What would you like to see in future Retropie releases

Used2BeRX

@mrjordaaany Hey man. I don't know what the Disney Afternoon Collection is, so I can't say about that.

What I mean is that on a modded XBox using Madmab Editon emulators, you can map any controller button to be the fastforward button, and you can also very easily increase or decrease the speed of the FF in the same menu. There is no hot key.

I realize that this can get in the way for some of the later consoles, but having the right trigger button mapped to FF is perfect on the NES. Usually I map black or white to it for the later emus that actually use the triggers. I have a controller that has the white and black buttons as bumpers so I can still FF the same way in that case.

I know that RetroPie uses a hot key for this. It took me a LONG time to figure out how to get that feature to work when I exited a game by manually editing the specific controller configuration file. It's nice that it's there, but I just don't like how it works. I'd rather be able to do this without a hotkey required.

Maybe most people prefer it the other way, but I'd love to see the option to do it without a hotkey. That's how I've done it for over 10 years now, so the hotkey just gets in the way, especially when I'm trying to quickly test games.

I totally get the reason why you guys use the hotkey, and I'm not dismissing that. It would be cool to have some sort of override option that allowed you to map it without one is all I'm saying.

dankcushions

you can fast forward with a hotkey, it just means everything else is without a hotkey (quit, etc).

other than that, i think retroarch aren't likely to change it. not a retropie decision.

MrJordaaany

@used2berx for the Disney Afternoon collection I meant this:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/525040/The_Disney_Afternoon_Collection/

But yeah I should have guessed you meant xbox emulators. All good!

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

you can fast forward with a hotkey, it just means everything else is without a hotkey (quit, etc).

other than that, i think retroarch aren't likely to change it. not a retropie decision.

This is exactly what I was going to suggest next. Have the hotkey and FF mapped to the same button. But then you lose all the other hotkeys.

Used2BeRX

@mrjordaaany Yeah... when I first read what dank said, I was excited, until I realized that once you entered a game you were stuck there. That's no good.

The XBox configuration is quite a bit more complicated than the configuration on the RetroPie, and that can definately be dangerous at times. That's why I suggested years ago that a "dummy mode" be implemented to lock down features so people couldn't poke around and screw the whole thing up after you set everything the way you wanted it. Now that Madmab entered this feature on all of the emulators, configuring things is a dream over there. There's practically no limitations on what you can do with it, so those who know what they're doing have a lot more freedom.

I do get the need to be overbearingly cautious with these things though. I'm sure that putting such strict limits on everything saves a whole lot of people a whole lot of time having to explain why their stuff is broke because they did some dumb stuff. It's just unfortunate sometimes that these safeguards were implemented in such a way that you can't circumvent them.

Bummer to hear that it can't be fixed on our end here and that it's out of our hands.

Used2BeRX

How about a way to search all of the game databases?

For example, if I wanted to have a list presented of all of the games with Mario in them, I could search for "Mario" and Every game with Mario in the game title field in all gamelist.xml files would be presented.

Even better if the system name would be displayed with each entry somehow.

Hex

@Used2BeRX It will not be a priority as the default target is Retropie and most users use gamepads and not keyboards.

Used2BeRX

@hex Right. I don't use a keyboard either, besides just when I'm testing or doing other work. This would require a virtual keyboard to be implemented. Something like how you can search for movies and TV shows with the Fire Stick remote control (which only has 4 buttons). I know I saw somebody here mention that idea as well, but I didn't see what the follow up on that idea would be.

SystemLogoffSA

My Personal 3:
Background Music Through Emulation Station Settings so it would turn off automatically when videos play/screensaver starts.
Copy/Paste in the Metadata fields
On-Screen Keyboard when you only have a controller.

I know they might never happen, but I had to throw them out there. ;)

Darksavior

I'd like to see build dates of binaries in retropie-setup. Good for those that just want to update an emulator and nothing else.

Allanbuzzy

I would like to have a built in background music option inside EmulationStation, because I find that flicking through games inside of ES is a bit boring without some music. I know, this can be achieved with a script, but the last time I used a script for music, my RetroPie couldn't update all packages.

CubanRudeBoy108

I would love to see a delete function built into retropie gui. I was given a folder with 5000 mame/arcade games in it. It contains doubles and games that dont work. It is very hard to identify that exact rom from inside the folder, as the way mame roms must be titled in a very spacific way(i.e. mame.zip) and can not be changed. So yea, a way to remove a rom from within retropie. Thank you! I love what you guys have done!

HurricaneFan

@cubanrudeboy108 You can delete a rom by hitting SELECT, Edit metadata and delete at the bottom of the list of values.

CubanRudeBoy108

@hurricanefan oh! Sweet! Thank you

DD-Indeed

Playstation controller icons would be sweet to have on the EmulationStation. Or better yet, some customization features on those as well, arcade cabinet owners especially would like that.

jthemad

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

My Personal 3:
Background Music Through Emulation Station Settings so it would turn off automatically when videos play/screensaver starts.
Copy/Paste in the Metadata fields
On-Screen Keyboard when you only have a controller.

I know they might never happen, but I had to throw them out there. ;)

Same for me.. music and virtual keyboard (Batocera style) please!

Waimea

Hi, I would like to see an inbuilt option to run games on SD CARD and on USB STICK at the same time.

SD card with RETROPIE Image and gb/gbc/gba/nes/snes/n64
USB STICK with NEO GEO and PSX

I don't want to manually mount the USB STICK and I don't want to copy ROMS from USB STICK to SD CARD or vice versa.

Used2BeRX

@waimea You can do this using symbolic links for your CD based systems.

I wrote up a guide on it on another site that I can't link here because of roms. Maybe if I get time next week I'll re-write it for this site. (Or somebody might already have instructions here and post them by then).

You should learn how to use them man. You can do a ton of cool stuff with them.

duiz

A feature I'm still missing from ES is the ability to hide certain files. Like in arcade gamelists, the ability to hide bios roms or certain double disk games elsewhere just to not clutter up gamelists.

Waimea

@used2berx Please do write a guide or paste the guide you have written on this forum.

Used2BeRX

@waimea Sure thing man. It's officially on my to-do list right now. I apologize that I can't get to it immediately, but I'm in the middle of something that's taking up all of my attention right now and I have some RL stuff to take care of this week. I hope to get it up here by the weekend.

I'll just let you know that with them I've been able to plug in a couple of test USB drives with some CDs on them and they loaded flawlessly for me. It's kind of like the old days where you put a cart in the console and fired it up. :)

Another use I've found for it is with the gamelist.xml files. I've been working with @meleu on a script to generate these XML files and update them as I gather more information and artwork and other extras. Rather than have to move the files it makes into each file individually per system (which takes a LOT of time and folder navigating), I put symbolic links in place of these documents that all point to the documents this script generates in the same folder. This means that whenever I update the files with the script all I have to do is reboot the Pi and it immediately displays all of the new information.

Trust me man. This feature is great. I've been a Windows guy all of my life but between the fact you don't need drivers for devices and the symbolic link feature I'm doing what I can to learn Linux and finally make the switch from the Dark Side. :)