@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.