@dteam said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess and mame standalone:

@folly

I could change the script, so all background files come in that directory.

It could be good, because like that, you will use the default Retroarch overlay folder for Retropie.

Ok, I will make a commit when I can.
Then I will remove the subdirectory's also.
All overlays are saved in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay
Basically it will look like the artwork directory but then containing .cfg and .png.

I was able to do a commit on github.
I did the change without testing, but should work. (did test : OK)
If you comment part 2 and 3 in the script it will not download all again.
I think you know how to do that.

You have to manually remove /home/pi/RetroPie/overlays.

@buzz said in 3rd Party Repos:

@bluestang this should be resolved now. thanks.

Thanks, it is now working on my end.

@daragon

hello i,am stuck at the same piece you where could you please help me with the syntactic errors you mentioned?

from: can't read /var/mail/evdev
./gamepad_wrapper.py: line 2: import: command not found
from: can't read /var/mail/subprocess
./gamepad_wrapper.py: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token (' ./gamepad_wrapper.py: line 8: gamepad = InputDevice('/dev/input/event15')'

my error looks similar to yours i know the right device number is 15 and the button numbers but it won,t work any help would be appreciated

Almost all updated overnight. I still seem to be having problems with MAME and MESS updating. Is this an upstream thing I should leave and come back to later?

@mitu i dont think its a dependency. it is something that the guys who made OpenMW, built to help with the running the game

this is what quicksliver said about in on the forum page about installing OpenMW

Also a couple notes about running OpenMW on the raspberry pi. You cant use open scene graph from the apt repository, it has to be manually compiled against OpenGL NOT OpenGL ES otherwise the game will not run. OpenMW devs recommend using their fork of OSG for better performance though that is not strictly necessary (I used their fork and it works great https://github.com/OpenMW/osg). The following cmake arguments can be used to prevent building unneeded OSG plugins and prevent bloat

@retro81 Actually I may make it ask the user to update from RetroPie-Setup, to keep updating handled in one place.

@jamrom2 said in Issues with Mausberry shutdown script.:

Have a safe and prosperous New Year!

Glad you sorted it out and thank you for the nice words - Happy New Year to you too !

@mitu ok i try to put it before emulationstation runs, basically the script erase an empty file that i use with an if conditional, i make an option that let me pause the music, if i activate it, the if creates an objects and while the file exists the music stop playing and if i push again the if erase the file and the music continues. i want that the raspberry erase that file if we have music paused so the music start on the startup and i can activate pause again in the menus.

it was too good to be true :( i was right it doesn't work https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/11590#issuecomment-743402918

Cpasjuste created this issue in libretro/RetroArch closed (KMS/DRM) add support for custom hdmi_timings / modes #11590

@john1967 please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

booting to emulationstation is default behaviour for the official image, however here is how to configure it for a manual installation: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi

@folly Ah nice!!!

I've got a few other computer systems I'm wanting to try .. so this translate tool is awesome.

You're welcome.

On more thing: As a courtesy for other user here, please add [Solved] or similar to the topic of your original post.

Just for the record, this command removes write permissions from the file:

sudo chmod -w /boot/config.txt

Restore them only for the owner (the default) with u+w instead of -w.

But note that any script that runs with admin rights can change the file nonetheless.

edit: Ah, I noticed the logical flaw in this. The file is owned by the admin user root and it is already only editable by the owner. So removing w wouldn't make any difference in this case. 😇

Works like a charm

Thanks.

@mitu
Ah, got it. I thought my method might be out of date but I'm new to digging this deep, and it's a frustrating but fun learning process. Thank you a ton for the help, I'll check that out once I get the chance today.

@norbit911 Why do it backwards ? You can start the Desktop from EmulationStation, so leave EmulationStation running by default. If you wish to run the desktop also when exiting EmulationStation, modify the autostart.sh file and run the desktop startup command after the emulationstation line.

@Kaydron said in Emulation game-start scripts folder:

I will be reading into shell scripting a bit more to hopefully eliminate questions here relating to shell scripts. If anyone has a couple sites that would be good reference paste them here.

The canonical reference is https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/, highly recommended for anyone starting or learning Bash scripting.