Freeplay Emulationstation Theme Preview

[RxBrad]

This theme is available now using the ESThemes menu in Retropie.  If you don't see it in the list of available themes, you'll first need to "Update RetroPie-Setup script" from RetroPie-Setup. Then go to Configuration/Tools, then esthemes, and scroll down to find the themes. Once installed, you can exit RetroPie-Setup and apply the theme under UI Settings.



Recommended EmulationStation UI Settings

• Carousel Transitions: ON
  
  
• Transition Style: Instant
  
  
• Gamelist View Style: Automatic
  

NOTE: The optional wheel carousel animation requires installing the Experimental Module "emulationstation-dev" (once Retropie hits v4.5, this functionality should be included, and this module shouldn't be needed). If you don't have emulationstation-dev or RetroPie 4.5+, it'll be a horizontal scrolling carousel like most themes have currently.

By default, if you install the theme from ESThemes, it'll use the Indigo/Purple color scheme.  You can change this by editing /etc/emulationstation/themes/freeplay/color.xml

Code:

sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/freeplay/color.xml

Since it has the 12 different-colored versions, I actually have a script at https://github.com/rxbrad/rxbrad_themeutils that you can use to install all 12. The lines below install the tool used to install all 12 colors (this is available NOW; you don't need to wait for the theme to show up in ESThemes).

Code:

cd ~;git clone https://github.com/rxbrad/rxbrad_themeutils.git

Once the tool is installed, you can install the theme with the FreeplayTech logo using:

Code:

cd ~/rxbrad_themeutils;./freeplay_logoinstall.sh

If you ever need to update the theme after that, here's the code to do it (ESThemes won't see the different color variants):

Code:

cd ~/rxbrad_themeutils;./freeplay_logoupdate.sh

If, for whatever reason, you want to hide the Freeplay logo after installing all 12 color variants, you can do so with:

Code:

cd ~/rxbrad_themeutils;./freeplay_update.sh