@obliv Please add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. How are you trying to open the launch options ?

Will P4 64x32 panels work as well? I only have a space 23x5.5 and the P4's would be a better fit. This looks like a great application!

@mitu Of cours, but then you mess up your rom set. On the other hand some systems or naming conventions use rom sets which have names which are not unique. (I don't find one at the moment, but i saw such discs) e.g. "<Game>.cue" "Track1.bin" "Track2.bin"

@mitu Oh, ok. Thanks. I thought the emulators.cfg just covered the emulator/core used generally for that particular system, and didn't deal with individual roms.

It worked, Thankyou

I didn't search for "dialog box" because I thought that was called the "launch menu."

@Texacate Finally had an opportunity to look at your code. Looks good. For myself, I just need static images as I showed in my video. So I think what I need to do is the following: 1 - Create XML file with gaming information. I would convert the work you have done and convert to XML. Do not have to do this, but would like to practice manipulating XML files. 2- Will also add to this what recommended controller to use. Joystick, spinner, trackball or lightgun. 3- If Joystick, what type (2-way, 4-way, etc.): 4- A note added stating if certain controller is not available, which one to use. This would be static on every image file. 5- When building the image, have the user select which button layout they want to use(6 button, 8 button, etc.) I am going to program this in Windows for now, but use ImageMagic to create the image to eventually port over to the Pi. Basically would program similar to what you have (if it is ok to reference your code) and just create the images, but add the additional data. Once the static image is create, will re-visit my code to have it come up before the game starts. Also thinking about just creating the image and putting the snapshots in the Screenshots or Covers folder. I have downloaded video snapshots and marquees, so the gamelist.xml file would already have a path to get the Screenshots or Covers and can just place the image on the theme instead. Would be less programming and just create the images. In any case, will start on this over the weekend. Hopefully will have something functional by the end of the weekend.

@mitu I actually figured it out late last night. As I was trying every game file I thought that there had to be something wrong with how the images were being called up. I looked again at both my es_systems.cfg & emulators.cfg and realized that I had it pointing to pcengine not pcenginecd. I must have looked at those ten times without realizing my mistake. I knew I was doing something stupid. I guess I really should have stepped away from it for a bit.

Just add the full path to the script in the .sh file and make sure it's executable.

@John_RM_70 Try one command at a time and see which ones locks up the Pi. It's probably tvservice, but it could be because of the previous command, which specifies might specify an invalid mode. Have you tried tvservice -p (preferred mode) ?

@Kaydenmario8 Depending on the emulator, some use 480p by default and you can't change it I think. There are two different resolution, one for render and one for output.

@Brigane Actually they didn't stop - there was an update in August (see this topic). There's hope that one day it might be open sourced.

@BuZz thanks man!

@mitu Thanks! I was about ready to download a fresh image just to see if onstart would be there

@mitu Thanks for that. It worked perfectly. It is actually great news that the boxart splash screen is a separate location and separate file. It means I can create a specific "help" splash screen with the boxart and button mappings so that when I start a game it reminds me how to play the game.

@dudleydes Ha ha :D I'll have a go, but in my entire 18 months of using WinSCP I don't think its comedy search function has ever successfully found ANYTHING.

You are right! It works. Now I have to duplicate and rename the scraped favorite roms. Thanks for support!

@hiulit said in Runcommand shows same name for different emulators: @mitu Could it be possible to launch a ROM without asking which emulator to use? I mean, when I select a gb game, can I know it's a gb game and consequently launch its respective emulator? Sure, you can do that, but you'll have to basically add each game to the emulators.cfg and specify its emulator, just like when normally choosing the emulator through the Runcommand launch menu. Runcommand does not have a 'match by wildcard', but a 'match by name' based on the emulators.cfg file. The downside is that each game must be explicitly added with its emulator - you can do this through your script, but any subsequent game added in the new system will have to be processed again by your script. Again, much easier would be to create a Collection and this will automatically taken care of by Emulationstation (i.e. launch the correct emulator). You're basically re-inventing a custom Collection from scratch, but trying to shoehorn it in the Runcommand launch sequence. Can I have more than one default in the same emulators.cfg? No, that's not possible.

Starting to see a pattern actually that it only works if I run it from the remote ssh connection AFTER the game starts. Can't remember if that was always the case but perhaps I can add some delayed start to a script so that it runs in the bg after the rom loads.