240p Honey (Theme optimized for CRTs)

Pietze

Hi there,

I'm working on a 240p theme for my CRT TV. Since I got good feedback on the Pi2Scart side, I wanted to share my progress here as well. If there are enough people interested, I would try to share it.

Download Links
https://github.com/PietDAmore/240p-Theme

(Last Update April 8th, 2018

pjft

@pietze well done! I think you should certainly share it if you're up for it. It looks great on a 240p display!

ohmycommodore

Are there other tweaks involved, or just a stock setup using this theme to improve the legibility of things on a smaller screen / CRT?

twd

Sweet b&o crt. Not much more than you can ask for in a crt theme , accept Tate but that's seems to be a ES hurdle. super cool

Pietze

Hi everyone,

thanks for your comments! Well, I can share my theme but it's not complete yet, since I only made artworks for the platforms I need. And I have to say that I took the console logos from the Art Book Theme (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11728/theme-art-book). Not asked for permission yet, because I thought would make this theme just for me.

As soon/ if I get a go I will share the links again.

However, I made two color schemes:

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@ohmycommodore don't worry, it's just stock setup! But since It's supporting the brand new "all games", "latest games" it's recommended (but not needed) to use the latest Retropie :)

ohmycommodore

Yeah i know there was the alternative 240p binary thing a while ago, which i didn't quite figure out, or at least didn't see a major difference from. Plugged into my old commodore monitor with a stock setup... the games looked just fine to me though, but the menu text was hard to read. So a simple "big" theme like this will be valuable for me, as I swap between a big HDMI tv and my little commodore monitor fairly often. Too much work to swap all sorts of things around. A quick theme switch to something like this will likely take care of the biggest issue for me.

dankcushions

@pietze said in 240p Honey (Theme optimized for CRTs):

Not asked for permission yet because I thought would make this theme just for me.

well, if you've now given links perhaps you should take them down before you have permission?

Pietze

@dankcushions alright, I'll write the author. Shouldn't be a problem though, because it's just console logos. I guess I'll find them on Wikipedia aa well.

pjft

@pietze it's @alphatoanant . I think these are for the most part grey scale version of carbon's logos, but yeah definitely reach out. :)

Pietze

Everyone enjoy the new downloads (in the first post)! @alphatoanant was so nice to allow the sharing of the theme.

ohmycommodore

what systems are supported so far?

Pietze

@ohmycommodore

gamegear
gb
gba
gbc
genesis
mame
mastersystem
megadrive
n64
nes
ngpc
pcengine
ports
psx
snes

You will find my PSD files here to make new wallpapers: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bvg4qhbjx00ad87/AAA8RjmBybkT3xaL0Wc8CZ_oa?dl=0

Pietze

I updated to version 3! Custom collections were added and two systems: Sega CD & Neo Geo.

Aksen

I'm super into these. Any chance of getting them integrated in the setup script?

Pietze

@aksen said in 240p Honey (Theme optimized for CRTs):

I'm super into these. Any chance of getting them integrated in the setup script?

Thanks! :)
That would be great, but I would like to finish it first. There are still some more devices and I wanted to clean the files up a little more.

I uploaded everything on GitHub now:
https://github.com/PietDAmore/240p-Theme

morpie

Sorry to bring up an old thread... I am curious tho... Is this theme able to run on a 240p TV via composite or is it only useable with the Pi2* devices?

I am not quite sure if it's possible or even how to install the theme to attempt it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Pietze

@morpie Hi there, composite is also fine for this theme. If you want to install the theme, just copy the files into the /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes/ folder and restart Emulation Station.

btw you can download the theme here:
https://github.com/PietDAmore/240p-Theme

Pab

@Pietze Hi Pietze, your theme is wonderful and work fine with my crt at 240p. I try to set "video view" not "detailed view" and the theme don't work well. Can you support the "video view"? I would be very grateful! Sorry for my English! XD

tavuntu

@Pietze I'm not able to see the game art on the game lists (I've downloaded the NES pack and placed it on ~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/nes/, is that enough?)