Finally had more time to work on this. Tried generating the crash again. What’s weird is I get a blank log file when it crashes on boot. While I was looking at logs, I did some poking around.

Found and deleted a duplicate gamelist.xml under /opt/retropie for one of my systems from before I did my scraping. I thought I had cleaned those all out beforehand. The others are on the same drive as my game library.

I checked for and installed Retropie updates.

Not very scientific, I admit, so I regret if I’ve muddied the troubleshooting. That said, I’ve made progress. I’ve started getting errors about input devices:

“void InputManager::addJoystickByDeviceIndex(int): Assertion ‘joy’ failed.”

Assertion joy failed. You and me both, buddy!

Basically, it doesn’t seem to like that I have my 8BitDo dongle plugged in. I also have a couple of controllers paired directly with Bluetooth. Was trying different methods to see if one was more responsive than the other. Well, even with the Bluetooth controllers turned off, it seems like it is just enough to anger things during boot. Unplugging the dongle stopped the crashes. I just wait until after boot to plug in.

The only remaining thing that troubles me is why did it matter what theme I had before? Why did turning off favorites and last played collections help. That duplicate gamelist.xml may have mattered more than I thought.

Well, enough rambling from me. Hope this helps someone later on if they run into similar issues.

@mitu its like a white screen of death

@iandaemon
I just found out someone posted an Alimentation Schematic/PCIB plan for it online for a USB version of it, but nobody bothered to make one yet for some reason:

https://easyeda.com/rodyne/USB_RTC-dfce249ec7af4d7380d69c51a7e2cfec

@mitu

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

@mitu I see what I did. I got it to work. Thanks for the help. Would you have any idea why my video snaps for game previews are working in Attract mode but not emulation station? I would love to use this BTTF theme all the time but trying to find a game to play without preview is challenging.
Again, thanks for your help

I just want to use a theme that is already set up for three media types. That will look much better than forcing a third image into one that's designed for two. I just thought there would be more than the two I mentioned...

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

Thanks.

If there's anything you can just point me to that I can try to look at for a fix, I'd appreciate it.

OK, I found what was causing this issue : I've put the metroid folder in /home/pi/ in order to copy it in /etc/emulationstation/themes/showcase/ and it was interfering...

You can look at the list of the themes available in RetroPie here. The list format is 'Github user', 'Github theme repository', so

RetroPie carbon-centered

can be found at https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon-centered. Once you have the theme's repository, you can download the theme as a 'zip' file using the Code button

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Most of the themes are not designed for a portrait mode - but you can try some of the 4:3 and CRT designed themes. I remember one them ( crt-centered ) had a simpler layout, with video on top of the gamelist, which would maybe fit the bill.

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EDIT: you can run the theme-gallery from the Configuration/Tools->Emulationstation to get previews for different themes, just to see how they fit on your screen.

Alright thanks! Last question (I would like to work on a new theme) Is a PS4 like UI possible with Retropie? So the selected icon isnt always in the middle? Thanks!

Theme is coming along nicely now. I intend to do a series (I got another 4 weeks minimum of furlough) of themes, based on hit SyFy channel TV programmes, starting with Warehouse 13.
I am doing 1 system at a time and testing it, having different characters and artifacts for the system screen, and basic screen, with a warehouse type tag for each.
So each one will look a bit like this;

SYSTEM Screen
system screen.jpg

BASIC Screen
basic screen.jpg

However, I am having issues with the Detailed/Video Screen. I have this so far;

Detailed screen.jpg

But what I want, is just to incorporate a screen shot of the scraped game, then a video snap of the game, but I want it so that it is in the "screen" of the following image. I am happy where the gameslist is, as I wanted it in the lid of the farnsworth (fans will know what I mean)also with the positioning of the other Meta data and the console. This is the image.
farnsworthjpg.jpg

Is there anyway of manipulating the scraped image so they appear in the round window. I have tried most things, but don't know how to display only screenshots and videos, and discount the marquees and the boxart. With the one I have I was able to make it fit by making the screen square.

As always, any help very much appreciated.

If you want to take a screenshot of just your current active window, type Alt-PrtSc instead of just the PrtSc key.

Get a SDcard testing tool (like H2testw or F3X) and check if your card is ok. If not, then you'll need a different SD card, otherwise try again to re-image.
You can also have issues from the power supply - the 3B model needs a 5V, 2.5A power supply - if you're using a simple charger I strongly advise to get a proper one.