EmulationStation mod

jacobfk20

@Rookervik I have a branch that is just gridview that is windows friendly. I will compile a windows version of it sometime in the next couple days.

ben_thatmustbeme

I am trying to keep up with any new code in my PieStation branch as well as merge in anything anyone has added. Attempting to pull in the kid friendly branch has caused some issues with it. But I would love anyone who has more time than I do, to feel free to poke around.

The latest attempt to merge herdinger's code, @Zigurana and @jacobfk20's grid view code all in to mine is on the 'allmerge' branch, but a test run showed it clearly had problems on the main system list, haven't dug in to what happened yet.

https://github.com/dissolve/PieStation/

Once it gets a little more stable i'll create the PR for a setup script

https://github.com/dissolve/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/piestation.sh

in the meantime, anyone can easily create that on their own system for whatever github repo / branch and you can have it install it all for you.

mattrixk

@jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

The thing I would want first is giving more theme control over system view and adding more alignment options.

Yay, alignment options! Just a reminder I had a bunch of ideas/requests upthread and the first few were theme related.

simbz23

@jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

@simbz23 Are you using the Pi 3's internal wifi? can you run ifconfig wlan0 and not get an error?

ifconfig works fine actually! Reports my IP and MAC correctly, and yes I'm using the internal wifi :-/

jacobfk20

@simbz23 You said you were able to see the info of your current connected wifi correct? If so I may have an idea on what is happening. I'll take a look tomorrow and may post an update.

Zigurana

@Global-Moderators: This thread needs moderation, maybe split it into several topics?

ES: db vs XML
ES: feature requests
ES: troubleshooting
ES: Ideas for further dev

simbz23

@jacobfk20 Sweet, thank you! :-)

meleu

@Zigurana
For feature requests we can continue in this existent thread:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/177/emulationstation-feature-requests-here

Or, better yet, the "issue" section of the specific github repository.

Zigurana

@meleu and which repository would that be? Did we arrive at a common development repository yet?
I see all these new people popping up, and there seems to be a lot of interest and momentum building atm. It would be great if we could capture that and bring ES into a next golden age!
I hope that @ben_thatmustbeme can bring it together. I'll check his work as soon as I can.

BuZz

@Zigurana I think some context would be lost splitting out stuff that much - Please can you point people to post on another thread if it is becoming confusing etc.

trekdrop

I am really a noob in this stuff.. so I gonna ask a question. When I tried to copy the emulationstation file I get a premssion denied. Anyone who can help me?

ben_thatmustbeme

@trekdrop that might be a topic best handled in a different thread. also include what command you were trying to do. I'm not sure what you were doing exactly.

trekdrop

@ben_thatmustbeme

Oh, I hope I am doing the right thing! I will start a new thread if it is necessary.

To install you need two files. the core EmulationStation program and for the wifi connect feature to work, you'll need it's tiny addon.

First make a backup of your current emulationstation file in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation. Then move my version of emulationstation into that same folder.

I was doing this, simply copy the emulationstation MOD file over mine. And that didn't work.
I

ben_thatmustbeme

make sure to add sudo to that command, as its probably owned by root.

The easiest way I have found to do this is actually just in the retropie-setup scripts.

I created one quickly for @jacobfk20 's gridview branch.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dissolve/RetroPie-Setup/gridview/scriptmodules/supplementary/emulationstation-gridview.sh

just put this in RetroPie-Setup/gridview/scriptmodules/supplementary/ and then you can run
sudo ./RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

It will compile everything for you and put it in place and you can easily uninstall/update it from there as well. its under manage packages , experimental

trekdrop

@ben_thatmustbeme

Oh wow! I think I really am a noob ... I just tried to copy the file with filezilla.

Do I ask to much if I ask a mini tutorial about how to install this awesome modded update.

ben_thatmustbeme

@trekdrop this was why i said best for a different thread. but as its already here.
Take a look at https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh
It goes through the basics of how to SSH to it.

You can use filezilla to put that file i gave you on there, and then just run that

sudo ./RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

line and its just browsing through menus from there.

jacobfk20

I've done some changes to how Gridview handles loading and unloading boxart. It will now only have boxart loaded in that is in range and unload slightly after you move them out of range. This should make Gridview viable for bigger gamelists. The pop-in will be pretty noticeable. This is still my major focus, on this project, currently and I'm hoping to have it be as seamless as possible and still be versatile to have hundreds to thousands of games without problem.

A test build can be downloaded from my google drive.

And of course here is a link to the github branch https://github.com/jacobfk20/EmulationStation/tree/Gridview.

@simbz23 I understand the issue that you are having. There are actually two. 1: You can not scan for networks when you are already connected to a wireless network and I'll probably put in a message saying this as a warning. 2: I actually messed up on that build. It looks for wificonnect in the wrong place. Now I feel dumb! ha. I'm currently focusing on other parts of this project and this feature is currently low priority.

@mattrixk I actually look at that list every now and then. :)

@ben_thatmustbeme My latest couple of commits to GridView may remedy issues that are happening in your branch. It now loads gamelists in like every other gamelist view now and loads in textures once opened. I will like to help get it up and running once I feel I have gridview running pretty smoothly.

lilbud

@jacobfk20 I have a problem, (I know, its always me who has issues.) I have double entries for each game. Where I have only 6 games. 12 entries show up

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herb_fargus

@lilbud https://github.com/jacobfk20/EmulationStation/issues/3 ;)

Zigurana

@ben_thatmustbeme said in EmulationStation mod:

The latest attempt to merge herdinger's code, @Zigurana and @jacobfk20's grid view code all in to mine is on the 'allmerge' branch, but a test run showed it clearly had problems on the main system list, haven't dug in to what happened yet.

Hey, I got your allmerge branch to compile and link successfully, so thats a start. Also, I started annotating your latest commit (84e93b9), to start some discussion on the merge. Do you think that is a worthwhile exercise?

And where do we go from here? Do keep working on my own repo (which you will merge whenever you see fit), or do I start serving you PRs?