@Folly I'll give that a shot.

@cdaters I appreciate you looking into this for me. Unfortunately, it didn't work. All of the mapping is correct in the gamelist file, but I still only see video for the ones with videos and none of the images for those without videos show up.

The font in the message blurb is not set by theme, it's the default EmulationStation font - the size is not configurable.
It would be nice if the size would be bumped on smaller resolutions, could be a nice addition.

Hey there, it's been a while.
Made some final changes to the Basic View and some console images added to the main menu. Link to Github still in the first post.

@drdave79 well glad it's working for you now, any case.

Dont worry mate. I could manage to do it. maybe not the best xml code ever (which I know almost nothing hehehe) but copying chunks from one xml to another it worked

80% Complete

https://www.mediafire.com/file/cnsmpp023p9s59t/es-theme_powerhouse_era-pre-complete.zip/file

If I connect the dots here and in addition to the merged changes [1] @pjft was referring to, I see also the option that the file log might choke caused by a specific combination of many log writes, threaded loading and slower file operations by rpi3 and/or sd-card (or even undervoltaging, which is crucial to sd-card operations).

While I am unable to reproduce it, it might be considered to reduce the log output of missing theme resources by lowering the log level (WARNING to DEBUG). It would reduce the probability of file log chokes and would also speed up the normal ES boot:

diff --git a/es-core/src/ThemeData.cpp b/es-core/src/ThemeData.cpp index cb1b265..45b54a6 100644 --- a/es-core/src/ThemeData.cpp +++ b/es-core/src/ThemeData.cpp @@ -517,11 +517,11 @@ void ThemeData::parseElement(const pugi::xml_node& root, const std::map<std::str if(!ResourceManager::getInstance()->fileExists(path)) { std::stringstream ss; - ss << " Warning " << error.msg; // "from theme yadda yadda, included file yadda yadda + ss << " Message " << error.msg; // "from theme yadda yadda, included file yadda yadda ss << "could not find file \"" << node.text().get() << "\" "; if(node.text().get() != path) ss << "(which resolved to \"" << path << "\") "; - LOG(LogWarning) << ss.str(); + LOG(LogDebug) << ss.str(); } element.properties[node.name()] = path; break;

Additionally a mutex for log file write operations might be used as outlined here [2] to make fprintf() [3] thread safe.

[1] github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/774/files#diff-20f861dd5841312f45eb90d5a56cd5addad0657c66605d6235696a345907e15d
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43427405/c-writing-to-a-file-in-multithreaded-program
[3] https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/52c04d77864287aa0ae7f484460966d8253079df/es-core/src/Log.cpp#L77

Nevermind, I found I working link:

https://github.com/mattrixk/es-toolkit/blob/master/theme_helpers/rookervik_theme_helper/ES Theme Helper.exe

@jakong008 EmulationStation learned recently to use strftime [1] compatible format string to represent the date, which allows you to use the month name (short/long) when displaying a date.

You'll need to get the current -dev release in order to use this.

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html

@mitu , worked...thanks a bunch.

Oh.

Sorry.

I don't think I read your first post correctly.

Here's a better video, about 13 minutes in length if you have the time.

He covers everything quite well.

@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.

@twalls

Hello....
Your thread is probably one of the closest that I can find online for my issue. Any help would be great...

I've built 20 or so arcade 1ups with raspberry pi 3b+ and ran into this problem on the latest NBA Jam build with 4 players. Probably 50% of the time the arcade boots I get a message directly after the emulators load (right when it says done) that emulation station crashed. Talks about changing the theme and if it's the first time loading retropie, etc. Screenshot_20210917-210224_Photos.jpg

I use the same image for every one of my arcades, 4 player and 2 player and have never ran into this problem. I've changed out everything....usb cables, encoders, raspberry pi, surge protector, tried a different outlet, changed the theme, etc. Nothing helps. Sometimes it boots normal and perfectly, but I'd say half the time I get the crashed message. I've tried doing one encoder/joystick at a time and it works fine...all the way up to 3 encoders/joysticks, but when 4 are connected that's when it randomly does it. I've noticed that after I turn on and one of the encoders flashes (red light) instead of staying on is when this happens. And it's random each time of which encoder flashes. Like I've said though, I changed out all the encoders, cables, pi, surge protector. I'm at a loss here and is driving me crazy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!