IT WORKED! Sorry for wasting your time bro. :(

@O-M-A-A So this happens with EVERY rom? Regardless of emulator? Does any emulator work as before?

@mitu said in Adding Cart Support in EmulationStation?: @AlphaBetaPie as far as themeing is concerned, images can be displayed through md_marquee or md_image tags. So pick one of them to display the image you want in a theme. Thanks for the follow- up. So here is the thing. I'm using the video view of a theme, which displays my game clip and a cover image. If I look in the bracket for that section of the XML, I see videos are using the **me_video **and the covers are using md_image to pull whatever content is in the "box2dfront" and "videos" folders in my ROM directory. I do have a third section, which is for the marquee (which is supported in this theme). It uses the **md_marquee **to pull the content from the "screenmarquee" folder. So is there a way to reassign the cart scans to a different folder by changing or creating a new label? If I want to release this update, folks will have delete their marquees (if they even have that folder setup), then copy/paste their cart scans and put them in the marquee folder to make it (which is what I did just as a quick fix). That might be confusing to some. Would be cleaner if there was a cart folder with some kind of label like md_carts or something like that. Or does ES only support so many labels per view, and I've simply run out? Thanks!

UPDATE/FOLLOW-UP Quick follow up question. My friend and I went to a barcade last night and they had a NES EmulationStation set up. They were just running the simple theme, nothing fancy, with a list of games. However, one cool thing did happen. When you selected the title, before the game started, a full screen picture of the box art would pop up. Then the game would start. Was that done using the runcommand of RetroPie? I assume this wasn't any kind of setting or feature inhering in the theme/ or EmulationStation itself right? They had to use a second third party program/plugin in addition to the standard front-end to accomplish this (per the comment above). Which would mean that I'd need to also install something like that on a desktop setup if I want it do this as well?

@AlphaBetaPie Maybe you can find a guide for themes in Projects and Themes. skyscraper can have profiles added and changed, that resize and can add borders to images, there isn't anything for videos though.

@mitu That worked !!! 3 days that took and sleepless nights lol . Here's some code for people who may have the same problem Edit Autostart.sh emulationstation --resolution W H --windowed --screenoffset X Y Thanks a lot !

@mitu welp, you solved my problem. So emulationstation if launched from c:\programfiles\emulationstation\emulationstation.exe it is v2.9.0RP-DEV which works fine. I originally set it to install in D:\emulationstation so the exe in that location launches v2.0.1A which I just realized I accidentally deleted my desktop exe and then went to that location to grab it again. Dont know why there are 2 locations but v2.0.1A is what causes a problem. Somehow when typing this I went to 2.9.0 without thinking to check the version and then just closed it but every time I tried to use a controller I was launching v2.0.1. Sorry and thank you ._. Going to leave this up unless mods wanna delete it cause maybe others might make a dumb mistake like me.

Thanks a lot for the info, very helpful!

@mitu Noted. Thanks ;)

@mitu So when I got home I took the microSD card that was in the raspberry pi zero W that I think is faulty. And just moved it over to the new raspberry pie zero w that arrived in the mail today. And it seems to be working a lot better. It booted up just fine to EmulationStation and I’m not getting any of the button issues that I was having when I had it in the Retroflag GPi case. It occasionally gave input configuration crashes too. I tested only one Atari game on it and it seems to be working (where as before I could never keep it from crashing long enough to run a game). However I’ve only started transferring games over and havent tested any others. Either way it’s not freezing like it was just a few seconds after loading up emulation station. And it has yet to crash. Which means so far that’s a really good sign. When I’m done transferring the files over, doing a scrape for the game images, and can actually spend some time playing games on it. I’ll be glad and certain of what the issue was. But based on all the trouble I was having and I’m using the exact same microSD card with everything that was installed before. So far I’m convined that I had a faulty raspberry pi zero W.

Thanks @mitu I thought it looked and sounded familiar! :)

Just managed to figure out!! I SSH'ed into the box running retropi and ran emulationstation from that console . When i did that, emulationstation appeared on TV (great). When i ran game, i saw a menu that says to press a button to configure, and there I've seen to run with verbose logging. When game exited, i opened up /dev/shm/runcommand.log file and saw that umk3-u2.bin file was missing. So I've kept on looking for 0.78 romset mk3 files until i found that there is umk3-u2.bin file in one of them ! When i found it, I've copied that one to arcade dir and ran it without issues!!! I love mk3 ! Now all i have to do is find my notebook with special moves written on it for every character which i collected during old days ! Ahhhh, that takes me back! Thank you, all of you for assisting ! Would not have done it without you!

I love the search function. Just wanted to say this helped me get my Windows 10 build scraped! Thank you! 🥂

That worked for me! Thanks a lot!

I'm not an expert in overvclocking, but if the same values have been working without issues, on the same PI, they should be ok with the new version.

@mitu said in Removed emulationstation-dev help: @paffley Just install Emulationstation (the regular package) from the core packages section. Thanks @mitu I installed a fresh ES from binary then had to re-add es_systems.cfg content from an old backup I had (modified). All working now thank you! keep up the super work!

Looks like a permissions problem or a funky named controller that's not saved or possibly other problems (disk full ?) that prevent Emulationstation to save the controller configuration. My advice is to start with a clean image and work from there - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/.

Running the update appears to have fixed the problem for me. Tested real quick with Super Bomberman 3 on SNES and Crash Team Racing on PSX and all four controllers are working. Powering off a controller while EmulationStation is running no longer causes it to crash or freeze. I'll keep an eye on this and report back if anything changes.