@Zenjiro kind of a mixbag of what I could find on the web or had on hand vs what I just had to make myself from scratch

@jdrassa Thank you. I do not think would have found that myself.

It will be interesting to try performance of emulationstation vs the pegasus variants

@Rion Yes, your right. I don't know thus until now. Thank you! I think this topic can marked as "solved" and be closed.

@muldjord I will give this a go to see if I can find out what is going on. Either that or I will manually edit the files with the correct revision names from my previous scrapes. Appreciate the help @muldjord and @mitu Thanks Jimi

@TANKARD @mitu Custom configs for CRT using the built-in composite out You can also tweak the runahead settings for 8bit/16bit consoles to further improve the input lag and use wired controllers.

Ah, thanks!

I'm not sure if it's possible to remove a help option, but you can set a blank (transparent) image for the last/first slot of the help buttons row and then shuffle the other buttons left (or right). You can also remove the mapping for the button from the /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg file - make sure you back it up first, just in case editing it goes awry.

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.