BATLEXP G350 Themes

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EmulationStation Themes

AmberELEC/PAN4ELEC has the best theme compatibility. ArkOS uses an older EmulationStation version and lots of themes from the Emulationstation-OGA-Theme-Gallery have problems on ArkOS, like a cut off battery percentage and menu navigation. Some are even causing crashes when applying different game list options. The following themes have been tested and confirmed working on the BATLEXP G350 running ArkOS. Some theme configuration options may be broken on ArkOS.

Screenshots have been taken directly from the device via ssh.

Minimi-Theme-for-R36s
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Download ⬇️ Minimi-Theme-for-R36s
Description very minimalistic theme
Issues ArkOS ✅
R36S-SD-Card-Theme
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Download ⬇️ R36S-SD-Card-Theme
Description only basic gamelist style
Issues ArkOS ✅
RG351v Theme Mod
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Download ⬇️ RG351v Theme Mod
Description only basic gamelist style
Issues ArkOS ✅
RetroNeon
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Download ⬇️ RetroNeon
Description Preview image game, description and Grid style option.
Issues ArkOS ✅
Freeplay
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Download ⬇️ Freeplay
Description Preview image+video. Lots of color options.
Issues ArkOS ✅
Minimal ArkOS
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Download ⬇️ Minimal ArkOS
Description Lots of color options. Preview image + video + game description. Grid style with preview image+video+game description.
Issues ArkOS ✅
NES-Box
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Download ⬇️ NES-Box
Description Preview images + videos
Issues ArkOS ✅
Replica
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Download ⬇️ Replica
Description Preview images + videos. Grid style option.
Issues ArkOS ✅
Switch
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Download ⬇️ Switch
Description Lots of color options. Preview images + videos. Grid style option.
Issues ArkOS ✅
XBOX-Classic
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Download ⬇️ XBOX-Classic
Description only basic gamelist style
Issues ArkOS ✅
Alekfull-Solo for ArkOS
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Download ⬇️ Alekfull-Solo for ArkOS
Description Lots of options. Video and screenshot gallery
Issues ArkOS ✅
Pixel Perfect
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Download ⬇️ Pixel Perfect
Description Preview images + videos.
Issues ArkOS - dark mode not working
Art-Book-Next-ArkOS
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Download ⬇️ Art-Book-Next-ArkOS
Description Preview image + video + game description
Issues ArkOS ✅
Custom-Box
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Download ⬇️ Custom-Box
Description Lots of options. Preview images + videos. Grid style option.
Issues ArkOS ✅
Farfenkugell Columns
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Download ⬇️ Farfenkugell_Columns
Description Gamelist is Grid style only
Issues ArkOS ✅
Farfenkugell Crystal
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Download ⬇️ Farfenkugell_Crystal
Description Lots of different game list options like video, grid, panel and carousel.
Issues ArkOS ✅
Farfenkugell Lazy
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Download ⬇️ Farfenkugell Lazy
Description Gamelist is Grid style only, with video in background and game description
Issues ArkOS ✅
GBZ35_Mod
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Download ⬇️ GBZ35_Mod
Description Preview image + video. Has a dark and light mode.
Issues Menu Navigation is slightly cutt off on ArkOS
Magical-Pixel
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Download ⬇️ Magical-Pixel
Description Preview image + video. Grid style option
Issues ArkOS ✅
MinUArk
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Download ⬇️ MinUArk
Description Simple theme in the style of MinUI. Also has video preview and Grid style option
Issues ArkOS ✅
RetroBenny-NesBox-BlackBG
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Download ⬇️ RetroBenny-NesBox-BlackBG
Description Preview image + video. Modified NES-Box theme with black background.
Issues ArkOS ✅
RetroBenny-NesBox-Wood
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Download ⬇️ RetroBenny-NesBox-Wood
Description Preview image + video. Modified NES-Box theme with wood as background.
Issues ArkOS ✅
RetroBenny-PS2
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Download ⬇️ RetroBenny-PS2
Description Preview image + video (starts fullscreen video after 3 seconds). Grid style option
Issues ArkOS ✅
RetroBenny-PS5
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Download ⬇️ [ RetroBenny-PS5]
Description Preview image + video. Grid style option
Issues ArkOS ✅
RetroBenny-NesMini
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Download ⬇️ RetroBenny-NesMini
Description Preview image + video.
Issues Battery percentage is hard to read on ArkOS
SagaArtBook
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Download ⬇️ SagaArtBook
Description Preview image + video. Grid style option with video playback.
Issues ArkOS ✅
SagaBox
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Download ⬇️ SagaBox
Description Preview image + video. Grid style options (standard, switch, showcase)
Issues Battery percentage is hard to read on ArkOS (in the game list)
SagaCrystal
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Download ⬇️ SagaCrystal
Description Preview image + video. Grid style options (standard, switch, showcase)
Issues "Games available" and game name in grid style is under Battery percentage on ArkOS
SagaModern
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Download ⬇️ SagaModern
Description Preview image + video. Grid style option
Issues Game name in grid style is under Battery percentage on ArkOS
SagaNX
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Download ⬇️ SagaNX
Description Preview image + video. Grid style options (standard, switch, showcase)
Issues "Games available" and game name is under/over Battery percentage on ArkOS
SagaParagon
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Download ⬇️ SagaParagon
Description Preview image + video. Grid style options (standard, switch, showcase)
Issues "Games available" and game name in grid style is under Battery percentage on ArkOS. Up and down button are wrong in the system list.
SagaSlice
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Download ⬇️ SagaSlice
Description Preview image + video. Grid style options (standard, switch, showcase)
Issues "Games available" and game name in grid style is under Battery percentage on ArkOS. Up and down button are wrong in the system list.
SagaWorld
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Download ⬇️ SagaWorld
Description Preview image + video. Grid style options (standard, switch, showcase)
Issues Game name in grid style is under Battery percentage on ArkOS
Solo-Horizontal
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Download ⬇️ Solo-Horizontal
Description Preview image + video.
Issues ArkOS ✅
WoodyCody
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Download ⬇️ WoodyCody
Description Preview image + video. Nice background music.
Issues ArkOS ✅


Editing and Creating Themes

Watch this video for how to change background images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aci8TdIVFmE

If you want to make a new theme, edit or add layouts, fonts, features, sizes, etc. on an existing theme you need to edit code in the xml files. If you don't have experience with editing code in xml files, it's suggested to start by making small changes like text or image position to a theme which you like. Here's some documentation of the code for emulationstation themes:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme/

https://wiki.batocera.org/write_themes_for_emulationstation

For fast testing you can transfer changed files via wifi and change any theme setting to refresh the changes. You can also test on PC with Retrobat after changing resolution to 640x480.