@djdiabolik If the carbon-alt theme works (ie. your changes to files in that folder do have an effect in ES) with the carbon.xml as filename there is no need to change it. However, if you (have to) change it to carbon-alt.xml make sure to rename also all references in to the carbon.xml inside the xml (as you noted above). I must say I have not spent much time on themes in general, so my hint is an educated guess.

Anyhow, I guess you can stop fiddling with themes. My pull request (https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/742) has been accepted to the development version of Emulationstation. You may run this version by yourself:

Quit Emulationstation. ssh to your RetroPie Start sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh, select Manage experimental packages, scroll down to almost the end (see screenshot), to entry 198 emulationstation-dev then select Install from source.
screenshot.png Let the compile finish Restart Emulationstation

PS: If you want to revert to stable Emulationstation navigate in the retropoe setup to Manage packages -> Manage core packages -> 199 emulationstation . But from my experience the development version is kept pretty stable from the project maintainers.

Gemba created this issue in RetroPie/EmulationStation closed Fixes scroll detection for themes with forceuppercase gamelist display #742

@udb23 said in Changing system.svg on Carbon:

@adambegood No but it's easy to adapt.
Open an existing system.svg and delete the current logo.
Open that PC88 svg file, select the paths, copy and paste in the previous system.svg, scale as needed to fit, save.

That's worked! Thank you so much for the heads-up on that. I've found coloured Naomi and Atomiswave svgs now as well, the Theme is looking good!

Edit: I won't post them as don't anticipate demand, but if anyone wants PC-88, PC-98, Naomi or Atomiswave svgs, give me a shout!

@koenig_67 These should help:

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/THEMES.md

and

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme/

Thanks all. I found the theme building youtube videos from RetroHursty. Super helpful. Ive made some modifications to an existing theme to make something I am happy with.

@bmoxey

Having issues with GitHub. Says file is too big.

Looking into at the moment.

Rgds

CCFox

I only just found the Epic Noir theme, and I like it a lot, but there's a bunch of things I want to change about it.

I found your version and I like it too. I may have to do sort of a mix of the 2 find what works for me.

Edit: Quick note, this is the correct link to the Create Your Own Theme doc.

[Wow, I wrote that how-to guide like 3 or 4 years ago. Glad some people are still getting some use out of it, even though it's probably pretty out of date by now]

@paffley Thank you! I'll give this a try!

update: This did the trick! My carousel assets and backgrounds load perfectly after resizing the backgrounds from 1920x1080 to 1280x720. Thanks!