[Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES

Capeman · 19 Jul 2017, 20:00

I'm slacking off at work today. I liked the style of the recalbox favorites logo, but i feel like it's kind of simple and boring, so i'm working on my own.

mediamogul · 19 Jul 2017, 20:13

@capeman

Very nice! I especially love the hearts being blasted away. I found a little of time to rework mine a bit too. 'All Games' is still a tough nut to crack, but I think this approach gets a little closer to the idea.

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 00:15

@mediamogul I very much enjoy your logo for last played! Bravo!

Question to anybody on here. When i activate favorites on here, it shows the logo on the carousel, and if i add a game by editing it's meta data it shows on the favorites menu, which is all great... BUT when i restart emulation station, favorites goes away and games i tagged as favorites dont show up after i re-enable it.

~~I use custom gamelists, is it because i dont have the <favorite> tag on my meta data? Do i need to add it to every entry to make it work? Would that explain why it disappears every time I restart?~~

I tested the part i crossed out, and having <favorites> tags for each game in my gamelist doesnt seem to help.

In fact, editing the metadata isnt even saving in my gamelists, would using a custom created gamelist cause this issue? I edited an NES game to be favorite YES, and in my gamelist.xml, it still says <favorite>false</favorite>... So im currently googling how to fix that...

Also do i need to add an entry in es_systems.cfg to make it so the favorites menu doesnt disappear on reboot? - Dang, i usually dont have issues like this haha.

HurricaneFan · 20 Jul 2017, 00:53

@capeman Do you have "save metadata on exit" turned off?

hansolo77 · 20 Jul 2017, 00:53

Have you tried adding the game to favorites from the quick button (X for RetroPad, Y for Xbox, Triangle for Playstation, etc)? This might be related to the bug I reported with the ES crash. I found that if I try just editing the metadata (select button) and telling it to be a favorite didn't work. You have to first have the Favorites collection enabled, then go through and add it to the list with the button.

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 01:02

@HurricaneFan I'm not sure, where would i find that setting? Is it in the retroarch.cfg?

@hansolo77 ~~OH! I'll try this and report back.~~ Hey, this function does add favorites to the menu, but they don't save to gamelist, so it must be the saving setting being turned off.

HurricaneFan · 20 Jul 2017, 01:06

@capeman https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3979/edited-game-rom-metadata-not-being-saved

Screenshots on where in Emulationstation are in the link above.

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 01:10

@hurricanefan AH! YES this fixed saving favories, im not sure why i had it off.

Now my only problem left is that the "Favorites" menu on the carousel disappears every time i restart emulationstation. Do i need to add something to es_systems.cfg? I use a custom one of those also, so i might have something missing. Any ideas? Thanks guys!

HurricaneFan · 20 Jul 2017, 01:13

@capeman If you use a custom es_systems.cfg, I think you might need to add it to your custom file.

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 01:21

If anybody could pop open their es_systems.cfg file and post the system entries for the 3 auto-xxxxx systems (if they even exist), i would appreciate it very much.

HurricaneFan · 20 Jul 2017, 01:24

@capeman If you SSH into your pi, you can find them yourself.

The original es_systems.cfg that your custom one is overriding is located here: /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 01:27

@hurricanefan Actually... not on mine. I was stupid a while back and updated the es_systems.cfg in the /etc/ folder using root access instead of duplicating it and adding it to the user folder where i should have... Sooo yeah, oops... no original to reference.

HurricaneFan · 20 Jul 2017, 01:44

@capeman I don't actually see any new systems show up in the default file. This might all be meta data based from the gamelist files only.

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 01:45

Weird... i wonder why my collections keeps disappearing from the carousel on restart... There must be something I'm missing.

HurricaneFan · 20 Jul 2017, 01:49

@capeman After you turn that setting off from earlier. Mark a game as favorite and then shutdown emulationstation to save the data. Then restart the pi. Is it still a favorite?

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 02:01

The favorites are saving in the meta fine after i switched on the save-meta on exit function.

The problem I'm having is i have to re-enable the "favorites" collection to make it appear on the carousel every time i restart my pi - which is why i was wondering if i was missing an es_systems.cfg entry or something along those lines.

TMNTturtlguy · 20 Jul 2017, 02:15

@capeman @HurricaneFan can I suggest you guys start a new thread for this? This thread is intended for themes/thememakers development of themes for the new changes. A. New topic with appropriate title will also help get more views and potential fixes/explanations for the problem. Thanks!

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 02:17

No worries and sorry bout that, I just solved the issue in the past few minutes (bad es_settings.cfg file). No more out of me, til i post my completed Favorites Logo.

Capeman · 20 Jul 2017, 04:30

I think this looks pretty rad! I use the simple theme with the blurred bkg's as a basis for my default theme so i blurred the pixel collage, but i still have the sharp version saved. If anyone wants the logo or image, let me know.

mediamogul · 20 Jul 2017, 05:08

@capeman

I think this looks pretty rad!

Rad indeed sir. It's always nice to see these things come together. To that end, I believe I finally have a solution to 'All Games' that I'm satisfied with. I also thought my 'Collections' logo was a little sparse an could use some color, so I used Starlord's ship decor from 'Guardians of the Galaxy' as inspiration and added a boss sticker.