What would you like to see in future Retropie releases

[Hex]

@cjax08 said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

Yea I know it can be done that way, but at the end of the day it is a hacky way of accomplishing it.

No you are wrong. That is the recommended way of doing it. I remember @BuZz mentioning somewhere that ES will never support kids mode as there is a dedicated es-kids for that.

[Hex]

@thex said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

Suggestions for a SMALL screen installation

I am working on widening menus by default if on small screen.

[herb_fargus]

@hex that's news to me. I'll let @BuZz and @Zigurana hash that out as I see no issue with inclusion provided the code is stable and tested. I would probably use it myself as I prefer minimalist interfaces

[thex]

@Hex ,
That sounds great! does widening it also make the font bigger?

[Hex]

@thex Probably can be done. Will try

[cyperghost]

@thex said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

Outside of RetroPie - add a column to the ES Themes page to identify "optimized for small screens?"

I started to make this happen with this list
But I already got a small talk with @hex - which small theme is really small.
So currently we have 3 optimized for 3,5"

• IO (cool theme, maybe the smallest in footprint!)
• GambeBoy Zero - GBZ3,5 (very cool theme)
• TFT theme

[pjft]

@hex I'm not sure that is accurate, in terms of the kids features not ever making it to the main ES. I think it's more a matter of time and testing, but I'm certainly keen on helping @Zigurana get those there.

[Hex]

I have no problems with kids mode. Just that I will not be working on that.

[edmaul69]

@hurricanefan change the permissions of the gamelist.xml files in

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/

So they dont have write permissions, they at least cant save to the gamelist.xml files. I would do the same thing with your images as well so they wont change any either.

[HurricaneFan]

@edmaul69 I didn't even think of that. That's a neat idea.

[lilbud]

@pjft I really hope es-kids becomes offical, cause I like to use it on my arcade so my brother doesn't screw up everything majorly

[psyke83]

@buzz

In fact 4.3 is basically around the corner. I have been rebuilding binaries etc recently to prepare for it.

FYI, lr-picodrive is currently broken on RPI3 with the latest source. I didn't file a bug due to it being an upstream issue (and I'm still trying to see if it can be fixed), but I'm letting you know here in case you want a working core to be distributed in the 4.3 image. The issue is due to the latest commit in the cpu/cyclone submodule (specifically: 66dda842eae01f47f5389b931ec9567fb0bbb6a1).

[ward614]

@buzz I will have to try reconfiguring my controllers then. When I last updated three weeks ago the shoulder buttons stopped working in the menu, but remained functional in all of the systems/games.

[lipebello]

I don't know if there's a way to prevent an image from slide or fade, but if there isn't, it would be awesome feature to have. I had success messing with zIndex to lock a layer on Fade mode, but the image still slide when the transition is selected.

[AkumaMax]

Controller settings for each emulator if possible. Along with a save state so you can switch between controllers.
So I mostly use 8bitdo and Wii U controllers.
When you select the game it should ask what controller you would like to play with. Maybe make this an On/off option for I'm sure some might not want this feature or even care about it.

[Hex]

@AkumaMax That is too ambitious. You will need to petition RetroArch for that

[Cjax08]

It would also be cool to be able to enable an "are you sure?" message prompt when launching a game that requires a keyboard and/or mouse. MS-DOS, ports, and Scummvm games sometimes are accidentally selected when just a controller is available, which then leaves with no choice but to shut down and restart to get back to the menu. Which is even harder if someone doesn't have a shut down switch which could lead to SD card corruption. Just a small addition I would think is cool.

I say small. I don't know a lick about coding, so I could be sorely wrong.

[edmaul69]

@cjax08 you can set dosbox to have a two button exit on your controller.

[Hex]

@Cjax08 You can actually edit your setup to do this. its a bit of a hack.

[pjft]

@akumamax I think @meleu has a very nice script that does just that. Maybe he can share more details.