Updated EmulationStation for Windows

isblagi

@mitu I just tryed another core and it runs fine. Definitely a core issue.
Thanks for the reply.

PittStone

@jdrassa I have a Problem with Custom Collections if i Use Portable Emulationstation with the portable.bat The Custom Collection shows Only if i make a new collection from theme. After closing Emulationstation for windows and start it again, the collections gone. I need go in Menue, make a new custom collection with the same Name and the Collections with my Games i made earlyer are showing again.
On Closing and Starting next Time its gone again.

jdrassa

@pittstone I am able to reproduce the error. It may take a little time to track down the cause, but I am looking into it.

mitu

@jdrassa I did some experiments here, might be of help.

jdrassa

@mitu Thanks for the link. It was helpful.

jdrassa

@PittStone I have a test build available at the link below. Can you test and verify that it solves the issue for you? Thanks.

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jrassa/emulationstation/build/2.8.0-201854120354/job/y5qv6vcxg9hklu5d/artifacts

PittStone

@jdrassa Awesome, that works. Thanks. The Problem is now, the collections .cfg are not portable. In the .cfg are the full name path's of each game. But if i Use it portable and change the emulationstation to a other Drive or usb stick, the collections not showing anymore. :(
Is there a other Method to change the path's in the .cfg like "%HOME%/.emulationstation/roms/..."?

jdrassa

@pittstone Currently, you will need to edit the collection .cfg files manually if you are copying them to a different location.

PittStone

@jdrassa O.k. Thanks for the Update. Now i can make Collections. :D

goamalo

Hi I love your work! can you please add a background music support? I think that this is a must have thing on emulation station.

PittStone

@jdrassa -I have a idea. It would be nice, to have a option in the Start Menue to hide all systems without collections. So i have only my collections in the Start Menue if i wish.

PittStone

@goamalo I can not confirm. I like Background music, but only on my pi. On regular Windows 10 Desktop i have Game-Snaps and if i go back to Main Menue i will not have music.

PittStone

@jdrassa It would be almost perfect, but there is still the problem with two systems that no info, images and videosnaps are displayed. Despite proper gamelist. I have the problem with wiiu and Ps2. Some games are displayed with info some not. Strangely, when I copy each game into a folder, at least the folder displays info, pictures and snaps. But not from the game file.

mitu

@pittstone That might be a scraping problem, how does the gamelist.xml look like for one of such systems ?

bloodykean

@mitu i don't think it's a scraping problem. The limitation of the image files is the real problem here. I have also th problem with images over 2gb. Is there a solution to this?

duiz

@bloodykean

I use the Parse Gamelist option to go around the 2gb game limit.

PittStone

@duiz Oh, man. Thats so Simple and solved this Problem. Thanks. Im now Understand what this Option mean.

duiz

@pittstone

Glad to help! Just remember that you got to turn off that option and restart ES or edit the gamelist xml manually when you want to add new games.

NukeThePeace

Thanks a lot for keeping the Windows Emulationstation alive.

Is it possible to quit a game and return directly to Emulationstation like on the Pi? With Select+Start or something?

I set Select as hotkey but when I press Select+Start the game quits to Retroarch, which I have to quit as well. I use 2.7.4RP on Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit.

GeekCritique

@nukethepeace said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

Thanks a lot for keeping the Windows Emulationstation alive.

Is it possible to quit a game and return directly to Emulationstation like on the Pi? With Select+Start or something?

I set Select as hotkey but when I press Select+Start the game quits to Retroarch, which I have to quit as well. I use 2.7.4RP on Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit.

I set a hotkey in RetroArch to exit the emulator, and it works just like on a RetroPie, closing RetroArch and dumping me back into EmulationStation.

Is there any better way to get around that 2gb limit for Wii/PS2 games? My gamelist.xml files are pretty messy, and I'd really prefer not to have to go through and redo them all. That being the case, I'll probably just stick with the older version of ES for now.

On a related note, is there any way to run one of those faster scrapers on PC? I'm pretty new to this, just made the jump from a RetroPie back over to PC.