@sleve_mcdichael Thanks sleve, typo on my side in the post. I was using "\". tried without the c$ as well. I installed winSCP and it popped up right away. Transferred all my files that way. Thanks!

that said, if you want a dedicated x86 emulation box, you don't need windows and can run retropie directly: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Debian/

@dankcushions my issue there isn't just hardware based. There is very little support for Sega Naomi , let alone Lindbergh, RingEdge, and NUu2 emulation in RetroArch. These systems are PC based to begin with, and so far I've only seen any of them successfully emulated in Windows based emulators.

@mitu Erm. Not exactly... I could maybe get the .bat file to run the .lnk

The problem is, the way the xbox app installs the games is by writing them to <driveletter>:WindowsApps - which I do not have access to.

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There is no .exe per say to run, so all I could do would be to run the .lnk from a .bat, which I have tried, but launching the .lnk from the .bat still makes the script think its' finished and then ES returns.

However, I've managed to solve it.
The main thing is to get ES to not return until the game has gone full screen.

I borrowed the idea from https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687564452 and was able to figure out how to make a batch file to launch the game.
If anyone has gamepass, the only difference is on the link above it asks you to find the .exe that has been launched, whereas with this, you want the full target of the URL

My Example below is for Forza Horizon 4.

echo off cls cmd /r start "" "shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_randomlettershere!SunriseReleaseFinal" timeout /t 120

So instead of having "ForzaHorizon4" after the ! I needed to use "SunriseReleaseFinal"

The problem I had, was that ES was still returning too quickly.
If I used pause, then it wouldn't return at all without a keypress.

Thankfully Windows 10 has the timeout function.
So by setting a timeout for 120 seconds, this allowed the program to launch and go full screen before ES returned, and when it did, it did so behind the current full screen, allowing me to play the game, and then exit back in to ES.

Hopefully this will help someone else who is trying to do the same thing.
I'm going to edit the title to make it a bit more specific.

@mth75 I only get this in a small window in the top corner of the screen.

@MyFartSoTart As I said in my last post, I'd recommend to access RetroPie via network either using Samba or SSH. This way, you can access all of RetroPie's files instead of only those that Windows can read.

Besides that, for small tasks like only some config edits or file operations, you can just drop to RetroPies command shell by pressing F4 in Emulation Station, and then enter mc to start the text-based file manager Midnight Commander. You can use it to navigate RetroPie's file system, view text files by pressing F3 or edit them with F4. See here for a quick user guide to mc.

To go back to Emulation Station, exit mc with F10 to get back to the command shell, and then enter exit or press Ctrl-d.

Nostalgia Pure (lite)

HUGE Thank you to the original creator(s) of this theme!

Changelog (by myself)

added 'All Games' added 'Ports' added 'RetroPie'
(there is also a second one called retropie2.png, if you prefer one without Rpi)

MIRROR(s):
https://www.mirrored.to/files/8OMYTQG0/nostalgia-pure-lite.zip_links
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1up9v1x4rpstily/nostalgia-pure-lite.zip/file

Installation:

copy to sd-card

Themes can be copied to either /etc/emulationstation/themes and /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes, they're read by Emulationstation from both locations.

copy via network: Windows: Open \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\themes\ in the Windows File Explorer Linux: smb://retropie.local/configs/all/emulationstation/themes

IMPORTANT: I recommend EmulationStation's VRAM setting at (min.) 120Mb (Rpi4).
(Main Menu > Other Settings > VRAM Limit)

Best regards,
Anti-You

@k3001993 said in Best x86 emulation:

But honestly, do you think it can be done with a decent frame rate? Here's some gameplay:

I don't know, I don't have any experience with Box86 and I don't have it installed.

You can look at the list of the themes available in RetroPie here. The list format is 'Github user', 'Github theme repository', so

RetroPie carbon-centered

can be found at https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon-centered. Once you have the theme's repository, you can download the theme as a 'zip' file using the Code button

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Ok, So I got this figured out.
The thing is, when boost library was removed two years ago, it removed the ability to navigate on UNC folders too.

I thought that this was really strange since EmulationStation can still loads the gamelist.xml on my Server but couldn't load anything else, but, I found a pre 2.7.4 build (that still has boost library) and now everything works :)

Right now I'm running a really old 2.6.4 build. If anyone here has a 2.7.3 build saved, please share with me, I would really appreciate.

Thanks again

@mitu great. thanks for the help!

@MDtar7 Im running out of ideas, but try enabling SMB 1.0 support on your PC.
Its in Control Panel, Programs and Features, Turn Windows Feature On or Off and select SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support. Restart your computer and try it again.
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@mitu Thanks so much! :)

@StigNasty Do you still have that image file? Have you tried to copy it over to a pi 4 and see if performance is better?

I did get my .mp3 files to play inside the music folder. I am happy that .mp4s work as well. I could have sworn that one of the read me files said that you could also place these inside a video folder so that they will play randomly like the .mp3s. If this isn't the case, hopefully that option will be included in a future build. I have to say that these new options (grid view, video view, basic view) have been implemented nicely. The presentation of the themes looks more vibrant too :-).

I though I had alleviated the issue but, it is seems that it persists. Leaving the following.

The files were corrupted by either dosbox-sdl2 or by the settings and game Albion.

The threats and viruses detected by Windows 10 were likely just corrupted files.

Possibly the raspberry has been compromised.

I always feel a special sort of dumbness when I realize I have imaginary enemies, and new technology.

https://github.com/essial/OpenDiablo2

https://github.com/collinsmith/riiablo