[Jason Sperske]

I’m working on just such a feature :)

[Jason Sperske]

I just found this feature is already in EmulatorStation (after working out the complicated command line too :P) if you’ve mapped a menu button when you set up your controller (mine is the select button on a RetroUSB SNES adapter), then it will bring up a simple menu with a volume control that is system wide.

[Jason Sperske]

I was able to get this working:

https://github.com/jasonsperske/RetroPage/blob/master/RetroPage-init-script

I placed it in /etc/init.d and gave it 755 permissions. To make RetroPage compatible with this approach I had to update it to request port 1980 inside it’s source, though in the process I ended up figuring out how to combine start-stop-deamon with command line arguments, so if needed I can always pull the port 1980 code out. The service should run as the pi user and I’ve been testing it with my Raspberry Pi. I’ve plugged it into a 27′ CRT TV, it’s amazing, though now I’m working out the best video out settings, (I think I’m close) and I’m wondering if a restart device button and a config editor page wouldn’t’ be helpful.

[Jason Sperske]

Thanks for the encouragement. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve added a quick update that reports the free space you have on your RetroPie and lets you rename and delete files from the web interface. Now I’m going to get working on the gamelist.xml editing code and possibly a splash screen uploader (to make customizing easier). This is so much fun to work on for me, I hope it can be of use to others :)

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