ES themes ready for favorite, all games, recently played and custom-collections

fastlowrex

@cyperghost --- real quick, my recent theme called "Magazine Madness" has full support of the 4 virtual systems .... if you wanna throw it in the chart above.....thank you very much :)

pjft

@alphatoanant @TMNTturtlguy Thanks for the replies.

The aspects are really mostly #1 and #2 in your list - I'm not that concerned with what text displays if there's no logo.

The thing is, if users choose to sort all systems and collections, the names they'll see (because of the logo being displayed) will be off, depending on whether theme creators named it "My Collections" or "Custom Collections".

After thinking a bit about it, I'm kind of liking it being just "Collections", and keeping the folder custom-collections.

Would anyone have strong concerns with that? It makes the name smaller, so that's a plus in my book.

The only problem would be that every theme would need to adjust the logos to name it collections...

Before anyone does anything, though, I'd certainly like to hear others' opinions on what you feel would be a good system name for the group of collections users can create, and then we can close that. Currently under consideration:

Custom Collections
My Collections
Game Collections
Collections

Thank you all, and happy Sunday.

cyperghost

@fastlowrex said in ES themes ready for favorite, all games, recently played and custom-collections:

@cyperghost --- real quick, my recent theme called "Magazine Madness" has full support of the 4 virtual systems .... if you wanna throw it in the chart above.....thank you very much :)

Done Magazine Madness added

HurricaneFan

@pjft I like "Collections".

ohmycommodore

agreed, "Collections" seems the most tidy

alphatoanant

+1 for Collections

paffley

The collections....How is the process going to work? Looking very forward to this I must admit :) keep up the great work!

nestor1924

Updated all recent themes compatible to it, they do accept the collection option but once i set up any of them it show only the text, no icons at all... i already updated retro pie or emulation station unless i did it wrong...

lostless

Im trying to get my theme working, but having no luck. I made the folder called it custom-collections, added the xml, logos etc. and its acting like its not there. Is there something special in the xml i have to add?
Also this version messes up my custom order of systems. Is this intentional or a bug?

TMNTturtlguy

@lostless I have no clue what your first question about your theme is. The second part, in the start menu turn of the sort option for collections.

lostless

@tmntturtlguy basically I'm saying i added the custom collections folder to my theme, but emulation station is acting as if does not exist. It's showing the custom collections, but its not themed. Don't get why.

lostless

Its working now. Why? I dunno. just reinstalled the theme.

Omnija

@cyperghost im still not added with the metro theme

pjft

@lostless just to confirm you're using the test build that supports custom collections?

If so, do let us know if it works in the thread. As I mentioned, the more people use it, test it, and provide feedback, the faster this will be accepted into the main ES.

Thanks.

lostless

@pjft Yes it's working now. I don't know what I did to get it to work. All I didn't was delete my theme and reinstall it. Other themes were working fine.
I did experience one bug, is after quitting a game, emulation station just came back to a black screen. I've experienced this once before on an older version of emulation station. So I don't know if it's a bug in ES in general or this version.

pjft

@lostless I'd reduce VRAM to 80 or so for those kinds of problems.

Unless you're already at 80.

lostless

@pjft I think I am at 80. I double check when I get home.

ruckage

I've added Favourites, Last Played, and All games to both my Nes-mini theme and Famicom-mini theme.

pjft

Hi all.

The ability to create custom collections is now available from within ES. I changed the name to "collections" though it won't have much impact as I opted not to sorry that one in the end within the remaining systems. So either name works.

Folder name stays the same: custom-collections .

Thanks all for creating and updating your themes to support this feature - I'm sure the community will benefit from all of them!

Best.

robertybob

I've updated my 'Space' theme to include all 3.