EmulationStation mod

jacobfk20

@eamonmcm From terminal, cd to emulationstation's directory and run:
chmod +x emulationstation

eamonmcm

@jacobfk20 Sorry I forgot to mention I have tried that a few times. Thanks for the quick reply.

jacobfk20

@eamonmcm Is it saying giving any error?

eamonmcm

@jacobfk20 No just loading the the normal terminal window you would see by pressing F4.

jacobfk20

@eamonmcm Okay, can you give me a quick rundown on what you did? Mostly which link you downloaded from?

eamonmcm

@jacobfk20 I downloaded it from here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByWG5kDXyr5NeEtWQ2J2eGVrdk0/view

sudo cp'd it over to the folder and mkdir'd the folders for the wifi tool cp again then reboot to the terminal.

Thanks again.

jacobfk20

@eamonmcm Can you varify you have an emulationstation in this folder? Sorry if you've already tried this but just need to be sure.
ls /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation
There should be emulationstation and emulationstation.sh and they both should be green.

eamonmcm

@jacobfk20 It is working now. Thanks for your speed replies and awesome work.

eamonmcm

@jacobfk20 Yeah it was there but I noticed the file size was different something must have went wrong along the process so I just deleted and restarted over.

jacobfk20

@eamonmcm alright. I was actually just going to have you download the install script and run it. But glad you caught it.

eamonmcm

@eamonmcm Sorry for being a pain but today I brought my pi to a friends house and when I tried to connect to his wifi it said that wificonnect was missing. I assure you it is there and I have made it executable using the chmod command while being in the /wifi/app directory. I have tried several times to move it over and also tried the first script I seen but a going to try the retropie nerd version now and see if he got the wificonnect working.

Thanks.

LOL I am an idiot.

eamonmcm

@jacobfk20 Sorry for being a pain but today I brought my pi to a friends house and when I tried to connect to his wifi it said that wificonnect was missing. I assure you it is there and I have made it executable using the chmod command while being in the /wifi/app directory. I have tried several times to move it over and also tried the first script I seen but a going to try the retropie nerd version now and see if he got the wificonnect working.

Thanks.

jacobfk20

@eamonmcm Alright, the retropienerd script is pretty good and it'll get you the more up to date version of this mod but it still has some problems with wificonnect. The script will make it easier to deal with though.
It doesn't fully get the wificonnect app though so you must get it from git and compile it yourself.
just cd into its dir and type make
then cp the compiled file to ~/.emulationstation/app/wifi
you may have to create those dirs too...

I know this mod is crazy to configure but I've been working on an update to make this all easy.

frgn

@jacobfk20 Hi! Good job!
Maybe, you could help me change the icons of buttons? In this thread all the details.
I tried to compile it myself, but I am a complete noob in programming.
I hope, you find my idea useful, and implement it.

jacobfk20

@frgn I took a look at the thread and saw you posted a copy of your converted files and dropped them into one of my ES builds and it compiled just fine. My help icons now look like buttons from a ps controller (which is fitting as I primarily use them)

What exactly is the problem? You've already converted them you should just be able to build the source and it should be smooth sailing.

frgn

@jacobfk20 The problem is that I can not compile "emulationstation" file. I tried to do it, but the compilation is completed with different errors.
to the same matter is complicated by the fact that I do not know English - I live in Russia.
I would be very grateful if you have collected the binary file, includes buttons on the ps1 icons, and posted on any file sharing.
please, do it - my project really needs such trifles

jacobfk20

@frgn I will send you a compiled version with your changed icons. It may take ~30 minutes to compile a vanilla ES with this change. I'll post a link on your original thread with the download when it finishes.

frgn

@jacobfk20 man, you're cool! I look forward to!

MikeDave

I've mostly been following this thread, but have a few questions.

Will we ever be able to install it from the RetroPie-Setup Script like emulationstation-kids can be? I was hoping 4.1 would have it 😕
Which codebase should I be using? In your initial post you link to your EmulationStation-RPiE repo, but that hasn't been updated since Sept. There's also a GridView branch on your EmulationStation fork which has more recent commits and a Gridview-defaulttheme branch that's even more up to date.
You upload pre-compiled versions in a few different places. Is the link in your OP still the best one to use?
Is there a reason you don't upload the various versions that you have to the Github releases section of whichever repo you're using? Seems like a better way to keep track of pre-compiled versions than random google drive links.

Thanks for all your hard work on this. I've been watching this thread and the theming thread for a long time and I hope this can eventually become the default version of ES that retropie uses.

Shaeree

The imgur screenshot made it look like gridview was a menu option, but I can't actually find that menu option. Do I need to edit a text file or something to enable it?

I've tried every gridview binary I could find (4 of them I think), including the one with playstation controller icons. I tried both default and Material themes on each one.

What simple thing am I missing? How do I actually use the gridview feature?