@mitu ok, thank you!

@grzzlybr said in ROMs do not launch: @mitu True, although obviously many people have it running fine from a desktop session (I did before these issues). Sure, but that's not a configuration that's tested and supported. I have just tried running RetroPie from boot and it seems to be working fine with local ROMs, but not with ROMs using symlinks (which were working fine before). So I guess that's one issue (sort of) solved and another found! Can you add more details - and possibly the log file asked earlier, not that Runcommand should be working again ?

@mitu said in Running EmulationStation through SSH: It's not possible, since EmulationStation (on a Pi) doesn't use the X.org libraries and it's not an X11 application. Well, I guess that's one thing I can mark off my "To do" list! Thanks.

@Tango said in Controller Mapping - Inconsistent from EmulationStation to Games: So this was an actual, “You have to go to the source code” thing? Interesting. That was just for confirmation - otherwise it's just speculation. Is this issue in the source for EmulationStation or something else? And what language is it in? I don't see it as an issue if this was never intended to work like this. EmulationStation is a C++ application. I would think, depending on how the data is handled in the program, it might not be too hard to add this in. That can be true, but the gains IMHO are minimal and would cover only corner cases like yours.

Thanks for your help, that worked👍 I’m still getting a boot text tho (which I want to hide) I recently installed a music player to play while in the emulation station. In the autostart.sh file, it reads.. while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 0; done (sleep 5; mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1) & emulationstation —no-splash

thank you, this was it! there was a kodi.sh file in the roms/ports folder ; after deleting that file, Ports is no longer showing and I can still access Kodi through it's own system.

So apparently I'm an idiot. Following the guide over at Reddit, I missed one thing. I had the mini-hdmi cable plugged into the second port and not to the port closest to the power supply. Looks like everything is working now.

@perkunas https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Child-friendly-EmulationStation/

I don't know how the video describes the installation, you can try ask the author of the video for guidance. If you'd like to the try the on-going development branch for PI4 managed by RetroPie, then you'd need to perform a manual installation using a Raspbian Lite image and the fkms_rpi4 branch of the RetroPie repository. You'll need to use the command line to do that, so if you're not familiar or comfortable doing that, then you should just wait until a Pi4 supported image will be released.

@rseod Exit Emulationstation (either press F4 on the keyboard or use the menu to exit) and look at the message shown on the screen - it should show how much disc space you have available (%). If your free disc space is less than 5%, then you might have a problem and you need to free up some space.

If you can read them via the terminal, then it's ok. What happens if you restart Emulationstation, after booting ? Will the games show up ?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#why-emulationstation-doesnt-start-automatically-after-an-update-

@J8sonMesser great theme Jason, really like how different panels are setup. can't wait for a release candidate :)

@BuZz Do you have an opinion on this matter? I am thinking about an option to enable instant save on every change in the event loop which might introduce lags depending on the system having a background thread that saves changes which would not introduce lags but introduce more complexity into ES

here's a couple projects I've done with an LED matrix marquee RetroPie based ==>https://www.instructables.com/id/Vertical-Bartop-Arcade-With-Integrated-PIXEL-LED-D/ PC Based ==>https://www.instructables.com/id/Arcade-Machine-With-Changing-LED-Marquee/ Here's a guide for setting up this LED marquee and RetroPie ==>http://ledpixelart.com/files/retropie/ . Runcommand onstart and onend is used here. When a new game is launched, a script runs which passes the rom name to the LED marquee software (http://pixelcade.org) which is then displayed on the panels. Both still image PNGs and GIF animations can be displayed by game. This project also includes artwork that has been manually re-mastered for 128x32 for that classic 8-bit look. Disclaimer, I'm the creator for this project and sell these as kits.

thanks @mitu , very much appreciate the reply. On HyperSpin, there are a few third party plug-ins (LEDBlinky and EDS) which have access to wheel scrolling events that I'm able to integrate with. EDS uses Windows Named Pipes for example to capture and trigger the events. I have a listener that receives those events via REST URL API calls http://ledpixelart.com/pixelcade-api/ and then update the LED marquee accordingly. Would be awesome to find a way to do this with RetroPie.

Now Kiosk mode enables setting and deleting favorites? Is there a way to turn this back on my end? I searched the forum for discussions, but only found this old one. I have ES in Kiosk mode and the favorites button still add/removes favorites. Any suggestions?