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      meleu @BuZz
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      @BuZz updated and tested the Carbon theme. The type mismatch error is gone.

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        Arcuza @meleu
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        How are things progressing with the grid view? I would love to have this game browsing mod installed.

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          lilbud @Arcuza
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          @Arcuza What is that specifically?

          Also, I want folders to work in grid view

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            mediamogul Global Moderator @lilbud
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            @lilbud said in EmulationStation mod:

            Also, I want folders to work in grid view

            I've been hoping that folder support would be possible as well.

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              trekdrop
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              Just so that I don't f*ck up. Do I need to update my manually? Or can I do it through the setup from retropie. I ask because I update though the setup menu and everything is weird... It's all white the text is everywhere. So I just want to know if this is normal or I need to update manually.

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                jacobfk20
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                @trekdrop To use this version of ES you need to install it manually.

                @Arcuza Things are going fairly slow right now but I'm getting a good chunk of the weekend to work on it.

                @lilbud, @mediamogul I haven't looked in to adding folders yet but It is on the todo.

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                  mediamogul Global Moderator @jacobfk20
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                  @jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

                  @lilbud, @mediamogul I haven't looked in to adding folders yet but It is on the todo.

                  Very keen! Thanks for all your work here. It's very exciting and I look forward to trying it.

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                    trekdrop @jacobfk20
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                    @jacobfk20

                    Do I need to copy the emulationstation.sh file from the download to the pi?

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                      jacobfk20
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                      @trekdrop There is no emulationstation.sh file in that link. It is just an emulationstation file. Unless you're downloading from the github page. But you just copy over the emulationstation file, make it executable with chmod +x emulationstation in terminal and then if you want to boot it instead of the normal ES you copy it to the /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation directory. This will overwrite the ES currently in there so be sure to make a backup.

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                        Erick @jacobfk20
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                        @jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

                        @trekdrop There is no emulationstation.sh file in that link. It is just an emulationstation file. Unless you're downloading from the github page. But you just copy over the emulationstation file, make it executable with chmod +x emulationstation in terminal and then if you want to boot it instead of the normal ES you copy it to the /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation directory. This will overwrite the ES currently in there so be sure to make a backup.

                        Thanks, and this will give me the updated version off the gridview?

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                          jacobfk20
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                          @Erick No. It will get merged to this fork in the future though. It still has some problems.
                          If you want to use the latest gridview you can get it here. but it will only have gridview added.

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                            trekdrop @jacobfk20
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                            @jacobfk20 said in EmulationStation mod:

                            @Erick No. It will get merged to this fork in the future though. It still has some problems.
                            If you want to use the latest gridview you can get it here. but it will only have gridview added.

                            So Nice, looks great! Only one question. My background is white while in the gridview mode in the carbon theme. Can I change that somehow?

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                              jacobfk20
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                              @trekdrop That's weird. Carbon usually works fine with that version of Grid. You can try adding in "grid" in its main theme xml. You can do that with nano:
                              sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/carbon.xml
                              scroll down until you see this line:
                              <view name="basic, detailed">
                              and add "grid" so it'll look like this:
                              <view name="basic, detailed, grid">

                              ctrl+x to save, y, enter.

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                                dudleydes @jacobfk20
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                                @jacobfk20 I would like to test your Grid View version of ES. The latest build available here has a filesize of 46.9MB, which is ten times the size of the vanilla ES and previous grid view binaries. Could you confirm that this is the correct version I should be using? Thanks.

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                                  jacobfk20
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                                  @dudleydes Yes it is. I haven't even noticed the size increase, thanks for letting me know. I'll look into it today but I may have just forgot to remove debug symbols when compiling.

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                                    jacobfk20
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                                    @dudleydes Fixed it. Recompiled without debug symbols and it's back to a little over 4 MBs. Sorry about that.

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                                      dudleydes @jacobfk20
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                                      @jacobfk20 Thanks. I have replaced the existing vanilla ES binary with the latest grid view version and everything is working fine in terms of launching games etc.

                                      I do have a few questions using the Carbon theme.

                                      1. How do I change grid size? I tried adding <container name="gridRowsAndColumns"> and adjusting the values but it's having no effect.
                                      2. What do I need to add to my theme to maintain the aspect ratio of box art?
                                      3. I notice in the help footer that the left and right bumpers are used to change system. This isn't working for me. Here is a copy of my es_input.cfg. What changes do I need?
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                                        jacobfk20
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                                        @dudleydes you change the grid tile rows and column size by using

                                        <container name="gridRowsAndColumns">
                                            <size>x y</size>
                                        </container>
                                        

                                        Where x is the amount of columns and y is the amount of rows.
                                        You can also do <container name="gridRowsAndColumns-small"> or <container name="gridRowsAndColumns-big"> to define the sizes for the small and big options.

                                        Aspect ratio is usually kept fairly well but if you have inconsistent image sizes for your roms then it can get broken. This is usually a bigger problem in box art like the NES or Sega games that are more portrait. This will get ironed out sometime soon but there is not much you can do to fix it except maybe define the grid tile size for that specific system where the ratio is broken.

                                        As for the quick system select... This is locked to the left and right shoulder buttons. You may not have those buttons mapped on your controller.

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                                          spannernick1
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                                          I copy your emulationstation file in but when I restart ES it comes up with Access denied and will not load ES..?

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                                            jacobfk20
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                                            @spannernick1 You need to set it to executable. In terminal, cd to its directory and run

                                            chmod +x emulationstation
                                            
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