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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Projects and Themes
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    • chicueloC
      chicuelo @cosmo0
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      @ohmycommodore
      We are making a fast progress adding systems and updating others. I think we have left a few systems to cover the most used by the people. If you look on the GitHub repo you will find with systems are up and wich are on the pending list!
      Also thanks to @cosmo0 we are improving the custom collections

      Fully supported systems:
      3do
      Amiga
      Amstrad CPC
      Apple II
      Arcade
      Atari 2600
      Atari800
      Atari5200
      Atari Lynx
      Commodore 64
      Family Game
      Final Burn Alpha
      MAME / MAME LIBRETRO
      Neo Geo
      Game boy
      Game boy Color
      Game boy Advance
      Gamecube
      Nintendo 64
      Nintendo NES
      Nintendo Snes
      PCEngine / Turbografx 16
      Playstation 1
      ScummVm
      Sega Gamegear
      Sega Genesis
      Sega Dreamcast
      Sega Saturn
      Sega 32x
      Sega CD
      Sega Master System
      Sega Megadrive
      Virtual boy
      Steam
      Ports
      Sony Psp
      Retropie Setup
      Auto Favorites
      Auto Last Played
      Auto All Games
      Power Menu

      Coming Soon

      Atari7800
      Atari jaguar
      Atari ST
      Colecovision
      Game and watch
      Intellivision
      Kodi
      Neo geo Pocket
      Neo geo pocket color
      Vectrex
      Wonder swan
      Zxspectrum
      DAPHNE
      MSX
      MSX2
      Nintendo DS
      Sega SG1000
      VideoPac (Odyseey2)

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      • ohmycommodoreO
        ohmycommodore @chicuelo
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        @chicuelo thanks!

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        • ohmycommodoreO
          ohmycommodore @ohmycommodore
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          will certainly be nice to have a new broad-reaching theme. always a drag when trying a new system out, and that one system sticks out without a theme.

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            movisman @chicuelo
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            @chicuelo @cosmo0

            No worries, the decision ultimately is yours! I get what you are saying, back in those days we did refer to the consoles at 8 bit, 16 bit, etc. But some consoles like GameCube, PC Engine, it isn't really clear how many bits they truly are, because CPU, GPU, memory etc are all different. As @cosmo0 says, NeoGeo is strange listed as a 24-bit console, but what else would it be? Maybe it's 16? It's quite difficult to find out the factual information.

            Like Dreamcast, I think that has a 32-bit CPU and 128-bit GPU (not 100% but something like that) but what would you choose as the console definition? SEGA probably would say it's a 128 bit console, but it isn't. Bit like the GameCube, this is also unclear. That has various components 32/64 bit.

            I guess you could go with what the machines were 'marketed' as, but often this is overhyped. That said, anything before the era of PS2, Dreamcast, GameCube, etc, can generally be found easily enough, and I understand why you might want to keep it as is. I can always go through and correct any which seem odd.

            Cheers!

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            • chicueloC
              chicuelo @movisman
              last edited by

              @movisman
              All the info I take from wikipedia, and the systems who have that issue I use the higher bits rate so in some cases its weird like Neo geo. If you want to correct the ones you consider are odd go ahead!

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              • cosmo0C
                cosmo0 @chicuelo
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                @chicuelo Thanks for the advice :) I'll work on the images.

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                • cosmo0C
                  cosmo0 @movisman
                  last edited by

                  @movisman I also understand @chicuelo about the fact that people know more consoles by the "bitness" than the generation. What is 4th generation? I have no idea without looking up Wikipedia.
                  Although, after the PS1 generation it's harder to tell. For instance, the PS2 generation has been marketed as 128bit consoles, but no 128bit customer-grade processor has ever existed...

                  In the end, maybe just adding the year would be enough? It's probably more telling to people.

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                    movisman @cosmo0
                    last edited by movisman

                    @cosmo0 @chicuelo

                    Hi guys,

                    Yep agreed with both, it is quite hard to tell what is actually a 4th generation console without checking online for sure, and again what determines a generation is subjective too. I think having the year released is a good idea though, along with the marketed or true "bits" for the console. @chicuelo you have a good point - this is what people are familiar with (including myself!), especially from the 8 / 16 bit era.

                    After PS1 it does start to get unclear, Dreamcast / GameCube / PS2, they all have "128 bit" components of sorts but not sure what to put them as to be honest. I probably should go with whatever they were marketed to the public as. Maybe I should put any suspicious ones in inverted commas haha!

                    Cheers

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                    • cosmo0C
                      cosmo0 @movisman
                      last edited by

                      @chicuelo

                      I've made some updates according to your guidelines. Can you tell me what you think, before I move on to the other ones?

                      I changed the "games by genre" tagline with the genre name. I think it fits, but maybe I can find something else? What about a description of the content? The Survivor ; The Adventurer ; The Ninja ; The Gobbler... Things like that.
                      It might be weird and not match the theme, though, and the genre name is fine. Let me know what you think.


                      Action has a new "medkit" item instead of the plant

                      0_1521672321835_action.jpg

                      Adventure uses a "front-facing" Guybrush, and items from the image you provided

                      0_1521672354445_adventure.jpg

                      Beat them up uses the pizza slice you provided, another more "front-facing" turtle and all TMNT items.
                      It's surprisingly hard to find a good-looking turtle. Most 3D ones come from the movies (the 90's one or the Michael Bay one), and are pretty ugly.

                      0_1521672434767_btmups.jpg

                      Pacman doesn't have the grey pedestal anymore, and there's space for the 4 ghosts now, for which I tried to match the "official" colors.

                      0_1521672552225_fixedscreen.jpg

                      Kids has a "front-facing" Scrooge, and your diamond, even though it doesn't have the same shape as in the game. I'm not so sure about the money bags, but I can't find one that matches. I'm pretty bad at finding images it seems... :(

                      0_1521672602823_kids.jpg

                      I changed the items for Samus : the Metroid comes from an actual figurine, the missile upgrade has a slightly weird perspective.

                      0_1521672707025_platformers.jpg

                      It's absolutely impossible to find a 3D Bubble Bobble. If you search for "bubble dragon 3D" you will find a lot of ugly things, as well as this cute figurine. They are not the dragons, and they look pretty "large" for the blister, but I think they're really cute. Should I look for something else?
                      Maybe I should just switch to another game (finding 3D Tetris pieces should be easy), but I like the logo I made :(

                      0_1521673110354_puzzle.jpg

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                      • chicueloC
                        chicuelo @cosmo0
                        last edited by chicuelo

                        @cosmo0
                        Wooow! I am really impressed with this shots, you have improved not only the looking but your skills and finishing too! you have solved very good the elements and the characters. I love Donatello, its the 90s one and it looks amazing! I also love all of the set

                        For the upper ribbon, I like more the genre, for the shorter ones like Action or adventure, we can complete the space with the word games. Adventure games or action games so the text completes all the row. Also if you want to try you could change the color of the ribbon trying to match the character and items color: action red like the case, adventure brown, beat em up green, fixed screen orange, kids friendly purple and like that. If you considere its bad its ok to me

                        Here are some others items I believe it will work fine
                        For kids a top hat and a coin?
                        Bubble bobble some balls? or switching to bomber man, you decide
                        a weapon for metroid?
                        For the pacman you can try using one ghost, two white dots and another ghost, just an idea

                        0_1521682220555_objects2.png

                        0_1521687076107_bomberman.png

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                          red2blue
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                          Looks great, but i wish you had the Ratings and max players in the theme.

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                          • cosmo0C
                            cosmo0 @chicuelo
                            last edited by

                            @chicuelo Thanks ^^ I'm doing the best I can :)

                            I'll try to change the color of the ribbon, it's a good idea.

                            Where do you find your images? They're really good-looking, I just cannot find ones like that :(

                            For Pac-Man, I must admit I like the fact that the 4 ghosts are there. I felt something was missing when there was only 2 :D

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                              movisman @cosmo0
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                              @cosmo0 @chicuelo

                              Wow, really good work on these guys. Seriously impressive.
                              @chicuelo - thanks for adding the Atari 7800 system btw, looks great.

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                              • chicueloC
                                chicuelo @red2blue
                                last edited by

                                @red2blue
                                Sorry for not including that! I tried yo use just the basic info

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                                • chicueloC
                                  chicuelo @cosmo0
                                  last edited by chicuelo

                                  @cosmo0

                                  I search not only in google (big images and if possible in png), also on deviant art but there is a lot of garbage there too
                                  Also I have to clean the images that have a background, if I considere the image is great I take the time to clean the rest and use it.
                                  The bomber man balloon is a composition, I pick a balloon, adjust the color, add some eyes and the mouth, it was impossible to find that image otherwise!

                                  For the pacman I meant to make like a gag, using two white dots like the game, but its a matter of try and error, maybe it looks strange. Its all in your hands!

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                                  • chicueloC
                                    chicuelo @movisman
                                    last edited by

                                    @movisman
                                    Thank you! The list of pending systems is bigger every day! So Im trying to make the most common and then adding the rest

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                                    • cosmo0C
                                      cosmo0 @chicuelo
                                      last edited by cosmo0

                                      @chicuelo said in Chicuelo Theme:

                                      I search not only in google (big images and if possible in png), also on deviant art but there is a lot of garbage there too
                                      Also I have to clean the images that have a background, if I considere the image is great I take the time to clean the rest and use it.

                                      Ok, so you don't have a magic method, you're just more patient than I am :D
                                      Thanks :)

                                      @chicuelo said in Chicuelo Theme:

                                      @movisman
                                      Thank you! The list of pending systems is bigger every day! So Im trying to make the most common and then adding the rest

                                      I saw that you have added a LOT of systems lately. Do you have a todo list ? I feels like it's not missing much, you're on your way to be more complete than ComicBook, which was the most complete theme before :D

                                      Well, maybe not more complete, there are a LOT of unknown things in ComicBook... :D did you know the Channel F ? :D I'm not sure it's necessary to include all the weirdness out there...

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                                      • chicueloC
                                        chicuelo @cosmo0
                                        last edited by chicuelo

                                        @cosmo0

                                        Yes, patience and a bit of taste to select the best images

                                        This is my pending list, I don't know if there is any other system that matters to be included, what do you think?

                                        Atari ST
                                        Daphne
                                        Game and watch
                                        Colecovision
                                        Intellivision
                                        Kodi
                                        Neo geo Pocket
                                        Neo geo pocket color
                                        Vectrex
                                        Wonder swan
                                        Zxspectrum
                                        MSX
                                        MSX2
                                        Nintendo DS
                                        Sega SG1000
                                        VideoPac (Odyseey2)

                                        Update:
                                        Atari ST and Daphne added

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                                          EctoOne @chicuelo
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                                          @chicuelo ResidualVM is one system I have. that is not on your list.

                                          @cosmo0 I assume the art for the action genre is based on Resident Evil? If so, I would suggest trying to find an image of the First Aid Spray instead of a standard Kit.

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                                            chicuelo @EctoOne
                                            last edited by

                                            @ectoone
                                            I have scummvm, maybe its the same or its another emulator?

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