@Lolonois said in Trying to make a simple power off / reboot button in Emulationstation but getting permission denied.:

I usually do from any navigation position: Start -> RB (right shoulder) -> A (now I am in the Quit Menu) and then select either Restart or Shutdown. You can bypass the final confirm dialog when you add --no-confirm-quit to the emulationstation line in autostart.sh.

Yes, I am well aware of that. Have been using ES for many years. I just wanted to make an easy button to press right from the icon screen though. More of a personal preference than anything else.

@mitu thanks for the heads up, will do.

@opa said in (Test wanted) EmulationStation : Directory interpreted as file:

Commonly known method is to make ES recognize .m3u/.cmd/etc. and, since it would be inconvenient if individual media were displayed in the game list, to give them extensions that ES does not recognize, such as .cd1 .cd2.

NB: the .cd1, .cd2 hack is still something emulator dependent, only supported by pcsx-rearmed .

I followed es-de's Directories interpreted as files and tried a simple fix to treat one folder as one game. It seems to work well in my environment.

I found this solution a bit 'gimmicky' or 'hacky', which ties the structure of the ROM/Game folders to a particular front-end. Nevertheless, this does solve the issue of displaying the individual 'playlist'/'command file' components when they should be not.

I haven't tested your patch (and I think @Lolonois has a point there), but isn't it just a launcher fix, without actually hiding the 'main' folder's contents ?

@rfinnie I guess the min/max values are not a strict specification, thus I said "should". It depends on brand/model as I learned (mine Logitech Rumblepad and a knock-off Switch/XBox controller report in the "should" range).

On a tangent: The Arcade'81 looks nice and gives you at least enough space to add a subwoofer. I added an external subwoofer 6.5" later to my custom bartop which made the games even more fun to play. In any case: Happy tinkering!

But back to your initial request/idea. Maybe @pjft can comment on that, if a or which suggested change (see first post) would be accepted in the ES source tree.

@mitu Thank you for testing!

I'm happy to see results that my fix worked without breaking anything.

I also created a minimal dataset to make it easier for others to reproduce and test the problem.
Extract this and replace the emulationstation folder with your ~/.emulationstation. (Backup is needed)
When you start EmulationStation, (if you have DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf installed,) it should look something like this:
EmulationStation_screenshot.jpg
There are 100 dummy ROM files, so try scrolling through them by pressing the down arrow key⬇.

In my environment, the results were as follows, depending on the screen resolution:

emulationstation --resolution 720 480
→ no problem emulationstation --resolution 1366 768
→ Scrolling through the game list works fine, but then the main menu appears broken emulationstation --resolution 1920 1080
→ Crash when pressing ⬇ 43 times emulationstation --resolution 2560 1440
→ Crash when pressing ⬇ 21 times emulationstation --resolution 3840 2160
→ ES won't start

And when I included my fix in the binary, all of them were displayed without any problems.
We hope that this will encourage more people to test it and get good results.

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks. This has been merged now.

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks for confirming!

@sleve_mcdichael having had a cursory look I can confirm and I lean towards "won't fix".

Rationale: As long as there are SDL events they get pumped into the Window.cpp/GuiComponent::input() call chain an consumed from there. Every downwards component "sees" one event at a time. Processing of the event is stopped either at the last GuiComponent in the chain or if a input() call returns true.

This also happens with Use LR/LB for full page navigation set to false. It just does not occur as easily as the cursor most of the time is always placed middle.

One option to remediate may be to measure the time between the events and if they are too close (i.e. less time than between update()/render() calls) drop the second, and ofc only if the events are LR/LB.

@abj The info you enter goes to/comes from the gamelist.xml file of each system. The media files I would keep away from the folders Skyscraper or other scrapers do use in general. E.g. do not put folder screenshots aso. into ~/RetroPie/roms/<system>/media/ which is the default for Skyscraper.

Heads up: Be informed that if you use Skyscraper that only the recent version (3.10.0) keeps your folder information in the gamelists, earlier versions did not keep the <folder/> elements in a gamelist.xml file.

I submitted a PR for RetroHursty69's Supersweet theme.

@mitu thanks for such a swift reply. I thought that might be the case...oh well!

@mitu First of all thank you for taking the time to check and make a patch.
Glad i managed to point you to the right info

I want to confirm that your patch on latest dev (2.12.0RP-DEV) is working as supposed to and did in the past.

I ve tested 2 systems, the AGS and PC98 for similar setup (upper case extensions and deleted from es_systems.cfg)
Both show ONLY what is in lower case extension and hides the upper case ones (deletd from cfg)

My kind regards and thank you again!

It's a bug, but something that shouldn't affect many users since it wouldn't occur without this symlink loop. It's probably affecting also the reading of the ROM/game folders, which would make EmulationStation freeze on start-up in this kind of scenario.

@mitu I fixed retropie by adding some roms

Yes, we need to document the rotation/size options. The screenrotate parameter should be 1 through 3 (see this commit), for your usage values 1 or 3 would have to be used.

Does rotation work without the super-resolution (with or without xrandr controlled rotation) ? What other parameters are you using for starting emulationtation ?

Run emulationstation --debug <plus your other params> and post the output on pastebin.com. Run also xrandr --verbose and post the output.

@smartgenes Solved. I thought I was up to date but just updating the packages solved both issues.

One issue though is full screen, how can I switch from windowed mode?

The fuse package hasn't been updated in quite some time. Unless you had a very old version, any recent update wouldn't have changed anything in the emulator.

Are you using the standalone emulator or the libretro core (lr-fuse) ? Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.