Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems

[cyperghost]

@red2blue Sorry I can't compile
I'm stuck at 100% binary will not be linked!

[red2blue]

@cyperghost regardless i dont even know what to do with the link you gave me. I tried everything for the last hour...

All i want to do is press x to favorite a game.. idk how recalbox had this months before retropie and its still not functional lmao

[cyperghost]

@red2blue You can use this
https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive/blob/master/PI2and3/emulationstation2.3.1RP %40pjft %40hex favorites and powersavings v2

This is a merged branch of Powersavings and Favorite
But it's not official!
You can download and must rename it later to emulationstationand copy it to opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation

[red2blue]

@cyperghost again, i dont know what to do with the link you sent me.

[cyperghost]

@red2blue That are precompiled binaries.
You SSH as root and exchange binary old with binary you have downloaded

Rename it to emulationstation and copy it to opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation

Make it executable and you can use this. Meanwhile I try to compile the official branch!

[red2blue]

@cyperghost bro youre speaking another language to me. can you please do step by step with commands

[red2blue]

i give up

[cyperghost]

@red2blue

That can't be done ad-hoc! Sorry!
Please SSH in, with user Pi
got to home directory with cd ~

If you are on windows mashine I can recommend WINSCP for graphical exploring data structure.

---

EDIT: to official branch
SSH with user: pi // password: raspberry

Enter folowing commands:

• cd ~
• wget https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive/raw/master/PI2and3/emulationstation2.3.2RP_favorite
• mv emulationstation2.3.2RP_favorite emulationstation
• chmod +x emulationstation
• sudo mv emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
• sudo reboot

[red2blue]

@cyperghost said in Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems:

@red2blue
That can't be done ad-hoc! Sorry!
Please SSH in, with user Pi
got to home directory with cd ~

If you are on windows mashine I can recommend WINSCP for graphical exploring data structure.

Please hold on...

1. type wget https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive/raw/master/PI2and3/emulationstation2.3.1RP%20%40pjft%20%40hex%20favorites%20and%20powersavings%20v2
2. type mv emulationstation2.3.1RP\ @pjft\ @hex\ favorites\ and\ powersavings\ v2 emulationstation
3. type chmod +x emulationstation
4. type sudo mv emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
5. type sudo reboot

does this allow it so i can press "X" to favorite a game?

[cyperghost]

@red2blue No not X, it's Y.
Favorite must be enabled in options Menu > Custom Selections... You'll see if you press START on Controller.

You'll see. I tested the approach posted above in my PI and it works flawless.
These binaries are only for a Pi2/3!!. If you have a Pi1/0 they do not work!
But keep in mind, that is an unofficial branch!

[cyperghost]

@All @red2blue

Binary for official branch of favorites was compiled - that was EUREKA hard
download for PI2/3 system is here!

https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive/blob/master/PI2and3/emulationstation2.3.2RP_favorite

@pjft Thank you for your efforts. That seems to work very very nice.
But we @red2blue and me ran into diffculties to compile that.
I manually cloned the git master and then used cmake & make. No chance for official way or script @hex and @meleu

[meleu]

@cyperghost I'm gonna try here.

[pjft]

As mentioned in several occasions across the forums, you really need quite a bit of memory to compile ES, so you need to exit ES in the first place, and then run RetroPie-Setup and update from source.

cd ~/RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup

And then choose to Manage Packages > Core Packages > EmulationStation > Update from Source.

The Binary should not be updated.

[cyperghost]

@pjft I did this
Entered via SSH and killall emulationstation
checked also with ps -a there was no running process in relation to ES
and then used sudo ./retropie_setup

My PI compiled to 100% and did not link the binary. Then I lost network connection and the status LEDs were green and red were permanently on! Maybe bad current! But I just had success by manual steps. Can someone please provide checksum of binary?

Mine is 4,803,320 byte
CRC32: 7B30D56E
MD5: a829b90d9ebaf3745f48c7c4fa259c10

[Zigurana]

To comment on the stalling compilation when updating from source:
I've tried compiling on my Pi3 and stopped when it appeared to hang at 87% after an hour or so.

When I set the CPU/GPU memory split to 16MB for the GPU (via raspi-config), compilation succeeds in about 25 min.

Note that you need to set the split back to something sensible after compilation (256MB for the Pi3).

[cyperghost]

good catch.
Can you please provide CRC32 checksum?

[pjft]

Yeah, it is stalling at 100% in my case. Will probably submit either a bug, or update the script with a bigger rpSwap.

Thanks.

[Zigurana]

Here you go, i'm mobile only, so sorry for the pic.

[cyperghost]

@Zigurana Thx... I think I missed a make clean before. Or we have different compilers :(. Our checksums differ. I think there is no time to hurry in the next few days a binary would be provided ...
@pjft Why we are still on version 2.3.2RP?

[jdrassa]

@cyperghost I believe the version number is only updated when a new binary is generated.