[LodanZark]

Well I have a few suggestions:
-Option to start up the system into the gamelist section of a specific platform, which is very handy for the users that only have ROMs on a single platform;
-Option to hide certain platforms, which is useful to hide them before finish curate the games, or even to hide the retropie config “platform”;
– Make the shutdown button more visible for thekids for example this approach:
https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/power-menu-link-to-files-included/ ;
-Disable the Launch Options screen for Kids and Kiosk mode, actually this could be something hard to do since that feature inst related with emulationstation (I guess), the only way to found to disable it was by edit manually the file /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand.sh by changing the value IFS= read -s -t 1 -N 1 key </dev/tty to IFS= read -s -t 0 -N 1 key </dev/tty in the section:

# check for x/m key pressed to choose a screenmode (x included as it is useful on the picade)
clear
echo "Press a key (or joypad button 0) to configure launch options for emulator/port ($emulator). Errors will be logged to /tmp/runcommand.log"
IFS= read -s -t 1 -N 1 key </dev/tty
if [[ -n "$key" ]]; then
    get_all_modes
    main_menu
    dont_launch=$?
    clear
fi

[LodanZark]

So far, the only bug that I’ve found was in sound settings when I did disable the sounds (that annoying bips from game selections), didn’t save that option in next start up, but i guess this issue it’s also happening in original emulationsation. I will keep doing further testing.

EDIT:
I’ve tried this lines into es_settings.cfg

<string name="UIMode" value="Kiosk" />
<string name="UIMode_passkey" value="uuddlrlry" />

And the input did restarted the emulationstation but stayed in “Kiosk” mode instead switch into “Full mode”.

By my experience I´m enjoying the changes, yet I feel like the removal of volume settings from “Kiosk” mode was a bit unnecessary since it’s an essential option that all common users would understand, yeap I know lot of users can control the volume of TV with remote control, but for arcade machines can be annoying going to full mode just to change volume.
Also the feature “Exit Emulationstation” feels like an “full” mode feature to be available in other modes.

[LodanZark]

Nicely done, I finish to install and looks great, i will give a further testing.

[LodanZark]

[quote=111580]I think the word you are looking for is parental[/quote]

Thanks for the warning, i already fixed the title, English is not my mother language.

[quote=111580]
As it stands I am currently working on an implementation of exactly this in ES. If you are interested to be an early beta tester, let me know.
[/quote]

That would be great ;) how do I sign up for testing the beta?

[LodanZark]

[quote=100868]How do you get glslp shader config to work with RetroPie??, i select ‘load shader preset’ and then select the glslp shader but nothing happens?

[/quote]

Yeah :( I am having the same issue

[LodanZark]

In certain games that requires using L+B, L+A, R+B, R+B, alike Metroid, its pretty handy to use traditional mapping, but for games alike street fighter its more easier to use the keys Y and X instead L and R, so by using Remapping strategy I will lose benefits in certain games since I cannot have both mappings simultaneously…

[LodanZark]

go to /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand.sh

find this code:

# check for x/m key pressed to choose a screenmode (x included as it is useful on the picade)
clear
echo "Press a key (or joypad button 0) to configure launch options for emulator/port ($emulator). Errors will be logged to /tmp/runcommand.log"
IFS= read -s -t 1 -N 1 key </dev/tty
if [[ -n "$key" ]]; then
    get_all_modes
    main_menu
    dont_launch=$?
    clear
fi

reduce the time to zero by switching this line IFS= read -s -t 1 -N 1 key </dev/tty to IFS= read -s -t 0 -N 1 key </dev/tty

[LodanZark]

it shows up “failed to save state to “/home/pi/RetroPie/sstate/gamegear/Sonic the Hedgehog…” I couldn’t see the end of error since didn’t fit on screen

Oh I forgot to change the ownership of sub folders v.v I’m feeling dumb now… its working now

[LodanZark]

If I use:
extraction_directory = /home/pi/RetroPie/tmp/gamegear
the games don’t boot, I had to # the line to be able to play…

The line savefile_directory = /home/pi/RetroPie/srm/gamegear didnt work either since i cannot save progress so I suppose the save state thingy didnt worked as well… :(

[LodanZark]

[quote=91176]Note for 2.6.0 the path is
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/

(or you can manually add your button config directly into )
/opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg
[/quote]

Yep /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/ its the path of joypad auto config, but since I use different gamepads and I want different mappings in certain emulators I was looking for a option that would allow me to certain emulators to load a different joypad auto config path specially the emulators of consoles that has only 2 buttons alike gamegear, nes and master system since there is too many free buttons i can use them to quick load and quick save and stuff.

If i would manually add my configs into /opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg I I wouldn’t have the same benefits as I do with joypad auto config.

[LodanZark]

I don’t know if it work with gpsp but doesn’t hurt give a try…
open the file: opt\retropie\configs\gba\retroarch.cfg and add this line savefile_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/savestate/"

[LodanZark]

[quote=90199]You should just do a quick test to see if it works, it sounds like it should though.

For your first problem, I think it doesn’t work because you have set 2 functions to the same button “8”.
[/quote]

yes xD it made me feel soo noobish for such silly mistake, I also put “input_reset” instead “input_reset_btn”… its fixed now ;)

[LodanZark]

[quote=90192]…For your 2nd question, I don’t know if creating a new mapping file in /opt/retropie/configs/nes/ would make it, but actually you can remap your controllers directly in this file (/opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg).[/quote]

The problem is that I use 3 different controllers, so i cannot take the risk of stick mapping gamepad settings directly in retroarch.cfg, my interpretation was like a defined folder that supports storage gamepads configs that has priority over the “/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs” directory for specific emulator… it’s just a guess =P i havent tried yet

[LodanZark]

[quote=90192]…For your 2nd question, I don’t know if creating a new mapping file in /opt/retropie/configs/nes/ would make it, but actually you can remap your controllers directly in this file (/opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg).[/quote]

I have tried:

input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "7"
input_reset = "8"

And didn’t worked :(

Update: I FIXED!!!
was my mispelling mistake, the write code here:

input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "7"
input_reset_btn = "6"

Feeling silly by mistake the input and forgot also the “btn” thingy

[LodanZark]

Thank you for your support, I will be waiting for the new version came out to give a try ;)

[LodanZark]

Hellow sselph, I’m am a big fan of your work!

I tried use your tool before to scrape megadrive\genesis but since my roms were in zip format, the scapper didn’t worked to detect the console, perhaps im using the wrong commands…

I’m using RPi model B and my Roms are in “/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive” folder and my images are in “/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive/”images folder, all roms are in zip format and all my images are in jpg format, plus i only wanna keep these xml tags:
<gameList>
<game>\
<path></path>
<name></name>
<image></image>
<rating>0.000000</rating>
<userrating>0.000000</userrating>
<timesplayed>0</timesplayed>
<lastplayed>0</lastplayed>
</game>
</gameList>

Since I dont wanna keep the description neither the number of players =P

I’ve tried:

wget https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases/download/v0.6.5-beta/scraper_rpi.zip
$ sudo unzip scraper_rpi.zip scraper -d /usr/local/bin/
$ touch /tmp/hash.csv
$ cd ~/RetroPie/roms/megadrive
$ mkdir images
$ scraper -hash_file /tmp/hash.csv -add_not_found -image_suffix=""

but gives me always the error “unexpected EOF”

[LodanZark]

I think you have a bad dump rom, make sure the rom has [!] in filename, for example: “Galaxian (J) [!]”

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