[New theme] Super Display
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@jste84 You may try to bump it to 90, I suppose.
Once again, the main challenge with this theme in its current implementation for the Pi is that the artwork is of too high resolution for it to be easily handled by the Pi. My main recommendation is what is also recommended for other themes: make it 720p, and if needed move VRAM to 80.
While they stay at 1080p, when you scroll fast the Pi needs to unload and reload all those large textures at the same time to try to keep up.
I expect that the consoles will eventually show up, it just takes some time, or is that not the case?
For a more detailed explanation, see this post:
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@jste84 Try the removing and redownloading the theme tomorrow, like @pjft said 720p for img is the best. I just did the change and with vram 80 theme is working perfect, however is now 200mb bigger (460pm total) thats because the program I used increased the size of the images. I will summit the changes in a few hours. will post here when done. Theme now support nes/snes mini collection.
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@pjft said in [New theme] Super Display:
@jste84 You may try to bump it to 90, I suppose.
Once again, the main challenge with this theme in its current implementation for the Pi is that the artwork is of too high resolution for it to be easily handled by the Pi. My main recommendation is what is also recommended for other themes: make it 720p, and if needed move VRAM to 80.
While they stay at 1080p, when you scroll fast the Pi needs to unload and reload all those large textures at the same time to try to keep up.
I expect that the consoles will eventually show up, it just takes some time, or is that not the case?
For a more detailed explanation, see this post:
I thought I had it set to 720p and I hadn't, this fixed the issue! Thanks
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@mrharias cool so you are updating the theme? I've got it working as per my other post 720p fixed this issue. Thanks for building this. I love the simplicity of it.
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@jste84 he didn't mean your display at 720 but my images, I already updated the theme is working great now with vram at 80. Im adding this frame for better read.
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Glad to hear that's sorted. I'm sure others like @TMNTturtlguy, @mattrixk and other theme makers might have suggestions on how to reduce the images to 720p keeping the quality and a low image size.
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@pjft Yeah thank you for the help. Actually the pictures are a bit bigger but theme still around the same size, I didn't know folder ".git" can get huge in side, its a save to delete?
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@mrharias oh. Ah, that's not a problem then.
I wouldn't delete it on your development machine, as it's required for all the git states and such. It's all the information on the local changes, branches, etc.
On the pi, you can certainly delete it if you want to. It might mean that you need to delete the entire theme folder before updating it on the pi, though. I also don't expect it to be bigger for others when installing the theme on their own, as I think it's only storing your local changes there.
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@pjft oh I see I figured and deleted from the pi but like you said I was worry others were downloading so a huge file that is not use... I actually have to delete the theme updating didn't didn't fix the problems. I'm recommending others to uninstall and reinstall for it. After the last ES update and your subjecting I'm starting to like ES more. Thanks again for the help.
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Hello, amazing theme. Does it have support for kid / kiosk mode? I just tried to install on a fresh retropie installation and the screen goes white with basic text.
Any advice would be helpful. I would be capable of changing any configs to link the artwork correctly but I am having trouble finding anything.
Thanks for all the time that went in to this theme.
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UPDATE: I have been able to merge the settings between the Showcase theme (Which worked well in the child friendly build) with the Superdisplay theme.
This has given me a working theme just as I need it. Still not sure if I have done something wrong installing it originally. But for now I am satisfied. My kids can't get too deep into the settings and I get to use the lovely design of Superdisplay.
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@mrharias said in [New theme] Super Display:
@jste84 he didn't mean your display at 720 but my images, I already updated the theme is working great now with vram at 80. Im adding this frame for better read.
I see, well to be honest I'm quite happy with my display at 720p. It seems to make my pi run better. I'm a big fan of your theme and it works perfectly at this res.
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@mrharias love this theme! what program/software did you use to reduce the images to 720 and keep good quality?
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@paffley Thanks... Light Image Resizer 4, its really nice it scan folders and drop replace images theres a build in optimizer. with tinypng.com I get better size but its more work lol.
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@mrharias thank you for this theme, it's really amazing!
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@mrharias I love the theme, it is now my favorite. I have one question, in the snapshots I see here in the video they show the video behind the graphics, the post above shows the sword and characters in front of the video. Mine plays on top, don't see a setting and am wondering how to get this done.
Thanks again for the great theme!
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@tanstaafl you need to disable OMX player in the other settings. You may find that the VLC video player performance is worse so may need to re encode your videos to 480x360@30fps or below for better performance.
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@mrharias First off, Thanks so much for your work on this theme, lots of good improvements since your first released it.
I noticed that the PSX detail view didn't get the dark side frame when that was added to other systems. It also looks like it's missing from zmachine that was added recently, but that might have been intentional since its a dark background.
Also. I'll confirm issues with 480p video snaps. They tend to stutter just a bit on my overclocked pi 3 setup when OMX is disabled. It's unfortunate, since the big video snap window that this theme has looks better with high res snaps IMO.
Last, I'm having the issue where, in the detail view of a system as I'm scrolling through games, the video snap window shows a flash of the previous system select screen background before it plays the video snap. Is there a way to stop this?
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@mrharias, For missing emulators to add...any listed on the RetroPie Wiki that you don't already have ;) https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Supported-Systems. Would you share out some of the generic box and background templates in order to add in our own? I also have several experimental systems loaded and several of the different MAME systems(so end up having several of the same MAME selection block).
Here are some of the systems I have loaded, but not currently supported:
PC-FX
NEC PC-8800 Series
Macintosh (MiniMac emulator)
ResidualVM
Sam Coupe
Atari 800
Tandy TRS-80
Tandy CoCo
Oric
Sharp x68000
Dragon 32
Several of the 'Collections' (such as Mario, IREM Classics, Capcom Classics, etc).I also noticed that the Oddessey is missing the main background screen (selection block is there).
Thanks!
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@teh_collector Thank you. You must update Es from source to fix those issue not theme related this guys here did a awesome jib fixing that a couple weeks back. you much close ES or the updated won't go thru..
Im going to take a look that those missing dark frame since it wasn't intentionally lol
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