@MiroKostovBG said in Refresh emulation station games without restarting.:

@sleve_mcdichael And can you do that with a command through SSH ?

Maybe something like:

pkill emulationstatio && emulationstation

(Note the misspelled emulationstatio in the first one -- this is intentional.)

This tries to kill ES and then, only if that worked, restart it.

Also it would be interesting what would happen if a game is running, would that break the game

This I'm not sure but should be easy enough to test using the above.

Please delete this topic when you can and sorry for the spam here. It seems that I overlooked the beginning of the log for whatever reason. I have all information I need with the default verbose logging.

Sorry again.

@13ooty

I'm also new to posting on forums so I'm sorry If my writing and information is sloppy xD

@andymassey Just remove the transparent plastic holder. Then you will be able to take half of the joystick off. That part has to be rotate by 90 degrees and reassembled. Finally you put the tranpsarent plastic holder back.

@PARALAX Yes, delete all folders and files.

See if the adapter has any firmware upgrades that fixes that. You never know.

@cdaters glad to help

@mitu I didn't, I created the GAMELIST.XML from scratch.

@goestohollywood This is specifically Skyscraper at default settings.

Please don't re-post the same topic multiple times.

@soulrider911 remaps are for controller configuration changes. i would change it via https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Configuration-Editor/

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