Need help with a couple of things please

misticknight

So that’s to both remove old code and add new shutdown script or the entire script is just to remove it?

Efriim

This is to remove the original script from Retroflag
https://github.com/RetroFlag/retroflag-picase/issues/9

I'll try to rewrite the instructions for installing the modified safe-shutdown multiswitch script from this thread

wget -O - "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/retroflag-picase/master/install.sh" | sudo bash

EDIT Step 3 was unnecessary you should revert the changes.
Step 4 is also unnecessary, as I don't know how to get the shutdown_fan script to work, or if it even does what I want it to do if it did work.

misticknight

@Efriim

Thanks again for the help :) couldn’t get my fan to fit in so that step probably not needed for me anyways.

Efriim

@misticknight
You're welcome, I think that one script does it all so my steps were pretty useless.
There is a manual install method that starts the multiswitch script differently, it might be worth trying if you aren't satisfied. You can read about it in the first post of that thread.

My case came with a fan, it's small but it does prevent overheating, you really should use a fan, but I guess it will be fine without an overclock.

Efriim

I guess I should include how to uninstall this script.
It's as easy as deleting the /opt/RetroFlag/ folder
and edit remove this the second to last line in /etc/rc.local

sudo python3 /opt/RetroFlag/SafeShutdown.py &

so that it is no more. That is only edit that one line of /etc/rc.local and leave the rest of it intact.

misticknight

hey

finally got everything working the way i want even the Wii U pro controller. just one more question now, is there anyway to copy an es_config i made on windows to retropie? I find it easier to type in windows instead of the raspberry pi OS its too clunky...also not to mention ive already started now and dont want to start again. whenever i use putty or WinSCP (is this the recommended ssh programs?) it wont let me copy over any files, it just lets me add roms.

Efriim

@misticknight
Maybe, you should be able to but I think your wanting to transfer your gamelist.xml check to see if you are using relatively the same version of emulationstation on windows. Retropie is updated to ES V2.8.1.

If you have samba shares enabled. You can connect to your networked pi by either typing \\pi_hostname\ or \\ipa.ddr.ess.pi\ in windows explorers URL bar, sometimes you can also find your share by exploring the network.

If you have SSH enabled, you can connect using ssh or ftp, using whichever client program you want.

You can find the gamelist.xml for each system at
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/"system name"/
or
\\pi_address\roms\"system name"

A cool trick I learned from reading this forum.
If you copy the file from /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/
This will override the default config and you can edit this file to change the order that the systems are in in emulation station.
After you copy it you can also edit this file at
\\pi_address\configs\all\emulationstation\
Make sure to keep all the encapsulation{<brackets>} intact.
And be wary that if you add a new system that is not on the list, you may have to tend to this file in order for it to appear, you can always delete the override copy at \configs\all... or use the original file at /etc/emulationstation/ as a reference to rebuild it.

misticknight

@Efriim

You are the man ! Thanks heaps bro. This build now is working out so much better than the 64gb one on the sd card I broke. Things happen for a reason :p

Efriim

@misticknight
I hope that answered your question. If you are copying a gamelist.xml over it probably wont work without some editing, you may have to replace all the backward slash directories with the correct forward slash directories on the pi.

misticknight

@Efriim

It did thanks :) and now that I’m in the right direction I know enough to play around with it till it works anyways