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When I downgraded VLC to have faster video previews, it created the problem. Just re-use the script proposed by RapidEdwin08

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RapidEdwin08/RetroPie-Setup/master/vlc-downgrade.sh -P ~/ chmod 755 ~/vlc-downgrade.sh ~/vlc-downgrade.sh

And select option 2 to re-install the original VLC version. Now you can re-install EmulationStation

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/35717/emulationstation-video-previews-on-raspberry-pi-5/22?_=1728574374997

@phillip_benoit create a branch for each change, before adding your changes, then create a PR from that branch.

I have confirm this issue with Bullseye 32 bit with RPi3 and 4, but it doesn't happen with Bookworm 64 bit with RPi5. I will try to build 64 bit for RPi3 to check.

@Folly Thanks, I got everything running now!

Please take note that you can use jpg format in addition to png.

At least I've been using a mixture of png and jpg images :)

@mitu @kyuzumaki

Curiously, I have something similar on 18.04.1, which is also a recent thing. I just stumbled across this post but already made my own thread with my own findings this evening:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21139/error-and-gui-terminates-back-to-es-when-launching-retropie-setup-direct-on-machine-libudev-but-ssh-is-ok

Let me know if I can help grab any further information here to get this resolved.

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.