Why can't you hide gamelist entries any more?

dankcushions

@SpudsMcToole said in Why can't you hide gamelist entries any more?:

The idea of starting a whole new image from scratch, which seems to be everyone's answer to everything like a PC helpline telling you to switch it off and on again, seems a bit like smashing your house to rubble with a wrecking ball and building a new one because you've lost the TV remote.

Some of us just want to play the games and are picking all the rest of it up on the hoof, y'know? If the choices are "risk burning everything down and wrecking hundreds of hours of work doing something I don't understand" and "put up with a marginally untidy gamelist with a BIOS file or two in it", I'll just live with the untidiness.

we have been through this before with you: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/23929/anyone-managed-to-install-lr-vice/11?_=1586804569028

typically we're not going to be able to support you running an ancient version - this thread is a great example - your issue isn't a new regression like you worded it in your post title, it's something that was added in 2018, but you're running a version from 2017.

the choice you have available is: keep your old setup, but be unsupported, or update, and we will be able to help. of course, i doubt you CAN update at this point, as you're two whole versions of raspbian behind!

i don't have a problem with you sticking with an old version, but please don't seek support for it without behing very clear that that is what you're running by filling in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (which we request all users do, anyway), and be prepared for the answer in most situations being: "you need to update".

SpudsMcToole

@Riverstorm said in Why can't you hide gamelist entries any more?:

@grant2258 - Thanks for taking a look you're usually a wiz at this kind of stuff! ;) I'll open an issue and see if someone feels it's worth looking into tweaking it.

@SpudsMcToole - I'm winging it here but I think if you go into the 'RetroPie Setup' (from within Emulationstation--RetroPie Setup) and update the RetroPie script (to get the new versions/updates in the script). Then under I think 'Main Packages' you'll find Emulationstation that can be updated. You might want to have an image backup in case it "breaks" anything. You'll get the file hidden and some new features to boot. If I remember I think you did a whole lot of custom controls setup once upon a time?

No, I looked in there and there's no option to update ES.

SpudsMcToole

@dankcushions said in Why can't you hide gamelist entries any more?:

we have been through this before with you: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/23929/anyone-managed-to-install-lr-vice/11?_=1586804569028

typically we're not going to be able to support you running an ancient version - this thread is a great example - your issue isn't a new regression like you worded it in your post title, it's something that was added in 2018, but you're running a version from 2017.

the choice you have available is: keep your old setup, but be unsupported, or update, and we will be able to help. of course, i doubt you CAN update at this point, as you're two whole versions of raspbian behind!

i don't have a problem with you sticking with an old version, but please don't seek support for it without behing very clear that that is what you're running by filling in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (which we request all users do, anyway), and be prepared for the answer in most situations being: "you need to update".

I don't mind the answer being "You're running an old version, you're screwed", and appreciate the answers. But there does seem to be an enormous amount of expectation that everyone will KNOW stuff like that, when there's no obvious way for an ordinary user to know.

Like I said, I do try to check all this stuff and only ask here as a last resort so as not to waste people's time. But if you Google ES you get a website that looks official with nothing to suggest anywhere else you should be looking. Retropie documentation in general is an incomprehensible labyrinth for normal folk, which is why I've tried to help by writing a couple of plain-language guides for stuff I've managed to figure out (AdvMESS and Pico-8).

I mean, I thought about trying to install Daphne the other day and went looking for instructions, and everything would have made more sense if it had been translated into Aramaic by a drunk chicken 😂

sirhenrythe5th

@SpudsMcToole i also started as an ordinary user (and still am compared to dankcushions & co.), but i had a lot of success with the documentation alone.
What i did different from you when i used google-search: i always used the prefix "retropie" when looking for something.
So i did not search for "emulationstation" but for "retropie emulationstation" to get specific results i.e.
I have never been on the official ES-Site ;)
And you can update "Emulationstation" within the retropie_setup for sure!, it is under "main packages/core packages" when i remember right (i am at work right now, so no Pi near me to verify).

Riverstorm

@SpudsMcToole - I believe it should be there even on older versions. I don't mind giving you hand if it helps. As of late I have a little extra time due heterogeneous world events.

On your ES carousel there should be a stylized RetroPie logo as one of the selectable systems. Basically the same as selecting an emulator/core.

Then select RetroPie Setup -> Update RetroPie-Setup script. This should update your script to the current version.

Then select Manage packages -> Manage Core Packages.

Under Manage Core Packages select Emulationstation (Installed). From there you have the options to Udpate From Binary or Update From Source.

The wording might be slightly different and I left out the number options as they do seem to change occasionally but it should be generally the correct steps to get ES updated.