EmulationStation UI Settings

• Theme Set : This is used to choose the theme you are using, additional themes can be downloaded from the Updates & Download category in the main menu, see Theme Set for reference.
• Theme Configuration : This opens a submenu to customize your currently used theme, customization options are specific to the used theme.
• UI Mode : You can select different modes for batocera, Kiosk mode and Kid mode will reduce the amount of possibilities, see also UI mode.

• Start on System : Select which system is selected as default
• Start on Gamelist : Start ES on gamelist view of selected system
• Overscan : Option only relevant for SBC supporting overscan settings, can be used in case the image is cropped improperly on the screen.
• Systems displayed : This is used to choose which systems to display, and which ones to hide.

• Transition Style : This is used to decide if the menu should have a fade-in transition effect, a moving effect, or change instantly when starting a game.
• Carousel Transitions Instantly show next/previous system
• Screen Saver Settings
  • Screen Saver After : This is used to decide how long the system must stay unused before triggerring the screensaver.
  • Screen Saver Behavior : This is used to choose what the screensaver will do, see ScreenSaver Behavior.
  • Stop Music on Screensaver : Enabling this will stop the main menu music from playing when the screensaver is used, if video files are used as a screensaver, their audio will be then used instead.
  • Random Video Screensaver Settings : see Random Video Screensaver settings
  • Slideshow Screensaver Settings : see Slideshow Screensaver settings
  • Screen Saver Controls : Enable the use of the buttons to perform different actions during the screensaver.
• Game Launch Transition : auto, fade, slide or instant
• Show Clock : Displays the hour on EmulationStation
• On-Screen Help : Displays the buttons' actions in EmulationStation
• Quick System Select : This option let's you use change the currently selected system using the left and right buttons when using a basic list of games.
• Show Battery Status : for battery-powered devices, chose between Nothing, icon or icon and text (percentage)

• Show Favorites on top : When active, the favorites games will be put on top of the list.
• Show hidden files : When enabled, the files described as hidden by the gamelist.xml file ill be displayed.
• Show folder : This option makes it possible to show the folder hierarchy inside a system, or to display all games as if they were directly put inside the folder.
• Show '..' parent folders : When subfolders are shown, enabling this will show a .. entry to go back one folder, this entry can be hidden.
• Show Filenames in Lists : Shows the filename instead of scrapped game name.

Collections to display

• Game Collection Settings
• Automatic Game Collections Add some predefined collections in the menu (2-player, 4-player games…)
• Custom Game Collection Select between your custom game collection

Create Custom Collection

• Create New Game Collection Game Collections are stored in $HOME/configs/emulationstation/collections
• Create New Dynamic Collection

Options

• Sort Systems: Alphabetically, by manufacturer, by hardware type, by release year
• Start on System: Restore last selected, or choose your favorite system to start with
• Start on Gamelist
• Group Unthemed Custom Collections
• Short Custom Collections and Systems
• Show System Name in Collections Add a system description to a ROM file e.g. Sonic [Megadrive]