@mitu I would like to use all three modes for what they are intended for :
Full mode : all options, all games available including experimental
Kiosk mode : options restricted, all clean games avaiable
Kid mode : more options restricted, mature content excluded

My only problem is the method to add kidgame tags in scraped gamelists that doesn't have, without scraping again all data.

Maybe some users here have scripts to add hundred "<kidgame>true</kidgame>" in gamelists ? Then it will be easy for me to uncheck few mature games from emulationstation metadata editing menu.

Or maybe there is a secret feature in an emulationstation cfg file, or a trick, to consider a game that doesn't have a kidgame tag to be a kidgame by default.

Otherwise with Notepad++ I can replace all the

</game>

by

</kidgame>true</kidgame> </game>

@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 I downloaded the emulationstation for translate and compile it, what line i must change in what file? Thanks.

You want TWO collections, that's the hurdle.

If you wanted ONE... You could switch off "quick system select" in the ES menu and start ES on the collection. The person wouldn't necessarily see the systems unless they "backed out" of the collection. The system/collection wouldn't change with Left/Right. The person would be able to "back out" with a button though.

I wonder if there was some CFG hack that could make the wording of the systems "blank" and they'd be there, but the people wouldn't know that they could select them. To them it may look like ES is stopping in dead space. (In which case they'd most likely just keep moving left or right.) This is just me thinking out loud. Is this plausible Mitu?

no need to worry anymore, I was messing with the files here on the computer and I
managed to edit the files, thanks for the help :)

@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.

@tackett1980 said in Finishing this build and have some random UI questions.:

1: is there any way to disable the settings menu when launching a rom while in kiosk mode? The “press A to config” thing is what I’m talking about when you load it up. I don’t want his kids accidentally getting into this.

You can disable the Runcommand launch menu from the RetroPie setup Configuration/Tools - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#configuring-runcommand

2: is there a way to disable the retroarch menu in kiosk mode? The holding select and A menu. Again there are sensitive settings in here and I don’t want his kids accidentally messing with them.

For that you can remove/comment the input_menu_toggle_btn settting from your controller's configuration file in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads. This will disable the button, leaving other hotkeys intact.
I'd also disable the reset button, it could easily be triggered with the hotkey (input_reset_btn).

3; I scraped all the mame roms but for some reason the metadata game titles all have tags at the end. Freaking (USA) and (rev 1.2abc feat. Nellie) etc. Is there an easy way to delete these other than to edit each roms meta data individually, which would take me literally weeks to do?

That would be the easier to do from the scraper, instructing it to remove that info. The script you found might work.

@F4CEpa1m your retropie is out of date. Did you update? You probably need to start from a 4.5.x image.

Hard to advise without details of your setup.

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Welcome to Retropie and to this forum.

Thanks for sharing your solution. It would be nice if you'd edit your opening post and add [Solved] before its title.

After installing a translation KIOSK mode stop saving favorites, anyway i can activate this "bug" again?

@player2 Edit the configuration file and set the UIMode to full - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Child-friendly-EmulationStation/#switching-modes.

@boxdrop My buttons are configured to certain keys, so it'll hopefully work.

@bjs322 See the documentation on how to switch modes - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Child-friendly-EmulationStation/#switching-modes.

@IanDaemon said in Disabling Retropie Configuration Choice in Emulators List When in Kiosk Mode:

@lostless said in Disabling Retropie Configuration Choice in Emulators List When in Kiosk Mode:

@Kyle the way I said you press select on each config and select edit this game. In that option there’s an option to select hidden on or off. Set it it on.

I've never tried pressing select on the RetroPie menu selections/"games". Huh.

Thanks for the tip! This works really well for my setup.

@mitu

Ill try that, just for fun. My intention is to set it in Kiosk eventually and leave it alone. Its not hard to SSH into the pi and change it if needed on occasion. ok, im an idiot. I was "assuming" that id press the buttons during the splashscreen, not in the second after it dissapears. It is working perfect. My misunderstanding. Thats an interesting idea, I will try and check it out, I will need to undo some things on the core options and move them but I feel this may actually work. I was obviously thinking too hard and forgot about the retroarch.cfg overrides. GREAT IDEA!

problem solved ,i was using a 360 pad and that was the problem, plugged in innext controller and worked 1st time . thanks for your help

@herb_fargus I have updated the wiki for this recently, could you run the 'docify' script please?
Thanks!

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