What would you like to see in future Retropie releases

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.

dsstrainer

ES Kiosk/Kid mode built in or really just add more granularity in the xml file on what you can enable/disable from the menus. No need for a separate "mode".. just set on/off flags for each menu item. This will give the most dynamic future proof setup and allow users to customize the menus as they please.
Screensaver options that allow a video to play instead of just "dim" or "black" screen.
Proper screen sleep after x minutes of screensaver time.
On Screen Keyboard within the menus so that you can enter wifi password using only the joystick and buttons

MrJordaaany

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

Screensaver options that allow a video to play instead of just "dim" or "black" screen.

You can do this now. Update your EmulationStation.

Hex

The core dev group has decided not to implement Game ScreenSaver

We are currently planning on freezing new feature integration after Kiosk mode is introduced and continue with code clean up and bug fixing for the month of October. Critical bug if any would be addressed with priority. Please follow development, if you want, on github. If you find bugs, first report them on Forum. We shall escalate them if they are critical.

pjft

@hex ? I take it you mean it's not going to be implemented for 4.3?

Hex

Kiosk is not being included in the next release. Thats what buzz said

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/235#issuecomment-330013773

pjft

@hex I was asking about the video screensaver bit. I want aware that there had been such a final decision on something. Thanks.

Hex

@pjft I am confused. Video Screensaver is already done. Game screensaver is where it runs a rom for a fixed time and then closes the emulator to start again with a random game.

pjft

@hex ah, sorry. I was referring to @dsstrainer 's request a few posts back for a video screensaver similar to the image one.

sergioad

An icon or alternate text for favorited games