2016-04-13, 02:58
(2016-04-13, 00:55)hansolo77 Wrote: I just fixed all my emulators, and you go and make a new beta.I think the problem I had before (recently, from my delay in playing) is that when the new official update was installed, it re-wrote all the default settings for IARL. This caused all my emulators to apparently default to the internal RetoPlayer. Since I'm using a Raspberry Pi2, and Openelec, I don't have the RetroPlayer as part of my Kodi installation (we're still on Isengard 15.2). The install of the updated IARL overwrote all the customized path's too. So I had to reset everything. The update also caused me to have to go back in and manually run the chmod on the executable. This was the problem I had.
Since this "release" is a beta, it might be a prudent suggestion that you go through and verify that any of the system changes it enforces does not cause pre-existing installations to stop working. I'm not going to try installing the beta until you can confirm that it won't overwrite my current settings. I'd be happy though to test the beta to see if it DOES break things, provided I can easily backup my settings. Right now the only way I have to do that is to create a complete SD card backup image. I can't do that right now though, since I lent my brother my microSD -> SD card for his reader so he could make his own working backup for HIS Pi..
Something else I'd like to mention... have you worked out a way for me to be able to download (not temporarily) a ROM and keep it stored so it's not automatically erased when a new ROM is downloaded? Since I'm limited on SD card space, I have to limit my "saved" setting to 1 (so it auto-erases when I close). There are a few games though that I really like and would like to keep stored locally. However, simply increasing my limit to 2 (save 1, erase 1) won't necessarily keep the ROM I want. So it might erase it. There should be an option (perhaps on the details page) to Download and SAVE, along with Download and RUN, and have it keep an .xml or something to list which ones I've manually downloaded so it doesn't erase those. Maybe even have the manually downloaded .xml be visible from the main menu? Of course that could run into a problem if you're running multiple systems (Sega, Nintendo, etc). The reason I'm asking for a feature like this is because some of the newer games have SAVING functionality (Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc), and if the ROM is deleted, won't that erase your save too? Or does RetroArch (in my particular case) store the temporary save RAM to a file local to RetroArch? Maybe something I can investigate going forward on my next day off.
All said though, it's nice to see this addon is still being developed.
All settings are in the folder "userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.iarl". You can back that up if you like. The addon update shouldn't overwrite any of your existing xml files, but as you said this is a beta and I'm not sure what will break.
As for saving games, there's an option you can set per archive to define the save location. You can make this 'default', which the addon will monitor for size - if it gets too big it will clear the folder. If you choose another folder, the game will save and launch from this location and the addon will not delete it. In the future, I'll hopefully implement an 'offline' mode where you can save an archive to your local system and launch games directly. That ability is pretty much already there, just choose a different folder to download the file to.
