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      backstander @meleu
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      @meleu

      The script already do this way.

      So I should be able to use Genesis instead of Megadrive if my <theme> is set to "genesis" and the same with TG16 vs PC Engine?

      I ran your script the other day (Jan 10th) on a ES theme and all my "Genesis" games load with a "Megadrive" runcommand picture. Also my "TG16" games loaded a "PC Engine" runcommand picture.

      And why did they have to call the US version of game systems a different name then the rest of the world? ;-)

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        meleu @backstander
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        @backstander Here is the megadrive part of my /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg:

          <system>
            <name>megadrive</name>
            <fullname>Sega Mega Drive</fullname>
            <path>/home/meleu/RetroPie/roms/megadrive</path>
            <extension>.smd .bin .gen .md .sg .zip .SMD .BIN .GEN .MD .SG .ZIP</extension>
            <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ megadrive %ROM%</command>
            <platform>megadrive</platform>
            <theme>megadrive</theme>
          </system>
        

        Here is the resulting image for carbon theme:
        0_1484255547590_launching.png

        And then I changed the <theme> to genesis:

        ...
            <platform>megadrive</platform>
            <theme>genesis</theme>
        ...
        

        And here is the resulting image:
        0_1484255501783_launching.png

        I'm not sure what's wrong on your side... is your es_systems.cfg in /etc/emulationstation or in ~/.emulationstation?

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          backstander @meleu
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          @meleu
          oh yeah...my es_systems.cfg it's in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/
          I was told it should be placed there so it doesn't get over-written by updates to RetroPie.

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            meleu @backstander
            last edited by meleu

            @backstander
            good point. I'll sort it in the script, hold on...

            BTW: ~/.emulationstation is a symbolic link to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/.

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              meleu
              last edited by

              @backstander done! Can you update and test it again?

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                Concat
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                Good work!

                I have to update runcommand, yes? I am on 3.8, though I have updated Retropie Setup. Am I going to break something?
                What's this about moving es_systems.cfg ? I swear mine isn't in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/ . . .

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                  backstander @meleu
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                  Thanks @meleu! I'll test it when I get home this evening.

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                    backstander @Concat
                    last edited by backstander

                    @Concat

                    What's this about moving es_systems.cfg ? I swear mine isn't in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/ . . .

                    Check out this link:
                    https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/EmulationStation#my-es_sytemscfg-is-being-overwritten-on-updates

                    I probably should be using ~/.emulationstation/ instead of /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/

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                      meleu @Concat
                      last edited by meleu

                      @Concat said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

                      I have to update runcommand, yes? I am on 3.8, though I have updated Retropie Setup. Am I going to break something?

                      When you execute retropie_setup, what version is shown on the top? It must be 4.0.3 or higher.

                      What's this about moving es_systems.cfg ?

                      It's unnecessary to make the script work.

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                        Concat
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                        Yeah I didn't realize that updating Setup also updates Runcommand :P I just never updated all packages cause I haven't seen a need... yet. Just the emulators have been updated when I hear of some improvements, like mupen64plus.

                        Anyway, I looked through your code and quickly realized it won't work for me because I edited theme.xml to change system.svg to one I prefer. Running this script will use logos that conflict with what I have in ES...

                        I suppose I can just add the affected systems to your "if" statements and point to the correct logo. Easier than making custom images for sure!

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                          meleu @Concat
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                          @Concat can you show me a tweaked theme.xml as an example?

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                            backstander @meleu
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                            @meleu

                            done! Can you update and test it again?

                            Okay so both ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg are the same with the custom <theme> has "genesis" & "tg16" and /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg has the defaults "megadrive" & "pcengine".

                            I updated script and ran it but the runcommand pictures are Megadrive & PC Engine still :`(

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                              lilbud
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                              @meleu said

                              UPDATE: the material theme got promoted to the cool examples.

                              0_1484272470697_upload-59988144-b515-4985-a0d0-bcce392370af

                              Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                Concat @meleu
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                                @meleu said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

                                @Concat can you show me a tweaked theme.xml as an example?

                                In my /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/pc/theme.xml: http://pastebin.com/gyfk0WYr

                                You'll see I modified it to include a .PNG image instead of system.svg. Not saying you need to accommodate this hooligan behaviour :P

                                Just saying for me to use your script I need to modify it so it pulls the correct logo for each system.

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                                  tronkyfran @meleu
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                                  @meleu ok with that crop ;)

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                                    meleu @backstander
                                    last edited by

                                    @backstander said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

                                    I updated script and ran it but the runcommand pictures are Megadrive & PC Engine still :`(

                                    Man, I tested it on my end before posting that and it worked as expect (generated an image with the "genesis" logo). Can you show me your es_systems.cfg so I can see what's going wrong?

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                                      meleu @Concat
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                                      @Concat said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

                                      You'll see I modified it to include a .PNG image instead of system.svg.

                                      Did you get some error when ran the script? I think it can deal with .png logos...

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                                        meleu @Concat
                                        last edited by

                                        @Concat I've tested here and I'm pretty sure my script can deal with .png logo files. But due to the black letters your PC logo doesn't look fine with carbon background :-(

                                        0_1484305905308_launching.png

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                                          Concat
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                                          Hmm sorry man, I checked again and maybe I was looking at your old script...? I could sworn I saw a line that was grabbing system.svg....

                                          Anyway, great work! And yeah, I know about the black on black issue. It needs an outline I suppose

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                                            backstander @meleu
                                            last edited by backstander

                                            @meleu

                                            Man, I tested it on my end before posting that and it worked as expect (generated an image with the "genesis" logo). Can you show me your es_systems.cfg so I can see what's going wrong?

                                            Okay, this time I deleted the version of the script I had, updated with newest version and ran ./generate-launching-images.sh carbon locally on the Pi and it worked like expected. Now I have correct TG16 and Genesis.

                                            Before I was doing it from an SSH session and I did it on metapixel and for fun "workbench" (which looked weird) but those didn't work before. I also tested with "workbench" again and it worked this time. Maybe I didn't update it correctly last time. I don't know.

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