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    EmulationStation Toolkit - Theme Making Helper - Update

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    • FlyingTomahawkF
      FlyingTomahawk @jdrassa
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      @jdrassa

      Yes, that is the image I meant. But you got it fixed already. Well done!
      And thank you for the links, most grateful.

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        red2blue
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        how the hell do i use this??? is there a UI for building the theme? all i see that i can run is the rookervik theme helper that just gives me coordinates?? how do i build the theme itself?

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        • herb_fargusH
          herb_fargus administrators @red2blue
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          @red2blue you code in the coordinates given to place the different assets. There is a theme guide on the wiki.

          If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

          Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            red2blue @herb_fargus
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            @herb_fargus ah okay. i prefer the other theme editor imo. is there anything wrong with that one? i havent fully used it yet but looks so much more simpler

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              EctoOne
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              Hey @mattrixk do you still have that es_system package around that i uploaded for you a while ago? I accidentally lost mine and I'm to lazy to redo that. So if you still have it, it would be nice if you could reupload it.

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              • mattrixkM
                mattrixk @EctoOne
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                @ectoone Sorry mate, my brain is like a sieve and I have pretty bad memory problems, so I don't actually remember what you're talking about. What was different about the es_system file you gave me?

                My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                  EctoOne @mattrixk
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                  @mattrixk It was modified to reduce the amount files you had in the toolkit. It was set up to use the same 4 gamelists for all systems.

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                  • mattrixkM
                    mattrixk @EctoOne
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                    @ectoone I found it and put it in the public folder of my dropbox:

                    https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9dighvgp5jfye6/emulationstation.zip?dl=0

                    Let me know if you have troubles.

                    My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                      EctoOne @mattrixk
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                      @mattrixk amazing, thanks. Saved me a lot of work.

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                        saibam
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                        Sorry to resurrect such an old topic but I don't find anything about this anywhere else. I'm having trouble starting the ES bat files. I've placed ES under C:\ but when I try to start any of the bat files I just see a cmd window quickly flashing by and then nothing happens. Any idea why? @mattrixk

                        I'm total noob with building themes but I want to make a custom one for my office as we are in the making of building our own acade machine, and thought this helper would be great to use.

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                        • herb_fargusH
                          herb_fargus administrators @saibam
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                          @saibam you probably have spaces in your user name which windows is stupid about

                          If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                          Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                            saibam @herb_fargus
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                            @herb_fargus 0_1520327931897_cb900799-119a-4888-84e1-1076f0b90979-image.png

                            Doesn't seem to be any spaces: C:\emulationstation is what I get when I copy/paste the path

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                            • mituM
                              mitu Global Moderator @saibam
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                              @saibam Your kit is incomplete, the Readme file says that you need to download the Windows Emulationstation version. Go to https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/ and download the latest release, then unpack the .zip contents into this folder so it looks like the image below.

                              0_1520329487553_kit.png

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                                saibam @mitu
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                                @mitu Thank you! Looks like I misunderstood the kit, I thought it was complete to just run. Now I feel stupid missing that in the Readme :P

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                                  LinuxArcadeGuy
                                  last edited by LinuxArcadeGuy

                                  :)-

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