How to change button icons? [DONE]

Silent

I'll bump this thread, since it makes far more sense than creating a new one and cluttering the boards:

Has any progress on configurable prompts been made? There seems to be a GitHub issue regarding this, apparently with a solution: https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues/340
However as me and several other posters in that issue mentioned, the (vaguely) documented way does not seem to work.

It seems like a weird design choice to hardcode images, really.

mitu

@Silent What exactly have you tried to do ?

Silent

@mitu Quoting from the topic:

@Jakobud You can now override any of the button svgs by placing them in %home%/.emulationstation/resources

I therefore extracted the entire "resources" directory from ES github, modified some files to make it obvious that they are changed and relaunched rpi. As far as I can tell, that didn't work.

mitu

@Silent Are you using the emulationstation-dev package or the normal emulationstation package in your system ? Those changes might be present only in the master branch of the project, but not yet in the stable branch (upon which the normal Emulationstation package is built).

Silent

@mitu said in How to change button icons? [DONE]:

Are you using the emulationstation-dev package or the normal emulationstation package in your system ?

Gotcha, that could be it! I could have sworn I compared dates and I inferred that this should have been a part of mainline ES by now, but looks like it may not be.

Is it safe to just grab a -dev package right away or do I need to uninstall the main one first?

mitu

@Silent Just install the -dev package over, it will automatically uninstall the first one and keep some of the files needed by both.

Silent

@mitu Gotcha! I'll back up my SD card later today (really happy with my setup now, would be a shame to break it) and will give it a spin.

Silent

@mitu I tried again with a -dev package and it indeed worked - good stuff :)

paffley

Hi, I know this is an old topic but thought that cause everything is here I'd post on this one.

I cannot get my svg's to display in retropie for some reason.

I have followed this -

Reference files/folder structure:
/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/help

Overwriteable by user:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/resources/help

Placed the new svg's in the above folder and it does not display the new icons. No icons are showing at all.

Is there any specific way the svg need to be saved as? any special settings? Currently using Affinity Designer to edit the existing icons.

Thanks in advance.

paffley

I worked it out - needed to save svg as 'print' in AD. all working great :)

Panja

I'm running RetroPie x86 on Ubuntu and would like to change the buttons with Playstation buttons. Is there an easy guide to do this?

paffley

@Panja said in How to change button icons? [DONE]:

I'm running RetroPie x86 on Ubuntu and would like to change the buttons with Playstation buttons. Is there an easy guide to do this?

Reference files/folder structure: (copy this folder)
/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/help

Overwriteable by user: (paste into here)
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/resources/help

Create or get your .svg icons and paste (overwrite) into the 'Overwritable' folder as above. Hope this helps.

As always, make a backup of your image.

Panja

@paffley
Thanks!
Sounds not to hard.

~~Any one in here that can share this PlayStation button svg’s?~~

Got them!

Ju5t1n

Just made a set of 8 button arcade styled helpsystem buttons.

https://github.com/Ju5t1nM/RetroPie/blob/master/helpsystem arcade buttons.7z

To install unzip files to:- /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/resources/help

duglor

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duglor

@frgn said in How to change button icons? [DONE]:

Hi guys! I'm doing my theme, and faced such problem.
I use dualshock 2 controller (from PSOne). As is known, its buttons are different from those displayed in the GUI.
I tried to look for them in PNG and SVG images, but found nothing. Most likely they are hidden somewhere in the depths of the system. But, even if I could find the files with icons - is there a way to replace icons of the buttons?
Any help would be useful.
Picture in order to understand what I want to get.

UPD

with the help of @jacobfk20 my idea is implemented. thanks to him!

Download

This download no longer works. I'm looking for one where B and A are switched and Y and X are switched

duglor

@frgn This download no longer works. I'm looking for one where B and A are switched and Y and X are switched