@ruckage Any chance for a boot up splash screen that matches this style?

@pittstone it looks like you already have everything you need??? The black border is a seperate image file that will automatically be added by the theme. The dither comic effect can be added to the images in photoshop by using the pixel filter or in Inkscape using the newsprint filter. I used Inkscape and duplicate the image layer and place the newsprint filter with all angles at 15 degrees. You can play around until you get the desired effects.

@screech Looks beautiful! We spontaneously adopted a dog over the weekend so I've been too busy to work on them. :\

@hansolo77 OK, that's as up to date as it gets.

Could you move the conversation to a separate thread and add me to it, as this is not related to this topic anymore?

Any emulators you notice this happening with? Does it also happen with any other theme?

Thanks.

@spaceman1980

how would i go about making my dpad a mouse?

So long as your DPad identifies as ABS events and not BTN, you would just use the same set of steps for mapping mouse movement to a joystick.

@rookervik just create new "systems" theme folder/files and name it as:

auto-allgames for all games auto-lastplayed for the recently played games auto-favorites for the favorites

Look the @lipebello 's Retrorama repo as an example:

I use pixel as my sole and definitive theme on my raspi1 and TBH I don't care about video preview on my raspi1. But I would love to have these "virtual systems" (recent and favorites) on pixel.

Thanks for all your art, mate!

Arcade Generic overlays for Vertical oriented screen... ;)

@meleu Hey bud,

Thanks for the update. I'm literally walking out the door right now so I probably won't be able to test this stuff for another 10 days to 2 weeks. :(

You were right about the Marquee folder. Thanks for catching that mistake.

I'm sure the backup feature the way you made it is just fine. I'll let you know if I have any suggestions on it when I get back and test it out.

All that is left at this point I believe is the ability to change what artwork is displayed on the fly. I was thinking that maybe the option to turn any of the folders into a <marquee> tag at some point might be beneficial as well since those are now two separate image types supported for any skins that allow for two.

Just because the tag says <marquee>, that doesn't mean that you have to use Marquee images. You could, for instance, have /Artwork/Box Front/ set as <image> and /Artwork/Cart/ set for Marquee, and then a skin that uses both images would actually display the Box Front and the Cart image for every game while you scrolled through the list.

Just an idea for the future!

Anyways.... I'll talk to you when I get back and let you know how the script tests out. Thanks again for all of your help meleu.

Stay out of trouble. ;)

@lilbud Thanks Lilbud :)

Did this ever get into pulled into the retropie repo? If not, are you planning to?

I'm looking at possibly starting search and would love to start with a gridview already there.

@obsidianspider: this is a good webpage for the back catalogue. There were hundreds of games, several cross platform (Sensible Soccer, Desert Strike, Cannon Fodder to name a few). Ultimately there was a lot of shite too. They had several versions, the Amiga 500, 500+, 600 and the 1200. There were more but those were the ones you were likely to find in the home. The 500/+ and 600 were 16 bit, whilst the 1200 was 32bit and benefitted from the AGA chipset (advanced graphic architecture). There were games companies that made games for the 500/600, but also made an 1200 AGA version too to take advantage of it's extra capabilities (Theme Park was an example, and is a better game visually for it).

Piracy was rife-i had tonnes of copied games from mates, but there were people who specifically hacked games (Fairlight were one) and had a little intro upon insertion of the disk. Was a great platform though, even if disk loading times could be killer! If i had to pick my favourite platform from my youth, the Amiga would be at the top of that list!

Sorry, well off topic!

@strangeruk If you use the command line scraper, sselph it does allow you to remove the suffix -video, -image, etc.

But doing that would require a rescrape of all your stuff.

@shizzmoney Yep, thanks. Figured it out months ago:)

I've played around with the GStreamer packages:

if gstreamer1.0-omx is installed (which enables hardware acceleration), h264 videos play fine, but others get corrupted picture updating GStreamer to the latest stable (1.10) doesn't fix the issue gstreamer1.0-libav (which is the FFMPEG wrapper/plugin) with gstreamer1.0-plugins-good plays all tested video files (h264 from screenscraper, handbrake-ified mp4 files from es-toolkit) gstreamer1.0-libav or gstreamer1.0-plugins-good alone doesn't produce good result (black picture/decoder errors), but together they work nicely, I didn't need other plugin packs

So it seems something's broken in the Qt Multimedia module's hardware acceleration support; I'll probably have to write a custom plugin or see if I can patch it. Until then, you can get the best results with the gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-good packages.

Yeah, I will add a barrel jack later on my new Famicom case. This one is not the best looking work.
I still got 3 Famicoms around to bleach and mod. I broke not needed pieces out with a pench tool which doesn't look nice I should buy a Dremel or similar for better results.

Regarding the fan, I haven't encountered any issues thus far. My RPi is nice and cool inside the Famicom.

Hi,

This works all fine! Thx!
But i have a question.

I have many songs in the rome file.
Also i set a startsong for the first boot from ES.
This all works great.
Song play at start and than random music.

But i wanna have a second "startsong" who plays if i leave the game /emulator.

for example:

RPI3 boot -> ES Starts -> Startsong "A" plays -> after song, random music starts -> Start game -> exit game -> Startsong "B" plays -> after song, random music starts

can someone help me?

System:

RPI3 Retropie 4.2.16

@ruckage said in Neo Geo X Build:

@flyingtomahawk

Hi, sorry for the delay - I had to dig up the old files and redo the overlays as I couldn't find the completed ones.

The zip contains borders with an aperture grille + scanlines for the following systems:

Capcom
Neogeo
Mastersystem
Megadrive
PCengine
SNES

These are further broken down into different opacities so that you can pick how dark you want the scanline - eg. neogeo-25 has a scanline opacity of 25% , neogeo-75 has a scanline opacity of 75% - higher the number, the darker the scanline.

Also included are scanlines and scanlines+aperture grille without the borders. As they don't have borders you can just adjust the overlay opacity within retroarch to get the effect you like.

These are all designed to work at 1080p and in order for the scanlines to line up with each row of pixels you need to make sure that the image is being stretched to the full height of the screen (this is the default retroarch setting so unless you changed it yourself it should be okay).

*There may be problems with the pcengine overlays as the resolution on the pcengine is variable - it looked okay when I originally made it though I haven't tested this new version

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@ruckage do you happen to have the psd you could share or a hi-res png 75% scanlines without the words/logos just the diamond plate?

@lilbud I feel dumb for not trying that first. It all works now, thanks!

I think we should be able to make extra carousels, on all of the views and also to use it for other images such as metadata, like marquees, or md_images.

Also an origin type function for the carousel would make the variety of nice looking carousels go up.

There's so much to read.. and I am totally new to all of this. I am having the same issue, my replica PS3 controllers will not pair wirelessly and there is a constant vibration when plugged directly in, how do I fix this?