@mitu @sleve_mcdichael

Thanks a lot for the very fast answer!

Strange that I didnt notice it in the theme list.

Keep up the great work with this excellent project!

@sleve_mcdichael I've tried that but it doesn't look neat like ES FCAMOD's. This is the included carbon theme Retrobat has. It's not compatible with RetroPie's ES. I wonder..can ES FCAMOD or Batocera's ES be compiled for the pi?
jj.jpg

@TPR Thanks for reporting back in detail. Good to see it working now. As a courtesy to other users pls mark the subject in the original post with "solved".

Unfortunately the theme doesn't work with the EmulationStation version distributed by RetroPie.

@lostless Thanks! I will have to look into that!
It's amazing what you did with your PlayStation theme you've made. I'm a huge fan of it. :)

If I connect the dots here and in addition to the merged changes [1] @pjft was referring to, I see also the option that the file log might choke caused by a specific combination of many log writes, threaded loading and slower file operations by rpi3 and/or sd-card (or even undervoltaging, which is crucial to sd-card operations).

While I am unable to reproduce it, it might be considered to reduce the log output of missing theme resources by lowering the log level (WARNING to DEBUG). It would reduce the probability of file log chokes and would also speed up the normal ES boot:

diff --git a/es-core/src/ThemeData.cpp b/es-core/src/ThemeData.cpp index cb1b265..45b54a6 100644 --- a/es-core/src/ThemeData.cpp +++ b/es-core/src/ThemeData.cpp @@ -517,11 +517,11 @@ void ThemeData::parseElement(const pugi::xml_node& root, const std::map<std::str if(!ResourceManager::getInstance()->fileExists(path)) { std::stringstream ss; - ss << " Warning " << error.msg; // "from theme yadda yadda, included file yadda yadda + ss << " Message " << error.msg; // "from theme yadda yadda, included file yadda yadda ss << "could not find file \"" << node.text().get() << "\" "; if(node.text().get() != path) ss << "(which resolved to \"" << path << "\") "; - LOG(LogWarning) << ss.str(); + LOG(LogDebug) << ss.str(); } element.properties[node.name()] = path; break;

Additionally a mutex for log file write operations might be used as outlined here [2] to make fprintf() [3] thread safe.

[1] github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/774/files#diff-20f861dd5841312f45eb90d5a56cd5addad0657c66605d6235696a345907e15d
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43427405/c-writing-to-a-file-in-multithreaded-program
[3] https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/52c04d77864287aa0ae7f484460966d8253079df/es-core/src/Log.cpp#L77

@mitu used all the resolutions but they had the same issue. I fixed it by making the bars smaller and modifying some code. Here is what i did. Reference if someone comes with same problem.

First here the two smaller images. https://imgur.com/a/BbOfzr7
I named them gamelist_outline_smaller.png and gamelist_background_smaller.png

Uploaded this files to my pi on /etc/emulationstation/themes/snes-mini/art
then modified the setup xml with

sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/snes-mini/layouts/setup.xml

replaced both paths with the new images like this example

<image name="gamelist_background" extra="true"> <path>./../art/gamelist_background_smaller.png</path>

since my resolution is using 4x3 i went and

sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/snes-mini/layouts/4x3setup.xml

i replaced gamelist outline so it alignscorrectly, with this code

<image name="gamelist_outline" extra="true"> <origin>0.5 0.5</origin> <pos>0.7055555555555556 0.5</pos>

and done

@mitu

OK thank you. I will start from a new image.

@Super-Retropie Cool! Thanks for your hard work!

Nostalgia Pure (lite)

HUGE Thank you to the original creator(s) of this theme!

Changelog (by myself)

added 'All Games' added 'Ports' added 'RetroPie'
(there is also a second one called retropie2.png, if you prefer one without Rpi)

MIRROR(s):
https://www.mirrored.to/files/8OMYTQG0/nostalgia-pure-lite.zip_links
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1up9v1x4rpstily/nostalgia-pure-lite.zip/file

Installation:

copy to sd-card

Themes can be copied to either /etc/emulationstation/themes and /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes, they're read by Emulationstation from both locations.

copy via network: Windows: Open \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\themes\ in the Windows File Explorer Linux: smb://retropie.local/configs/all/emulationstation/themes

IMPORTANT: I recommend EmulationStation's VRAM setting at (min.) 120Mb (Rpi4).
(Main Menu > Other Settings > VRAM Limit)

Best regards,
Anti-You

@pythonli

Necrobump.

I can only surmise that this was never released?

@mitu Actually, it's a lot quicker with omxplayer disabled. Are there any actual benefits to having it enabled?

UPDATE: Seems that a lot of clips only play audio

Ahh, OK thanks for that. i didn't know that was the case. Not too much I can do then. Well thanks for replying anyway.

OK will have a look, didn't even think of looking there, many thanks. I will crack on.

@bigbellyman worked like a dream . I approached it slightly different. Copied the theme I wanted to edit to my pc and edited it all there and then copied it over no problems.

@zachariel thanks

@hermit Thank you sir! You are my hero today
@mitu Good to know! woulda saved me some time knowing that

@mitu I have to apologize, as I discovered that my hasty assumption was wrong! You can filter by favorites = false, which makes it much easier to go through a list and catch faves that you missed. :)