All new RetroPie UI

mitu

@mick You can edit the title - just edit your 1st post.

A Former User

Unless you are going to personally step to the plate to code this, I am not entirely sure what your expectations are here.

Pegasus has been in development for years and is where it's at today. EmulationStation has pretty deep capabilities when it comes to themes. People like @f-caruso have forked the current EmulationStation build, adding even more theme capabilities.

mitu

@mick Since you're referring about a for a new UI on Emulationstation - did you know it has a Grid view layout ? It's quite different from the carousel based layout that most themes are using and might be closer to the look you're envisioning.
The forum topic that started it all is here. Since it was - until recently - a beta feature, there aren't many themes created for this layout (there are links to some of the themes in the topic).

mick

Maybe the right way would be going with Pegasus as the new default game launcher. Their UI isnt the greatest, too. I wonder if it makes sense to ask for the same on their channels or stay with RetroPie.

matchaman

Slightly off-topic, I'll probably make a separate thread about it. But how awesome would something like that be? (skip to 1:37)

ballboff

@mitu said in All new RetroPie UI:

@mick Since you're referring about a for a new UI on Emulationstation - did you know it has a Grid view layout ? It's quite different from the carousel based layout that most themes are using and might be closer to the look you're envisioning.
The forum topic that started it all is here. Since it was - until recently - a beta feature, there aren't many themes created for this layout (there are links to some of the themes in the topic).

I second this. I use a neo geo classic theme on my build and it uses the grid view, and it's pretty awesome tbh.

hiulit

@mitu Is the GridView layout in the main EmulationStation repository?

mitu

@hiulit Yes, it's in the 2.8.x version series, released this February (the stable branch).

sergioad

@mick I also think Pegasus would be a great UI but with some RetroPie specific modifications like a built in scrapper

hiulit

@mitu Alright! And is there any specific way to enable it, or should the theme be the one that supports it?

mitu

@hiulit You need to have a theme that supports it and then switch to the gameview style from the ES UI options. Note that switching to grid view for a theme that doesn't support it (or the other way around) will crash ES.
You will have to switch both options at once in the UI options - theme and view type.

hiulit

@mitu Noted. Thanks ;)