@abj OK, solved. Upon reinstalling I got a message to copy the es_systems.gfg from the etc/ folder to opt/configs/all/emulationstation/

Thanks for your help! Be well!

@mitu Well that can be arranged as I tested the VLC mode and it still worked right, however there's still no game info displayed.

What could possibly be causing that? Something wrong with the chosen fonts? The font files? The resolution I'm forcing it to display at (resolution mode is meant for a screen installed in an Arcade1Up gen 3 cabinet)? I'm trying to think of anything that might mess with its subtitles and can't come up with anything.

EDIT: FINALLY figured it out. In video screensaver settings, VLC Resolution needs to be set to Max. Doing that finally shows the game info. Gonna guess this has something to do with video mode, but I don't know for certain. Either way, that fixed it.

@philcomm First off, I'm sorry that your OSK as originally engineered looks like it won't be accepted --- but I wanted to thank you for really moving the ball forward on this, because it looks like the python-based one will make it through as per recent comments on the PR. This is going to save a lot of people time and frustration and you should get a large chunk of the credit.

For fun last week as I was setting up my Zero2W I connected via SSH to it and attempted to enter Wifi via my phone using the existing infrastructure by executing RetroPie-Setup directly. Although in theory this seemed like a good idea, the WiFi won't drop and reconnect to a new network when you're using that connection for the terminal session, turns out. So, still very clunky.

Will check out your music suggestion, and also the new OSK coming down the pike. Thanks so much.

I think I might have found some quirks around the safe shutdown script with the Zero2W around pin allocation and interaction with WiFi but I want to do some more testing this week before making further topics or inquiries about it here. I also will share some additional script suggestions / observations too.

@windg That's a really good list there. Thanks for that! :)

@thorr69 said in RetroPie Menu Missing:

@hyperstarr YOu need to add games to the roms folders. For example, if you put a game in the NES folder (roms/nes) then the NES will show up as a system in the carousel. The carousel auto-hides systems that have no games.

Brilliant, thank you very much!

Configure the autostart option in RetroPie-Setup so that EmulationStation starts automatically at boot - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi

@calvorejas

You are most welcome. :)

@common763 RetroPie has kiosk mode which does exactly this for its interface. You can make changes in full UI and then run in kiosk mode most of the time. You can quickly jump in and out of UI modes.

@julugamer said in Ouya games on Retropie:

But is it likely to happen that there will be something like such an emulator/interpreter on Retropie?

Unless there's already an emulator/interpreter that works, not likely to happen.

@thiagodophp said in does not open is on a black screen:

Hello good night, could you help me I'm new and I don't understand the forum, I have this problem

There's no need to re-post the same information twice or post in other topics to get my attention.
Please read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and provide the information asked there, as much as you can - this will help us understand what's wrong with your setup.

Thanks a lot, i solved it!!!

@mitu ok thanks a lot!!!

@benmclean
That's awesome! However, what I've really wanted (and can't believe is not there) is an OSK built into ES. Like when ES throws up a dialog that requires text input...see Kodi for examples. It should be pretty easy. I can program but I haven't programmed in 15+ years. It would take me about 6 months to figure out to get an environment setup to start working on it, then another month to familiarize myself with ES code, then maybe a week to actually code it. I've created an OSK in a script before.

It's just an array of characters. Display the array. 'Earmark' the current position in the array onscreen. Get left/right/up/down input. Move earmark in the array and onscreen. Get 'enter' input. Copy content of current position in the array to the text field.

It would be so nice to be able to edit game metadata from within ES without a keyboard.

Ok thanks a lot, I see what was wrong.
In fact I was lauching emulationstation from the .xinitrc file because I wanted to avoid using openbox. But is seem not to be possible. To make it as clean as possible I edited my files like so:
/home/pi/.initrc

exec openbox-session

This will start an openbox session in X and trigger the autostart file that i edited like so:
/home/pi/.config/openbox/autostart

xterm -fg white -bg black emulationstation -fullscreen

This will lauch emulationstation in a black xterm terminal in fullscreen which is used to display the file manager or retropie setup.

Yes, the default image has the Megadrive/Genesis emulator installed and configured.

Wow! I am literally blind how did I not see that when I looked in the config before...

Thanks so much! This works perfectly!

@PhoenixFlood said in Bezel Project gone from menu:

How can I get it back?

Probably by re-installing it - https://github.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject.

Looks like an error starting it, can you post the /dev/shm/runcomand.log file contents ?
Also, please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@ricbritain Just of curiosity, how did you miss it, and how did you finally find it?