@mitu Well, I prefer the image of the box

@fluffypillow I'm having another go at updating my theme but due to the scale I'm still struggling a bit. I'm just wondering, now that there's no concept of a current collection or current game you're doing the sorting and getting of those manually. I'm just wondering how you're handling that. Are you doing it all at the theme.qml level and sending those IDs down to each of your subsequent pages? Handling all game and collection management at the top level then? I mean that seems like the most efficient way but I just want to make sure before I go too far down that rabbit hole. I only have short bursts of time to spend on the theme these days so I'm not able to commit enough of a chunk of time to figure it out completely on my own. -edit- no matter. I went ahead with this method anyway and I've gotten it all updated. Now I can look into implementing some of these new features I was badgering you about haha I did notice that it isn't pulling the year from the metadata. Is this part of your current updates?

@Silent I think you answered that yourself. Because it sucks (and I can't "ghost" them, they will be visible and cause confusion). ;) And I do migrate old config.ini and folders. And it's to be expected that there are changes for major versions. Users should know that. I do keep the --refreshfor a while though, so for those where it makes sense, I do actually keep them a couple months. And the change from localdb to cache is compatible with both versions, as it should be simply left out for both which gives the same result. I think, in the end, this will turn out to be a non-issue when it comes to the script as we can work around it.

That actually looks really good! I had trouble with the duo-tone bit.

Clyde, I mentioned the spinner-as-a-wheel because you can actually get a wheel to fit the same spinner you have, so I'm looking at getting both. Also, can the Pi see a PS/2 Trackball with a USB adapter ? These are much cheaper than the USB Trackballs, and I like the smaller size. I'm worried the Pi would see it as a simple USB "Device", rather than a trackball. Still, they're cheap enough to try out, so I might order one and post my findings here.

Speak of the devil, look what showed up today!

@edmaul69 great icons, can you share turbo grafx,supergrafx,capcom logos and icons?

Has something changed with the scraper or site? I'm trying to scrape NeoGeo, it looks like it picked up all the correct art but the gamelist doesn't include any "Names". Nevermind, looks like I fixed it. For some reason, the data in the fields for Language got erased, so it wasn't scraping the name and descriptions. All working now!

@Wildfire said in Chicuelo Theme: @pootis-spencer I haven't been working on the theme over Christmas but I'm keen to get back to it again in the new year. I'm currently adding more systems/collections, tidying up the code, compressing images within reason (to improve performance) and I'm thinking about separating the characters from the background to make it easier for others to mod. Apologies for the long wait but I'd rather do the work now to get it as good as possible before I upload it. @movisman glad you like the theme :) I currently have PSP (crisis core) PSP mini (jetpack joyride) and Dreamcast (crazy taxi) but nothing for GameCube yet. It's on the list though so it will 100% be included. @DarishZone can't say I've installed Supersweet on my build but your modified theme looks awesome! I love simple themes like that which run smooth as butter :D I'm trying desperately to keep my modded theme as light as possible (which is a challenge given the transparent png's....) once compressed the theme works much better but it may still be a challenge to run for people who have tons of systems installed. Thank you very much! Your themes mods great too, so i'm very flattered! Supersweet original creator used very smart ideas performance wise, using small vertical PNG images with color scale instead of RGB, little loss detail but they are way more light for ES to handle. As results the theme is light speed even with custom collections enabled, i've stick to that same formula for the mod and i'm very satisfied! Waiting for your work shared.

@Rookervik the Pixel 2 version already available?

@telengard said in Guide: Advanced Controller Mappings: from what you've described, it doesn't seem that straightforward. To change the order of events more efficiently would require changing runcommand.sh which isn't recommended. I still have the above solution in place and while it's a bit hacky on its face, it works very well. I believe the only thing I added was a final check to see if xboxdrv was active while runcommand.sh isn't. If that particular case ever proves true, then xboxdrv is shutdown, as it means that a gaming session is not active for whatever reason.

@nismo , Hi there! I'm absolute noob and I'm not a native english speaker, so please be patient with me! I'm using the ES portable build from herb fargus on windows 10 and I'm realy interested in the mentioned launcher which would make my Retro Gaming Experience much more enyoable! Any chance to get this launcher somewhere here in the forum?

Atari's Missile Command cannot miss as a Classic. Overlay now available in the Repo.

Hello! I have taken the liberty of a new thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17766/mame2003-plus-250-new-games-new-input-system-new-features-a-few-new-bugs/

Here is a full list of all of the synopsis fixes that were made by creating a gamelist.xml for the RetroPie and using the new Reversal script to create [synopsis].txt files usable in Madmab Edition emulators, as well as how many instances were fixed: PAGE SETUP / FORMATTING: All Windows based (CR LF) line breaks replaced with Linux based (LF) line breaks: 1,228 (This is a document count. Actual instances of this fix is likely in the 30,000 to 40,000 range) Added double spaces to lines that should have had them: 38 Corrected established order for "Original Title: " and "Alternate Title: " lines: 29 REMOVED extra blank line in between Description and first URL: 1 Line had a line break in the middle where it shouldn't have been: 2 Two extra lines after Description when there was no URL: 12 Extra spaces at end of lines: 5 Blank line with only a single space in it. The original code kept that line because of the space, as well as adding a Double Space before and after it, leaving 3 blank lines between the end of Description and the beginning of the first URL: 1 Added "Blank Space" under "_____________" that notes the beginning of the Game Description text. (NOTE: This looks much better in the XBox [synopsis].txt format than not having it, but this extra line is removed in the [synopsis].txt to gamelist.xml conversion code because this leading blank space does not look good on the RetroPie.): 1 GRAMMAR: "Original (T)itle" Capitalized: 10 "Hacked (B)y" Capitalized: 16 "Translated (B)y" Capitalized: 6 UNUSED FIELDS REMOVED: REMOVED blank "Alternate Title: " line: 56 REMOVED blank "Original Title: " line: 41 BLANK FIELDS THAT SHOULD HAVE HAD INFO (Usually "Unknown" except for Players info): Missing "Players: ": 5 Missing "Release Year: ": 19 Missing "Hack Release Year: ": 27 Missing "Translated Release Year: ": 1 Missing "Hacked By: ": 1 Missing "Version: ": 2 MISSING TAGS OR INCORRECT TAGS, BUT INFO WAS THERE: Missing "Players: " Tag, so line and data were lost: 4 Missing ":" in "Version: ", so line and data were lost: 2 "Release Year: " misspelled "Relase Year: ", so line and data were lost: 1 "Release Year: " misspelled "Releaese Year: ", so line and data were lost: 1 "Alternate Title: " mislabeled as "Alternative Title: ", so line and data were lost: 3 "Translated By: " written as "Translated y: ", so line and data were lost: 1 "Publisher: " written as "Publisher:" without space. Somehow code re-wrote this as "Publisher: Publisher: " after the reversal script. (Assumed code would mimic this behavior for any tag missing the space before the info): 1 URL TAG FIXES: URLS that started with "www." were ignored by all code and just showed up in the Description rather than the <url> or <urlalt> tags: \ (Fixed this so no matter what order the two links are, or combination of "www." "http" or "https" they are they will both print on separate URL tags and in the order they are in the [synopsis].txt) PROBABLY NOT GOING TO BE "FIXED": On VERY rare occasion there are more than two links in a synopsis file (For instance, if multiple hacks were applied to a single file). The code currently adds any more than two to the <urlalt> tag with a line break in between them. Most likely will not put in additional tags for the 0.0002% of games that would have this extra link or two. In the next week I will create a new gamelist.xml file and run the reversal code again and compare the new output. I expect after doing this a second time with some code changes that I made today that the input [synopsis].txt files should be a 100% exact match to the output [synopsis].txt files. The above fixes should then be applied to any synopsis files for other systems I work on in the future. Also, in the future, rather than do the crazy amount of editing I did by hand that could be handled with code like this, I will be adding more things to the existing code to automate all of that process. Man... I'm glad I finally started learning how to do this for myself. :)

@mitu said in Neo Geo X Build: What are these 'difficulties' you're speaking of ? So far your only post here in the forum is in this topic, for a bug which has no precedent so far and is not in RetroPie. If you want to detail your problems, please do so in a separate topic, instead of clobbering this topic, which is dedicated to the theme. Sorry, I didn't want to speak out of turn. They mostly came down to learning how to 1) Load the theme correctly (actually pretty straightforward), configure the SS scraper to work (a little harder), replacing the 2D graphics with the supplied ones from Ruckage (a little harder), figuring out this issue with video images (a little harder still). I'm in the process of figuring out how to individualize loading screens next (which is partially a RetroPie thing, partially related to this theme, though more the former). There are other RetroPie specific issues (before I even started loading these theme), but I try and avoid bringing those up. I don't want to sound ungrateful or anything. For a neophyte in RetroPie, this is kind of daunting (but Ruckage even warned as much that this was a complicated theme). I didn't mean to clobber this topic.

@used2berx said in Atari 5200: New version of Atari800 (Beta): two triggers (Moon Patrol!!!), hat start and exit buttons: I don't know. I just followed the two different instructions you had to download the one for the newer and older versions of RetroPie that I've always used since you first started doing this. Ok, then you just downloaded the binaries. As they are compiled for arm cpu's (raspberry pi) they will not work in a pc/laptop (they normally have a x86/x64 cpu). @used2berx said in Atari 5200: New version of Atari800 (Beta): two triggers (Moon Patrol!!!), hat start and exit buttons: You think this would work on my laptop? I do not see why not, afaik almost all linux distro's have support to compile software locally. Maybe you need to install some headers first (i.e. sdl2) but just give it a go.

Thank you. I will be sure to do both later this evening! EDIT: I opened a issue at github. I also created game specific settings, so got it working! I originally thought WHDload was more of an index of games compatible, including all previous versions of each game listed and that everything else on what & how to run the game was within the .lha. When I update Amiberry with a newer whdload.xml, do previous versions of games still run correctly when I new version is released?

@lipebello This theme is absolutely gorgeous, you've done an incredible job here. I'm also looking forward to seeing updates on your Retrolution theme, which looks amazing so far. The only downside to the Retrorama theme that I could find was that the TurboGrafx-16 launching image is utilizing the art you had used for the PC Engine's SLBG image, as opposed to the art you used for the TurboGrafx-16's SLBG image. If you could fix that, this theme would be perfection. :)

@barbudreadmon soon seems a good timing ;-)