@pockketz yes its possible, make sure you create a new folder for your combination and not overwriting existing files. Copy the file "simple.xml", the "art" folder, and any other lose file in the Tronkyfran folder to the new folder, then copy all the folders (except art folder) from carbon to the new theme folder. It looks like the paths for those two themes are the same, but expect many parameters to be off, such as text and images being misaligned. So you will likely need to read up on themes here https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme

Wow, that was fast! Thank you @mitu

Thanks for all that info! I'll try it out and tell you.

@dudleydes woohoo, THANK YOU!

@mitu said in Theme Issues: @ballboff Remove the /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes link and then re-create the folder, you should be able copy there your theme and then select it from Emulationstation. Ok, i'll give that a go, and thanks for your patience. :)

@pit1209 I didn't even know someone copied my theme and passed it off as their own. Thanks for telling me. I'd say just delete that one and download my minimal theme, it has all the files I mentioned above.

@mitu said in Problem installing new ES Theme: @maxdude6 said in Problem installing new ES Theme: have since updated my "retropie script" So much for running the 'latest version'... Way to make someone feel welcome. @maxdude6 great that you've solved your issue buddy.

@wetriner said in ES Themes Menu Revision: @herb_fargus said in ES Themes Menu Revision: Another suggestion would be a culling to keep well maintained themes and leaves the others to an auxillary script. I think this is a good option as well. I also like this idea.

Editing the es_systems.cfgjust for one theme seems like a stupid idea IMO, because it will break probably all other themes that require the snes folder. I just looked at the retrorama github and would suggest to rename the snes folder to snesntsc and the snespal folder to snes. That should work.

@spudsmctoole said in How to make a quick and simple theme?: If it's the link in home/pi that leads to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation, there's no themes folder in there. Yes, that's th folder. By default there is no themes folder, but you can create it and then copy the theme's folder in there.

@mitu Great! thanks, it works.

@alphatoanant sure go ahead ! Thanks for your great job, if I can help let me know

So what happened was, I didn't think I wanted ALL of RPie when I started. So I cloned a Emulationstation repos... with retropie-setup you can install as little or as much of retropie as you like.

Greek that stuff

EDIT: Never mind! I got it now, just didn't saw the solution you posted, because I was confused. Thank you! Just use the already existing configs folder through Samba and add the themes folder manually in emulationstation. It works, thousands times thank you. @dudleydes I just don't know how to do this. How can I create the connection to this folder through Samba? Searching this gets me confusing, I just can't get around it. In Nautilus, I use the smb://retropie/ path to get a selection of 5 folders to access from: bios, configs, print$, roms and splashscreens. I don't know if I added one of them manually and if I did, I don't remember how. I wish there would be a sixth folder to access, the theme folder. Can I add it there?