@mitu, perfect. Thanks for the help.

@legendforhire said in Retropie system menu appears in Kiosk and Kids mode.:

The hidden and kidmode options only seem to work if "ENABLE FILTERS" is set to ON in the start menu

Nice find. One thing:

except I just made a blank .emulationstation folder and found that a new es_settings.cfg was created which allowed kidmode to work properly again

Did you just, delete the existing folder and make a new one (or let it make a new one)? Because ~/.emulationstation isn't a "real" folder, it's a symlink (shortcut) to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation. If you replace it with a regular folder, it will break the integration with the network share acces at \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation (the network share will still be picking up the /opt/(...) path, but ES will be using the one in ~ which, if you've broken the link, is no longer connected to the shared location.)

Apologies if you already knew this and accounted for it. If not, here's how to fix it:

To recreate this link, first remove the existing ~/.emulationstation directory. Then symlink it with the ln (link) command:

ln -s /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation ~/.emulationstation

You can backup any config files in the .emulationstation directory before you remove it. If they differ from the ones in /opt/(...), those in .emulationstation will be the ones that were used most recently. After restoring the link you can put whichever version of the files you prefer into the shared directory.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Hide Systems - Only Keep Custom Collections?:

If you use one "all games" system you won't need the "all games" collection but if you did use it, they would all just say [ALL]

That's true, but this can be disabled under 'Game Collection Settings'. There is an option in there to turn off 'Show System Name in Collections'.

Thanks for your help.

@sleve_mcdichael ah, ok ok now i get it!! thanks!!!

I'd like to know when the OpenBOR 6xxx version will be added to the official Retropie setup script. I never figured out how to install it from their custom method.

@mitu thank you for thee replay it really help so much thank you again

@Brandon12345678 It works now. Thanks for your help.

mame works fine with different directories the only issue you will have is with scrappers if you know how to do this though youll be fine. You can have a 2003 and 2010 dir with the roms all you have to do it pick the right emulator when launching

@manwichman44 Add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Maybe you can upload such a video snap that is causing problem somewhere, so we can test it ourselves.

If you're playing the video with VLC directly, does it work or crashes also ?

You can load as much as you want, but u will have a visual glitch in mune if your chossen theme miss this system, so the most completed theme i tasted out there is Supersweet them : https://github.com/RetroHursty69/es-theme-supersweet
And uniflyered theme : https://github.com/RetroHursty69/es-theme-uniflyered

Also art book , is one of awsome classy theme which i really love and if it miss a system you have it bult to use a really cool font to look like that it's ok , and you can add any missing theme easly .

And belive me iam really have a huge collection of systems, so i always become sad when a lovely theme miss a system

Honestly there is enough information out there about installing retropie or some other front end on a PC that the process is pretty easy and spelled out even for someone as tech stupid as me. Given the price vs performance of relatively old and cheap PCs vs a new pi or even a pi4 for that matter, if I had it to do over again I would just go the PC route especially after figuring out that what some people define as “acceptable” performance for emulators like dream cast and N64 is an entire galaxy removed from what I would consider even playable.

So really it all comes down to your specific needs.

If your trying to emulate simple games >25-30 years old then a pi3 or 3b+ should be able to do it and honestly there are even exceptions to that depending on the game.

If it’s after the last two decades just go PC.

But really, sit down and make a list of about 10-20 games that you basically can’t live without, research the hardware needs for them and go with the strongest one.

Unfortunately there isn't a centralized list by model of system - most of the system/platforms supported found in the docs are supported, some of them are specific for PC (Gamecube, Wii, PS2 for instance) and are marked as such.

@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.

@mitu I think that is in the end my only option, if I want a single Arcade menu option. I really wanted avoid this.

@kinduff

I gotta say, it's a very intriguing use of ES. I commend your efforts.

@pjft and to complete this ... I have collections that are named "RetroAchievements" and "RA - Battle Bugs". The Battle Bugs is for challenging games or for the Monthly Random Game introduced here (Currently Mario RPG).

These collections in combination with a small script Automated Switchable RetroAchievements make an automatic connect/disconnect to the RA server possible ;)

So you all see custom collections is a milestone in the ES development. Thank you pjft :D

@kap5ule using a third party image is a discouraged action here.

Guys

Could i use something similar to use 2 different bezels ofr gb/gbc as at the minute i am doing it per core but both are using the same bezel :(

thanks