Arcade/Daphne question using retropie attractmode

Alturis

@mediamogul awesome thank you! I will try this out. But wont adding a link have it show up as another folder of games within the arcade list? I was trying to just make it appear like any other game in the arcade list.

mediamogul

@alturis

I was trying to just make it appear like any other game in the arcade list.

If you just put the .daphne directories alongside your other arcade ROMs and don't symlink the Daphne ROMs from /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/roms, it should behave the way you want.

caver01

Cool. This has been on my todo list for a year. Thanks for laying out the steps.

Alturis

@mediamogul said in Arcade/Daphne question using retropie attractmode:

You'll first need to add the ROM types to the arcade system entry in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

This is actually located at /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

in my setup. I never moved it anywhere I think maybe it was just in a different place in a previous RetroPie vanilla install version?

Alturis

Also to spell this out because I was unclear on it, you leave your .../roms/daphne/roms/<game>.zip where it is, you just move the .../roms/daphne/<game>.daphne video folder to .../roms/arcade

mediamogul

@alturis said in Arcade/Daphne question using retropie attractmode:

This is actually located at /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg in my setup.

At one time, it was considered bad practice to alter anything at /etc/emulationstation/, so /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/ was made available to override the base location. I don't know if this has changed, but I continue to make all my alterations at /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/.

Also to spell this out because I was unclear on it, you leave your .../roms/daphne/roms/<game>.zip where it is, you just move the .../roms/daphne/<game>.daphne video folder to .../roms/arcade

You got it.

ChuckyP

I believe updates overwrite the data in the ETC folder. So creating your custom configs in the other directory will save a lot of time in the long run.

Alturis

@chuckyp said in Arcade/Daphne question using retropie attractmode:

I believe updates overwrite the data in the ETC folder. So creating your custom configs in the other directory will save a lot of time in the long run.

I had heard that the problem with that is that your override will then be missing any critical updates to the normal es_systems.cfg?

mediamogul

@alturis

Neither way is perfect, but /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/ is what has always been recommended. You have to expect this kind of situation when you're looking to customize an actively updated software ecosystem in the way you're looking to do. That said, I've been maintaining my own override for over a year and haven't run into any issues.

ChuckyP

I haven’t seen any changes in over a year either. There’s not any settings that may change, only the paths to the emulators and that is rather stable.

If you add new emulators however you will need to refer to the ETC location and copy/ paste the new system info into your OPT override.