Open the es_settings.cfg file (you can find it in \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation) and set the theme to the default one, by changing the ThemeSet option to carbon:

<string name="ThemeSet" value="carbon" />

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

@geekob Let's hope someone do it! Thanxs!

@DedworthMean My apologies been a crazy few months. Took on too many projects. I have to take the build apart to get the card out to back it up. I promise you I will do that this week. I never posted any of builds to Arcade Punks, so I have to figure out how to do that.

@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.

@rsaurer Hmm, alright. That shouldn't be a problem to implement, though I'm not sure why it wouldn't just use the default available. I've added it in to force the default that I used when I designed it. Hope it works now!

@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. :)

i found out how to fix the problem see- <removed>, but thanks anyways guys

Another nice feature would be to cycle different pictures, like screenshot / flyer / cabinet.

Actually, you can use emulationstation for windows as a theme editor. I think that it would be very hard to adjust the objects dragging them with the mouse cursor and people will end up using text editor anyways.

update:

removed CRT theme renamed "HD" theme added grid view

the CRT only theme is now unneeded so I removed it and instead renamed the "HD" one and added grid view.

@clyde Thank you very much for your kind words. I actually do have a couple of other ideas I'd like to work on. I'll be sure to post them if I do!

@haleice there is no variable that can be used for game images. You are limited to the media files specified in your gamelist.xml.
Variables are only available for system related images or text.

I was able to edit other gamelist.xml files in each individual roms folders and modify their content. Why would this be unique and not have those values shown? I would at least hope to see the xml have some sort of tag or comment. Then I can go in there and remove them. Is there a way to reset it back to before I scraped it?