@chataigne73 said in Compile emulationstation without video preview: Is it possible to compile emulationstation without video preview feature, and thus without the need of VLC libraries ? No, you'll have to modify the sources to remove the VLC dependency. Or use the original project's sources from EmulationStation.org, which doesn't have the video feature included.

That's ok mitu. I would be willing to run a .bat file in the background if need be. I tried doing it myself and I was successful getting music to load up before the main screen finishes loading up on EmulationStation, as well as when you exit out of a game and go back to the menu. The problem I'm having is getting just one splashscreen to randomly load up/play before the loading screen and stopping/closing the media player that displays it. The code for my splashtest.bat is the following: @ECHO OFF REM Your splashscreens file path: start "" --play and exit "C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC\vlc.exe" -L "C:\Users\Username\Music\Playlists\Splashscreens.wpl" REM Kill your media player: C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC\vlc.exe /F REM Run the frontend (EmulationStation example): start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\EmulationStation\emulationstation.exe" REM Run the media player (WMPlayer example): start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" -L "C:\Users\Username\Music\Playlists\EmulationStation.wpl" If anyone here has ideas on any mistakes you can see or a better way of executing this, please let me know. A big thank you goes out to those who can provide these answers :-D.

@mitu No problem. I literally just figured it out. I just updated everything, used a different BGM script and in raspi-config, I disabled and enabled the text splash screen, followed by using a custom splashscreen using the OFFICIAL script off emulation station. The custom scripts are trash, absolute trash. I have to be careful. So I have a totally new issue now, non-image related. I used SD Card Formatter to format my Micro SD to exFat, Windows 10 recognizes it....I used Win32 Diskimager to write my image, and now Windows 10 won't recognize it. Any idea how to fix this? I must fix this because I have to create a backup, now that I fixed it. I'd appreciate the help. Thanks.

I have solved the audio issue. I looked back at my es_systems.cfg file in my .emulationstation folder. I noticed that it points to the RetroArch executable in D:\ (my microSD card). I double clicked it and went to the Audio driver section/Output to make sure that audio was turned on. The Audio was also changed from xaudio to dsound. I also went to the Driver section to make that Audio was identified as dsound there as well.

I found the solution by combing the files from HerbFargus' 1.8.1 build with the latest files from jrassa's build + including the latest version of Retroarch executables in the Retroarch system folder. The only issue I'm noticing is the space between some of the fonts is squeezed together or centered on my television screen. Thanks again for your input 😊.

I can confirm that what I did with the combination of the files actually works. Now I just need to do some scraping using Screenscraper instead of The GamesDatabase for now. Thanks again for all the help. 😁

@mitu said in Scraping in EmulationStation not working..: Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. What scraping source are you using ? There are 2 options in EmulationStation - TheGamesDB and ScreenScraper - and the former is not functional at the moment. Do you know when TheGamesDB will be functional again? This is from the website: "Update: due to certain family commitments, we were not able to get the latest backup as of yet. for now, we're using a READ ONLY old backup, and the API is also back online, but using the prefix /v1/ which is both to get devs to explicitly make sure old data doesn't just crash their apps, but this prefix will remain as our main endpoint for this api going forward (aka once latest backup is restored)" Is this something we can change? Change it to use the prefix v1, whatever that means xD

@mitu That's more a typo than a full-on spelling error, though.

I think this is a cool project. I had setup LaunchBox for PC retro gaming earlier this year, and it's great, I like it a lot, but I do kind of like the simplicity of EmulationStation also (which Big Box can kind of do the same thing as EmulationStation as far the interface, but it's just not quite the same). I downloaded this and threw my RetroPie created roms/gamelists/etc in there to check it out. It was easy to setup, the scripts get everything for you. The EmulationStation modifications are nice, and it runs great from the little I messed around with it (of course, Retroarch backend). Thanks for posting this.

What settings do you have in the Sound section in Emulationstation ?

Re: retropie load, I noticed that your emulators.cfg has a line for "mame_libretro", the path "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/cores/mame_liretro.so" does not exist on my system. Actually there is nothing in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/cores folder. What emulator are you using to to make this appear? Can this be downloaded from the package manager? Note: The problem I am running into is when trying to run a game (as .chd or .zip) The game starts to a screen with blurry lettering on the screen (I think it says "initializing" or something to that nature, not sure cant read it), and freezes the retropie. I took at look at /dev/shm/runcommands.log, and it shows that the system cant find some files and fails to load, any ideas? cdi200.rom NOT FOUND (tried in cdimono1 cdimono1) cdic.bin NOT FOUND (NO GOOD DUMP KNOWN) (tried in cdimono1 cdimono1) slave.bin NOT FOUND (NO GOOD DUMP KNOWN) (tried in cdimono1 cdimono1) Fatal error: Required files are missing, the machine cannot be run.

@mitu ah ok thank you for your help and input anyway it is much appreciated

sorry i havent readed the read-this-first. page im new here hope you doint mind. if you want to know this is the exact message lvl0: Error creating SDL window! Could not get EGL display lvl0: Renderer failed to initialize! lvl0: Window failed to initialize!

@mitu So, the universe has been enriched by one more mystery. But as far as I'm concerned, this thread is solved. 😊

i'm afraid we don't support third party images, which the "TinyPi Pro sdcard image" is. perhaps the seller can support?

Hi @jdrassa any news on the new updates being merged? I also noticed one little bug with the grid view when updating emu-dev - When entering a system, the md_name vanishes then re-appears when scrolled. Hope this helps. :)

@silver Thanks for sharing the solution.