@simpleethat its almost like we need to ask before our eyes see the truth lol. Thanks though I dont quite feel so alone now xD

I just want to use a theme that is already set up for three media types. That will look much better than forcing a third image into one that's designed for two. I just thought there would be more than the two I mentioned...

a not good solution is use this:
<helpsystem name="help">
<fontPath>./_res/fonts/TitilliumWeb-Regular.ttf</fontPath>
<fontSize>0.035</fontSize>
<origin>0 0</origin>
<pos>1 1</pos>
</helpsystem>

but i would prefer to hide the help, but allow the user to reactivate it from the menu if he wants.

@andreamav said in A Theme - Full Revision, New Graphic - Arcade Crt 2020:

sorry if I ask again

I'm not the one that will merge the PR - another developer will do it.

Turning off "parse gamelists only" setting did the trick. NES loaded and I was able to scrape again and have a new gamelist.xml. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

#uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode
#hdmi_safe=1

#uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
#and your display can output without overscan
disable_overscan=1

#uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
#goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
#overscan_left=16
#overscan_right=16
#overscan_top=16
#overscan_bottom=16

#uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus
#overscan.
#framebuffer_width=1280
#framebuffer_height=720

#uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output
config_hdmi_boost=4
hdmi_safe=1
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_drive=2

#uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
#hdmi_group=2
#hdmi_mode=9

#uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or
#no display
#config_hdmi_boost=4

#uncomment for composite PAL
#sdtv_mode=2

#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default.
#arm_freq=800

#Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces
#dtparam=i2c_arm=on
#dtparam=i2s=on
#dtparam=spi=on

#Uncomment this to enable infrared communication.
#dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=17
#dtoverlay=gpio-ir-tx,gpio_pin=18

#Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README

#Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=on

[pi4]
#Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver on top of the dispmanx display stack
#dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2

#flip screen 180 degrees
lcd_rotate=2

#disable touch screen
#ignore_lcd=1

#disable onboard bluetooth
dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt

[all]
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
start_x=0
gpu_mem=128

TY , guess its time to get an sd card reader and learn this thing.

@gomisensei That worked perfectly, thanks!

@mitu After trying all day and failing I will tell you what I did

I tried your solution and it didn't work I started from 0 the two translation tutorials of the original post. In both I get this error at the end

/home/pi/EmulationStation/es-core/src/resources/font.cpp:17: font : :fontface : : fontface(resourcedata&&, int) : assertion `!err' failed

then try two possible solutions:
a) update retropie setup (dont work)
b) update emulationstation from source (work but back to english)

the only thing that works so that it is translated but the shutdown / restart menu does not work is to put in autostart.sh LANG=es_ES.UTF8 /home/pi/EmulationStation/emulationstation #auto

thank you for your patience

@Carey said in Switch Buttons only in Emulationstation:

is this the same core-input mapping?

No, that's different.

I prefer the remapping using the command line because i can simple backup the files.

The remaps files are simple text files, with the .rmp extension. They can be easily backed-up/restored.

@MrShanksio the 2 best SBCs in 2020 (well, they already were in 2019, before the pi4 was even out) are those 2 :

Odroid N2 => best all rounder (better cpu & gpu than pi4) Jetson Nano => best gpu, decent cpu (cpu between pi3 & pi4)

NB : idk if retropie can be installed on those SBCs, but that criteria wasn't included in your question, and there are other retrogaming distros with support for those boards.
NB2 : you won't play PS2 on a SBC in 2020, but systems like Dreamcast/Naomi/Atomiswave and Saturn will run fine on the 2 SBCs i mentioned (full speed + upscaling).

@newmanph said in When launching a game, emulationstation switches to desktop, then back to the menu:

Is there any way to make emulationstation work within the desktop? I know it's recommended to just use the raspberry pi to launch emulationstation, but if it's possible I'd like to use the pi for other things as well.

You can still use the desktop, start if from EmulationStation - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#where-did-the-desktop-go - and not the other way around.

I would definitely like to see this option come to EmulationStation, since I have several items I would want to move out of ports into their own separate items on the carousel.

@BuZz thank you!!! really appreciate the help.

That's it, thanks.

For those want to testdrive the navigation (Joy-right/Select) and launch game (Start) also for the image slideshow screen saver -see suggestion 4 above- are invited to do so:

git clone https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation.git cd EmulationStation git fetch origin pull/673/head:slideshow-controls git checkout slideshow-controls cmake -DFREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/freetype2/ -DGL=On -DRPI=On . && make -j 5 all ./emulationstation --debug

OK.. I fixed the issue, but this is a little odd.
Apparently, Controller 1 (Player 1) has to be in USB1 on these 3040's, Controller 2 (Player 2) in USB2, etc, etc.
Is this a unique situation for the 3040 or is this a universally known fact in RetroPie land? If it is, then I apologize for not doing more research.

This may just me being a little more Windows oriented than Linux oriented, but does it really matter which slot the controllers are plugged into? I'd think that the programming of the controllers would follow the unique ID and not care about the USB Slot at all.

Thoughts?

@mitu
Thanks for the advice. I ended up re-installing on both cards. It worked just fine, set up the controllers, then tried to get back into ES, but the errors started again. Re-installed image again and worked fine, so far. So it's up and running, but not perfect.

Thanks for your help!