Retropie/ ES addons

[grenade44]

I thought it was worth starting a thread about addon people are using in there setups.

Retropie Web Manager

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Feature
Monitor the system health and disk space
Edit the Emulation Station config file
Edit the RetroArch config file
Edit the autostart.sh script
View the Emulation Station log file
Manage your BIOS files
Manage your ROMS

https://github.com/botolo78/RetroPie-Manager

I had to edit the /etc/profile.d/10-emulationstation.sh to get it to boot at startup.

Modded ES
Pictures
http://imgur.com/a/Kdoif
Features
OSK (On Screen Keyboard)
Gamelist Gridview. (Gamelists views can now be manually changed in gamelist menu)
Wifi Scanning / connecting from within ES. (tied with OSK you can connect to a network without a keyboard)
Other network settings to view IP/MAC address of both eth0 and wlan0
View Storage from within ES
Toggle Systems to show or be hidden from the System View.
And a couple other small things such as Progressbars or see savegame count per system

More information
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/312 ... tation-mod

I will update this post with more addons when I find them or others post below.

[chaosratt]

curious how much extra CPU (and thus battery) that manager would eat.

[Frodowills]

I'm trying to install the modded ES and I keep getting a permission denied error when creating the app folder. Also its not letting me add the modified ES file.

[grenade44]

I'm trying to install the modded ES and I keep getting a permission denied error when creating the app folder. Also its not letting me add the modified ES file.

I had to change the permissions for these to copy across.

[johnny-bert]

@grenade44

Thank you for sharing! It's worth a try I think. I will definitely try this!