@mitu Ahh, this would be one of those moments I should have looked at the documentation first.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#themes

Awesome. I will take a look and see if I'm able to accomplish what I need to.

Thank you!

- George

Thanks both.

This XML element is not mandatory, so it can be left out and it will evaluated to false if a theme checks this value. If it is there it has to be explicitly set 1 (or semantically equivalent) to be effective. This is why I perceive it as redundant and picked the term.

Never mind, let's keep the implementation as-is.

@agrajag

try and disable omx player in menu.

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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