@Capeman

Second this:

On an opinion note: I've always thought that hyperspin and attractmode wheel themes look cluttered and confusing, they just don't have the elegance and simplicity of a good ES theme... but that is just personal opinion and up for discussion, haha.

@mattrixk will check it, ty.

@herb_fargus theres worse things going on in the world opposed to copyright infringement lets be honest here :)

apparently not fixed as the latest post was 12 months ago and any recent installs still seem to have this issue.

@UDb23 Wow! Thanks heaps. They are exactly what I was looking for! Awesome job.

@mattrixk Yep, I totally understand WHY you want to protect your work- and your should, and you have every right to. Just saying that I've seen very expensive (and not necessarily successful) corporate legal battles over stuff like this.

As for which license to use, I don't know enough about the various licenses out there right now to make an educated suggestion for you. Perhaps @herb_fargus or @BuZz might have some suggestions.

@swandog You are wellcome

@jdrassa I just encountered a big flaw while using ${system.theme} in an <include> tag.
If it can't find the specific file, e.g. if someone uses an custom collection, it breaks the whole theme for that selection. All theme settings are suddenly ignored.

I had the idea to create some sort of external metadata library for systems that could be simply used by theme makers just by including a single file which further imports the metadata from ${system.theme}.xml files and also provides labels. It also imports a file which is used to theme those text elements.

I integrated that into my Flatline Theme here for testing purposes and noticed that behaviour.

To make the process clear again:

theme.xml includes _assets/mds_include.xml mds_include.xml includes mds_data/${system.theme}.xml and mds_style.xml

It would be great if you could take a look at it and tell me if I made something wrong or if that is unavoidable for now. I mean I know that ES will fall back to the default theme if it can't find an include file. Maybe there's an way to ignore that error.

Edit: I just had another idea, would it be possible that ${system.theme} returns default if an unknown system is selected? Then we could use files like default.jpg or default.xml.

@backstander Worked like a charm, thank you so much, if I ever need help, ill be sure to ask you since you seem to know what your doing.

@badhorse You're very welcome. Enjoyed making it :D

@polygaryd both paths work fine, Emulationstation reafs both. The 1st path is preferred since it doesn't need root access.

@lordicon77 Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

I loved this theme. I am planning on make a fork just to change some preferences, like not force uppercase. Congrats and thank you

@meleu this now explains why i could never get the joystick selection image to show up. I never had the xml in the first location so when i installed the joystick selection option it created an xml in that location for the joystick selection only. Updating the retropie today must have created all the other entries.

@akafox editing es_systems.cfg is not the recommended method as you have to manually keep parity with any updates you make through the setup script.

@frgn This download no longer works. I'm looking for one where B and A are switched and Y and X are switched

@Rookervik well, that is true, you have a really good and valid point there; pardon me 😁