@mitu I used the desktop version.

As this is a dedicated retropie device, I could have just downloaded the image. But at the time I was setting up three different RPis, two of them file servers. So it made sense to create them all from the same image, and avoid configuring them all individually.

Previously, my RPi wasn't a "dedicated" Retropie, so that was a manual install too.

@cyperghost this is definitively a really good idea to consider for a new feature. I also have been thinking on something like this for controller battery display or other system messages such as "Wifi Connected" or "Controller Connected".

As you said, the most common"hack" for this is to use pngview and dispmanx layers to display stuff "on top" of emulationstation. This of course is not very elegant nor very flexible and requires an RPI. The idea you propose would be multiplatform, so definitively worth it.

@mitu's ideas are very good too. This idea should be put in a TO-DO list or such. I currently don't have much time but when I have (hopefully soon) I can def help programming ideas like this.

FIXED: Change 'common.cfg' aspect ratio index to 23.

@mitu Yeah, it seems to. I'll try to switch over to Pegasus, that may offer touch functionality.

@chipsnblip Argh, I thought there was something wrong with the link, but the target was the problem. 😳

Again, thanks!

edit: typo

@silverbullet
So I did a little detective work.
It looks like in RetroPie 4.4/Stretch the /var/log/sixad file was removed and the logs for sixad are sent to journald ("/run/log/journal/44377289e4ad47738189eab7cbdb463a/system.journal" on my Pi) and i'm not sure if the script can read from that file as it contains a bunch of different logs.

to test this you can try changing batCheck.py from
"logPath='/var/log/sixad'" to "logPath='/run/log/journal/44377289e4ad47738189eab7cbdb463a/system.journal'" (note the big string of characters in the file path is probably different on your Pi!) and then running the script

Has anyone tried it more recently?? I was just curious to know if after more than one year it got better in performances...

@wetriner said in ES Themes Menu Revision:

@herb_fargus said in ES Themes Menu Revision:

Another suggestion would be a culling to keep well maintained themes and leaves the others to an auxillary script.

I think this is a good option as well.

I also like this idea.

@eskodisk Out of curiosity... I was looking through some of the Arcade1up forums. Apparently some of them use Mame2000 (as well as other Mame versions, RetroArch, and remnants of Retropie). Their are problems already identified that may be helpful. High-scores was one of them.

The guy who is leading the 1UP hacking charge has a thread on Reddit, but he doesn't know anything about Retropie, RetroArch, or Libreto, and was asking for help... if anyone wants to help him. ; )

https://www.reddit.com/r/Arcade1Up/comments/a02870/hack_original_board_not_just_replace_w_pietc/

@BuZz Indeed! 😄

Okay, I'll see if uninstalling Emulationstation everything works properly for me or there are things that start to fail ...

The RetroPie-Setup scripts use a helper script - joy2key - to navigate and enable buttons in dialog enabled scripts. Take a look here to see how it's started/stopped. You can source the RetroPie-Setup helper.sh or copy the functions you need from it in order to use it in your script.