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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Projects and Themes
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    • cosmo0C
      cosmo0 @chicuelo
      last edited by cosmo0

      @chicuelo
      Hi! Thanks for the feedback :) I'll try to help you some more, then. I did a bit of reasearch to find the most iconic characters for each missing system. I'm listing things I found on these platforms, as I never used any of them (except the NDS and NGC). Maybe someone who did will have better ideas.

      Apple II: recognizable characters include Sir Graham (King's Quest); Roger Wilco (Space Quest); and the tentacles from Maniac Mansion.

      Atari 800: I would pick Pitfall Harry (from Pitfall II). You can find atwork here, or here.

      Atari 5200: probably Ms Pac-Man, Frogger or Dig Dug.

      Atari 7800: Joust seem like a good candidate, especially considering this awesome official artwork.

      Atari Jaguar: the most iconic game for the Jaguar is probably Alien vs Predator.

      Colecovision: it mostly had arcade ports, not much that really stands out to me. I'll note Tarzan, and Burger Time.

      G&W: "Mr Game & Watch" is easy to find, especially since its inclusion in Super Smash Bros. For background, the game "Fire" is probably the most iconic.

      Neogeo Pocket & Pocket Color: "Chibi" versions of Capcom (Street Fighter) or SNK (King of Fighters) fighters will probably be representative.

      Sega Saturn: the most iconic game is clearly Nights Into Dreams, by far.

      Vectrex: there is exactly one game with a character: Spike, which is considered the Vectrex mascot. Good luck finding images of a vector character, though! :D

      Virtual Boy: a black & red Wario should do the trick.

      Wonderswan: One Piece and Mr Driller are two of the most popular game for the system.

      ZX Spectrum: Dizzy (Fantastic Dizzy) should be the most recognizable character.

      Nintendo DS: I love this system. So many great characters to pick from: Link (Zelda Phantom Hourglass), the guys from Elite Beat Agents, Soma (Castlevania DoS), Pokémons from Pearl/Diamond or Black/White, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Neku Sakuraba (The World Ends With You)... I would probably pick one of the last three.

      Amstrad CPC: the prince from Prince of Persia.

      MSX: Solid Snake (from Metal Gear), obviously.

      PC Engine CD / Turbographx CD: Richter Belmont (Castlevania Dracula X: Chi No Rondo)

      Nintendo Gamecube: I would choose between Viewtiful Joe, a Pikmin, Link (Zelda Wind Waker or Twilight Princess), Samus Aran (Metroid Prime), or Luigi (Luigi's Mansion).

      I hope it helps :)

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      • chicueloC
        chicuelo @cosmo0
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        @cosmo0
        Great material! I really Digg some of your choices, prince of Persia is one of my favorites and I was waiting to use it on a system.
        I have update some systems like virtual boy, Famicom, 3do, C64, ScummVm and psp. I am not running any of those systems on my Pi so I can't appreciate them so I hope other people can enjoy for themselves :)
        Lets see if I have some time on a near future to complete at least the half of that ones that are must have on a pc retropie

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          movisman
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          @chicuelo

          Hi again!

          I have done a little more work with tightening up the position and scale of the logos on the main system select screen. Again small changes but improvement none the less.

          I have also resized all system logos you have made to date in terms of removing all bounding space around them. This means that all the images appear more consistent and central in ES.

          In addition, I have also created a correct logo for Atari 2600, and changed the 5200 and 7800 so all three are the same size, so there is no scaling when you flip between the systems.

          Also made a couple of minor adjustments to a couple of other logos.

          Finally, I created a new Gamecube logo, a MAME one, an FBA one, and I also adjusted the Sinclair one to be more 'Spectrum' like.

          I think it all looks good. How would you like to review these changes?

          After checking, if you are happy to implement these into the official theme, I can try to complete a few more.

          Thanks

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            movisman
            last edited by

            @chicuelo

            You can see all my above changes on this preview vid which flips through some of the systems:
            https://drive.google.com/open?id=16VCwVGY72NDVOl6zTotAZKe_V0j3XCUc

            Hope this helps get an idea of my changes.

            Cheers

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              movisman
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              I also just created logos for:

              Amstrad CPC
              Atari ST
              Intellivision
              Megadrive (non-US Logo)

              Thanks

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              • chicueloC
                chicuelo @movisman
                last edited by

                @movisman
                Thats great!
                the only one that I look strange is the FBA logo, I think we could make something like this but reducing the size of the F
                alt text

                The rest are ok!

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                • chicueloC
                  chicuelo @chicuelo
                  last edited by

                  @chicuelo
                  I forget to say, some of the logos have a horizontal or vertical space because the aspect ratio make them Look enormous when they were placed on the screen, so I manually compensed the size, but if you set a max width or height it will fit fine

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                  • KeiganK
                    Keigan @stephensmattlee
                    last edited by

                    @stephensmattlee said in Chicuelo Theme:

                    @keigan really digging your custom loading screens, go hand in hand so well with chicuelos theme :)

                    I don't suppose you could add the FDS, SegaCD and 32X to your collection? Unfortunately I don't have photoshop nor am I very good at photo/picture editing.

                    Thanks

                    I added them to the Google Drive link. Let me know if they work for you!

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                      movisman @chicuelo
                      last edited by

                      @chicuelo

                      I completely agree about the FBA logo - funnily enough I already started looking at this late last night because I thought it looked a bit odd and I wasn't happy with it either. It is the official logo but I think it needs to be more descriptive. So actually I have the above image already open on the machine - I just didn't get chance to look at it further. Unfortunately it seems to be a PNG though rather than SVG, but can still reduce the size of the F and apply a white overlay to replace the colour.

                      Regarding the logo sizes, I reduced the max height in theme.xml for the carousel image, and this seems to stop them appearing huge (the video i sent is with my revised theme.xml). So hopefully this is ok?

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                        stephensmattlee @Keigan
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                        @keigan thats awesome, many thanks. I had a go at doing some colour versions and did Sega cd, 32x, fds and n64 as well. would it be okay to send them to you to see if you approve or would like to rework any of them? thanks again

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                        • KeiganK
                          Keigan @stephensmattlee
                          last edited by

                          @stephensmattlee

                          Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

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                            movisman @chicuelo
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                            @chicuelo

                            This is what I had already started putting together, I just finished it off now. What do you think? Smaller logo and bigger text. This is an exported PNG filled over with grey for demo purposes so you can actually see it. Will give it a try later inside ES after applying a white fill on the SVG and then can see how it looks.

                            https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ng5GyhVXrGSBPDVxyylvgsjMtzs-3nvr

                            Cheers!

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                              stephensmattlee @Keigan
                              last edited by stephensmattlee

                              @keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

                              @stephensmattlee

                              Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

                              Thats cool. heres what I came up with for a few extra ones https://mega.nz/#F!uV0HgbTR!phoju0Drj7sUGYbHsWf9ZQ

                              for better or worse I ended up taking the colours from the official artwork/game cover to get colours that suited the systems

                              be good to get your thoughts.
                              many thanks

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                              • KeiganK
                                Keigan @stephensmattlee
                                last edited by

                                @stephensmattlee said in Chicuelo Theme:

                                @keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

                                @stephensmattlee

                                Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

                                Thats cool. heres what I came up with for a few extra ones https://mega.nz/#F!uV0HgbTR!phoju0Drj7sUGYbHsWf9ZQ

                                for better or worse I ended up taking the colours from the official artwork/game cover to get colours that suited the systems

                                be good to get your thoughts.
                                many thanks

                                They look great!

                                Exactly what I would have done, taken a colour that associates with the logo, or box, and you nailed it.

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                                  stephensmattlee @Keigan
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                                  @keigan thats awesome, Im glad you approve, feel free to combine them with your originals if you're happy to :)

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                                    movisman @chicuelo
                                    last edited by movisman

                                    @chicuelo

                                    How about this for the FBA logo?
                                    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1umFxVJ_uJy-WEknmT10-VOfxzB3m-L9c

                                    Much more happy with this.

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                                    • chicueloC
                                      chicuelo @movisman
                                      last edited by

                                      @movisman

                                      Great! I was thinking about something like this for fba: (I have the svg file)

                                      0_1520878175707_fba.png

                                      Whit the height limit I see some logos that are a bit bolder due the square aspect ratio, like genesis 32x but its not big deal

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                                        movisman @chicuelo
                                        last edited by

                                        @chicuelo

                                        Nice! That looks great too, better than mine (which is just a rework of that other PNG we both had). Maybe you could put 'alpha' on a separate line to make the logo more square so it fits better within the theme?

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                                        • chicueloC
                                          chicuelo @movisman
                                          last edited by

                                          @movisman
                                          I thought about it, but the word alpha will become HUGE and I think the logo will become bold as fuck :P

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                                            movisman @chicuelo
                                            last edited by

                                            @chicuelo

                                            Hmmm, i'm not too sure what you mean? So just placing the word Alpha underneath, on the same SVG, same size as it is now? Not sure on position though, either the word "alpha" in the centre or right justified underneath. Unless i'm confused it should look ok? Are you suggesting the logo would become too large because it's square?

                                            This is where a maximum height in theme.xml comes in, which is what i've adjusted on my local copy (which is also on that video preview I sent). It reduces the size of square logos like Master System which look a bit too big at the moment, but keeps the width of the wider ones.

                                            However, all that being said, all on one line is still likely to display fine (and looks better in general), as a lot of other systems are a similar width and they look ok. Have you got the SVG handy and I can install it?

                                            Cheers!

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