Can I change or remove the 'xxx games available' text?

dylosaur

Is it possible to change the text that appears under each system and numbers 'xxx games available'? I'm being a little neurotic about this, but for certain systems with multiple discs-per-game, it'll read as, say, 294 games instead of 100 multi-disc games. I tried putting each of the discs into unified folders, but that didn't seem to help.

I'm also totally fine with that text not appearing at all, if it's possible to just get rid of it.

jonnykesh

@dylosaur Changing what the text says is harder than it sounds, this is hard-coded into ES. Making it disappear is a LOT easier.
You need to change the main xml file of whatever theme you are using. For example I use Pixel so in the pixel.xml file edit the following part of the code:

		<text name="systemInfo">
			<pos>0.0 0.895</pos>
			<color>00000000</color>
			<fontPath>./art/font.ttf</fontPath>
			<fontSize>0.027</fontSize>
		</text>

The 00000000 means the text will be transparent. Maybe you don't use the same theme but this should be enough to get you where you need to be.

dylosaur

@jonnykesh This is perfect. I'll try this when I get home. Thanks so much!

dylosaur

@jonnykesh I just realized that bottom bar still appears, even when hiding the text. Kind of weird when nothing is said there. You said it'd be a real hassle to change the words to something static, right? For example, having all the systems say 'let's play!' or something.

EctoOne

Try moving the element of screen with something like this:

<text name="systemInfo">
<origin>0 0</origin>
<pos>1 1</pos>
</text>

dylosaur

@ectoone Oh. I actually just found and opened up the carbon.xml file in notepad++, but I'm not seeing the part you mentioned before. Am I missing something?

EctoOne

@dylosaur I just looked at it and it seems that carbon does not use that feature.

It should work if you add the following before </theme> at the bottom.

<feature supported="carousel">
 <view name="system">  
  <text name="systemInfo">
   <origin>0 0</origin>
   <pos>1 1</pos>
  </text>
 </view>
</feature>

dylosaur

@ectoone Sorry to keep bothering with new problems. I just decided to switch over to the theme I'm going to be using before attempting any of this, which is 'crt.' I copied that folder from /etc into a new 'themes' folder in /retropie/emulationstation that I just made (I read you should do this so updates don't undo what you've done), and clicked through to the /crt folder, but found that there was no crt.xml. There was one called theme.xml but it barely had anything on it, least of which any of the things you pointed out. Should I be looking somewhere else?

EctoOne

@dylosaur the include tag tells you where to look. _inc/templates/16x9.xml

dylosaur

@ectoone Aha! I changed it like you said and changed the color to 00000000 for good measure, and it worked just great. This will make me feel less weird about including multi-disc games. Thanks so much for your help!