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

pjft

So, end of day update:

Added the "caps" to the system name;
Adjusted the "Go to Random Game" functionality to behave as discussed earlier;
Added a "Filter by Favorites" per system, so far. I may add an option to make it global to be closer to the ES-Kids branch at a later stage, but not for now.
(Hopefully) A few fixes to nasty, hidden bugs spotted by @Zigurana (thanks!).
A few other quality of life changes, I suppose, but mostly around the code.

So if nobody runs into issues when testing it, I'm reasonably happy with its current state and hopefully the PR can go into the normal approval flow.

Well, as soon as I rebase it, I imagine.

Thank you all!

If all goes well, next stop: user created collections!

lilbud

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

next stop: user created collections

Will they function the same as favorites and lastplayed? Also, how would we create them? would it be done through ES?

pjft

@lilbud The idea is that all will be created via ES.

See here for the concept:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/90376

cyperghost

@pjft
I merged your brach together with powersavings enabeld.
The bug @hex Powersavings is still there :( - I will post this habbit on PowerSavings Thread

Added the "caps" to the system name;

works!

Adjusted the "Go to Random Game" functionality to behave as discussed earlier;

Nice solution. If there is no other urgent need for X then it is a good usecase

Added a "Filter by Favorites" per system, so far. I may add an option to make it global to be closer to the ES-Kids branch at a later stage, but not for now.

Well this works as an filter for auto-lastgames to show only favorite entries.
Why not? At the moment I see no usecase and but no case against this...

(Hopefully) A few fixes to nasty, hidden bugs spotted by @Zigurana (thanks!).

A few other quality of life changes, I suppose, but mostly around the code.

Didn't notice ;)

I upload binary to my github https://github.com/crcerror/emulationstation-binary-archive

pjft

@cyperghost Thanks for testing!

You can, I suppose, filter by favorites the "All Games" list to have the same as favorites, sure. It's just that access to Favorites is a common use case, but yeah, good catch.

I added this morning a sort by system, which is useful on the collections.

I'm still finalizing a bug fix from @Zigurana 's report, as it isn't fixed yet :)

The PS bug will need to be looked into on the PS side of things, as I don't know what's being added there. But hopefully that'll be done in due time.

Thanks for looking into this :)

cyperghost

@pjft @Hex

uploaded binary!
Feel free to test on your mashines
It's called ES 2.3.1 RP merged commit favorites + power saving v2

lilbud

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

ES 2.3.1 RP merged commit favorites + power saving v2

and Knuckles

cyperghost

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

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

ES 2.3.1 RP merged commit favorites + power saving v2

and Knuckles

Sorry? - I didn't get you

lilbud

@cyperghost

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/knuckles

cyperghost

@lilbud
Yes I should use shorter descriptions.
But not really much would download and install the compiled binaries - sadly.
That would speed up debugging a lot!

pjft

Hi all.

Thanks a lot for your hard work and effort in testing this!

It's now been merged to the main repository, so you now have favorites and such provided you're using a supported theme:)

Next stop: custom collections. I'll open a new topic for that when there's something to test!

Thanks and have a great weekend.

meleu

@pjft Huge thanks bro!!

pjft

@meleu not at all, my pleasure!

Go and have fun. :)

red2blue

@pjft hey man I'm super confused and I don't quite understand github and compiling...

So how do I incorporate your features on to my pi?? I really want the favorites thing and the power saving thing..

Also since we're on the subject how do I grab things from github branches and put it into my pi??? Like when I go under comments for let's say retropie github and people add fixes or features how do I put that onto my pi?

red2blue

@pjft how do I update it to make it do this from main repository

Hex

@red2blue All you have to do is update emulationstation from source in Retropie setup and it will have this feature as it has been incorporated into main repo

red2blue

@Hex oh sweet!! Does it come with your power saving thing as well??

Do i need to take my emulationstayion off kids mode? Which themes are supported?

Also can you help me on loading github requests pulls or whatever it's called onto my pi?

Hex

@red2blue said in Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems:

@Hex oh sweet!! Does it come with your power saving thing as well??

No

Do i need to take my emulationstayion off kids mode? Which themes are supported?

I dont have any experiance with kids mode. is it a setting or a different install altogether. @meleu can you answer this

Also can you help me on loading github requests pulls or whatever it's called onto my pi?

Which PR are you interested in? https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pulls

red2blue

@Hex Emulation Station Kids Mode is another type of Emulation station you can install, before.. thats what you were suppose to use for the favorites thing.

a PR i would like to install would be yours, haha https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/172

So how would i do that?

Hex

@red2blue My PR is currently in heavy testing. I would suggest you not use it unless you are confident enough to report and run test code on your system. Also I have not tested it with recently merged PRs so it might have some bugs. You can test out a clean build from my branch feature-powersaver using meleu's script