Emulation Station
  • danx
    Has there been any thought or discussion around implementing Emulation Station? If so I'm curious as to opinions or experiences around it. I've just fired it up for the first time and initially it seems very smooth and well designed, but the controls are tailored completely around a gamepad and I'm building for arcade controls.

    I do like the PiPlay menu, I'm always curious about other projects tho :)

    http://www.emulationstation.org/
  • ian57ian57
    EmulationStation is awesome....

    You can use any control things! ;) see https://github.com/ian57/Raspicade-configuration-files/blob/master/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg-all

    see with my xin-mo arcade panel...
    http://youtu.be/3g4r0r-zLIU

    I even added video playing to it thanks to omxplayer ;)
  • danx
    Nice looking project. I'm starting to get curious now between PiPlay, RetroPie and now Raspicade as to what the motivations and key differences are for the different projects.

    So far I do prefer PiPlay, with the web interface and python is easy for me to contribute to, however the biggest complaint I have is that code and issues are not centrally managed in github and so contributing is pretty hard.

    The main things I'm disliking about emulationstation at the moment is:

    1) I had mapped PiPlays menu to use any of the arcade play buttons as select, with a single back button. Left and right as page down/up, and I like this layout. Emulation station wants buttons 'A', 'B', 'Start', 'Select', 'pgdown', 'pgup' and directions.

    2) I really don't like the console output seen before and after gameplay in emulationstation.
  • ian57ian57
    Yes but piplay use xorg and python which is slower than console framebuffer. Main problem with emulation station is that yous must configure your emulators separetely. Raspicade fully support xinmo natively.
  • danx
    Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think PiPlay uses xorg at all.
  • ian57ian57
    Are you sure of that. I will make a test... In the last video we see console background... but mouse cursor at each launch too? So must make deeper research about that.
  • Conno123009Conno123009
    No, PiPlay doesn't use xorg. But one of the python modules allows mouse input.
  • ian57ian57
    Ok thanks for these answers. no need to make further search ;)
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