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General / How do I remove emulators without deleting them (via config file?)

« on: January 15, 2019, 05:07:35 PM »

I officially googled for 30-45 mins and havent come up with anything. 

How can I remove emulators from the list on a retropie install without having to select each emulator individually, go into it and delete.

Is there a config file somewhere that lists all the emulators so I can just comment them out and un-comment them later when I want to add them back in?

I'm on a Pi as I assume that matters.


Thanks!

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Scripting / Question about carrier.nut image sizing.

« on: January 14, 2019, 06:21:59 PM »

What setting controls the size of the images in the carrier slider?

Aside from making wheel images exactly the size you want... I'd like to use existing wheel images, have 1 image display at a time with the rest off screen, but constrain the size of the image to a fixed width (without stretching the image)

Currently if I dont resize the image and feed it the image size I want on screen, the carrier scales the image to fit the width or height since there's only 1 on the screen.

thanks

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General / Looking to design a super simple theme - is attract mode right for this?

« on: January 11, 2019, 06:54:26 AM »

I'm wanting to put a Pi into a cocktail cabinet I have set up for 4 players... essentially a Track and Field conversion. (cabinet used to be a Golden Tee)



I am converting it to this.. which you can see looks similar...



I will likely only have 3 games on this machine (Track and Field, Hyper Sports, '88 Games)  (unless I can find other horizontal games that can take advantage of a 3 button control panel)

I would like to have the front end boot into a game selection screen similar to Track and Field animation with the athletes running across the bottom.

I've not used attract mode (or a Pi) but just installed it, along with an older MAME (.75) and these 3 games and it seems to be working. I'd want to use a no-nag version of MAME and hide as much of the Pi mame/game loading as possible.  Initial boot is fine.

I'm likely using an older Pi with RCA output since I have a few RCA to CGA arcade monitor conversion boards available as I want to output this onto the monitor already in the cabinet.

I'm a graphic/interactive designer so graphics would be no problem. Never used Squirrel scripting but I'm sure i could figure it out for something simple like this.

Where would I start?

I assume I'd create a video that would run along the bottom of the screen with static placement for the running athletes. 
Game logos as seperate images which slide in form left or right depending on which button you push.

Beyond that, I'm a total newb.