Hide Pre-Installed does not hide Ports

[yatrajee11]

I found a way: you have to remove them from the /recalbox/share_init folder, accessible using winscp.

[yatrajee11]

Thank for the advice. ###ANDROID APK LINK REMOVED###

[Alvin]

@yatrajee11 said in Hide Pre-Installed does not hide Ports:

Thank for the advice.

Why did you post a Link to a TV App for Android here, which has absolutly nothing to do with Recalbox ?

Is this even allowed ?

[Xerobit]

@scavy said in Hide Pre-Installed does not hide Ports:

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What is the link between parents making retroconsoles for young kids and preinstalled games ?

Apologies for just dropping into the conversation, but maybe this might help explain the link between parents making retroconsoles for young kids and preinstalled games. The implied concern here is that an impressionable child being exposed to the possibility of running games with things like mutilated corpses, demons, gore, etc. (i.e. Doom), when the preinstalled games reappear during an auto-update, without the parent's knowledge or consent, can be not only upsetting for the parent, but mentally damaging for the impressionable child.

One suggestion to the poster/parent would be to turn off the auto-update, and just plan on setting aside some time to re-hide the pre-installed games, when they manually do an update, periodically. Yeah, it's not as easy as set-it-and-forget-it, but then it's your responsibility to protect your children, and that requires you to be active, not passive. Alternatively, what would happen if the poster/parent just renamed the executable of another game they don't find objectionable, to doom.exe, and copied the game's entire contents over the existing doom game? Unless the RB update is doing something to verify the game files, and replace them, that should remove the chance a child could run Doom. If the parent then scraped the altered game, the images in the RB menu should then default to no-image, because it won't match the hash values stored in the games database.

The devs of RB are definitely doing a great job of building the software, and the community. That doesn't mean every decision they make is right, easy, or going to please everyone. The choice to include more mature content in every install is questionable, considering the target audience is from 1 to 100+ years old. Maybe the choice of which games are kept and repopulated, to prevent the looping bug, could be reviewed and or changed to something with a wider acceptable audience? If the answer is no, then people should respect that decision and do what they must to keep their children from encountering objectionable material; even if that means using a different piece of software.

[Pitch64]

In 8.1, you will be able to hide all preinstalled games from the menus but at one condition : you must have any other system displayed.

If there is no other system displayed and you selected to hide all preinstalled games, ports will visible despite your choice in the menu