Broken Menu in EmulationStation

nkstr

Hey.
So, I installed a couple of themes last night, and when I booted up EmulationStation this morning, the menu/theme was broken, making it impossible to read the gameslists, or to access the menu and RetroPie settings.

I was having issues before I installed the theme where for some consoles, it wouldn't show the graphics on top (for the controller on the right, and the name of the console in the middle), just a white bar, and sometimes the menu (when pressing start) would just show white borders of instead of menu options. I didn't think much of it, since it was still mostly operational, so I didn't capture any screenshots.

I have RetroArch/EmulationStation installed on top of Raspbian, so I'm able to access any files/folders locally. Problem is, I can't find the folder where the themes are located, just the default icons. Otherwise, I would just remove any themes.

Here are a couple of photos of my issue, sorry that they aren't screenshots.

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Any help would be appreciated!
I'm using a Pi 3 B+

mitu

What theme are you using that's exhibiting this problems ? What's your GPU memory split - did you allocate enough VRAM ?
The themes are stored in /etc/emulationstation/themes, but I don't see how erasing a theme would make Emulationstation work better if the default (Carbon) theme has this problems.

Also, consider adding more information about your system - as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

nkstr

@mitu I installed Simple (Dark) (https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-simple-dark)

The GPU split is set to default, also the VRAM.
I have another SD card with RetroPie installed (no Raspbian), and it works just fine. Maybe I did something wrong? I'm still pretty new to this.

Maybe I should just do a compete re-install of emulationstation. Thanks for the quick reply!

mitu

@nkstr said in Broken Menu in EmulationStation:

The GPU split is set to default, also the VRAM.

The default on a Raspbian image might be different than the default on a RetroPie image - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Memory-Split/.

Check your /boot/config.txt and make sure you have at least 256 Mb of VRAM allocated, then try again (after a reboot, of course).

hostolis

I have the same setup as you (mostly) and had the exact same problem. Do what @mitu said, set gpu memory split to at least 256MB.