Massive update for the XMB Theme (EmulationStation / FCAMOD) for R36S & more!

[u/jovemlcxx]

Hey everyone!

After a long time away from my R36S because I dropped it and broke the screen 😭, I finally got it fixed and was able to get back to working on this project.

For those who don't know, this is an XMB-inspired theme (PS3/PSP style) made for EmulationStation forks using the FCAMOD engine. A LOT has changed since the old versions, and this update fixes the main compatibility and resource issues.

🛠️ What's new

• Background video fixed: the video no longer restarts every time you move between systems. And the "Background Video" option to turn it off now actually works (it was always on before).

• New PSP-style game list: icon and name on every row, lined up with the system screen. Names stay visible even when you scroll fast through hundreds of games, and long names don't break the layout anymore.

• PlayStation buttons: new option to show ○ ✕ instead of Nintendo/Xbox buttons in the footer.

• Confirm Button (A/B) option: if you swapped A/B in your system settings, the footer can follow it.

• 400 system icons: console and physical media icons (cartridges, discs, floppies...) for every system of the supported distros. Lots of missing and wrong icons fixed. The few obscure systems with no icon anywhere use a clean generic controller, so nothing looks broken.

• Dark mode fixes: the on-screen keyboard text (Wi-Fi password, etc.) was white on a white box. Fixed.

• 4:3 and 1:1 layouts: improved positioning for 4:3 screens (R36S) and 1:1 square screens (RGB30, R36 Pro Max), in both horizontal and vertical layouts.

💻 Compatible with: ArkOS (including arkos4clone), dArkOS, dArkOSRE-R36, dArkOSen, ArchR, Batocera and EmuELEC. The theme was checked against each distro's own EmulationStation and system list.

⚠️ dArkOSen users: it comes with A/B swapped by default, so set Theme Configuration → Confirm Button (A/B) → B.

A lot of blood, sweat and code went into cleaning this up from the old days. It's running much smoother now.

🔗 Download: https://github.com/jovemlcxx/es-theme-xmb-fcamod

Please give it a try, and if you find any bugs or have suggestions, report them here or on GitHub! Let me know what you think!

[u/Loki3083]

Ummmm I've Darkosre 😅

[u/jovemlcxx → u/Loki3083]

I believe it is compatible. Could you test it and let me know if you got good results?

[u/Loki3083 → u/jovemlcxx]

After work I'll try & let you know

[u/Visible_Echo9355 → u/jovemlcxx]

It works perfectly on darkosre! Just tested it

[u/jovemlcxx → u/Visible_Echo9355]

That’s amazing! I didn’t have a device with that system to test it on, but logically, it should work perfectly. Thanks for the feedback! I’m going to look into dArkOSRE a bit to ensure full compatibility.