I'm a bit confused - the right permissions for the gamelists are to be owned by the user pi. If you change the file to be owned by root, then Emulationstation (which runs as user pi) will not be able to save any metadata (writing back the gamelist.xml file). Make sure the files are owned by the user pi, then try again to see if the metadata is saved. If it's not, show a screenshot of the file's permissions. Also, make sure you didn't accidentally disabled saving the metadata on exit from the Emulationstation settings.

close emulation station before editing it

@Carnivore said in ZOID theme - looking for help: @ratedrguy Sorry for the delay. Here's a link to zipped ZOID-nometa theme with my adjustments: https://ufile.io/56wzy @Carnivore your mods look great, would you mind uploading your adjusted theme again? It looks like the link has expired. Many thanks!

Found it, thanks!

@navi87 said in EmulationStation custom options menues: Is there any way to manually edit and replicate the menu on ES when you press start as shown in the video? Where would such files be on the sd card?? As i said - 2 years ago - that's not the RetroPie's version of EmulationStation, so it's doesn't apply to the RetroPie's EmulationStation, where the same answer I gave then is still valid.

did you find anything? I have the same problem.

Many thanks!

@zarrath I can't really give you a point by point description, but there is a guide on the RetroPie wiki that teaches you how to make themes. I should point you in the right direction at least. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme One simple thing I can tell you, if you just want to hide some text to stop it showing up, you can use <fontSize>0</fontSize>. This effectively tells ES to make that element have a font size of 0, so nothing can be seen. You use it like this: <text name="md_description"> <fontSize>0</fontSize> </text> This would stop the description from showing on the screen. If you wanted to move the existing elements, or change their size, you would need to play with <size> and <pos>. Also keep in mind that you may have to make changes to each theme.xml within the system folders as well as changing carbon.xml, but that would depend on what you want to change.

@herb_fargus Yeah that would make sense. Have like RetroArch RetroArch-Cheats RetroArch-Overlays RetroArch-Achievements and so on