That's ok mitu. I would be willing to run a .bat file in the background if need be. I tried doing it myself and I was successful getting music to load up before the main screen finishes loading up on EmulationStation, as well as when you exit out of a game and go back to the menu. The problem I'm having is getting just one splashscreen to randomly load up/play before the loading screen and stopping/closing the media player that displays it. The code for my splashtest.bat is the following: @ECHO OFF REM Your splashscreens file path: start "" --play and exit "C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC\vlc.exe" -L "C:\Users\Username\Music\Playlists\Splashscreens.wpl" REM Kill your media player: C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC\vlc.exe /F REM Run the frontend (EmulationStation example): start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\EmulationStation\emulationstation.exe" REM Run the media player (WMPlayer example): start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" -L "C:\Users\Username\Music\Playlists\EmulationStation.wpl" If anyone here has ideas on any mistakes you can see or a better way of executing this, please let me know. A big thank you goes out to those who can provide these answers :-D.

I have solved the audio issue. I looked back at my es_systems.cfg file in my .emulationstation folder. I noticed that it points to the RetroArch executable in D:\ (my microSD card). I double clicked it and went to the Audio driver section/Output to make sure that audio was turned on. The Audio was also changed from xaudio to dsound. I also went to the Driver section to make that Audio was identified as dsound there as well.

I found the solution by combing the files from HerbFargus' 1.8.1 build with the latest files from jrassa's build + including the latest version of Retroarch executables in the Retroarch system folder. The only issue I'm noticing is the space between some of the fonts is squeezed together or centered on my television screen. Thanks again for your input 😊.

I can confirm that what I did with the combination of the files actually works. Now I just need to do some scraping using Screenscraper instead of The GamesDatabase for now. Thanks again for all the help. 😁

@hooperre Well, Microsofts considers it's insecure, so they must have a reason. I guess is mitigates the risk that someone inadvertently opens a guest only share and mistakenly runs something from it. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046019/guest-access-in-smb2-disabled-by-default-in-windows-10-and-windows-ser

@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.