Localized EmulationStation

This is a localized fork of Retropie's EmulationStation fork.

The original source was reference from flyinghead/EmulationStation, but it seem to stop maintain from Jun 2019 and did not support RPi4.

So I've redo from the lastest source (branch: stable) and tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS & Raspberri 4B (OS: Buster 32 bit recommend).

Languages currently supported

• Catalan
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

Step start

Install the needed packages for the Official RetroPie setup script:

For Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Raspberry)

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

On Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install -y git dialog unzip xmlstarlet

On Raspberry:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install git lsb-release

Download RetroPie setup script and install

cd ~
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
cd RetroPie-Setup
chmod +x retropie_setup.sh
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

Choose Full Install (Basic Install >> Quick Install) or Partial Install (Manage packages >> Manage core packages) to install EmulationStation. Partial Install could install minimal packages for saving lots of time.

For Raspberry users : If you choose (Basic Install >> Quick Install) that it were install from pre-compiled binary default. You have to remove and reinstall EmulationStation again by choose Install from source.

How to use this localized EmulationStation

Resolve dependencies of libraries

sudo apt-get install -y libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-date-time-dev libboost-locale-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev libeigen3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libasound2-dev cmake libsdl2-dev gettext

Create a clone from GitHub

cd ~
git clone --recursive https://github.com/benjenq/EmulationStation.git

Compile EmulationStation

For Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Raspberry)

cd ~/EmulationStation
mkdir build

On Debian/Ubuntu:

cd ~/EmulationStation/build
cmake ..
make

On Raspberry(4B tested):

cd ~/EmulationStation/build
cmake -DFREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/freetype2/ -DRPI=On -DUSE_MESA_GLES=On ..
make

Run EmulationStation

Be aware that your system must be set to the same locale that you want EmulationStation to run on.

cd ~/EmulationStation
LANG=[your_locale].UTF8 ./emulationstation

Install EmulationStation

It will replace your original EmulationStation which installed via RetroPie setup script.

cd ~/EmulationStation
sudo cp ./emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
sudo cp -r locale /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/

How to add a translation

You should have, at least, created a clone from GitHub before continuing with the following steps.

Create files for the new locale

cd ~/EmulationStation/locale
mkdir lang/[your_locale]
cp emulationstation2.pot lang/[your_locale]/emulationstation2.po

Translate the strings

Open the newly created emulationstation2.po inside [your_locale] folder and start translating all the msgstr strings.

Once you are done, you can compile EmulationStation and then run it to test your translations.

Supplemental Instruction

If you found the user interface was displayed abnormal (eg. lost language, empty item... ) after compile & install, please check if these fonts exist on your system

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf

Author

original : flyinghead

rework : benjenq

Credits

Thanks to:

• flyinghead - For source code reference & the French translations.
• heloisa - For the Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish (Spain) translations.
• wakaya - For the Japanese translations and for the instructions on how to use the localized EmulationStation.
• hiulit - For the Catalan and Spanish (Spain) translations.
• Taranchul - For the German translations.
• Unknown - For the Italian translations.
• losernator - For the Korean translations.