@pjft said in [ES-dev Bug Report] "Hidden" filter fails at system level after entering a subfolder and returning:

@roslof Well, check fps as well

I can create a new thread if desired, since this work is a bit off topic -- but for now, here we go:

First off, my theme is heavy, leveraging (among other things) one large 1160x1080 .jpg per system, and using roughly 80-90 systems.

VRAM LIMIT is set to 200Mb

I ran through the flow again (UI MODE from FULL --> KIOSK --> FULL) using the ES flow, and there is definitely a major performance hit during and after each subsequent load for the duration of the session.

Most notable side affects:

Load times increase dramatically Navigation through the systems UI* eventually becomes uncontrollable, as the system continues to move through games, and player input is ignored FPS tanks during step #2 above

At idle, ES reports Tex Max increases dramatically:

At Boot: 626.99 After two (2) Swaps: 930.43

All other stats remain the same after swaps.

Also, at idle, using htop, some stats increase:

VIRT: 899M --> 937M RES: 653M --> 687M CPU: 25.7% --> 32.2% MEM: 38.6% --> 40.6%

However, when hitting F4 to exit ES, then typing "exit" at console to re-launch ES, everything going back to original values. I believe using QUIT | RESTART EMULATIONSTATION also clears the performance problem.

Lastly, an early check indicates a similar, if not identical issue when switching ES Themes back and forth.

Again, hope this information is helpful.

You can disable any hotkey enabled functions - and leave only exit - by modifying the controller's configuration file, which you can find in \\retropie\configs\all\retroarch-joypads.

@mitu Off course this will work. However each time I want to change another item have to create the retroarchcfg file again. When I use a simple copy script all other settings can't be changed anymore. So each time I go to the retroarch menu and change something the retroarch.cfg gets overwritten. So using two files (one with and one without the disabled hotkey) just isn't a working solution. I really want to be able to make it independent of other changes in the file I sometimes do using the retroarch menu.
A script that edits that single line is the best solution, however I'm just not clever enough to make the script.

Use lr-vice it's easier to disable certain buttons so this doesn't happen

@Todilo

I made one!

Plastic fusebox from Ebay, USB zero-delay controller and a selection of buttons/joystick from Ebay/Arcade World.

controller_elmo.jpg

There isn’t any they will do as the epic doesn’t accept cartridges

@wombat Update, then everything is now set up for KIOSK mode.

Strange...I installed it myself just last night. Not sure what the problem my be.

I would like to warn you however..When I used it it made my setup "crash" (drop to the command line) when i tried to change the theme. I was trying to change the theme because my video snaps were not playing (had sound though) I eventually took it out. I would like to have it and hte team to work on it..I get tired of sitting around and "making sure that someone (kids, wife, friends) screw something up sigh

@Jeck11 It was a while ago, so I don't remember enough. As such, I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying "any" theme, but it wasn't particularly hard, no. I suspect it depends on how modularized the theme files are (i.e. if you have to add the icons to each of the system files, it can be a pain, where if it's all centralized in the theme.xml file, then it's fairly easy).

It's critical to update the XML version in the theme xml files, though, otherwise it won't be recognized no matter what you do :)

I'm happy to try and share my versions of the themes, if it helps. Let me know.

@Jeck11 what he said :)

Thanks so much. Updating the firmware got me sorted. It's showing the proper amount of memory now... It's just not booting into emulationstation. Just drops to console... working on that now.

EDIT: It was the memory split. Reverted and now everything boots up again. Back to the beginning; installing emulationstation-kids.

@Lyle_JP thanks for this. Never heard of it. My nieces will love this.

@ChristopherLeo installing from source is a waste of time. Always use binaries. Very rarely will you ever need to build from source

Hey, sorry to keep this issue open for so long.
I was working on a cleaner re-implementation of this, but got bogged down in debugging.
I got very frustrated with it all for a while, and decided to let this lie for a while.

Currently, I am working on theming the system carousel on the main screen. Once that is in reasonable shape, I will start working on this again. I am now able to build (and debug!) on windows which has revitalized my development process a bit, so there's still hope!

Thanks for holding out for such a long time.

@thiagofm thanks - I think this should be included in RetroPie!!