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    • pjftP

      [lr-fbneo] New: right-stick controls for several rotary games

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      Some update about this twin-stick feature, it has been added to Forgotten World (CPS1) last year and to Eco Fighters (CPS2) yesterday. Now every rotary games in FBNeo should have this support.

      Special thanks to pjft and dink for their work on this.

    • xrayspxX

      Possibly Improved Method for Kodi / ES Switching?

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      Isn't it cleaner to use systemd / services in order to do so ?

      It is explained here how to cycle between 2 services:
      https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=288584

      For kodi.service (configured as a user service not system wide service contrary to the above link) :

      [unit] ... Conflicts = emulstation.service ... [service] ... ExecStopPost = /usr/bin/systemctl --user start emulstation.service ...

      And for emulstation.service

      [unit] ... Conflicts = kodi.service ... [service] ... ExecStopPost = /usr/bin/systemctl --user start kodi.service ...

      Emulstation and kodi should not be services enabled/start by default at boot but rather
      autostart.sh start the first service by something like:

      systmctl --user start kodi.service

      if kodi is configured to be the first one.

      To go further we can also think about replacing the autostart script by a retropie service which is enabled at boot time. At start, it launches the first configured service. At stop it ensures that emulstation and kodi are stoped.

      If the service is run as pi user (which is more secure), the pi user must be lingered to enable autostart of the service at boot even if the user is not logged in.

      loginctl enable-linger pi systemctl --user enable retropie

      Advantages:

      All the services could be controlled, inspected, logged through the systemd tools Not need for automatic login It could be easily extended to any number of services not just 2.
    • OneSwitchO

      Two Thoughts: Auto-boot RetroPie into a Game / into a Slideshow

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      @IanDaemon Thanks, Ian. This doesn't work on a CRT monitor (at least not with Pi2Scart). More here:

    • CapemanC

      Screensaver Suggestions

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      pjftP

      @capeman hey handsome and intelligent EmulationStation user! :)

      That request in regards to the video screensaver is noted. I think others (maybe even you!) had requested something to that effect in the past and I tried to look into that but didn't find a way to make it happen.

      I may take another look at the in the future, no promises about any timeline though. But thanks.

      The other request, I'm not sure the creator of that screensaver visits the forums so if you get no traction here I'd encourage you to post about it on GitHub. :)

      Have a great weekend!

    • R

      Building Retropie on ubuntu for use on others...

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    • S

      Request: Metadata image expansion

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      @Zigurana
      Thank you for the clarification.
      I feel like that is the better and more flexible option for themeing.

    • S

      Split Screen Modus

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      Hello,

      I am not sure about the systems architecture, but in some emulators, there are some posibilities to set the rendering engine (like open GL ...) or an picture filter (like the fancy blur-, upscaling-, scanlines- and so on filters).
      Maybe it would be possible to create/extend such an kind of rendering engine /filter which renders the image a litle bit smaller and showing an document twice. But I have no idea if this is posiblewith the sw architecture. Second open point: how to controll this kind of rendering filter (keypress with opening the splitscreen mode). Maybe it would be an idea for further versions :-)

      Thank you for listening my idea.

      best regards,
      Swen

    • J

      Wireless controller battery indicator

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      @joestrong as the man above me stated. And when it blinks it shows 1-4 lights at once. The less lights you see the less battery power you have. You can see this when you turn on your controller on as well

    • cyperghostC

      [SOLVED][Feature Request]Wifi Key import via /boot/wifikeyfile.txt

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      Instead oft using standard Charakters you can try to hash the key. So the key will be transformed to a HEX string that contains only Charakters from 0 to 9 and A to F

      Im still on vacation ;D

    • H

      Up to 160 switches using only GPIOs in Raspberry PI

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    • Z

      Input needed: ES theming improvements

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      I think we should be able to make extra carousels, on all of the views and also to use it for other images such as metadata, like marquees, or md_images.

      Also an origin type function for the carousel would make the variety of nice looking carousels go up.