Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs
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@Nismo
Ok let me try to explain this in detail...
The System select screen (NES, SNES, ATARI2600 etc) works fine and shows the correct background (the one that shows the details about the hardware etc for the system).
The problem I am having is the correct location of the files for the system screen like ATARI2600. All its showing is the games list. No correct background image or TV screen or video etc.I have my folder layout as follows:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/images
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/marquees/
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/videos/
gamelist.xml
xxx.zip
xxx.zipThe theme is in the correct folder located at:
/etc/emulationstation/themes/oldroom 1080p/Whats bugging me is all the systems have the correct folder layout with the gameslist.xml in the correct location but only Atari2600 and Sega Master System shows correct with the TV and video, background and marquee.
I hope this explains it.
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@pootis-spencer
 
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I also noticed that some of the folders that have been uploaded on Mega don't have a gamelist.xml
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Yes some folders doesn't have gamelist because I will upload the european version of the videos, so people don't need to use a renaming tools to rename the USA ones.
Also, i'll not upload gamelist for some computers or consoles like PSX, just because I use PBP, others use cue & bin, and the most important thing, full romset of PSX (euro only) it's about 900GB, so for some of them you will need to scrape yourself.
Maybe I'll post the method I use to scrape the games fast in minutes, just because if you already have downloaded my media files, scraping is fast because it only download metadata.
About your theme issue, I'm pretty sure it's not theme related, I'm sure it happens to you with other themes. Seems that your gamelist.xml it's not set correctly or your media it's not on the right path.
Follow this steps:
1 - Check the gamelist for a system that doesn't work correctly, verify the paths again, with care and slowly, and make sure the files are in the same path that you can see inside gamelist.xml .
2 - Even if the paths are ok, make sure the file extension it's the same, maybe your images are jpg and in gamelist are png, same for videos, you can fix this fast with any text editor doing a search and replace.
Please confirm to me that it happens with other themes.
If nothing works, i'll send to you a folder with some images, videos, some fake roms and one gamelist.xml so that way you can test your systems and the theme.
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I have found that some of the roms I have are in .7z format and the gameslist.xml has .zip.
So you were correct it was the file extensions that was causing the issue. If you could do a quick qrite up to scrape the games quick that would be great and very helpful to not only myself but I'm sure a few others as well. -
Finally! I'm glad you finally solved your issue.
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Great job! I remember when "ETA Prime" did a video on this, I' m happy to see you keep adding more.
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Hi @Nismo, thanks for your great job!
I can't wait for the genesis/megadrive and snes packs to be uploaded, it would make my retropie install perfect! Any idea of when you'll be able to do it? Once agai thanks for your hard work!
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Will there be any update to this great theme for the missing systems?
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Hi @Nismo , just checking in if you're better, health wise.
Hope you're doing great.
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@Nismo Is it in the themes download directly for the pi?
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Awesome theme! Love the big videos!
Is there any chance you will create "favorites", "last played " , "Kodi" and "retropie" entries? Right now they are default due to missing artwork and stuff.
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Outstanding theme mate, thank you very much! Is there any plans for the "Ports" section?
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Is there a reason why the retropie settings are messed up?
everything seems to be pushed to the right side of the screen
overlapping, etc.Also hope to get SG-1000, Lynx and PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 in the future
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Theme looks blank when I try to load it. Does anyone know why? Like this:
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@sub_atomic You might need to upgrade emulationstation to get it to work.
Trying going into Retropie Setup and update your packages.
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@hurricanefan That did it. Thanks.
New problem is that the scanlines and screen border appear "behind" the video instead of overlayed. I believe this has something to do with the recent addition of z-index support for stacking images, which oldroom does not use. I don't know enough to fix it myself, can anyone else figure it out?
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@sub_atomic Hmm, if you have omxplayer on, I think that doesn't allow for things to be stacked right. I'm not in front of a pi at the moment, you can try clicking START and OTHER SETTINGS. Not sure the exact menu screen that its on.
But try turning OMX Player to OFF if its on.
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@hurricanefan Thanks for the suggestion, but OMX Player was off. You are right, though... turning OMX Player on breaks the stacking order of the CRT theme, which does use z-indexing for the TV bezel and box art. So I'm still thinking it's a z-index thing.
Interesting to see that videos do play a lot smoother with OMX Player on.
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