Changing UI style on the rom list

TillmanZ

Seems like I am "too blind to see" but could someone please give me a hint on how to change the list style for the roms? 🙂
FBA and MAME are currently set to "list names only" even though I have the game description texts in my game list.xml and have all the game images and even snaps in their respective folders.
The other systems are ok - it's only FBA and MAME that just show the list.

Thx!

TillmanZ

@nadenislamarre Would you have an idea on what I can do about this?

nadenislamarre

if you've just list, it's because images are not found. i don't know why however.

TillmanZ

Thanks for getting back to me!
Seems like my gamelist.xml was messed up. Now it works. 🙂

Do you have plans on updating ES to allow video snaps?
I just played around with Retropie on my XU4 and those video snaps really look good. 🙂

Best,

Tillman

asdfgasfhsn

TillmanZ I asked the same question a while ago. I ended up doing quite a bit of digging in the respective code bases and found the following key differences;

Batocera's version of EmulationStation has been customised with management menus and has some additional internal metadata and controller enumeration logic that is tied in to launching emulators/roms with configgen.

RetroPie's version of EmulationStation and it's changes have focussed heavily on theming, custom sets and performance optimisations. RetroPie uses a different launch script.

Ultimately I got to the point where I could build Retropie's version and get it running on Batocera's buildroot but hit I issues with trying to add the additional metadata to launch emulators/roms (read: I'm not competent with c++). I did contemplate bringing over the RetroPie launcher script but that would mean missing menu items for system management...

I guess the TL;DR of my post is that the 2 code bases have diverged quite far over the last 2 or 3 years and porting features in either direction is non trivial (for someone like me).

nadenislamarre

yes, i have, but among so much other things.

asdfgasfhsn

G22 despite all my efforts and knowledge I'm quite far from competent with c++ to do most of the code merging/refactoring to bring the theming features across from RetroPie's fork of EmulationStation. (read: I'm not a programmer and enough has changed between the two code bases it's not just copy/paste work).

As for marking the end of Recalbox, I don't see how that would be such a thing? All the code is out in the open and they can do what ever they like in regards to porting features over.

nadenislamarre You may want to look at my reply just above about some discovery work I did around video thumbnails and other RetroPie features and my paragraph below about thoughts I have about how to get such a feature brought in...

My take on all this is if Batocera wants to bring RetroPie's theme and other UI enhancements in I'd suggest looking at forking RetroPie's ES codebase and add back the menu items Batocera currently has as well as looking to see if one could do away with using configgen and co-opt the RetroPie launch script. Finally I'd also be suggest where possible members comfortable with c++ actively try to maintain merging in upstream changes so feature creep between the two projects is minimal.

Again, the above paragraph requires agreement from all involved in Batocera so contributors efforts can be organised and the work gets done with out people losing interest.

G22

asdfgasfhsn Well with all your efforts and knowledge why not help the Batocera team to add video previews? That feature would be awesome and probably mark the end of Recalbox.