What would you like to see in future Retropie releases

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

jawah

Hello,

Could it be possible to have all save files are recorded in a separed common directory and not in the roms directory ?? (to avoid messing with it when using a rom management tool or for just keeping the roms directory as clean as possible ...)

Thank in advance for reading me.

SuperFromND

@jawah I haven't tested it myself, but I'm pretty sure that's what the "Savefile" option in the RetroArch menu is for. (Settings > Directory > Scroll to nearly-bottom of page > Savefile, it's set to <Content dir> by default)

jawah

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

@jawah I haven't tested it myself, but I'm pretty sure that's what the "Savefile" option in the RetroArch menu is for. (Settings > Directory > Scroll to nearly-bottom of page > Savefile, it's set to <Content dir> by default)

ok i'll check that when i'm done working today :)

Thank you.

mxstar1

@twd @hex YES... I want this so bad! i have Attract running in vertical, while keeping the system un rotated, but i cant use ES in my vertical cab because it is not rotated. It would be really nice to be able to rotate ES independant of the boot.cfg

Hex

@mxstar1 I dont think we have anyone working on it. I tried a simpler approach but it is a lot more complex. We have a distinct vision that is not aligned at all with Attract mode. So I dont know if this feature will be incorporated any time soon.

Used2BeRX

Hey guys. Somebody probably already requested this at some point, so apologies if I'm re-hashing something already discussed... or even something that can already be done that I'm not aware of.

I was wondering if we could have user-profiles. I'm sure there could be many useful applications for this, but the one that came to mind for me was to have multiple favorites lists.

While testing NES games I'm finding quite a few that I know my niece would love, but I doubt they'd be on my brother's favorites list if he used the feature. I thought it would be cool to make a favorites list for both of them before I get his pi back to him.

HurricaneFan

@used2berx You could build a custom collection for each person and name it whatever you wanted.

Hex

@used2berx said in What would you like to see in future Retropie releases:

Hey guys. Somebody probably already requested this at some point, so apologies if I'm re-hashing something already discussed... or even something that can already be done that I'm not aware of.

I was wondering if we could have user-profiles. I'm sure there could be many useful applications for this, but the one that came to mind for me was to have multiple favorites lists.

While testing NES games I'm finding quite a few that I know my niece would love, but I doubt they'd be on my brother's favorites list if he used the feature. I thought it would be cool to make a favorites list for both of them before I get his pi back to him.

@pjft Thoughts on this?

morrisav10

@hex J2me would be amazing!

Hex

@morrisav10 You dont say...
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11441/would-you-like-to-play-nokia-j2me-games-on-retropie

pjft

@hex @Used2BeRX

Thanks for tagging me. I had certainly thought about something to that effect in the past. I have no short term plans to look into it, though. When that was initially brought up, one of the main challenges was also separating save files (meaning, having user profiles not only in ES but actually across RetroPie). Unfortunately I didn't have the time nor an immediate idea for what could be a workable solution, so I didn't really pursue it.

If you're looking to store different favorites for different people, the current custom collections feature might help, where you can create a collection for each user to store their games. I have that for my wife and for the kids, for instance.

I'm not sure if that helps in the short term. Are you looking for save state separation as well, or was it really storing different favorites collections for different users?

Thanks for raising it though. I will certainly keep that on the backburner, but likely won't pick it up before Q1 2018 the earliest.