@AlexMurphy
I liked the setup, and didn't care about the space. I had a 16 gb SD card, but played (all most) everything from usb.
On the Kodi side, it connects to my Nas so I don't need a large expensive SD card.

@cafarellidigital I can confirm that this is not currently possible.

@Muddyhardcore

Nice!

@Ummagitcha Either what has already been suggested, or Ctrl+C during boot/loading time.

Alternatively, if you can SSH into the Pi, you can kill the process yourself.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem is? I'd really like to not have to rebuild again.

@Rydra IMHO putting it on github and providing a script to install it is the best way to provide it to RetroPie users.

@jdrassa The way I see it, from my limited knowledge point of view, is that it should be easier to align the icon with the corresponding text entry in the gamelist if it's a font (you can just render it inline) rather than a separate icon element that you need to explicitly render at a different location trying to guess which gamelist entry is selected at a time.

Then again, I don't know enough of the components in question to confirm that'd be the case. And, certainly, it's not that it can't be done, but just something to bear in mind.

@mattrixk fantastic post. Thank you for taking the time! I'll comment further if I have anything to add when I'm on my laptop later today.

any luck with this?

having never used or tested the script, i can only give some random thoughts for your troubleshooting consideration:

did you try adding the script to crontab so it runs at boot time?

crontab -e
@reboot nohup ./home/pi/RetroPie/scripts/es-cec-input.py
(note there is a typo in the script comment "hohup")

double-check your locale & keyboard layout is correct:
Raspi-Config > Localisation Options > Localisation Options
Raspi-Config > Localisation Options > Change Keyboard Layout

i had some strange effect from my keyboard until i set these correctly
(en_US.UTF-8 / Generic Logitech Keyboard)

what is the remote make/model, and how is it connected?

should the vendor id/model match up with what is stored in?:
/etc/udev/rules.d/40-uinput.rules

make sure there are no unsupported keys mapped in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
https://github.com/dillbyrne/es-cec-input#supported-keyboard-keys

sorry if this wasn't very helpful, i'm just a measly end-user with not much experience

@virginsteele said in ES - White screen of death on retropie 4.2:

@pjft I'm using the latest retropie 4.2. I did play with different value in the VRAM, but so far the best result is with 720px max background images, that's what I have in my SD theme version.

The goal is to try to optimize it for the best, since the theme should work for max users as possible.

When you press start, what version is listed at the bottom of the retropie menu? When you start up the retropie, do you see a "WHITE" Emulationstation splash screen or a "Black" Emulationstation splash screen?

@ImArchimedes said in Rotating screen in emulationstation ONLY:

@Psynaptik I know this post is ancient but I was curious about the specifics or how you rotated attach mode. I'd read on a different thread that it should be done in the layout.nut file but using:

fe.layout.base_rotation = Rotation.Right

I gave this a shot but the screen hasn't rotated.

Also, did you end up installing the package with your install that already had emulation station installed or did you use one of the prebuilt images like the one from Floob?

Thanks a bunch!

You need to type fe.layout.orient=RotateScreen.Left;

or right depending on monitor

Also for games to rotate
Go to opt/retropie/configs/arcade and open retroarch.cfg. Above the #include line you should add...
video_allow_rotate = "true"
video_rotation = "1"

@SuperMagicom said in switch between Emulation Station & Attract Mode:

There are scripts for this in the Motion Blue base image.

thanks for the help,

are these scripts available without having to download the Motion Blue image?
if so where can i get them?

Try theming the Carousel.

I've figured it out for the installation : ALSA is the sound component so in order to install I needed to shutdown emulstation.

So I've killed everything and started retropie setup via ssh, which worked.
(sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh)

However, I have some glitched visuals on my Tronkyfran Theme game selection menu, but not on Carbon game selection menu.

I've also figured how to add them into favorites by editing their metadata, now I'm looking for how to show or create the menu item where it should be regrouped.

Thanks for responding!

I didn't realize that es_log.txt was an error log (again, I'm very foolishly new at this), and I've located the problem! The font in question needed to be a "TrueType font," and any other type like an OpenFont is apparently cause for error, which I didn't know. I cleaned out the folder and reset all default properties, and now it works like a dream!

You guys are the best! Thanks!

@StormJH1 Hi! Yeah, it was the most recent update. I'm pretty sure I was connected to the internet, and even if I wasn't, the scraper shouldn't crash emulationstation like it is right now. :P I'm just glad sselph's works, but I still find it strange the scraping functions inside ES crash it completely.

@pjft Thanks, but once again you were major help! You pointed me right to I needed to be and I just pushed a few buttons.

@sunmetis Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

You should probably use the premade image.

RetroPie also comes with own sdl2. You can't run it from the desktop btw. It won't work with the Jessie SDL2.

Yay! This was accepted, Thank you!

Has there been any progress on this? I'm also interested in having video in the system view.