OK thank you it's still a bit complicated :) why RetroPie has not evolved like Batocera or RetroBat ?

For example:

there are no bezels ? the themes are not complete ? there are no new machines added ?

Go here:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/esthemes.sh

Click this "three dots" and choose "edit file":

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(It's the second three dots, below the upper three dots.)

It will show you this message or something like it (yours might be worded slightly different, since you don't yet have a fork so you'll be creating it in this step):

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Add your theme to the list here. "YourName" is the name of your GitHub account that hosts the theme and theme_name is the theme name that will be displayed in the theme listing. The repo should be called es-theme-theme_name and when you put it here, leave off the es-theme- part and just write 'YourName theme_name'.

Click "propose changes":

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...this creates your own fork, with the change that you made. Also, it automatically brings you on this page for "comparing changes"; click "create pull request" once to begin the process of creating a pull request:

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Here you can fill in some information about the change, and then after reviewing everything is correct, click "create pull request" a second time to finalize and submit the pull-request, where it can be reviewed by the developers:

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@CarlTheLooper There are several differences between batocera and retropie themes, despite they both run emulationstation.

Ckau-Book for example has animations when you select a system and you can't achieve this with es for retropie. I dont know why but you can't.

@PaukOne-0 you might have to create themes, but everything before that is already there, yeah?

@mitu said in How Can I Send OMX Player To Background?:

@AlphaBetaPie said in How Can I Send OMX Player To Background?:

Can anyone direct on this?

Yes, it's not possible, since the layer parameter is set by EmulationStation internally and you can't modify it directly or configure it. The documentation in the topic you referenced is still correct.

Thanks, that's what I suspected. Fortunately, I found a workaround by using the default player and turning off power saving mode (which was the culprit, in this thread). Just an FYI for others finding this thread later.

@frogmelodies
Impressive could you list the systems supported?

Hi! Does anyone know if it's possible to set the the to look as the "multi artwork" version? Or if there is any alternate version? Thanks!

@sirhenrythe5th Hm I tried it, like in this thread

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16987/msdos-dosbox-games-how-do-you-create-sh-files-to-point-to-the-correct-file-name/3

But it jumps back to ES. I didn't know if I have to make the .sh executable, I tried both. Would you please post an example?

@mitu
thx it works.

Ps.
I checked. Can also just create normal file .cfg and edit with notepad++
custom-(theme name).cfg

:)

@sleve_mcdichael said in Where is the Default Theme Font Located?:

@AlphaBetaPie ah, I don't know then because I only ever use it over terminal myself. Log in as root, maybe?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#why-cant-i-ssh-as-root-anymore

...or add them to a regular folder over FTP then SSH in and sudo cp them via command-line for the "last mile."

Thanks, appreciate the help. I'll keep fiddling with it and if I need more help I'll check back. Much appreciated!

@IanDaemon Yeah i managed to resolve it, the problem were the hidden files...

@cdaters said in Custom theme background:

the systems/carousel screen

Hey, i decided on going for another approach and installing a theme, the Epic Noir theme.

Thanks anyways! :-)

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

@mitu I tried to install the RetroFix theme
It was confirmed that the function of the theme was not supported normally.

First, the system does not seem to support video output and path {random}.

Second, since the minimum size of the image cannot be specified in the grid view, the size ratio of the image is not constant. Moving the selection cursor changes the size of the selected ones, but I hope to ensure a consistent size from the beginning.

There are other minor issues.

@asdone77 said in theme gamelist text alignment problem:

How can the text of the gamelist be centered and left alignment at the same time。

I don't think it can. What do you mean?

Hi @dookieshooter,

Apologies for late reply. I didn't have notifications on and have been busy with other things.

@dookieshooter said in Tronkyfran Dark plus:

is it possible to get videos to play in grid view?

As far as I know it is not possible to have videos in grid view, unless any dev update has been done on the RetroPie EmulationStation Repo to add this feature to EmulationStation as the original is not maintained anymore. If you've found a way I am interested as well to incorporate this in GridView

@dookieshooter said in Tronkyfran Dark plus:

is it possible to remove the detail window ( I assume that I can just remove that from the theme The dimming of the non selected games is a little aggressive. Possible to change that behavior?

Both are Possible for 1, in the "main" Theme.xml you'll have to remove all unwanted tags/elements within the <view name="system"> </view> tags.

For the grid non selected games dimming you can adjust backgroundEdgeColor

<gridtile name="default"> <backgroundEdgeColor>000000BB</backgroundEdgeColor> </gridtile>

The 000000 is HEX code for black the BB is code for the alpha channel. You can change this to whatever you like to get another (even colored) dimming effect. See here for some more explanation on HEX with Alpha.

@Leix said in Guilty Gear ES Theme:

I made a pull request to integrate that theme in the retropie ES themes!

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3565 soundcloud downloader

I'll probably also make a video/album of what that cabinet looks like now that it's almost complete.

Cool! Time to play around with it then, thanks.