Why do some versions of Retroarch look so different?

[TPR]

In some of the builds I've seen, RA looks like this:

And in others it looks like this:

Is this simply a different theme or a different version of RA than what comes with the RetroPie-Setup? I can't seem to find the theme for the one at the top in the most recent build of RetroPie.

[sleve_mcdichael]

@TPR that's the "menu driver" setting. RP default use the rgui driver cause it lightweight and perform well on low powered hardware like RasPi. I think the blue one in your picture is xmb. Other choices are glui or ozone.

retroarch.cfg excerpt:

# Menu driver to use. ("rgui", "xmb", "glui")
menu_driver = "rgui"

[TPR]

@sleve_mcdichael said in Why do some versions of Retroarch look so different?:

@TPR that's the "menu driver" setting. RP default use the rgui driver cause it lightweight and perform well on low powered hardware like RasPi. I think the blue one in your picture is xmb. Other choices are glui or ozone.

retroarch.cfg excerpt:

# Menu driver to use. ("rgui", "xmb", "glui")
menu_driver = "rgui"

Found it! Awesome... thanks! For some reason I never knew this was an option.