@kiro Thank you for the help! The problem is that I just don't understand what I'm doing.

So up top I have my variables listed in theme.xml, but that's just to avoid confusion here. In reality, I have my variables in variables.xml, with I have included in theme.xml. It should do the same thing, or so I thought.

Viewing the code to carbon, I noticed the include tags are in carbon.xml, not theme.xml.

In my theme I included variables.xml to views.xml and it seemed to have fixed everything. I don't understand why though, you think it would need to be added to the main xml the theme loads so that way all xmls inherit the variables. I have a helpsystem.xml just like the views.xml, but I only included the variables to views.xml and it fixed the helpsystem... I just... don't understand...

Anyway, thanks for the help, I'm going to go cry in a corner and question if I should even continue haha.

Here's a Realistic Arcade Bezel for the game Gate Of Doom for Retroarch.

A very special thanks to Dreamstate for acquiring this rare arcade bezel.

Thanks to HyperSpaceMadness as well for the use of his reflective shader.

gad (2).jpg

gad (1).jpg

gadhsm (1).jpg

gadhsm (2).jpg

Cool idea and looks nice.

You might consider using <sortname/> [1] in the gamelist instead of modifying the display name of the ROM upon preprocessing.

What duration adds the preprocessing to the ES start?
Do you rewrite every extra information to the gamelist every time (video, thumbnail, ... and hiscores)? I would assume only rewriting the hiscores would be sufficient as they change more often than the "static" scraped data.
Last but not least: What are your plans to publish the sources?

[1] https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/GAMELISTS.md#game

I know this thread is a few months old, but I figured I should necro-bump it to mention this utterly magnificent post on Reddit where someone redrew pretty much every conceivable system and company logo you could need, and released them as vectors AND rasters. This should be REALLY useful for theme-makers.

@etheling Hi, finished the same project...
I have spent many hours trying to get the overlay and Atari ST screen to line up. Could you Please post all the config files? I say config because Im doing mine on a Raspberry Pi 3... Tanx

@ZzackK no, sorry, ARRM is mono thread

@Folly

Done!

Last minute cleaning and changes to script made after the 202205 release mentioned above.
dazi-template now supports loading any number of mods.
ZIPs still get extracted, but all other file types now get symbolic links
Automated Numeric 0rder for M0Ds in templates + mod-loader menu
Traversing Sub-Directories now supported in mod-loader menu
Mod-loader is now independent; no need to install dazi unless you want it to load @runncommand.

You can identify the latest version inside the menu/template by 2022.05 instead of 202205.

@Diablo-Loco Gracias! Por suerte pude desarrollar el theme y lo tengo funcionando en batocea. Tiene algunas funciones que retropie no soporta asi que migre todo a esta plataforma

@huxley518 Hey, oddly working on a similar thing in Python to generate a custom gamelists to for a curated set of games across all systems. A bit more of what I've been doing is here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/32674/arcade-high-scores-in-the-system-menus-adapted-grid-theme-with-videos but what I'm working on at the moment is pulling out high score data and putting it into a game's description. By using the favourites menu I can pull in all my favourite games and have in one single menu. All the games' data I've curated is in a .csv file.

Here's a snippet of my arcade gamelist.xml all of which is generated each time my cab is turned on before ES starts up.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <gameList> <game> <name>001 : 1942</name> <video>/mnt/usbhd/videos/1942.mp4</video> <path>/mnt/usbhd/roms/arcade\1942.zip</path> <image>/mnt/usbhd/images/arcade\1942.png</image> <marquee>~/.emulationstation/themes/carbon-2022/art/systems/arcade.svg</marquee> <releasedate>19700101T000010</releasedate> <favorite>true</favorite> <desc>1942 (Capcom, 1984) Arcade DARREN^N 364810 Round 9 D.-&? Z^ 60240 Round 2 DARREN 51820 Round 2 c CAPCOM 40000 Round 0 TEST 36670 Round 2 STEVE 36550 Round 2 ALL 35000 Round 0 !%()^{}^? 33910 Round 2 RIGHT 30000 Round 0 RESERVED 25000 Round 0 EXEDEXES 20000 Round 0 10630 Round 1 VULGUS 9999 Round 0 SONSON 8888 Round 0 HIGEMARU 7777 Round 0 EXEDEXES 6666 Round 0 NAKASATO 5555 Round 0 1500 Round 0 1400 Round 0 1300 Round 0 1200 Round 0 1100 Round 0 1000 Round 0 900 Round 0 800 Round 0 </desc> </game> <game> <name>002 : 1943: The Battle of Midway</name> <video>/mnt/usbhd/videos/1943.mp4</video> <path>/mnt/usbhd/roms/arcade\1943.zip</path> <image>/mnt/usbhd/images/arcade\1943.png</image> <marquee>~/.emulationstation/themes/carbon-2022/art/systems/arcade.svg</marquee> <releasedate>19700101T000020</releasedate> <favorite>true</favorite> <desc>1943: The Battle of Midway (Capcom, 1987) Arcade DAZ 66500 12 44600 !&: 30300 *^ 27300 .9! 25200 </desc> </game> <game> <name>003 : 1941: Counter Attack</name> <video>/mnt/usbhd/videos/1941.mkv</video> <path>/mnt/usbhd/roms/arcade\1941.zip</path> <image>/mnt/usbhd/images/arcade\1941.png</image> <marquee>~/.emulationstation/themes/carbon-2022/art/systems/arcade.svg</marquee> <releasedate>19700101T000030</releasedate> <favorite>true</favorite> <desc>1941: Counter Attack (Capcom, 1990) Arcade DAZ 443800 Rank 1 DAZ 223300 Rank 0 Z*. 38500 Rank 0 *.- 31800 Rank 0 CAP 30000 Rank 7 COM 25000 Rank 0 CAP 24000 Rank 0 COM 23000 Rank 0 CAP 22000 Rank 0 COM 21000 Rank 0 </desc> </game>

@Twippy

Edit /boot/config.txt (This is on the Windows/Any OS Made In The 21st Century accessible partition created on the SD card) and remove the following:

###gpicase### boot_delay=3 dtoverlay=audremap,pins_18_19,swap_lr display_rotate=1 dtoverlay=dpi24 overscan_left=0 overscan_right=0 overscan_top=0 overscan_bottom=0 framebuffer_width=320 framebuffer_height=240 enable_dpi_lcd=1 display_default_lcd=1 dpi_group=2 dpi_mode=87 dpi_output_format=0x6016 #hdmi_timings=320 0 28 18 28 480 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 60 0 32000000 6 hdmi_timings=240 1 38 10 20 320 1 20 4 4 0 0 0 60 0 6400000 1 avoid_safe_mode=1 disable_pvt=1 disable_audio_dither=1 extra_transpose_buffer=2 audio_pwm_mode=2 dtparam=act_led_trigger=default-on ###gpicase###

When running a Pi Zero 2 on a TV, I also uncomment disable_overscan=1 and add the following lines to config.txt:

overscan_scale=1 hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_drive=2

I'm not sure if it will prompt you to configure an input if it doesn't detect the GPi Case's controller: If so, just configure as usual, if not, the simplest way to fix this would be to connect a keyboard, hit ALT+F4 to drop to a command prompt and run:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Then go to Manage Packages -> Core Packages -> emulationstation -> Configuration or
Configuration / Tools -> emulationstation and choose the option to Clear/Reset Emulation Station's input configuration.

Once it's all up and running, you'll probably want to disable mono sound mixing and get stereo sound back: Connect to your WiFi, enable SSH under the "Advanced Settings" menu and connect to the hostname "gpizero2" with the username pi and the password raspberry (Or just do this with a keyboard like the config reset step). Then run the following:

sudo echo "# default stereo mix" > /etc/asound.conf

Reboot for the changes to take effect.

It would also probably be a good idea to remove the HDMI/LCD detection script and the GPi Case Safe Shutdown python daemon. From a command prompt, run:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

And remove the following two lines:

sudo /home/pi/gpihdmiout/detect.sh & sudo python3 /opt/RetroFlag/SafeShutdown.py &

Hit CTRL+X, then Y to save the changes.

Note that there are two minor issues I've found in 1.5 since I released it: lr-picodrive is not set as the default Sega CD emulator and apparently lr-gambatte maps L1/R1 to palette switching functions now that need disabled and saved as a core override so save state/state load work properly for Gameboy games.

If anyone is interested, I've released the source code here: https://github.com/zayamatias/retroscraper

Enjoy :-)

Unfortunately the theme doesn't work with the EmulationStation version distributed by RetroPie.

Here I reworked my Playstation 2 console bezels to work with the Hyperspacemadness shaders for Retroarch

PS2console.png

PS2.png

Hi @dmmarti ,
I bought a Raspberry Pie 2 months ago. I have barely played on it, because I spend more time setting up my library.
From the few themes I have seen, I like your theme "Showcase" the best. I like that it shows the hardware and tells a bit about its history. Very informative for when I show my Retropie setup to others.
The reason why I write you is because I have some Sam Coupe roms, but there are no graphics in the theme currently. I am really bad at graphic design, and wonder if you ever made a background and system graphic for the Sam Coupe.

Greetings

Hello Ruckage !
I took the liberty of borrowing your concept from the beginning from the start to
make a view ( for launchbox), I don't really know what I'm going to do with it,
it was a simple test.but I wanted to show it to you.
I added some elements without overloading it.

I looked at your liabilities, you did a great project with your assets GG!
We don't have the same jersey and but we have the same passion ;)

@FiKiBE the link is online.

@Folly said in Creating ES gamelists with media for MAME/lr-mess:

Screenscraper doesn't add a picture to it.

It works with screenscraper. You have to add a system and customize the rom path in SKRAPER

In addition to ensuring the vector games look good again, and that I can take advantage of Cocktail mode whenever appropriate for vertical games, there are a few key mapping changes that I sometimes need to apply and I typically just handle this within the MAME menu. One interesting example is Gauntlet and Gauntlet II.

For the first time since I built my cabinet, I noticed something about these games that I hadn’t in the past—the Gauntlet titles’ audio is in stereo and coin drops are localized to the player position!

I recognize that my cabinet build and the 4-player control panel is unique—I have only ever seen a handful of cabinet builders taking on a 4-player cocktail style design. The benefit for me with this design is the ability to play side-by-side games (fighters etc.) along the horizontal side, and for old-school verticals to have players seated across from one another on the vertical ends (Cocktail mode). However, another huge plus is support for 3 and 4 player games. Titles like X-men, Simpsons, or even sports games like Stone Ball—and of course, Gauntlet, are really fun with 4 player action.

Regarding Gauntlet, getting the right players mapped to each position is key if you want to line up the audio. I only just realized this yesterday, so I went through the confusing challenge of re-mapping the controls to each position to get this working. To understand the results, it helps to show a visual of how my panel is arranged:

+—————————+ | | Player 3 | display | Player 4 +—————————+ Player 1 Player 2

So, this is how the controls are setup, and these player positions correspond to the switch inputs on my IPAC-4. For vertical games, Players 3 and 4 remap to P1 and P2 respectively.

But for Gauntlet, if you just map them 1-1, 2-2, etc, sure, you get 4 players and it works fine, but when you drop a coin in one position, the sound of that coin going in is in the wrong, stereo location, if that makes sense.

I don’t know who else this will help, but if you have your physical controls setup like I do above, here are the mappings in MAME that I came up with:

The format is Game/Mame Player shown ==> Control Panel Player

P1 ==> P2
P2 ==> P4
P3 ==> P1
P4 ==> P3

Another point of reference is that the coin button in MAME for P3 should be “5” and P3 Start is “1” if that makes sense.

Anyway, for the first time in more than a decade, my 4-player build as the “correct” positions (from an aural perspective) for a 4-player Gauntlet (II) game! Yay!