Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs

jfick13

get well soon brother. looking forward to the update

TMNTturtlguy

@Nismo get well soon! Hope all is well

HurricaneFan

@Nismo Hope you feel better soon Nismo!

alphatoanant

@Nismo get rest and hope you feel better soon. Looking forward to your return!

Zigurana

@Nismo take care man!

arzhur.p

Hello,
I don't know why but I can't get SNES system rom list to work properly. I don't have videos and the interface is not the right one. I've removed all theme and gamelist files but it's not working.
What can I do ?
Thank you :-)

Nismo

@Zigurana @alphatoanant @HurricaneFan @TMNTturtlguy @jfick13

Thank you all for your support, you are great.

@arzhur-p

Can you post a screenshot? it happens with all themes or only with oldroom theme?

pootis spencer

I'm struggling with this theme. I have the latest version of all the software on retropie and I have added the roms to the roms folder under home/pi/RetroPie/roms and it shows the system with the correct background. When I go to the system (e.g nes) to view the games its only showing the background image and layout from the art folder not the correct system folder. I see from your original post to put everything under the .emulationstation/roms folder but if I do this the system doesn't show up at all. Please help as I really want to get this sorted. Thanks

pootis spencer

Also I'm not sure if its Mega that's having problems but most files from the media pack stop at 99% and the download is really slow. I have checked my internet connection and its fine and I can download other files from my cloud drive on mega and I get full speed and it downloads fine.

arzhur.p

@pootis-spencer said in Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs:

Also I'm not sure if its Mega that's having problems but most files from the media pack stop at 99% and the download is really slow. I have checked my internet connection and its fine and I can download other files from my cloud drive on mega and I get full speed and it downloads fine.

I always need to wait after mega download completion because it need to decrypt the files ;-)
Maybe you should wait longer ?

pootis spencer

@arzhur.p No its not that. I use jdownloader and it most stop at 98 - 99%

arzhur.p

@pootis-spencer said in Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs:

jdownloader

Did you try without it ?

pootis spencer

@arzhur.p Yes I tried different browsers and Mega Downloader too.

Nismo

@pootis-spencer said in Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs:

I'm struggling with this theme. I have the latest version of all the software on retropie and I have added the roms to the roms folder under home/pi/RetroPie/roms and it shows the system with the correct background. When I go to the system (e.g nes) to view the games its only showing the background image and layout from the art folder not the correct system folder. I see from your original post to put everything under the .emulationstation/roms folder but if I do this the system doesn't show up at all. Please help as I really want to get this sorted. Thanks

I don't understand you very well, can you post some screenshots? You mean you don't see the tv? Do you have video files in the right folder? Have you updated your gamelist to support that videos?

arzhur.p

@pootis-spencer Well in that case I can't help you, everything works for me :/
Maybe @Nismo can upload the theme somewhere else

pootis spencer

@Nismo
Ok let me try to explain this in detail...
The System select screen (NES, SNES, ATARI2600 etc) works fine and shows the correct background (the one that shows the details about the hardware etc for the system).
The problem I am having is the correct location of the files for the system screen like ATARI2600. All its showing is the games list. No correct background image or TV screen or video etc.

I have my folder layout as follows:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/images
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/marquees/
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/videos/
gamelist.xml
xxx.zip
xxx.zip

The theme is in the correct folder located at:
/etc/emulationstation/themes/oldroom 1080p/

Whats bugging me is all the systems have the correct folder layout with the gameslist.xml in the correct location but only Atari2600 and Sega Master System shows correct with the TV and video, background and marquee.

I hope this explains it.

pootis spencer

@pootis-spencer ![0_1493661239258_IMG_0182.JPG](Uploading 100%)

pootis spencer

I also noticed that some of the folders that have been uploaded on Mega don't have a gamelist.xml

Nismo

@pootis-spencer

Yes some folders doesn't have gamelist because I will upload the european version of the videos, so people don't need to use a renaming tools to rename the USA ones.

Also, i'll not upload gamelist for some computers or consoles like PSX, just because I use PBP, others use cue & bin, and the most important thing, full romset of PSX (euro only) it's about 900GB, so for some of them you will need to scrape yourself.

Maybe I'll post the method I use to scrape the games fast in minutes, just because if you already have downloaded my media files, scraping is fast because it only download metadata.

About your theme issue, I'm pretty sure it's not theme related, I'm sure it happens to you with other themes. Seems that your gamelist.xml it's not set correctly or your media it's not on the right path.

Follow this steps:

1 - Check the gamelist for a system that doesn't work correctly, verify the paths again, with care and slowly, and make sure the files are in the same path that you can see inside gamelist.xml .

2 - Even if the paths are ok, make sure the file extension it's the same, maybe your images are jpg and in gamelist are png, same for videos, you can fix this fast with any text editor doing a search and replace.

Please confirm to me that it happens with other themes.

If nothing works, i'll send to you a folder with some images, videos, some fake roms and one gamelist.xml so that way you can test your systems and the theme.

pootis spencer

I have found that some of the roms I have are in .7z format and the gameslist.xml has .zip.
So you were correct it was the file extensions that was causing the issue. If you could do a quick qrite up to scrape the games quick that would be great and very helpful to not only myself but I'm sure a few others as well.