PC Engine theme not working (Simple Theme)

Dominus

I tried to switch over my PC Engine theme to TurboGrafx-16, but whatever is in the wiki did not work with the Simple theme. I tried to revert back to what it was, but now it just shows "pc engine" in font instead of a logo and has a white background in the systems menu. I uninstalled Simple twice, shutdowning once before I did a reinstall, but it does not want to seem to work like that, so I think the problem is in the es_systems.cfg, which seems fine. This is what I have for PC Engine:

<system>
<name>pcengine</name>
<fullname>TurboGrafx 16 (PC Engine)</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pcengine</path>
<extension>.pce .ccd .cue .zip .PCE .CCD .CUE .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS pcengine %ROM%</command>
<platform>pcengine</platform>
<theme>pcengine</theme>
</system>

I don't seem to get it. I tried replacing it with the backup, and still no luck.

backstander

@Dominus
Make sure that EmulationStation is set to use the Carbon theme and then make sure you have this directory with theme related files in it:
/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/pcengine

Or if you're wanting to use the Simple Theme then make sure you have either one of these corresponding directories:
/etc/emulationstation/themes/simple/pcengine or /etc/emulationstation/themes/simple/tg16

I'm just using the default Carbon theme with these settings in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg to get the TurboGrafx-16 logo:

  <system>
    <name>pcengine</name>
    <fullname>TurboGrafx 16 (PC Engine)</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pcengine</path>
    <extension>.pce .cue .zip .PCE .CUE .ZIP</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ pcengine %ROM%</command>
    <platform>pcengine</platform>
    <theme>tg16</theme>
    <directlaunch/>
  </system>

Dominus

@backstander Yeah it works fine on the Carbon theme, but when I switch to the Simple theme (the theme I prefer to use), it just shows the font and doesn't seem to load the art at all. The folders are the same, and I even removed and added the Simple theme a couple times, which makes me think its the es_systems.cfg, but I can't figure out why it's not working?

backstander

Just curious but what happens if you put some other system that you know that works like...
<theme>megadrive</theme>

Dominus

@backstander I figured out what it was! I edited this one /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and had been the one I was trying to change for the last day. But I logged into root once with WinSCP and it took me to opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/ for some reason, and there it was, another es_systems.cfg! So I looked and sure enough it said tg16 as the theme! Switched it back to pcengine and all is good now.

I believe initially I did edit the /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg one, as it states in the PC Engine wiki, so not sure how it got to opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg.

Thanks for your help. Just for clarification does the theme correlate to the folder under the theme that you want to use for the specific system?

backstander

Great! Glad you got this working correctly!

Yes, what you put between <theme> and </theme> in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg refers to the corresponding directory in /etc/emulationstation/themes/<CURRENT THEME>/. There is also a theme.xml file in there that it uses to know what graphics to show.

Here's a tutorial to help you create your own ES theme:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme