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    • mattrixkM
      mattrixk
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      The LaunchBox Big Box mode has lots of great layouts available for cannibalisation. Kodi does too.

      My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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      • lilbudL
        lilbud @mattrixk
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        @mattrixk I wish launchbox was on the Raspberry Pi. I'd buy it immediately

        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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          Jeck11
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          I would buy Big Box if it weren't $50

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          • frgnF
            frgn @herb_fargus
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            @herb_fargus maybe for someone to have a more convenient vertical scrolling, but not for me.
            my project need to scroll horizontally. it's would fill inefficient space in header. You think this is a bad idea?

            Aloha from Russia, and sorry for my bad English. ¯\(ツ)/¯
            My RetroPie themes repo - https://github.com/free-gen/
            Blast16 to MDMINI mod
            DONATE HERE

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            • herb_fargusH
              herb_fargus administrators @lilbud
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              @lilbud more or less. I would prefer a more modern looking theme or something like openemu.

              If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

              Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              • lilbudL
                lilbud @herb_fargus
                last edited by lilbud

                @herb_fargus I'd really love something like retroblox has going on.
                0_1487300366847_upload-2361dcd3-60fb-4cfb-b580-ebc06e8b1136

                Almost Android TV-esque. I think we are reaching our upper limit with ES, And Attract Mode has too steep of a learning curve IMO. AM themes are difficult to make. If the raspberry pi got something along the lines of Big Picture Mode, or the XBONE dashboard, I could die happy. There is only so much we can do with ES, and no fork can really fix that.

                Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                • frgnF
                  frgn @herb_fargus
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                  @herb_fargus said in EmulationStation mod:

                  openemu

                  this is a desktop solution. openemu more suited to computers than to manage "from the couch".
                  IMHO

                  Aloha from Russia, and sorry for my bad English. ¯\(ツ)/¯
                  My RetroPie themes repo - https://github.com/free-gen/
                  Blast16 to MDMINI mod
                  DONATE HERE

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                  • herb_fargusH
                    herb_fargus administrators @lilbud
                    last edited by

                    @lilbud Don't get me started on retroblox.... 50 quid says its just another retroarch ripoff. no different than the Retron5.

                    If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                    Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                    • lilbudL
                      lilbud @herb_fargus
                      last edited by

                      @herb_fargus I just like the interface is all. The legality behind is a whole different discussion.

                      Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                      Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                        nj180grados
                        last edited by nj180grados

                        Hi jacobfk20 ..

                        First of all congratulate you for your work in Emulation Station, since what you have done is really useful, especially the on-screen keyboard.

                        I am writing to you in this forum as user of retropie, I am Spanish ..

                        We currently have a small community via Telegram dedicated to the Raspberry PI and emulators. We have hosted small tutorials and works among them this mod of yours.
                        We are about 900 users who chat and debate about retropie.
                        Your work is more than recognized.

                        We have commented many things among them some deficiencies of ES in retropie that are not explained to this day.

                        Especially the favorites section and the possibility to bookmark games.

                        If we have an experimental option for Kids that has the possibility to bookmark .. but it is not useful since to show favorites you have to hide the rest of games.

                        To put you in situation I put as an example to Recalbox ..
                        Recalbox has a favorites section in the ES menu where all games are labeled alphabetically whatever the system is. Each part shows the favorites first of the list and from there they already leave the normal list.

                        Currently we do not have anything like this in Retropie, and as Recalbox also uses ES

                        I would like to know if it would be very complicated to carry this option of favorites to Retropie ..

                        Nobody has put it yet and I think it would be really useful to have this possibility .. There are many people who demand this possibility.

                        I'm not a programmer and we do not have programmers in the community I've talked to you about. But based on the work you've done.

                        I would like to propose if you would be willing to carry this possibility based on recalbox .. Do you think it would be complicated? I have already seen that other options of recalbox like the music in ES have behaved successfully to retropie.

                        In short I address you because I see you quite qualified for it and because I still can not explain how something useful is not found in retropie.

                        I would also like to know if your work in ES will be officially added to retropie in future versions. I vote for it because I think it's great.

                        Anyway, I would like you to give me an answer. Thanks for your time @herb_fargus

                        If you still do not know the operation of the favorites in recalbox I leave you an example video:

                        A greeting from Spain.

                        EDIT: My apologies to quote at first I was addressing the creator of the mod
                        @jacobfk20 But by mistake I quoted the @herb_fargus admin. It is already corrected.

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                        • lilbudL
                          lilbud @nj180grados
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                          @nj180grados The lack of a proper favorites menu has been brought up many, many, many times. Someone on the forum has a script that loads BG music.

                          Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                            nj180grados @lilbud
                            last edited by nj180grados

                            @lilbud said in EmulationStation mod:

                            @nj180grados The lack of a proper favorites menu has been brought up many, many, many times. Someone on the forum has a script that loads BG music.

                            I know, but I'm asking the author of the post since I see that his work is very good.

                            And I also know that we have KIDS mode but it is not as useful as the example with recalbox.

                            I do not see anything bad to say more about this.

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                            • lilbudL
                              lilbud @nj180grados
                              last edited by

                              @nj180grados Well... @jacobfk20 has been quiet for a while, i'm just answering your questions

                              Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                nj180grados @lilbud
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                                @lilbud said in EmulationStation mod:

                                @nj180grados Well... @jacobfk20 has been quiet for a while, i'm just answering your questions

                                My apologies to quote at first I was addressing the creator of the mod @jacobfk20
                                But by mistake I quoted the @herb_fargus admin. It is already corrected.

                                Have not answered in the forum for a long time? Could you contact him directly?

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                                • herb_fargusH
                                  herb_fargus administrators @nj180grados
                                  last edited by herb_fargus

                                  @nj180grados Thing is he's probably busy with real life, job school, etc. If he's interested in stuff he'll be around, if not he'll be dealing with life. We all do this in our free time as we see fit and have interest.

                                  If you really want these improvements feel free to roll up your sleeves, get dirty with C++ and make something cool.

                                  If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                  Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  • frgnF
                                    frgn @herb_fargus
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                                    @herb_fargus it would be great if jacobfk20 shared the tools to compile. I did try to do it yourself according to the instructions on github - process fails
                                    :c

                                    Aloha from Russia, and sorry for my bad English. ¯\(ツ)/¯
                                    My RetroPie themes repo - https://github.com/free-gen/
                                    Blast16 to MDMINI mod
                                    DONATE HERE

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                                    • herb_fargusH
                                      herb_fargus administrators @frgn
                                      last edited by

                                      @frgn you have all the tools available to you already. All you have to do is modify the child friendly module to point to jacobfk20's branch. Install it like you would anything in the setup script and voila!

                                      If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                      Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                        dudleydes @frgn
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                                        @frgn You can use a scriptmodule created by forum user PokeEngineer. Download from here. Place it in the /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary folder and then use the RetroPie script to build ES.

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                                          ferdnand
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                                          Hello, if i could say one thing, Thank you for your mods, and also to the RetroPie team, I have relived my child hood , many times over with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Retropie, with this mods it makes it even easier to make one for family and friends to make it easier to use or to get up and running....

                                          Keep up the great work..

                                          My name is not important, but you can contact me at ferdnand99@gmail.com

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                                            zeblackness
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                                            Did this ever get into pulled into the retropie repo? If not, are you planning to?

                                            I'm looking at possibly starting search and would love to start with a gridview already there.

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