so the victims could access the cameras outside of their home network. The "hackers" sniffed for the open port...found it and logged in with the default password. This is not hard. Raspbian/Retropie do not open ports on the router...although upnpc is installed by default....thats kinda interesting. I wonder how many folks running Rays image have actually opened up thier home networks?

Even if a port was open on the router (most of the time there is one open) it would still need to be directed to the pi for a hack to occur. Steam and many other video games open ports all the time. The comparison to retropie and the security camera incident is not really valid. Your home network is only as secure as the router firewall protecting it and the devices inside opening ports to the outside.

Again....I asked...you said no....its your distro....that's that.
Apologies for ruffling your feathers...I do love retropie and respect the work and consideration that you and others put into it.
I consider the issue closed and will not post again about it.

As for now, the only true alternative to a physical collection are flashcarts along with an a mod like UltraHDMI.

When in the game list for a certain system, if you hit Select on a ROM, then edit metadata (or something to that effect), after the list of all the info the system has on a game (game name, ROM name, date, star rating, etc.) on the very bottom is "delete". Still super-time intensive if you have complete romsets of like 3,000+ games for a certain system, but the option is there at least.

For backing up configs, if you're ever made a USB stick with a "retropie" folder on it and inserted it into the Pi it'll make a "to" and "from" config folder for you - I've honestly always wondered how this works and exactly what it backs up, and if you edit a file on your PC, then insert it into the Pi if it automatically look at the dates of the two identical files then overwrite the older version of the two or what...

I was looking for a WIP-Section too yesterday :)
AFAIR something like this does exist, but wasn´t able to find it here nor on the Homepage.

@jdrassa
my hacky perl involved reading the rating and path of every game
it then creates launch scripts for any game with non-zero ratings under a new emulator "ichiban"
i'm pretty sure the xml is fully parsed

i'll dig a little deeper when i get a chance
but saving gamelists is a cpu-bound operation
ie, the bottleneck is not:
reading the xml (which are only a few megs at most)
querying the filesystem

@phulshof Well, welcome to the group!

I want to create a scriptmodule for OpenBOR to add version 6315. I see the flag rp_module_id="openbor" that makes the module visiable into script screen. To avoid confusion I want annother name like rp_module_id="openbor_6xxx but want to use the old pathes.

Now all instances of $md_id, $md_config... uses the name that is given by rp_module_id so how to change names? I can include a function strip () { }that sets internal variables to openbor but this is not good code. So how to achive this?

Again: the goal is to use one config directory and one directory that contains several versions of OpenBOR.

Besides thank you BuZz for the platforms flags, I may exclude 6xxx for rpi1.
Is there a dedicated WIKI about script modules?

@kbronctjr You can also set it so it displays only the favourites from each system.

yeah tried that a few days ago. It was still looking at the old path for some extra files (digital audio if i remember). I presumed the defaults are each set as full paths , instead of relative paths of the data folder.
Its also possible i did something wrong so ill try again tomorrow

Thanks herb!

Just read also in another thread about calling retropie_packages.sh with no options for a list of scripts/commands, very useful

@Hevvie said in emulationstation systemd service:

I had the same issue, what you need to do is put "<bool name="BackgroundJoystickInput" value="true" />" into your es_settings.cfg file as it thinks ES is running in the background.

I will try this out when I get a chance. Great find!!!