Contributing to PiPlay
  • fsa317
    So my journey towards an arcade cabinet has begun and I have the itch. I got multiple emulators working and wired up 1 joystick so far. The current PiPlay is great but I'd like to help make PiPlay a little more flexible. Before I start hacking around I wanted to get others thoughts on a few changes (opinions and verify that easier, non-coded solutions don't already exist or are underway):

    1) "Ignore rom" concept. Not sure if I did something wrong but I've found with pifba there are roms that dont work but are needed in the directory to make a clone work. I'd like a way to flag those roms so they dont show up in the menu.

    2) Metadata override - A way to override titles/images that wont get lost after rescraping.

    3) Roms Only mode - this is a bit more ambitious but I'd like to have a mode where piplay doesn't show emulators just the roms.

    What do you think?

    The second part of my question is more about contributing. I'm a long time Java programmer so I'll need to do some catch-up on python but so far reading the source hasn't been bad so I'm assuming I'll catch on soon enough. I've only contributed to an open github project ones or twice a few years back so any guidance on the best way to contribute would help me get rolling.

    Thanks!
  • mholgatemmholgatem
  • fsa317
  • fsa317
    To confirm, is this the right repo to fork from?
    https://github.com/ssilverm/pimame-menu
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    yes, that is the correct repo to fork from.

    I'll have to look into that a bit more. The reason we didn't go that route originally is to keep all theme related info in one file; but I see your point, if you are adding a lot of games, it would be a pain in the butt have to add them all to two different files.

    Then again, you could just do what you did in config.yaml, then copy and paste it into the theme.yaml. It doesn't care if there is extra info under each label.

    In any case, we'll look into it. I'd honestly like to make it easier to add games to the homescreen by just selecting them and then selecting something like 'create shortcut'. It would be easy enough to add that, but I'm not quite sure how to integrate it so that it looks right with every theme.
  • fsa317
    Just did my first pull request, wanted to go through the motions with a nice simple change.

    I committed the above change (feel free to reject) and also a fix for the rom count sorting that seemed to break down when you had an ! in the rom count b/c the scraping hadn't completed.
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