@mitu it's just curios issue i obtain right now.
i open file explorer \Retropie and it's ask to me credentials.
Tryed to put some of combination like "pi/raspberry" "pi/retropie" "retropie/raspberry" and it's no works.
From file explorer i put \192.168.1.159 (ip of my pi4) and all shared folder it's be open whitout any request.
It's a windows 10 recent changes ? Lol.......

@Sades160 in the end, everyone comes back to Retropie...

I love the search function.

Just wanted to say this helped me get my Windows 10 build scraped! Thank you! 🥂

@mitu I'm using Skraper and I'm putting the images manually, why can not I create an .xml file

@moltke44 I think you've been bitten by this change in Win10 which disables the guest browsing of shares, specifically for Enterprise and Educational versions of the OS. That's why for me (Win 10 Professional) still works, but not for you.
You can try the workaround described here, which I wouldn't recommend, especially if your computer is domain managed and there are security policies in place. Another option is to disable guest access in the RetroPie file sharing service (Samba), but that's a little more involved and it's not so straightforward.

Are you running the most recent version of Windows 10? They removed all the homegroup stuff back in the spring. Smart move on their part since it would also cause issues with non windows shares.

I found the issue was with my USB to SD adapter. The image did contain partitions and windows detected a new USB storage device, halting the write operation. I had no issue when writing to SD on my laptop using a standard SD slot. Image is clean, well configured right out of the gate.

@hazzerboraco said in gamelist.xml not being read emulationstation 2.8 windows:

And no, save metadata on exit was turned on.

Nobody asked about this. Can you provide a screenshot ?

So far, I only added exe files to Steam.

Maybe you can use a .bat to .exe converter and try it again. Or you try to call it through the interpreter, something like cmd.exe /c path/batchfile.bat. Which means you include cmd.exe to Steam and set commandline options to /c path/batchfile.bat.

found https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases and that seemed to do the trick.

@Tephra If using Win32diskImager unzip as @quicksilver mentioned, or if using Etcher you can flash the image directly to the sd card.

@tr33x0rs Glad you're sorted.

My suggestion was really to lower the entire volume in ES's sound settings - I was hoping that, on Windows, it wouldn't change the entire OS volume settings.

Have a great weekend.

@tr33x0rs Development on the Windows version of ES stopped over 3 years ago.
RetroPie use their own fork from Aloshi's original and have implemented many, many changes and improvements.
Maybe this will interest you https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/13828/retropie-like-script-for-windows-7-8-and-10-retrocake

@tr33x0rs Yeah, about that - I've looked again and the shutdown command is not used anymore, instead there's an external script that does the shutdown/reboot/restart/quit. For Windows, there's no such script, so unfortunately you'll not be able to use that menu.

Hello @jrassa
I think I've found whats missing,
int the 2015 version of emulationstation from Aloshi where the slashes where fixed (unstable branch), you can see that he uses an extra function called make_preferred() on the ROM_RAW string

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/unstable/es-app/src/SystemData.cpp
const std::string rom_raw = fs::path(game.getPath()).make_preferred().string();

He also uses this funcion on a windows ifdef on the same file
#ifdef WIN32
// windows escapes stuff by just putting everything in quotes
return '"' + fs::path(path).make_preferred().string() + '"';
#else

The function make_preferred() from Boost is the one that fixes the slashes
https://theboostcpplibraries.com/boost.filesystem-paths

Thanks in advance
Best regards

Sorry, there's a typo in the last comment. Use this command instead:

for %a in ("*.mp4") do ffmpeg -i "%a" -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 23 -vf scale=320:240 -c:aa aac -b:a 80k -r 30 "converted\%~na.mp4"

@rbaker @jonnykesh @Sano Quick question: Once an ini file is edited, does it require a full reboot? Just restarting Emulationstation? Or just restarting the game itself?

I just had the same problem, but I fixed it by enablling insecure guest access. See this link:
https://support.microsoft.com/da-dk/help/4046019/guest-access-smb2-disabled-by-default-in-windows-10-server-2016

Does this setup allow for N64 Hi Res textures?