@sleve_mcdichael Thanks! That was exactly the issue I was facing!

If you just have something like the following in your views.xml, EmulationStation does not know where to use it:

<text name="labelPublisher" extra="true"> <origin>0 0.75</origin> <pos>0.681 0.264</pos> <fontSize>${fontSizeSmall}</fontSize> <alignment>left</alignment> <fontPath>${fontMain}</fontPath> <color>${textColorAlt}</color> <text>Publisher:</text> </text>

So, it needs to be inside a view tag:

<view type="detailed, video"> <text name="labelPublisher" extra="true"> <origin>0 0.75</origin> <pos>0.681 0.264</pos> <fontSize>${fontSizeSmall}</fontSize> <alignment>left</alignment> <fontPath>${fontMain}</fontPath> <color>${textColorAlt}</color> <text>Publisher:</text> </text> </view>

@mitu Thank you - this is good! Appreciate your help.

Hey @A12C4 yes to behave like the carousel in wheel mode, a bit like the game wheel in hyperspin I guess. A vertical single grid that is rotated slightly.

I understand no problem, just thought I'd bring this up for a future update :)

There are a few things that I would love to see before this anyhow, such as sound scroll for the gridview, that would be awesome!

@EctoOne Oh, that's a real bummer. I thought the package with the "-Linux-64Bit.tar.gz" in the filename from the releases page, which is build with PyInstaller would solve issues like that in the future. I get a fontconfig error with it on my current system and it can be a local issue on my machine. Not very encouraging, but maybe you could try to run that.

But well, it contains binary files, so from security standpoint I can understand when you don't even want try that.

Not that I know of.

@mitu I've only been tinkering with it so far, but this doesn't seem to be the case. When I create such a file, I still have to drill down through the subfolders to play the game, despite the xml file pointing directly at the rom. I do believe i had that option checked, but maybe I'm misremembering. I will test this again.

[update] I just checked. I do have that option enabled. I am still have to drill down through subfolders. I also know it's working because other games are now missing though the files are present in the directory (but not in the xml). I'm assuming this is an intentional functionality (gameslist doesn't flatten directories).

@fluffypillow Perfect, exactly what I was looking for. I knew about purpose of "./", "[ ]" is new to me though. Going to work on fixing the system logo sizes, other than that the rest of the theme seems to be as it should. Thanks again!

You're using a very old RetroPie version, is there are reason for you to do that ?
Regarding your issue - most likely EmulationStation cannot create any new files, since the filesystem is 97% in use. On Linux, by default, a filesystem will have 5% reserved to the root user to prevent users filling it accidentally (or maliciously).
Run EmulationStation manually, then exit (via the menu or F4). Check the log file in ~/.emulationstation/es_log.txt and see if any errors occur when exiting (like files not being able to be created, etc.).

@dudleydes thanks for the reply, I feared it would be like that. Well, I think then I just take it how it is.

@Smythius
If you edit the gamelist.xml, follow Hhromic's post to change the game path to end with the folder.

Or change the folder name to remove the pseudo extension ".svm" but this is kind of a loss of a working organization function.

roms via samba network
\\roms\scummvm\gamelist.xml

roms via root directory
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/gamelist.xml

alternate folder that gamelist.xml can be generated at with skyscraper
/etc/emulationstation/~gamelists(???), or maybe
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/?

close emulation station before editing it

@jdrassa Thank you for the clarification! Merry Christmas!

Doesn't matter, I worked it out. I had the <folder> tag placed in the wrong place.

Regards,

@amishgamer Yeah, I forgot to use Clone Spy for automatic removal. Found out about that two days ago. Also, there are a few more differently named duplicates that I'm slowly removing for a full release.

I'm currently working on my ideal ROM set of USA>World/Europe>Japan, but I suppose I can fix up those batch files in the meantime.

Also, I just found out about this simple program for building ROM sets. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15233/mame-set-rebuilder

Thanks, that's exactly what I ended up doing.

I had hesitated with UXS for a while because I never thought I could get it to work.. turns out it was just generating the xml in a directory/folder I wasn't expecting.

Thanks

@cyclair I have never created a theme, but it seems to me that this page describes how to setup sections for metadata. Have you tried removing the sections for both the labels and the data (ie: md_lbl_rating, md_rating sections)? I think you have to make backups and try this. It will be trial and error, especially to get your positions correct since you also said you wanted to raise the text. There are no simple answers here. You will need to get in there and make adjustments.

Also, I tried clicking your pastebin link and it looks like the XML is in a different language than your long post. Did you know you can go back and EDIT your long post? Folks might be more inclined to respond if you clean up that first post a bit.

@safesinger gamelist file is at /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/<platform>/gamelist.xml or /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<platform>/gamelist.xml.