Making Retropie look great with themes and images

The standard installation of Retropie can look a bit boring, especially compared to other front end systems. But with just a few clicks you can transform it into a slick, exciting and informative front end for all your retro gaming needs.
Let me show you how to fix the black border, load game images and add a knockout theme to bring it all together.
Don't forget to check out my main website at
bytesnbits.co.uk/make-retropi...

[@ColbGood]

Thanks for the video, made it easy to get the retropie looking nice 👍

[@BytesNBits]

Glad I could help

[@PizzaMakerNSW]

You articulate well, thanks for your help

[@BytesNBits]

no problem.

[@robertneselic6805]

Worked perfectly. Thank you!

[@BytesNBits]

Glad it helped

[@BadDudesVsFletch]

Ahhh my 3rd video from you in 2 days. Again super helpful - thanks (can you tell i've just built my retropie and i'm fine tuning it?)

[@BytesNBits]

Great to have you on the team. I hope it's all coming together OK.

[@kiddo84_]

Great tutorial🤘🏻🔥✨ Thank You👾

[@BytesNBits]

Happy to help!

[@theweekendhomestead]

I’m wondering, is there a screen saver option for retro pie where it will run videos examples of the games? So if I go through the process of downloading videos to the raspberry pi, as examples for all of my games, can they just run on random and then when you move the keyboard, it goes back into the council.

[@BytesNBits]

Some of the emulation systems run an attract mode to do this. I'm not sure if RetroPie does though.

[@umutkayacan7659]

Back to back videos? Very nice :)

[@BytesNBits]

More to come!

[@umutkayacan7659]

@@BytesNBitsthats very nice to hear ngl

[@thebigtexas11]

Hi there. Not sure if I missed it. But I am assuming that I have to connect my retro pi to the internet using Ethernet cable? Not sure if you mentioned it. Thanks!

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. Sorry, I think I covered the network setup in the installation video. Yes, you'll need an Internet connection to get this to work. Hope you've got it going!

[@CrispStream797]

Where do you get all of your roms from I am new to the whole retropie system and I have been looking for good websites for all the consoles

[@BytesNBits]

Hi. KZbin doesn't like it when you tell people where to download the files so that's why we all point you to the search engines. I did however make a very interesting coding tutorial that you'll probably find very useful - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYHKZJyngNJ3i68

[@thedanielescamilla]

This was great! This worked for most of my games. it also made retropie look awesome and easier to navigate. For the ones that are still missing, do you know of a solution?

[@BytesNBits]

You can create your own media files for games. There is a naming convention for the filenames and you'll need to work out how to import them (I think it's fairly straight forward), but you will be able to fill in the blanks.

[@thedanielescamilla]

@@BytesNBits ok cool thank you!

[@davidwisniewski1505]

Awesome

[@BytesNBits]

Thanks.

[@evi0854]

Do I need a Wifi connection for the themes to download? Good Video!👍

[@BytesNBits]

WiFi makes it easier as the themes will just download and install but I think you can download on another computer and simply copy over the files if you want to.

[@bocard80]

How do I get a theme that plays video clips of each game? I have seen this before but not sure how to get it.

[@BytesNBits]

The video clip display is usually an option within the theme settings, but you'll need to download the clips to get them to show. In the scraping system you need to scrape from a source that has the video clips. Quite often this is part of a subscription to the source.

[@shadowedfate151]

Dear god I wish I'd found this video months ago...

[@BytesNBits]

I hope your setup is looking great now!

[@nobafan7515]

Is there a theme where it plays a demo of the game, or a video showing the gameplay?

[@BytesNBits]

I think most of the themes can be set to play video clips, but you need to get hold of them and integrate them into RetroPie. Some of the scraping sites provide videos which should slot straight in or you can download clip packages from the internet.

[@pattemplayz]

it says like no storage to put them or something

[@BytesNBits]

Check if your SD card is full.

[@MycelialBoy]

downloading themes wont work :(

[@BytesNBits]

Sorry to hear it's not working for you. Is it just one theme or all themes?

[@MycelialBoy]

@@BytesNBits well I did the age old trick of restarting and it worked I appreciate the help though :D

[@Jpetersson]

What accent is this? 😀

[@BytesNBits]

Northern Ireland