RetroPie not seeing themes?

mitu

@chemdream Try removing /etc/emulationstation and then re-install the emulationstation package. You shouldn't have deleted the ~/.emulationstation folder, probably some settings have been lost.

chemdream

@mitu Thanks I'll try that!
If I re-install retropie base packages, will it re-create .emulationstation?

Thanks!

chemdream

I removed etc/emulationstation ... It installed Carbon, but that's the only theme it installed.

Also, when I'm setting up my sony controller (via usb), it still only has the options for:
Up, down, left, right, A, B, start, select, page up, page down.

Anyway to totally start RetroPie from scratch? Like a complete purge?

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.1, amd cpu.

Thanks!

EDIT: running retropie-setup to uninstall and reinstall. I'll let you know how it goes!

chemdream

Totally uninstalling and reinstalling retropie helps a bit.

But when setting up Sony controllers, it still only asks for a few buttons.

It doesn't ask for X, Y, stick, shoulder or hotkey buttons.

mitu

@chemdream Can you post a screenshot with the configuration dialog ? What version of Emulationstation do you have installed ?

chemdream

@mitu
It says Retropie version 4.2.2 last commit 5 days ago.

And Emulationstation 2.0.1a

Thanks!

mitu

@chemdream said in RetroPie not seeing themes?:

And Emulationstation 2.0.1a

That's not right. This is not the Emulationstation version from the RetroPie project, probably that's why the mapping dialog looks incomplete.

chemdream

@mitu Ahh. It's probably because I installed Emustation first and uninstalling all didn't delete it. I'll manually delete and try again.

Thanks!

chemdream

That was it! Thank you so much.

So what happened was, I didn't think I wanted ALL of RPie when I started. So I cloned a Emulationstation repos...

So 2 things
-I guess that repos was old!
-When doing a full, it didn't delete emulationstation executable because it was in usr/local/bin, not usr/bin

Thanks again!!!

BuZz

So what happened was, I didn't think I wanted ALL of RPie when I started. So I cloned a Emulationstation repos...

with retropie-setup you can install as little or as much of retropie as you like.