How to add items to the menu?

zzediker

hello!

so last night i was playing around with trying to add some other emu's to the menu, but i had no luck.

in 'config.yami' i tried just copying the structure of other items and altering them with the new emu's info, and then adding them in front of the sections for 'restart', but when i restart i get line errors.

not sure where i'm going wrong here. also i see in some people's setups they are able to create extra rows of icons on their main page instead of having to go to next. how do you do this? i see where to increase the number of icons in a rom with 'num_items_per_rom: 5' but do i need to manually resize the icons with 'item_height:220' and 'selection_size:11' to get them to fit properly?

any ideas? thanks for any info!

zzediker

ok, i've been able to increase the size of the rows to fit all current items on one page(minus a few i've hid), but i still cant seem to add items, even if some are removed. is there a max allotted amount of items?

anyone have any experience with adding?

mholgatem

I have to start messing around with the .8 menu in the next week or so. If you still haven't gotten an answer by then, I'll look into it for you.

zzediker

excellent! thank you sir!

i'll keep digging around as well and see if i cant break stuff too bad, haha.

human_fly

I only have one row of items on my menu screen. Below it i would like to add an image or a text file with instructions of how to use the arcade machine. If anyone can help me out with this i would appreciate it.

zzediker

so far my findings are thus:

there were a few emulators i didn't plan on using, so i had them set to invisible. if i alter those entries in the code to be used as other emulators (ex: changing neo-geo to pc engine) then it shows up no problem.

if i try and add a whole new section to the code it wont even load the menu, i just get line errors. it crashes to command line.

strange! so the maybe the menu was written for a set allotment of items?

EDIT: also, if i have added that item to the menu, but make it invisible, the menu loads fine! so it must be related to making added items visable

Conno123009

It should work just fine... Could you post your config.yaml file?
Thanks!

zzediker

options:
max_fps: 20
show_ip: Yes
show_update: Yes
num_items_per_row: 8
fullscreen: Yes
resolution: "0,0"
item_height: 220
padding: 10
selection_size: 11
header_height: 140
disabled_alpha: 128
background_color: "200,200,200"
selection_color: "74,239,76"
text_color: "0,0,0"
text_highlight_color: "255,255,255"
item_color: "255,255,255"
header_color: "255,255,255"
rom_dot_color: "228,56,65"
icon_pack_path: "icons/default/"
font_size: 19
font_file: "assets/fonts/Lato-Bold.ttf"
sort_items_alphanum: No
sort_items_with_roms_first: Yes
hide_items_without_roms: No
menu_items:
- label: SNES
visible: Yes
icon_file: snes.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/snes/
full_path: yes
override_menu: no
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/pisnes/snes9x

- label: MAME4All
visible: Yes
icon_file: mame4all.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/mame4all/
full_path: no
override_menu: no
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame

- label: Game Gear
visible: yes
icon_file: gamegear.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/retro/roms/
full_path: yes
extension: yes
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/retro/sms

- label: AdvMAME
visible: Yes
icon_file: advmame.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/advmame/
full_path: no
command: advmame

- label: Final Burn
visible: Yes
icon_file: fba.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/pifba/
full_path: yes
extension: yes
override_menu: no
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/fba/fba2x

- label: Genesis
visible: Yes
icon_file: genesis.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/genesis/
full_path: yes
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/dgen-sdl-1.32/dgen

- label: NES
visible: Yes
icon_file: nes.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/nes/nes/
full_path: yes
extension: yes
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/nes/fceux

- label: PC Engine
visible: yes
icon_file: pce.jpg
full_path: yes
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/retro/retroarch
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/pcengine/
override_menu: no

- label: Playstation 1
visible: Yes
icon_file: psx.jpg
full_path: no
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/pcsx_rearmed/pcsx
override_menu: yes
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/psx/

- label: N64
visible: yes
icon_file: n64.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/n64/
full_path: no
override_menu: no
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mupen64plus-rpi/test/mupen64plus

- label: Pc Engine CD
visible: yes
icon_file: pcecd.jpg
full_path: no
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulator/retro/retroarch
override_menu: no
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/pcecd/

- label: Gameboy
visible: Yes
icon_file: gameboy.jpg
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/gb/
full_path: yes
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/Gearboy/platforms/raspberrypi/Gearboy/gearboy.bin

- label: Gameboy Advance
visible: Yes
icon_file: gba.jpg
full_path: no
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/gpsp/gpsp
override_menu: yes
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/gba/

- label: sega CD
visible: Yes
icon_file: segacd.jpg
full_path: no
command: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/retro/retroarch
override_menu: yes
roms: /home/pi/pimame/roms/segacd

- label: Restart
visible: Yes
full_path: no
icon_file: restart.jpg
command: sudo reboot
override_menu: yes

- label: Shutdown
visible: Yes
full_path: no
icon_file: shutdown.jpg
command: sudo poweroff
override_menu: yes

- label: Update PiMAME
visible: Yes
full_path: no
icon_file: update.jpg
command: wget -O - http://pimame.org/update.sh | bash
override_menu: yes

zzediker

so everything functions (as far as the menu loading correctly and displaying rom lists, but i'm still working on getting them up and running) except the one that i've added which is the sega cd item. without that its fine, but once its added/made visable it breaks the menu and it wont load. so far i've only been able to alter existing item entries.

thanks for any help!

Conno123009

OK, I copied your config file to my Pi and ran PiPlay. I got the error message. But if I remove Sega cd, it still gives me the error.
So in the end I got a clean config file, then copied all your added emulators including Sega CD into it. I think the problem was the indentation of some lines.
Here is my version, sorry if I missed something:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cj1l82nviqi8c5n/config.yaml

Good luck
PM me if you need anything!

mholgatem

I'm not sure if it's the same for the config.yaml file, but in python, there is a difference between 4 spaces and a tab-space. They look identical on the screen. If I get an error of this sort, I often do a find and replace of all 4-space with tab-space. I hope that this makes sense, it's a little hard to describe.

zzediker

thanks a million guys! i'll give both a try and report back!

zzediker

also, i dont suppose you guys have any idea how i can add cavestory? ive been trying:

-label: Cavestory
visible: yes
icon_file: cstory.jpg
full_path: no
extension: no
command: cave
override_menu: yes

not sure if i'm on the right path, i've been going by trial and error so much guess work i can do, hehe

SSilver2k2

I'll test cavestory tonight.

zzediker

Conno123009 you are the man! i swaped out for your config.yaml and whatever you did fixed it! brill! thanks again! was there anything you did specifically so that i can remember not to screw it up in the future?

Conno123009

Awesome! Glad to help :D
I think you have to make sure each line is properly indented. Using spaces instead of tabs seems to work.
Good luck and thanks!

zzediker

hey shea, any luck with cavestory?

i keep getting:

sh: 1: cave: not found

even if i point directly at the executable such as:

command: /usr/local/bin/indiecity/InstalledApps/nxengine/Full/cave

still no dice, same error. do i need to move the executable somewhere for it to be recognized? if i'm in command line and type cave i'm golden, so i'm confused what i'm doing wrong.

SSilver2k2

So, my laptop died the other day. It should be repaired today, and then I can look at it some more. I think I know whats going on, but I need my laptop with my dev environment :)

zzediker

Thanks Shea!

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