What would you like to see in future Retropie releases

Hyruleslink

I would love to see an official background music player for ES complete with song randomizer in the next release.

thedeathstar

I use save states quite a bit, and it would be cool to see that become more idiot proof. I have overwritten a game that I'm trying to load because I hit the wrong buttons. Something like a dialog box to confirm like "Loading Save State 2 - Ok/Cancel" etc. would make my life a lot easier. Not sure if that's even a Retropie thing though.

dankcushions

@thedeathstar there's 'undo load save state' in the retroarch RGUI menu (select + X)

A Former User

music player app to play whilst plying games

meleu

@thehuntedfew I think RetroArch can do that.

A Former User

@meleu any idea how ?

Panther7

I think the major update that is currently needed is better scraper integration. This could come in a few different flavors:

1.) More options for scrapers beyond gamesdb (which doesn't work half the time)
2.) Code that allows easier implementation of new (future) scrapers
3.) Ability to scrape missing/empty fields only

meleu

@thehuntedfew I read about it on the RetroArch 1.6.0 annoucement, but I didn't test it myself.
Follow that link and look for the Audio Mixer section.

Hex

To all those who want a music player built into ES, it is not happening any time soon. What I can offer is an interface with a python server that plays music. I wrote one in 2012 which still works well. and has an Android controller application.
Details -> https://github.com/hex007/pifm_server/blob/master/README.md

To those wanting GIF support, not now. A lot of new features are being added and they have the devs pinned with work.

@Panther7 Have you thought about contributing data to GamesDB? You can actually make edits and add metadata for missing games.

Gavlarr1

BBC Micro, Acorn and Archimedes without having to use MESS (not user friendly at all). Is this wishful thinking?

phulshof

@gavlarr1 said in What would you like to see in future Retropie releases:

BBC Micro, Acorn and Archimedes without having to use MESS (not user friendly at all). Is this wishful thinking?

Just curious: Why do you consider MESS to be not user friendly?

AndersHP

@hex Here's my personal list (apologies, if these are less possible to execute or only have to do with ES, I'm no coder, just a casual retrogamer) :

Grid view
Better Amiga emulation support:
with multidisk bootable directly from ES.
with keymapping through CFG files
WHDLoad support
Pegasus integration
Favourites: filtering favourites on/off toggle with a buttonpress.

Hex

Grid view is being worked on. See PR
Not my expertise
Can you elaborate?
@pjft might comment on this

pjft

I don't think there are any plans to make favorites toggleable via a button press. There's the favorites games list as a whole, which acts as such a shortcut, and I imagine that @Zigurana may consider implementing a "Favorites" mode similar to the one present in the Kids mode.

If there's an overwhelming number of requests for such a use case, certainly open to considering it, but for the time being it's just noted.

Thanks.

AndersHP

@hex OK.
Regarding the Pegasus integration, see here.

Again, as a non-coder, I don't know if it is the right place to post this request, I just really want to see this frontend as a full-on alternative to ES, and AFAIK it's under "experimental packages".

SuperFromND

@phulshof I'm not Gavlarr himself, so his answer is probably different, but I think I have a pretty good idea what it is:

Compared to almost every other emulator on RetroPie, MESS requires quite a bit of configuration to get working (especially in the case of, say, setting up three different systems that each function differently, without resorting to a hundred shell scripts), as opposed to the usual "download emulator from retropie setup, put the roms in the folder, put the bios if needed, launch and play the thing".

Zigurana

@pjft @AndersHP ,
I don't understand, this functionality is already there, or not?
When toggling the favorite status with 'y', this data is saved in the game's metadata tag <favorite>, you can then filter on these by selecting the correct filter in the menu.
Or do you mean to say you want a specific shortcut to this particular filter type (show only games where favorite == true)?

pjft

@zigurana from what I understood, it was the latter (a simple way to only see favorites in ES), hence my mention of the favorites mode in ES-Kids.

That being said, I may have misread that :)

Gavlarr1

@supercatfooz that is the exact reason, it takes a lot of configuration (which I have tried and failed miserably)

Gavlarr1

@phulshof I have tried to configure it (using the guides). I have so far failed to get it to work.