@mitu
Figured out how to fake a splashscreen in portable emulation on pc. I opened the batch file in ES that sets it as home and open it.
Changed it to:

set HOME=%~dp0
start "" "emulationstation.exe" --windowed --resolution 1920 1080
start "" "C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe" "G:\Portable_Game_Station_1.5\load.mp4"

changed the resolution to fullscreen size but kept it windowed so my player can show over it. used MPH-HC set the options to fullscreen when it launchs a file. set it to be "always on top". also selected the player to exit after playing.

@AndersHP Yeah, since ES loads the artwork on the fly, the access speed is relevant for the user experience. Apart from slow USB drives, network drives are another bottleneck that can be avoided by putting the artwork on the internal SD.

This is really strange, I haven't used samba for a long time. Maybe it has to do with some RP update? It completely ruined my sanity last night :P

I looked for 3 days for an answer... apparently not hard enough. Thank you very much!

I figured out how to do this.

In case anyone is interested or cares, I just added the emulators.cfg info from /opt/retropie/configs/residualvm into the scummvm emulators.cfg from here /opt/retropie/configs/scummvm.

I then copied the grim-win.rvm into /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm and also edited the es_systems.cfg so ScummVM included .RMV files.

I've encountered this too. Usually just disabling, hitting B (back to apply), and then re-enabling brings it up fine.

I tried what you suggested but it didn't work. Not sure why.

But I did come up with a solution that works.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <gameList> <folder> <name>a</name> <path>./a</path> </folder> <folder> <name>b</name> <path>./b</path> </folder> <folder> <name>c</name> <path>./c</path> </folder> <game> <path>./a/aaaa.zip</path> </game> <game> <path>./b/bbbb.zip</path> </game> <game> <path>./c/cccc.zip</path> </game> </gameList>

@mitu

That is awesome and there are some great new features!

@youxia said in Using "super resolutions" with a crt - any way to correct the emulationstation aspect ratio?:

Super resolutions are used for GPIO and HDMI outputs, composite needs different configs.

Ya I know, I got my composite setup perfect, but the only way to get rid of the rainbow moire on dithered textures was to use a shader made specifically for outputting over the pi’s comp plug, doesn’t add much blur, but it’s def not perfect. Was hoping somebody figured out how to hack this res into the yellow plug, haha. Wishful thinking.

@jonnykesh , I've had good luck with Universal (mentioned above) and it makes it pretty easy to tweak some that might be missed.

@silicongraphics

Hi, no I never found a way to do this except using a type of Cron job to pop the machine into sleep at a specified time every night, just in case I forgot to press the power button on the machine to put it into standby or manually shut down ES. The Cron thing I tested about 6 months back but I cannot remember if it fully worked. I will pick it back up at some point in the near future as I've not played with the machine for a while.

If anyone has any idea how I can make ES obey the Ubuntu OS sleep settings while sat on the system select menu that would be awesome.

@akafox we were talking about the x86 build running on a PC, which if left on 24/7 consumes too much power and the system fans will keep running. The screensaver just dims the screen so isn't applicable here. Having ES obey the OS sleep settings would be good if you forgot to press the power button on the machine to sleep, shutdown manually via ES or whatever. I know with a Pi you can just leave it on 24/7 because of low power consumption, and this is fine, but using a PC there is a different requirement.

Cheers

I know this isn't an answer and doesn't advance you anywhere but I needed to ask, what advantage do you get from having noobs on the card? I thought the point of noobs was a lightweight first time installation tool. Given Retropie is already installed in the image, I'm not sure what you gain from converting it.

@caz That is fantastic. I love the panel graphics!

@mitu
Alright sounds good to me i'll do that then.

Thanks

@eralimtv said in RASPBIAN STRETCH LITE:

@mitu Thank you! I will try now. How to upgrade Kodi to the latest version 17.6 on RetroPie image?

Latest available version of Kodi in Raspbian Jessie/RetroPie is 17.4 because 17.5 and 17.6 do not compile anymore on Jessie due to new ffmpeg patches which are not compatible with gcc 4.9.2.
To fix it we need to use a newer version of gcc or make the patches compatible with gcc 4.9.2. Either way is not easy to fix, I will see what I can do.

Map the buttons you have and then hold a button or direction on any item you wish to skip. If it says already assigned, you aren't holding it long enough as it is registering a button press.

With my arcade controller, I have found you can use the dpad to skip by holding up or down alternating on each item I wish to skip.

I would recommend not buying anything from this company, they use our work on emulators for commercial use, which is forbidden by the license of those emulators. Also, their products are known for being pretty bad quality.

@timothyjbrick That's because ES uses SDL to talk to the joystick. See https://github.com/meleu/jstest-sdl for testing using the SDL library, it's similar to jstest, but through the SDL joystick mapping.

nope, sorry: the link mentions using the tag <thumbnail> but it doesnt work.
Use the usual <image>, and it does the trick!!!

Because your not using an official inage