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    Possible? NES games and endless lives (Pokes?)

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    • top-specciT
      top-specci @mitu
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      @mitu said in Possible? NES games and endless lives (Pokes?):

      The quick menu is part of the RGUI - the RetroArch in-game menu. What you're talking about is the Emulationstation menu.

      When I open Retroarch from the "regular" menu (where I also see the diff.Emulators with their Games), it looks like the attached schreenshot. There is nothing with cheats :-(

      Or must this Retroarch-Menu opened when playing a game, but there the button select-x is not working ...

      IMG_20191124_135942.jpg

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @top-specci
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        @top-specci You need to enable the advanced menus, like it's explained in the documentation page I linked

        If you haven't done so already, you'll need to enable the advanced settings by navigating to Settings >> User Interface >> Show Advanced Settings, then enabling the Online Updater in View >> Show Online Updater

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          top-specci @mitu
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          @mitu

          OK, I had to reconfire my PS2 controler, now I reach the Menu inside the running game!

          Now I get the cheats and found someone who is working with my Donkey Kong Version!
          Thanks again!!

          I also activate that the cheat should be applied while play load, but after first tests seems this is not working.
          Should it work? I press "Apply" to confirm this selection.

          The endless lives for the running game is working! But after close the game and start again, no endless lives anymore (habe to load a save state or load cheat again)

          And:
          Can I remove this screen while loading a game and (maybe) replace by a own (game specific) picture?IMG_20191124_150719.jpg

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @top-specci
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            @top-specci said in Possible? NES games and endless lives (Pokes?):

            The endless lives for the running game is working! But after close the game and start again, no endless lives anymore (habe to load a save state or load cheat again)

            I don't use this feature at all, so maybe this is how it works - try saving a game override from the RetroArch menu and see if it's applied anytime you load the game.

            And:
            Can I remove this screen while loading a game and (maybe) replace by a own (game specific) picture?

            You can configure this in the Runcommand scriptmodule - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#configuring-runcommand.

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              top-specci
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              Thanks a lot for all this great support !!
              I will check this ....

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                VictimRLSH
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                Hacking your own cheats take a lot of practice before you get a feel what to mess with, but becomes a game in itself. Wait until you are up to hacking inventory lists in PCXS2 save states, that is a confusing mess...

                System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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                  top-specci
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                  Hi again, one more thing ...
                  I will use three emulators (Sinclar, NES, Amiga2600) and maybe 20 gamer/console.
                  I search and download manualy picture from these games and use them as launching pictures. Great!

                  Is it possible to use these pictures in "selection" menu also, actuall I only see the names from the games I installed.

                  I find an option to download automatically the rom-informations (Scraper)), but for my installed ROMS this found nearly nothing, because I renamed the Roms (maybe this is the reason that the tool ).

                  I already have the needed pictures, so is it possible to use these pictures in the screen like attached? Only the game name and the picture, no detailed informations date etc. ... ?

                  game-selection.jpg )

                  Or should I use the "original" (using scraper) way, but can I edit missing game information (picture, details like date, plattform) manually?

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @top-specci
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                    @top-specci said in Possible? NES games and endless lives (Pokes?):

                    I find an option to download automatically the rom-informations (Scramps?), but for my installed ROMS this found nearly nothing, because I renamed the Roms (maybe this is the reason that the tool ).

                    If you renamed them, then the scraper might not find them online to get the required information (images, description, rating, player #, genre, etc.). There are a few external scrapers that use the file contents to match this info - rather than the name.

                    As for you enquiry, Emulationstation stores the gamelist information(s) in a file named gamelist.xml, located in \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists\<system_name>\gamelist.xml. You can edit the file (it's an xml formatted file) and add the <image> tag containing the path to the game image.

                    You can also try using ARRM to edit the gamelist - see this topic.

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                      top-specci @mitu
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                      @mitu
                      OK, thanks, I will check ARRM.

                      So, there is no "simple" way to see a picture from (i.e.) Dig-Dug in the game selection menu if I move the cursor over the Dig-Dug game in the menu?

                      Thought like as it possible in the launching-picture option,
                      when a picture with same name exists as the rom-file has ... show this picture.

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @top-specci
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                        @top-specci said in Possible? NES games and endless lives (Pokes?):

                        So, there is no "simple" way to see a picture from (i.e.) Dig-Dug in the game selection menu if I move the cursor over the Dig-Dug game in the menu?

                        You can use Select to edit the game's metadata, including the path to the picture.

                        Thought like as it possible in the launching-picture option,
                        when a picture with same name exists as the rom-file has ... show this picture.

                        Now that you mention it, there is an option in Emulationstation to do that - it's named Search for Local Art, under the Other options.

                        7eb9b13f-defb-42e5-83bd-a40e25ae3dd4-image.png

                        I think it searches automatically the images/<ROM>-image.png or images/<ROM>-image.jpg files to show them as images.

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