RetroPie not seeing themes?

chemdream

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.1 w/ AMD processor.

I thought I just wanted EmulationStation without the rest of RetroPie, so I compiled it (Successfully).

Afterwards, I realized I did want all of RetroPie. So I downloaded and set it up.

However, it's doing some weird things.

It still seems my old Mame folder I setup with EmulationStation
It sees I have a PS3 controller plugged in, but doesn't ask to setup all the buttons like on my other RPie setup. It stops with "page up" "page down"
It doesn't see any themes.

I've already tried to delete my .emulationstation folder.

Any other ideas how I can install fix this so RetroPie works as it should "out of the box"?

Thanks!

mitu

@chemdream Try removing /etc/emulationstation and then re-install the emulationstation package. You shouldn't have deleted the ~/.emulationstation folder, probably some settings have been lost.

chemdream

@mitu Thanks I'll try that!
If I re-install retropie base packages, will it re-create .emulationstation?

Thanks!

chemdream

I removed etc/emulationstation ... It installed Carbon, but that's the only theme it installed.

Also, when I'm setting up my sony controller (via usb), it still only has the options for:
Up, down, left, right, A, B, start, select, page up, page down.

Anyway to totally start RetroPie from scratch? Like a complete purge?

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.1, amd cpu.

Thanks!

EDIT: running retropie-setup to uninstall and reinstall. I'll let you know how it goes!

chemdream

Totally uninstalling and reinstalling retropie helps a bit.

But when setting up Sony controllers, it still only asks for a few buttons.

It doesn't ask for X, Y, stick, shoulder or hotkey buttons.

mitu

@chemdream Can you post a screenshot with the configuration dialog ? What version of Emulationstation do you have installed ?

chemdream

@mitu
It says Retropie version 4.2.2 last commit 5 days ago.

And Emulationstation 2.0.1a

Thanks!

mitu

@chemdream said in RetroPie not seeing themes?:

And Emulationstation 2.0.1a

That's not right. This is not the Emulationstation version from the RetroPie project, probably that's why the mapping dialog looks incomplete.

chemdream

@mitu Ahh. It's probably because I installed Emustation first and uninstalling all didn't delete it. I'll manually delete and try again.

Thanks!

chemdream

That was it! Thank you so much.

So what happened was, I didn't think I wanted ALL of RPie when I started. So I cloned a Emulationstation repos...

So 2 things
-I guess that repos was old!
-When doing a full, it didn't delete emulationstation executable because it was in usr/local/bin, not usr/bin

Thanks again!!!

BuZz

So what happened was, I didn't think I wanted ALL of RPie when I started. So I cloned a Emulationstation repos...

with retropie-setup you can install as little or as much of retropie as you like.