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

[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.

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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.

[Hex]

@cyperghost There is no guarantee that two binaries compiled on different machines with same sourcecode will have same hash. This is due to compiler selecting different approaches to optimize which results in entropy.