EmulationStation Updates and Guide
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@Rookervik just saw your post on updating Carbon to add some of the requested features!
Would you be adding support for Game Collections?
If so, would definitely appreciate you chiming in here:
as since I hadn't heard form you in a while, @UDb23 and @mediamogul had already started to work on something to that effect, so that at least no work is duplicated (meaning, if you would want to take that on, it would be great to give them a heads up as it's obviously your theme).
Let me know if there's anything we can help, and thanks!
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My examples were really just for myself and to get the creative juices flowing. Carbon is a democratic endeavor and I've even added system artwork to the project myself, but having the skin's creator would certainly help keep a consistent look throughout.
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@pjft Well, Herb_Fargus and I designed the theme. I did all the graphics and Herb did the code. That was back when ES only had a couple themes and we were still learning how to theme it. So once Carbon was updated to a full theme with all systems, I sort of handed it off to Herb to keep updated.
There are so many features being added to ES that we simply cannot keep up. If you have a team adding features to Carbon, then that is fine. Let me know if you need some graphics. That's my category.
I will be going in and trying to edit in the variables and then hopefully writing a script to allow people to change the color of Carbon easily. It already comes with ~8 colors now. I don't think there is a single person that has used it tho. It even has bright orange, just for Jools. But I think he still uses default red. Haha.
-Right now I'm trying to find an ES feature request post. Every rom launcher I've ever used has been able to load screenshots/box-art from a sub folder in the rom folder. So if the image name matched the game, it was displayed. I was wanting this added. It would reduce my boot time from 25 seconds down to 5 :D
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Thanks both.
I am certainly aware of the idea of Carbon being a democratic endeavor, but I wanted to make sure you were comfortable with the direction. :)
As for a ES feature request post, I'm not sure there is one such post that is actively monitored or checked, but you can probably file a bug over at the GitHub repository?
https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues
That's probably the best bet, as at least there'll be a centralized repository where everyone can check things. I'm not sure of the proper recommendation for feature requests.
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@Rookervik Since there have been several requests now for a more accessible changelog of EmulationStation, I am going to attempt to create and maintain one. My current plan is to go back as far as when video support was added. That was around the time that I first got involved here and appears to be when development really picked up. I will also try to update the wiki/docs with tutorials on how to use the newer theme features, but those will take a bit of time to write.
@herb_fargus Are you OK with this being on the RetroPie-Setup wiki/docs or would you prefer it to be in the forums?
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@jdrassa yeah that would be much appreciated. there are some generalised readmes in the emulationstation GitHub that @pjft has added some to, it would be good to have those completed at some point but I think it would also be good to have something in the docs as that's generally where most people go
@mattrixk did a good job with his basic theme tutorial but perhaps it's worth having a emulationstation theming page that just lays out the features and/or variables.
I'm sure whatever you come up with will be lovely
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Small request: add option to change the menu controls info bar buttons to different ones. It now uses the default ABXY-system, but would be nice to have Playstation-buttons on it as well.
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@herb_fargus I want to go back and redo the tutorial with all the new stuff, but there's been so much new stuff that I've fallen behind. I can't guide others in how to do something if I don't know how to do it myself... I'm not management material.
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Forgot to post this early, but I have created a changelog page for EmulationStation on the wiki. I will do my best to keep this updated as changes are added. I am also working on adding documentation/tutorials for some of the newer theme features.
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@jdrassa you're the best! I'm actually surprised about how many features have been added from which I thought have always been there. :D
Time to do some reading and try all the theme enhancements.
I found a broken link under point 2.1.3, it shows a 404 page.Edit: That also reminds me, didn't you set up a method to get the latest build for Windows?
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guy's is there anyway i can use digits insted of stars for ratings?
eg; 1 2 3 4 5
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@insecurespike not currently
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@jdrassa thought as much, thanks for the reply
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