Chicuelo Theme

cosmo0

@chicuelo @movisman
I love these new logos :) I was planning to make a pull request to add the MAME and FBA logos, I'm glad people with better design skill than me got to it :)

On a very personal note, I would also love to have different images for the various arcade emulators :)
On a pi, I have heard FBA is best for most shmups and fighting games, whereas MAME is better to emulate 80's arcade.
So, I would put Ryu as the FBA character, and Donkey Kong as the MAME character.

Ryu : here with many more here.
DK : here, here or here

I would do them myself, but I clearly don't have the skill to integrate the characters as well as you do with the background, and the other images.

chicuelo

@cosmo0
For mame what do you think about sunset riders, Cadillacs and dinosaurs or ghouls and ghosts? I thinks they are going to fit better with the theme due the background posibilities.

cosmo0

Ghouls and Ghosts would be nice :)
SR and C&D are more FBA-type games I think.

movisman

@cosmo0

I loved Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - great game and a definite vote from me for FBA :)

@chicuelo

I will raise a PR for my changes, just trying to learn some basic github command line stuff, will create a branch, put all my changes in and raise the PR for you to inspect.

Cheers!

cosmo0

@movisman said in Chicuelo Theme:

I will raise a PR for my changes, just trying to learn some basic github command line stuff, will create a branch, put all my changes in and raise the PR for you to inspect.

From the top of my head:

git remote add source urlofchicuelogit
git fetch source
git rebase source/master

Sorry but I can't add the URL of the Chicuelo git or my post is flagged as spam.
This adds the Chicuelo git repository as a "remote" (a server), then fetches and reapplies all modifications made to it, then reapplies your modifications

git checkout --branch nameofyourbranch

This creates a branch for you to work on.
Then do your modifications.

git add .
git commit -m "your commit message"
git push -u origin nameofyourbranch

This adds all files to the commit (staging area), commits it, then pushes it to your Github repository. The -u is shorthand for --set-upstream and lets you just "git push" next time witout specifying the remote and branch names.

Then create your pull request in Github.

Hope this helps :)

movisman

@cosmo0

Hey, thanks a lot for that - most useful! I wish I had seen some of this an hour ago as been reading how to do it via command line, and in fairness, I have pretty much exactly done exactly the above, with the exception of the first bit. I cloned the repository from my fork, then added Chicuelo's master as upstream.

I then created a branch called updates, switched to that, copied my changes in, and now i've pushed those to the remote. I was just about to raise a PR now.

Sound about right?

I didn't do the git rebase stuff, what is the benefit of using this?

Cheers!

movisman

@chicuelo

Okay! So you should have a PR now here:
https://github.com/chicueloarcade/es-theme-Chicuelo/pull/4

The description contains all details about files changed.

Hope you can merge this into master, then I will delete this branch.

Thanks!

cosmo0

@movisman said in Chicuelo Theme:

@cosmo0
Sound about right?

Yep, with git there are multiple ways to achieve the same result, yours is fine too.

I didn't do the git rebase stuff, what is the benefit of using this?

I was assuming you already had cloned the repository and made changes. Fetch/rebase (or pull) get the latest commits from a remote and apply them to your local copy.

movisman

@cosmo0

Gotcha, thanks for this - still learning Git basics locally as the changes I made before regarding the videos were made via copying in the revised XML to my fork directly on the Github website, and then raising a PR accordingly.

I wanted to get a local clone all sorted so it was easier to work on changes while still being able to pull latest commits, etc, etc. I think i'm there now though. This guide was pretty useful when I was first reading up as it sticks to basics:
https://codeburst.io/a-step-by-step-guide-to-making-your-first-github-contribution-5302260a2940

I'll do a bit more reading about rebase/merge/fetch/pull etc etc to understand some of the differences. Looks like a rebase would be a good command to use.

Cheers for the help!

cosmo0

Git can be pretty intimidating at first, and it's very complicated (even when you've learned a lot :D ).
But it's very powerful, and once you enter the "git mindset", you find simpler versionning systems (like SVN) too limiting.

chicuelo

@cosmo0 @movisman
Done the merge,
What do you think about FBA and mame?
I have a doubt, for libretto emulator, the corresponding image is mame or just arcade?

I am working on a fba version with Cadillacs and dinosaurs but there are few images so I have to draw my own character. I will upload soon for you to tell which is better

Mame

FBA

movisman

@chicuelo

Wow, those look incredible! Really, really great work. So clean. Very much looking forward to seeing a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs image!

So regarding your question about Arcade/MAME, etc.

Arcade is a special folder, which people can use to avoid having several menus for different arcade emulators - essentially all arcade-based ROMs can be placed in the arcade ROM folder and ran from there, which is what I currently do.

I would suggest the following image requirement for each ROM folder/menu/theme.xml for arcade games:

arcade = arcade logo and arcade character image
mame-libretro, mame-mame4all, mame, mame-advmame = mame logo and mame character image
fba = fba logo and fba character image
neogeo = neogeo logo and neogeo character image

Does that make any sense? Not sure if I have explained too well.

Cheers

P.S. Thanks for merging my changes, will update my copy when I get home and check it out.

cosmo0

@chicuelo wow. So awesome <3 The Ghouls & Ghosts image is incredibly gorgeous. Seriously. I love it.

cosmo0

@movisman said in Chicuelo Theme:

mame-libretro, mame-mame4all, mame = mame logo and mame character image
mame-advmame = advmame logo (needs creating), and maybe a new advmame image - or just the mame character image if not

You would split mame-advmame and the other mame-s? Why is that?

movisman

@cosmo0

Yeah, I see your point there. I think I thought this originally, because AdvanceMAME has a different logo and is a bit different to the others, and also looking at other themes like the default one (carbon) there was a different logo for it. I put a caveat at the end to perhaps still use a MAME character image, so I wasn't swaying either way really. But I think another logo needs creating for it, which I can take a look at if I can find an SVG.

If you have roms in the mame-libretro, mame-mame4all, mame, and mame-advmame they all appear as separate systems in the GUI. Thinking about it, I think a logo needs creating for it but the image should be the same for all MAME 'related' emulators. However FBA and Neo Geo to be different.

I will edit my post accordingly.

Cheers!

cosmo0

@movisman Yeah I think that's right. Different logos allow to differentiate between different MAME versions while scrolling, but the character image can stay the same.

movisman

@cosmo0

Yes, exactly that. 100% agree. I have quickly sorted an AdvanceMAME logo out which I will raise a PR for, and if @Chicuelo is happy that can also go into the logos directory :)

Cheers

movisman

Done and PR raised for that logo also:
https://github.com/chicueloarcade/es-theme-Chicuelo/pull/5

chicuelo

@movisman @cosmo0
Done the PR

Thanks guys you are giving a big help!

ohmycommodore

@chicuelo

Great work so far.

Looks like I could use Odyssey2/Videopac and Frotz/Infocom.

Finally... are you sure ColecoVision is a "1 Bit Console"? :)