@edmaul69 no worries i got a bit freaks thats why i created a thread but the themes working now and yeah u did tell me that haha

@zigurana what i just posted is the real thing.

edit: Made an official development page, since it's not a mock up anymore.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11605/theme-metro-style-wip

Well I have update a bunch of ES themes today and Futura V Text on bottom lists if you have a bunch of games the text cuts half off.

appreciate clearing the air :-)

Plug it in directly to the router.
Or, you could find themes online, download them onto a flash drive, put that in your pi and move the folder in the file manager.

I do apologize for my "open ended statement". I do know what it's like to work. I am an electrician, do HVAC and appliance repair, as well as farm 2400 acres of land - than I have all these city folk move to the country nearby, who don't know a damned thing, and call upon me all the time for nothing in return... So ya, sorry bout that.

Just getting into the pi thing because I recently broke my leg and have had nearly 4 free hours a day to sit on my ass... Always wanted to get into graphic art etc, but have never had the time. Likely never will either. This pi project is fascinating as s@#! though...

Here's a thread I opened the other day requesting this and some extras. I'd probably skip my first post as it rambles.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10685/request-metadata-image-expansion/

@AlexMurphy I use sselph scraper.

I didn't check if any metadata or images have been downloaded... I will check it :)

How do we go about making new system images? is there a template we can use? or do we submit a request?

I need to make system images for:
Atomiswave
Naomi
Neo-Geo CD

Thank you for such an amazing theme, it is still my all time favorite theme, absolutely love it.

@sad_muso and @AdamBeGood

Most of the development of this theme as been moved other to this thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9211/new-comic-book-theme

I have a fork of it and development has been on and off. It can be found here: https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook

To answer your question @sad_muso, no there is no 1080p version. This is due to limitations of the RaspberryPi 1 and 2. Namely the file size of the background image needs to be below 512KB. I also do not have all of the original art assets that was originally used to render the images. Making the only way to get 1080p versions of the old backgrounds would be by upscaling them using a tool like waifu2x or A.I. Gigapixel.

I do recommend using this version of emulationstation on Windows to get the best experience with this theme.

@rookervik You look at

text name="systemInfo"

Since it says "ALL" all properties that apply to text will apply to the system info.

@duiz You could google this, but seems like a debugger is missing that is not installed maybe... But I would recommend asking the creator of this

I found this after 5mins of googling:

**the best way: To disable Just-In-Time debugging by editing the registry
In the Start menu, click Run.
In the Run dialog box, type regedit, then click OK.
In the Registry Editor window, locate and delete the follow registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft.NETFramework\DbgManagedDebugger
If your computer is running a 64-bit operating system, delete the following registry keys also:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft.NETFramework\DbgManagedDebugger
Take care not to accidentally delete or change any other registry keys.
Close the Registy Editor window.
Source: http://www.grownupgeek.com/visual-studio-just-in-time-de

But I wouldn't recommend editing the registry if you don't know what you are doing!

@TMNTturtlguy it will act as a black screensaver by default, even with the star set. The condition for the screensaver is just "if setting is different to fade, then do black" which is give as there are only two options there :)

@chiribas10 Thank you, I downloaded the wrong files I took the source code. Stupid me :P

@kbronctjr If the carousel view is not being themed, you should update the retropie update scripts, then in the package manager, update emulationstation from source, not binaries. After that the carousel should be properly themed.

Discovered this theme a few weeks ago...amazing!! I am having one small issue, I cannot get the controllers for Atari Games (800, 2600, 5200, 7800) to appear. I've ensured the images are in the etc.../..art folder for the appropriate platform and set the controller extra flag to true. It's working for all my other platforms.

Any ideas?
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@KNGAlive: You can see the master THEMES.md from the original EmulationStation github repo here. The only 'sound' mentioned in this document is the <scrollsound> within the "textlist". Unless they've been added my another developer somewhere along the way (unlikely), then that is the only sound you can use. Sorry.

On a related note, I'd like to see your theme when it's done. I always love to see new themes. If you need a hand with anything else theme related, there is a Tutorial on the wiki.

Also, welcome to the Forum :D