Unfortunately the theme doesn't work with the EmulationStation version distributed by RetroPie.

@sleve_mcdichael thanks. I mean maybe it's overkill but if I made a page detailing what systems are included in which themes have would there be much interest in that? Could just run an excel vba macro or something to read the folders.

Although it gets confusing as with the open nature of the themes I've found a version of showcase that retro arena used, they added in a few extra images to the theme to include Atomisware and Naomi. So I just added those images into the stock RetroPie version of showcase.

@segasonic THX BIG ! :)

@mitu Discovered my problem. There were actually two theme.xml files that needed editing, the first in the root of the designated theme and a second copy in the retropie subfolder.

Sure enough, modifying both theme.xml files got the font working!

Hi @dookieshooter,

Apologies for late reply. I didn't have notifications on and have been busy with other things.

@dookieshooter said in Tronkyfran Dark plus:

is it possible to get videos to play in grid view?

As far as I know it is not possible to have videos in grid view, unless any dev update has been done on the RetroPie EmulationStation Repo to add this feature to EmulationStation as the original is not maintained anymore. If you've found a way I am interested as well to incorporate this in GridView

@dookieshooter said in Tronkyfran Dark plus:

is it possible to remove the detail window ( I assume that I can just remove that from the theme The dimming of the non selected games is a little aggressive. Possible to change that behavior?

Both are Possible for 1, in the "main" Theme.xml you'll have to remove all unwanted tags/elements within the <view name="system"> </view> tags.

For the grid non selected games dimming you can adjust backgroundEdgeColor

<gridtile name="default"> <backgroundEdgeColor>000000BB</backgroundEdgeColor> </gridtile>

The 000000 is HEX code for black the BB is code for the alpha channel. You can change this to whatever you like to get another (even colored) dimming effect. See here for some more explanation on HEX with Alpha.

@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.