RetroRoom Theme!

DRA6N

@dra6n Looks interesting. I'm having a bit of trouble reading the black text on the light white backgrounds though.

@thedatacereal said in RetroRoom Theme!:

@mattrixk Yes I agree. It looks awesome but that white background needs to be around 80-90% opaque.

Yeah, I was trying to find a happy medium. I'll try and make it less transparent. All else fails I will toss up some sort of BG image to go behind the text.

DRA6N

@capninja thanks! I plan to hit the major consoles at a bare minimum. Atari(s), NES, SNES, Sega, N64, PSX, Gameboy, GBC, GBA and then start to fill in the odds and ends.

DRA6N

WIP preview of the SNES screen

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ClassicGMR

@dra6n Either Luigi on the NES screen or the Red Ranger on the SNES screen should be an Optimus Prime dammit!

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Hehe looks great so far! :)

mattrixk

@dra6n: This is just an idea, but you have a pretty big wall space on the right. You could move the window to the right, remove the shelf and make the poster larger, then use the larger poster as a background for the gamelist.

DRA6N

@classicgmr was there a transformers game on NES/SNES? hmmm I'll have to check!

DRA6N

@mattrixk I thought about it, but having a mix of colors in the poster might make the text on the game list hard to read. I'll play around with it and see how it looks. I think for Mega Drive/ Genasis I'll remove the window or make it barely there, and play around with the wall space a bit more. ES is kinda weird in which if I set it to put the games list in 1 location , it uses that same location on every system.. unless I re-wrote the master XML file and set individual parameters for each.. not even sure if that would work...hmmm

DRA6N

oh and here's a re-lighted NES screen, displaying an old school nintendo commercial.

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ClassicGMR

@dra6n Well it's an 80's/early 90's toyline that was very popular so there's that. 😉

But yes in Japan they had a Famicom Transformers game - The Transformers: Mystery of Convoy:

The SNES / Super Famicom didn't have a Transformers release that I could find.

DRA6N

@classicgmr hmm fair enough :)

DRA6N

working on the Gameboy screens now. Decided to go with the "open on Christmas day" kinda feel.

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DRA6N

gameboy screens done, changed the fonts around a little to make them easier to read. haven't decided on a good font just yet.

System Screen:
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Game List Screen:
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fawked

@dra6n coming along nicely 🙂

cylum

Awesome theme!

I have a question. In your gamelist, it seems to be ignoring "the" in the game title, is that something new they added or something you did on your end? I haven't turned my Pi on in a while, so I wasn't sure. Thanks.

DRA6N

@cylum It goes off the no-intro naming convention. Whatever the scraper picks up based on that, is how it is displayed. shrug

DRA6N

Added GBC!

System Screen:
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Game List Screen:
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Also, a teaser of the virtualboy screen:
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DRA6N

Virtual Boy screens complete! Now back to standard consoles and handhelds.. this was a bit of a PITA. One "eye" has a video preview for each game, the other has a screenshot.

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DRA6N

Been years, but I am planning to pick this back up and finish it!