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

cyperghost

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cyperghost

@Hex Your way is incredible fast. It takes only 5 minutes to compile. I think it's the make cleanup before. I'm still testing both branches (your and pjft`s)
Thank you :) I will write a small report for favorites usage and CPU usage.

pjft

@cyperghost by all means, feel free to share the binary. I can do it tomorrow as well. My binary was compiled on a pi 3 though.

Sorry for the potentially incorrect instructions, I wrote them from memory.

cyperghost

@pjft de nada

TMNTturtlguy

wow, I travel for work for 2 weeks and the world has turned upside-down! This stuff looks incredible, but I just got a setup that is working wonderfully......I guess i better buy another pi and start a fresh build!

cyperghost

@TMNTturtlguy
There is no need for a second PI... The make process runs wonderfull and you can exchange the compiled binary with the binary in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
Don't worry you won't mess up the system :)

I can provide binaries:
https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive

Hex

Actually this is a great idea to provide compiled binaries on github with proper versions and features.

cyperghost

@Hex That's a bit hard to handle. I think main feature, author and ES version should be enough.
But everybody is free to fork and add the archive :)
I hope the archive will make development faster and more accurate because more users can simply download and try out versions.

In the repo...

If there is no @ in the name then it's a main branch release within RetroPie
authors of the branch are names by adding @name to the file
main features are named within file name

for ex. emulationstation2.1.5RP means main realase of ES from RetroPie in ES version 2.1.5
for ex. emulationstation2.2.4RP PS @hex PowerSavingsmeans ES branch from @hex with PowerSaving feature with ES version 2.2.4

Hex

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

@Hex That's a bit hard to handle. I think main feature, author and ES version should be enough.
But everybody is free to fork and add the archive :)

I mean for a tester to do and not the developer. The dev cannot keep on sharing the binaries as they are much busy compiling

cyperghost

Added @pjft file to binary archive RPI2/3 only

https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive

How to:

Copy file from repro and rename it back to emulationstation
Rename file emulationstation in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/ maybe emulationstation.org >> That's your backup!
Copy repro file to /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
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@Hex I wans't able to merge your Powersaver Patch together with @pjft
I added

https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation feature-powersaver d2aa4861704e4d93659246c13ecc982a6fd18314 Hex's powersaver patch

to es-patches.txt but I wasn't able to select this patch. Just the Repro was available.

meleu

@Hex hey bro, do you recommend some cross compiling guide? Compiling ES on my raspi1 is very time consuming and on my laptop take 2 or 3 minutes. I compiled the very first version of the @pjft 's PR and it took almos 4 hours on my raspi1. Now I don't have the guts to compile the new changes we are getting (I would like to test/provide feedback about two PRs you submitted too).

cyperghost

@meleu Maybe I uploaded the file you need already.
https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive

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Sorry @pjft your branch work wonderfull. I can even favourize the favourites of Little Favourite Launcher and it works flawless ;) Thank you very much I'm looking forward that the next release will be a burner :)

One suggestion. The "Added xxxxx to favourite" beacon is in the middle of the upper screen. May you can set it to right down corner?

Little Bug if you add a Favorite within the auto-favorite then ES will give error message segmentation faultand the binary is killed

Hex

@meleu Thats the beauty i work with. I write all my code on my linux system only. I test it on rasp pi only when i reach a workable copy. skipping make clean should reduce the compile time. The thing is the higheryour changes are in the hierarchy the more files are compiled again. If you have a Pi3 i would suggest compiling on that. It is fast on pi 3. Use 2 or 3 cores only and not all 4 else you will run out of ram.

I do not have a cross compile setup. I never have used one.

Hex

@cyperghost Did you atleast see the patches menu?

 es-dev.sh (version: zeta.2) - manage EmulationStation mods on your RetroPie
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Would you like to apply any patches from es-patches.txt or remove all   │  
│ patches applied to this repository?                                     │  
│                                                                         │  
│                                                                         │  
│                                                                         │  
│                                                                         │  
│                                                                         │  
│                                                                         │  
│                                                                         │  
│                                                                         │  
│                                                                         │  
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤  
│                       < Yes >            < No  >                        │  
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

cyperghost

No... This windows I had never seen.

I tried manually via the github commands you posted... But then there was an error message about the cherry pick, that I can't commit the file.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation -b RetroPie-Virtual-Systems-PR pjft-vs

mkdir pjft-vs/build && cd pjft-vs/build

git  fetch https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation feature-powersaver
git cherry-pick d2aa4861704e4d93659246c13ecc982a6fd18314

git clone works and downloads pjfts branch
of course works
git fetch also works
did not work

Hex

@cyperghost please post the error that you get.

cyperghost

from git fetch https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation feature-powersaver

pi@retropie:~/pjft-vs/build $ git  fetch https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation feature-powersaver
From https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
 * branch            feature-powersaver -> FETCH_HEAD

from git cherry-pick d2aa4861704e4d93659246c13ecc982a6fd18314

pi@retropie:~/pjft-vs/build $ git cherry-pick d2aa4861704e4d93659246c13ecc982a6fd18314
error: Your local changes would be overwritten by cherry-pick.
hint: Commit your changes or stash them to proceed.
fatal: cherry-pick failed

Hex

@cyperghost Okay i get what is happening. follow these commands and post on success or failure (post error messages too mate)

git cherry-pick --abort
git reset --hard
git cherry-pick d2aa4861704e4d93659246c13ecc982a6fd18314

lilbud

I updated to the newest version. How do you create game collections?

I see the game collections settings menu, but how does it all work?

cyperghost

@Hex That worked!
Thank you mate ... I had to fill out credentials in git -- git config -- but now the branch is merged!

It works like @Sano already wrote. If there is no action in ES the CPU load on a Raspberry gots down from 15-20% (without PS) to only 0,3% really amazing.

I'll upload to github >> https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive