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    • esmith13E
      esmith13
      last edited by

      OK, so I wish I know how to program/script at this point because I have an idea and I wish I could build it myself. I'm not opposed to learning as I go, but this would be a large undertaking and I doubt one person could do it anyway.

      My idea is this:

      What if you took the general layout of the NES Classic as well as the UI elements that make it so desirable and you built a custom theme/UI/runcommand/etc set to simulate that environment in general?

      Wouldn't it be cool to have a retropie UI that scrolls a single horizontal line in infinite loop of boxart for a system and when you select a game to start and play, all retroarch overlay text is disabled (like what controller you plugged in, save state load/save, etc) and when you exit the game retroarch is set to autosave to slot 0 and a macro of sorts takes a screenshot just before exiting.

      Upon exiting that rom and retroarch auto saving to slot 0, you come back to the UI with an onscreen representation of your savestate 0 and matched screenshot thumbnail and there you can press down on the dpad to pick one of 4 or more slots to save to. A script then simply renames savestate slot 0 to that slot number you picked and the screenshot that represents it as well.

      On subsequent game loads you could first press down on the dpad when highlighting a game to see savestates to choose from (if any). Should you load the game based on choosing a savestate slot the runcommand loads the rom and that specific savestate automatically.

      Of course, exiting a game (auto save to slot 0) and shutting down or choosing another rom to load could either leave that savestate 0 there to waste space or it could be deleted to keep the clutter down.

      You would also want a way to first choose a system before being in the NES Classic like setup (NES, SNES, Mega Drive, etc) that goes nicely with the interface once in a specific system.

      I realize this would be an interface only very well suited to console games and perhaps maybe some arcade formats like Neo Geo and thus would have a smaller audience than retropie as a whole, however I really think a setup like this would simplify usage of retroarch on a Pi further still - beyond what retropie has already done so well when compared to other Pi gaming images.

      What are your thoughts? Anyone care to take a stab at the idea? All I ask is whoever picks up this ball and runs with it link me to it's progress and let me participate in alpha/beta testing it!

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      • lilbudL
        lilbud
        last edited by

        I tried to make a theme based off of the nes mini menu, did not go so well.

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

        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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        • herb_fargusH
          herb_fargus administrators
          last edited by

          It's a swell idea but will either A: require some wizardry in ES to make work

          Or more likely B: require you to code a new frontend entirely so the animations etc match.

          Good luck!

          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 More completely new UI and less ES theme.

            Though I would love to see an Android TV ui for Retropie

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

            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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            • C
              cloudlink
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              One is in development for Attract Mode
              http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1222.0

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