Been playing around and yes it does play quite nicely these days. Its been a while since I tried snaps on Pi0's, I think last time I did try it omxplayer caused some weird overlapping issues.

I've managed to get the size down quite a bit. I could probably increase a little as the video file sizes are typically smaller than the boxart! I've settled on 320x240, no sound and 10 seconds. Looks fine on the small screen, usually 10 seconds is enough to get an idea of what the game is like, and the sound can sometimes be a little rough so not an issue losing that. Also limited to 30fps as a lot were 60.

I used ffmpeg with commands: -i input.mp4 -r 30 -s 320x240 -ss 0 -to 10 -an output.mp4

mkdir trimmed for %%a in ("*.mp4") do "d:\ffmpeg\ffmpeg" -i "%%a" -r 30 -s 320x240 -ss 0 -to 10 -an "trimmed\%%a" pause

Created a little batch file and it does them pretty quickly.

Filesizes massively reduced, one collection was 572 games. scraped videos took 1.99GB! trimmed versions took just 137MB

I'm glad I asked a silly question now :)

The question I would ask myself in your place is if I'd rather do without or rewrite my scripts than trying to adapt many unfamiliar scripts that may break again with the next update.

@Agustinb14 said in Controls don't work in retroarch or in console games:

I can't seem to be able to bind 2 different hotkey keys for my controls but that's ok. At least I can play now.

Only Player1 is able to access the hotkeys' functions - P2 cannot control them (including opening the menu). Glad you got it working in the end.

@Efriim yes that is where it goes. You change the line to:

emulationstation --no-splash #auto

@mitu Which folder can I find the code to edit? Would you please describe it in detail? Thanks!

@mitu said in How to modify the description of EmulationStation?:

@Leonard-Lin You'll have to edit the code and change it, then recompile.

@mitu @BuZz @Efriim I finally got it working! :D

local bin_file local bin_files local default local id local index local version ... some other code ... for index in "${!bin_files[@]}"; do default=0 [[ "$index" -eq "${#bin_files[@]}-1" ]] && default=1 # Default to the last item in 'bin_files'. version="${bin_files[$index]}" version="$(echo $version | cut -d'_' -f 2)" addEmulator "$default" "$md_id-$version-$id" "godot-engine" "$md_inst/${bin_files[$index]} --main-pack %ROM%" done

So it seems like the error had something to do with the index variable (previously it was named i). Either it needed to be initialized as a local variable or the script didn't like that it was called i... I really don't know. But I got it working :)

Another thing that I found and maybe it's worth mentioning (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that when I run:

sudo ./retropie_packages.sh godot-engine configure

the config file:

/opt/retropie/configs/godot-engine/emulators.cfg

seems to just add the new stuff on top of the previous configs that were already there. I mean, it doesn't delete the file and creates it again with the new configs.

Shouldn't "deleting the old file and creating a new one" be the "correct" thing to do?

Thanks! :)

@johny8 How did you determine that ? You claim is rather ridiculous. 'Sabotage' ?

@alkah3st which premade image are you using?

@maplestory Correct. It doesn't matter. Those lines relate to the extra folders - nvram, etc.

Thanks for reporting! Hope you're having fun.

@Hex Thanks for the info!

@m0h most joypad extractions are handled through retropad with retroarch, I know they had some plans at some point to make the retropad more visual but I don't now where they are at with it.

All set! Thanks again!

@jdrassa said in Request: Option To Disable Carousel in ES UI Options:

FYI,

Someone submitted something similar to this previously that was rejected.

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/85

It looks to be rejected mainly based on how rudimentary the request was that was submitted. The guy who originally submitted this push did so by simply making a flag that disabled the back button in ES, which is too simple of an implementation for buzz, he wrote that he wanted to make sure it was a better coded function.

@Hex, i promise I'll get to the next step soon, perhaps tonight if i get a lull, hahaha! Too many adult, work and parenting responsibilities come first. Damn these 30's.

@dmmarti awesome thanks man!!

@jdrassa This method seems to work great if the UI modes are not in use but if it's set into Kiosk mode the es_settings.cfg reverts to an unmodified state after reboot. Does enabling the Kiosk mode overwrite the es_settings.cfg file? If so can I modify the Kiosk mode to include the splash screen setting?

Hi @Capeman! I'd like to resume your work. What do you think? Can I start from your semifinished piece? Can you share the partial theme package? thank you so much