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    • RookervikR
      Rookervik Global Moderator @hiulit
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      @hiulit

      The pixel theme actually has it's own set of icons for the RetroPie menu. They can be found in "/retropie/icons" inside the theme's folder. Note: Because of how ES uses gamelists to display art, we were not able to have per-theme RetroPie system icons. You can, however, edit the retropie gamelist.xml and point each menu entry to the art in this folder.
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      • hiulitH
        hiulit
        last edited by hiulit

        Hey, sorry, is this the path ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/retropiemenu/gamelist.xml that I should be looking for in order to change the icons path? Because I tried change the path and restarting EmulationStation and also restarting the system and nothing changed.

        I've already found the path to the pixel theme icons /etc/emulationstation/themes/pixel/retropie/icons, is that right?

        Thanks!

        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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        • RookervikR
          Rookervik Global Moderator @hiulit
          last edited by

          @hiulit To be COMPLETELY honest, I don't know which to edit. There is another one in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/retropie. -_- So many of the same thing in so many places.

          Load that one up and save it in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/retropie... I think ES will actually load a gamelist from the rom folder. Then, change that one to point to the icons? I hope that works. LOL

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          • mattrixkM
            mattrixk
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            @Rookervik
            I've started playing with your Pixel theme (just starting slow, changing border colours and such while I get a feel for it), and I have a question about your workflow.

            I saw on another thread you mentioned using the Windows version of EmulationStation because it was easier to work with and get screenshots (oh boy to I agree with you there), so I've done that and I have it all set up so it works fine, but...

            Do you have an easy way to see your changes as you make them? The easiest way I've found is this:

            1. make a change to the XML.
            2. save XML.
            3. go into ES and change the theme to something other than Pixel.
            4. change the theme back to Pixel.

            This works fine to show the changes, but takes many button presses (start, down, down, A, down, down, down, down, down, down, left, B, B, start, down, down, A, down, down, down, down, down, down, Right, B, B) just to switch between 2 themes.

            Is there maybe a hot-key I can set up to switch themes, or some way to refresh ES? Is this how you do it, or have you found something a bit more efficient?

            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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            • RookervikR
              Rookervik Global Moderator
              last edited by

              Nope, that's how I do it. Either change themes and back, or close it and re-open it. That's all you can do. -_-

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              • ParzivalP
                Parzival
                last edited by

                YES!!!! i wants it!!!

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                • mattrixkM
                  mattrixk @Rookervik
                  last edited by

                  @Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

                  Nope, that's how I do it. Either change themes and back, or close it and re-open it. That's all you can do. -_-

                  Oh well, thanks for letting me know. It can get a bit tedious at times can't it. I suppose once I've wrapped my head around how everything works and what does what, then I won't have to refresh as often to see the changes.

                  Onwards!

                  My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                  • RookervikR
                    Rookervik Global Moderator @mattrixk
                    last edited by

                    @mattrixk Just be glad you don't have to transfer the theme over to the Pi and refresh EmulationStation there. :P

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                    • mattrixkM
                      mattrixk @Rookervik
                      last edited by

                      @Rookervik Heh yeah. The whole thing was pretty daunting until I read your other post^ about using EmulationStation on Windows. I wasn't even aware ES was made for platforms other than the RPi.

                      ^I think it was over on the old forum at petrockblog.

                      My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                      • V
                        Vega
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                        I want to say gorgeous theme im currently using this, I downloaded it from emulation station. Im curious as a total noob, how do i access the turbo cd and sega cd folders? Im not seeing them in my rom directory? or is there something im missing? I noticed you said choose the tgcd theme but i dont see that option unless im missing it.

                        thanks for any help you can give.

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                        • RookervikR
                          Rookervik Global Moderator @Vega
                          last edited by

                          @Vega SegaCD already has a rom folder. Put your games in there and it should show up. I don't think I made a MegaCD logo. Just SegaCD.

                          Turbo Grafx CD has a theme, but no link to it as RetroPie doesn't want to add that right now. You can edit your es_systems.cfg and duplicate the pcengine section and rename everyting to TurboGraphicsCD. Tell it to use the "tgcd" theme.

                          Duplicate this section:

                          <system>
                              <name>pcengine</name>
                              <fullname>TurboGrafx 16 (PC Engine)</fullname>
                              <path>~\.emulationstation\roms\pcengine</path>
                              <extension>.pce .zip .cue .PCE .ZIP .CUE</extension>
                              <command>%HOME%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L %HOME%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\cores\mednafen_pce_fast_libretro.dll "%ROM_RAW%"</command>
                              <platform>pcengine</platform>
                              <theme>pcengine</theme>
                          </system>
                          

                          And change it to this:

                          <system>
                              <name>tgcd</name>
                              <fullname>TurboGrafx 16 CD</fullname>
                              <path>~\.emulationstation\roms\tgcd</path>
                              <extension>.cue .CUE</extension>
                              <command>%HOME%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L %HOME%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\cores\mednafen_pce_fast_libretro.dll "%ROM_RAW%"</command>
                              <platform>pcenginecd</platform>
                              <theme>tgcd</theme>
                          </system>
                          

                          Note: If your TGCD games are in a different format than CUE, add that format above in the <extension> section.

                          That will add a Turbo Graphics CD section. After you create a folder called "tgcd" in the rom directory and place your cd images there, it should appear after restarting emulationstation.

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                          • edmaul69E
                            edmaul69 @mattrixk
                            last edited by edmaul69

                            @mattrixk adding emulationstation kids makes it really easy. Set it in kiosk then all you have to do is press start, a, a

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                            • mattrixkM
                              mattrixk
                              last edited by

                              @Rookervik
                              I finished my take on your Pixel theme.

                              I called it MetaPixel and I made a post about it here.

                              I think I did the attribution correctly, but if you would like me to change it, let me know.

                              My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                              • RookervikR
                                Rookervik Global Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Eh, too much work... 70+ of these? No thanks. Haha

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                                • herb_fargusH
                                  herb_fargus administrators @Rookervik
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                                  @Rookervik would be super impressive though

                                  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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                                  • mattrixkM
                                    mattrixk @Rookervik
                                    last edited by

                                    @Rookervik Looks awesome though.

                                    My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                    • edmaul69E
                                      edmaul69 @Rookervik
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                                      @Rookervik looks pretty cool though. Only problem i think you would have comes with older consoles. Some can be a little hard to have useable graphics to make a theme out of. I am going to run into the same issue with the theme im making.

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                                      • dankcushionsD
                                        dankcushions Global Moderator @Rookervik
                                        last edited by

                                        @Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

                                        Eh, too much work... 70+ of these? No thanks. Haha

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                                        omg, you tease! that is so ace :)

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                                        • RookervikR
                                          Rookervik Global Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Got tired of the ugly Ports graphics. So I boosted the green, and changed the logo a little. I like it better.
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                                          • mattrixkM
                                            mattrixk @Rookervik
                                            last edited by

                                            @Rookervik Is there any particular reason you chose the Linux penguin as your image for Ports? When I made MetaPixel I changed it to your default Computer image, I guess because I just see Ports as "computer games" so the Computer image fit.

                                            Also, your colour choices are much better than mine. Do you have any sort of system for choosing colours? I started trying to make companies follow a colour scheme (all Sega consoles are red, all Nintendo are blue etc), but it was time consuming so I didn't really follow through with it.

                                            Unrelated note: Have you ever been able to get the Gamelist to show in lowercase? It's frustrating being stuck in uppercase.

                                            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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