Rookervik! That is glorious! Thank you! I'm planning on building a mini MVS bartop and that splash video will be perfect! Who did that music? It's awesome!

@drumminhands if you want you can remove the options junk on the bottom to add a couple more games if you want. The bottom does not require a picture file (.jpg, .png, .svg) that makes the color bar.

@backstander
Hi!
Yes it's coin-op (20cts €). I like the idea of "paying" your credit, and not just push a button until 9 or more credit...
I use Mdf wood, or medium wood if you prefere. And a really thin sheet of plastic on the control panel as for the marquée.

For the inside it's still à mess right now, so after à Little clean-up yes i will link a picture.

NBBA. It's nice, but fails on any more than about 10 systems. Nice wallpapers eat up the Pi's RAM fast. Smooth fade-in to box art is achieved by pressing Start to get the the ES menu, going to UI settings, then selecting "slide" instead of "fade." Works on all themes.

@monstermadeofman Already bookmarked! I want to add X and Y buttons to it, but first my GBA needs to show up from Hawaii. I'm not averse to the custom PCB idea, but I really don't want to spend $80. What "other" custom PCB have you seen floating around? The only other one that I've come across is this one that I came across while browsing Reddit but I don't have any info on the maker.

@Addison I know putting a Pi in that would be futile, but I can dream dammit! 😁

@Rookervik Ahh... brings back some annoyingly happy memories...

Here's the print off I gave to the guy at BnQ.

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Obviously it's not all lined up etc - but it was enough for him to get the idea and do the cuts :)

@cyperghost
I can confirm that. My file looks like this:

pcm.hifiberry {
type softvol
slave.pcm "plughw:0"
control.name "PCM"
control.card 0
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "hifiberry"
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}

it missed the middle picture.. heh

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@9600baud Yes I didn't realize it was part of the coin installation

Thanks!

@najkks: EmulationStation has 3 main views: System, Basic and Detailed.

System view is the first view with the white carousel that displays the game system logos. Basic view is the simple GameList view that you get before you scrape any roms. Detailed view is the one that displays all of a games metadata (image, description, playcount, genre, developer, last played, number of players, publisher) that you get once you have scraped your roms.

When a person makes a theme they can specify a different background image for each system (eg: NES can have a picture of Mario, Genesis can have a picture of Sonic), and each View can have a different background image (eg: NES System view can have a picture of Mario jumping, NES Basic view can have a picture of Mario throwing a fireball and NES Detailed view can have a picture of invincible Mario).

However, what you can't have is a different background picture for each game in the GameList (eg: NES Mario Bros. with a picture of Mario, NES Battletoads with a picture of Zitz).

You also have to take into account how much RAM all these images are using. The original Simple theme used large background images for each system like this:
EmulationStation

While using this theme, a person could only have about 10 different systems before it was too much for the Pi and the whole thing would whitescreen.

So, while you can have a different image for each system, and a different image for each view, you need to do a lot of testing to make sure your theme isn't too much for the Pi to handle.

That is why most themes just use a simple repeating pattern (like Carbon) or a simple image with a colour overlay (like Pixel).

Now, having said all of that, if you personally only use a handful of systems (eg: NES, SNES, Genesis, MAME and PSX) then there shouldn't be any problem using a different image for each system. If you want to know how to do this for yourself, there is a How-To in the wiki that you can use to either make your own theme, or just modify an existing one.

@Schneider21

Thank you for that comment!

I can tell you that when I started this build I didn't know if it would turn out like I imaged it or if it would just fail at some point, and several times I thought the later 😬.
I would love to see what you can build, and I bet it would be great!