[Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES

[Capeman]

I'm slacking off at work today. I liked the style of the recalbox favorites logo, but i feel like it's kind of simple and boring, so i'm working on my own.

[mediamogul]

@capeman

Very nice! I especially love the hearts being blasted away. I found a little of time to rework mine a bit too. 'All Games' is still a tough nut to crack, but I think this approach gets a little closer to the idea.

[Capeman]

@mediamogul I very much enjoy your logo for last played! Bravo!

Question to anybody on here. When i activate favorites on here, it shows the logo on the carousel, and if i add a game by editing it's meta data it shows on the favorites menu, which is all great... BUT when i restart emulation station, favorites goes away and games i tagged as favorites dont show up after i re-enable it.

I use custom gamelists, is it because i dont have the <favorite> tag on my meta data? Do i need to add it to every entry to make it work? Would that explain why it disappears every time I restart?

I tested the part i crossed out, and having <favorites> tags for each game in my gamelist doesnt seem to help.

In fact, editing the metadata isnt even saving in my gamelists, would using a custom created gamelist cause this issue? I edited an NES game to be favorite YES, and in my gamelist.xml, it still says <favorite>false</favorite>... So im currently googling how to fix that...

Also do i need to add an entry in es_systems.cfg to make it so the favorites menu doesnt disappear on reboot? - Dang, i usually dont have issues like this haha.

[HurricaneFan]

@capeman Do you have "save metadata on exit" turned off?

[hansolo77]

Have you tried adding the game to favorites from the quick button (X for RetroPad, Y for Xbox, Triangle for Playstation, etc)? This might be related to the bug I reported with the ES crash. I found that if I try just editing the metadata (select button) and telling it to be a favorite didn't work. You have to first have the Favorites collection enabled, then go through and add it to the list with the button.

[Capeman]

@HurricaneFan I'm not sure, where would i find that setting? Is it in the retroarch.cfg?

@hansolo77 OH! I'll try this and report back. Hey, this function does add favorites to the menu, but they don't save to gamelist, so it must be the saving setting being turned off.

[HurricaneFan]

@capeman https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3979/edited-game-rom-metadata-not-being-saved

Screenshots on where in Emulationstation are in the link above.

[Capeman]

@hurricanefan AH! YES this fixed saving favories, im not sure why i had it off.

Now my only problem left is that the "Favorites" menu on the carousel disappears every time i restart emulationstation. Do i need to add something to es_systems.cfg? I use a custom one of those also, so i might have something missing. Any ideas? Thanks guys!

[HurricaneFan]

@capeman If you use a custom es_systems.cfg, I think you might need to add it to your custom file.

[Capeman]

If anybody could pop open their es_systems.cfg file and post the system entries for the 3 auto-xxxxx systems (if they even exist), i would appreciate it very much.

[HurricaneFan]

@capeman If you SSH into your pi, you can find them yourself.

The original es_systems.cfg that your custom one is overriding is located here: /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

[Capeman]

@hurricanefan Actually... not on mine. I was stupid a while back and updated the es_systems.cfg in the /etc/ folder using root access instead of duplicating it and adding it to the user folder where i should have... Sooo yeah, oops... no original to reference.

[HurricaneFan]

@capeman I don't actually see any new systems show up in the default file. This might all be meta data based from the gamelist files only.

[Capeman]

Weird... i wonder why my collections keeps disappearing from the carousel on restart... There must be something I'm missing.

[HurricaneFan]

@capeman After you turn that setting off from earlier. Mark a game as favorite and then shutdown emulationstation to save the data. Then restart the pi. Is it still a favorite?

[Capeman]

The favorites are saving in the meta fine after i switched on the save-meta on exit function.

The problem I'm having is i have to re-enable the "favorites" collection to make it appear on the carousel every time i restart my pi - which is why i was wondering if i was missing an es_systems.cfg entry or something along those lines.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@capeman @HurricaneFan can I suggest you guys start a new thread for this? This thread is intended for themes/thememakers development of themes for the new changes. A. New topic with appropriate title will also help get more views and potential fixes/explanations for the problem. Thanks!

[Capeman]

No worries and sorry bout that, I just solved the issue in the past few minutes (bad es_settings.cfg file). No more out of me, til i post my completed Favorites Logo.

[Capeman]

I think this looks pretty rad! I use the simple theme with the blurred bkg's as a basis for my default theme so i blurred the pixel collage, but i still have the sharp version saved. If anyone wants the logo or image, let me know.

[mediamogul]

@capeman

I think this looks pretty rad!

Rad indeed sir. It's always nice to see these things come together. To that end, I believe I finally have a solution to 'All Games' that I'm satisfied with. I also thought my 'Collections' logo was a little sparse an could use some color, so I used Starlord's ship decor from 'Guardians of the Galaxy' as inspiration and added a boss sticker.