What would you like to see in future Retropie releases

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.

phulshof

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

@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".

That's how it works for me, though if you're using MESS to emulate personal computers (which I guess these might qualify as) it's wise to use the software lists. As long as you just play games, it shouldn't be much of an issue. :) On my PC, I use MESS for almost all older console emulation and for MSX emulation as well.

phulshof

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

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

I haven't used it on the pi yet, but I've used it extensively on my PC. Feel free to send me a PM with what exactly you're trying to do, and where it fails, and I'll do my best to help you out. :)

Gavlarr1

@phulshof thanks, don’t get as much time to use it. Will PM when I get a chance to go through what I have tried 👍

theissdev

FIrst off, thank you for collections. They're freaking amazing. I would like to see a small improvement on them though:

In addition to being able to start/end editing collections, have a modifier key-Y combo bring up a list of collections as a quick add mechanism, especially when in All Games and it's just crazytown in there.

Hyruleslink

I would like to see the game lists recognize roman numerals as numbers when ordering the games.

For example, currently these two games are ordered this way:
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy VII

It should read like this however:
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy IX

That would be a nice little thing to add to the next release :)

HurricaneFan

I'd love a way to turn off Last Played, PlayCount fields from getting populated without having to use the Parse Gamelist feature. If I have that feature on, I can't save new Favorites and also can't add new Roms and expect them to automatically show up the next time ES is restarted.

pjft

@hurricanefan What's the exact use case you're going for here, just for me to wrap my head around it?

If I recall correctly, you're:

Loading a new ROM to see if you like it;
Then decide whether to add it to Favorites or not;
Then the problem is that it shows up as Last Played.

Is that the issue?

If you don't have "Save Metadata on Exit" enabled it won't save the playcount/last played, but it also won't save favorites which I see would defeat the purpose.

The only alternative, unfortunately a workaround, is to:

Disable "Save metadata on exit"
Then create a new collection ("My favorites" or something)
Try out the games
Add the games to it, instead of to the standard "Favorites" collection
When finished, re-enable the "Save metadata on exit", and add all the games in that collection to your favorites

Otherwise "Last Played" and "Play count" work as intended.

HurricaneFan

@pjft I stopped using the Last Played collection and don't really care about ES saving that data. So as a wish list item, I'd love to see it stop being collected as a feature.

I'm always testing stuff and the last played data is always something I manually remove out of gamelist.xml files. So this would just save me a step. :)

pjft

@hurricanefan I see. Thanks for the clarification then.

Doesn't disabling "Save Metadata on Exit" help with that, then?

HurricaneFan

@pjft It does, but with the Favorite feature. I'll have to remember to turn it on and off whenever I want to use that feature.