Hello everyone!
I am a Brazilian fan of RetroPie project, I already made a small donation to thank and plan to collaborate again for this amazing project!
I have a little problem in the boot, on emulationstation loading, in versions 3.4 and 3.5 of Retropie.
I have the following collection of roms I use on my SD card:
Atari 2600: 772 roms
AdvMAME: 6.158 roms
Mame4ALL: 2.271 roms
Master System: 457 roms
Mega Drive: 1.502 roms
N64: 2 roms
NES: 1.345 roms
SNES: 2.883 roms
I use the “scraper” by SSELPH to download the covers in JPG and generate the “gamelist.xml” on my PC, and then move to the Raspberry Pi 2 (the scrap in RPi2 is very slow!).
In version 3.1 of RetroPie the boot was faster, some took more than one minute to load the system and emulationstation.
In versions 3.4 and 3.5, after it was used the “Jessie” version of Raspbian, the Emulationstation loading is too slow! After the system load (black screen with the letters passing), when it arrives on the screen “Loading Emulationstation” takes forever!!!
Compared the load times, in the moment you turn on the RPi2 until the system is ready for use in emulationstation screen emulators selection:
Version 3.1: 1 minute and 20 seconds.
Version 3.4/3.5: 3 minutes and 40 seconds!
It is almost triple(!) time with the same amount of ROMs!
I noticed that in versions 3.4/3.5 if I do not use the scrap files (JPG images and gamelist.xml files), using the “gamelist.xml” files blank, the system loads quickly! So it seems that the delay problem to load the emulationstation in versions 3.4/3.5 is related to the use of scraps, perhaps in reading the files “gamelist.xml”.
Does anyone have a solution to get around this?
I thank the attention.
Att .;
Rafael
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