Intro
This page is just a running list of all the projects I’ve worked in involving Emulation-Station-DE. It is a unofficial fork of Emulation-Station, bringing many changes and modernization updates to it, which hasn’t really seen much development as of late. Plus, the original ES is quite tied in with RetroPie, so it can’t go too crazy with features because it still has to run on a low powered computer like the Raspberry Pi.
Because of these updates (and future planned ones), the original EmulationStation themes would no longer work. Simply because keeping the legacy theme code in would have been too much to handle. So, the decision was made to drop the legacy theme engine. This would mean the 100s of themes out there would only work with the original ES.
Guides
ES-Retropie -> ES DE is a link to a guide I wrote on converting themes from the original ES format, to the new ES-DE format. This guide is simply taking those original themes and making sure they work with ES-DE going forward, no added features or nothing. Its a basic guide, and not fully comprehensive, but it’ll get you like 90% of the way there.
Theme Creation Guide is a guide on some good ideas to keep in mind when creating themes. Mostly things I learned from making themes of my own.
Theme Asset Updater is a Github Actions workflow to automatically pull new assets from the ES-DE repositories and add them to your theme. The paths will have to be updated to work with your theme. It’s meant for themes that make use of variables as compared to folders for every system.
Converted Themes
And here are some converted themes to give you an idea of the ES -> ES-DE conversion process:
New Themes
Themes created from the ground up for ES-DE.
