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    Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18)

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    • lilbudL
      lilbud @cyperghost
      last edited by

      @cyperghost Working on that now.

      Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

      Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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      • PittStoneP
        PittStone
        last edited by PittStone

        Nice Update! I prefer "md_image" instead of "md_marquee" after
        <view name="video">
        to see my Covers from the Games.

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        • lilbudL
          lilbud @PittStone
          last edited by lilbud

          @pittstone said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

          Nice Update! I prefer "md_image" instead of "md_marquee" after
          <view name="video">
          to see my Covers from the Games.

          Having both marquee and image won't work all too well.

          You could, however, change your gamelist so wherever it says '-marquee' or '-logo' you change that to '-image'.

          Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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          • lilbudL
            lilbud
            last edited by

            @cyperghost I updated the theme pretty extensively. Including changing the dark color to be more readable and removing the spaces in the filenames for the button prompts.

            Update the theme and try now.

            Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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            • cyperghostC
              cyperghost @lilbud
              last edited by

              @lilbud I like this theme very much, because it's lightweight and very easy to modify.
              Can you please tell in first posting how you compused the artwork (Dimensions, resolution, effects, overlays...) so other can contribute with new systems?

              Only if you want of course ;)

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                DarishZone Banned
                last edited by DarishZone

                Will try update theme soon and provide feedbacks.
                Set Vram to 100MB lead to instability and memory errors on terminal, so it is better to stick to 80 MB.

                EDIT: Dunno what's goin on, the updated theme not working for me, i can't see any system.

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                • lilbudL
                  lilbud @cyperghost
                  last edited by lilbud

                  @cyperghost Sure.

                  Icons:

                  Created at 1080p, 3 layers. Background layer, which is usually a game screenshot. The color layer on top is set at 70% opacity. Logo colored white and put on top of everything.

                  I then exported the image at 600x600

                  Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                  Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                  • hooperreH
                    hooperre
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                    • lilbudL
                      lilbud
                      last edited by

                      @cyperghost I made a more extensive guide and am adding it to the OP.

                      Link: https://github.com/lilbud/es-theme-switch/wiki/How-to-make-new-icons.

                      Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                      Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                      • cyperghostC
                        cyperghost @DarishZone
                        last edited by

                        @lilbud
                        Having the same issue as @darishzone, the updated theme is not working. I can't see any system. So I switched back to your old release :(

                        About the HowTo: I think that's very usefull ;) Thx

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                        • SuperFromNDS
                          SuperFromND
                          last edited by SuperFromND

                          Hrm, I'm getting an error Unknown property type: "origin" (for element of type helpsystem). I'm assuming that's the same error that Darish and Cyperghost are getting?

                          Addendum: One install of emulationstation-dev and a reboot later, the theme works now!

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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator
                            last edited by mitu

                            Maybe you need to be running the emulationstation-dev package instead of the regular emulationstation that's installed by default ? @lilbud will clear that out I guess.

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                              EctoOne @mitu
                              last edited by

                              @mitu said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

                              Maybe you need to be running the emulationstation-dev package instead of the regular emulationstation that's installed by default ? @lilbud will clear that out I guess.

                              Yes, origin was just recently added for the helpsystem and it is probably not yet merged into the stable branch.

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                              • lilbudL
                                lilbud @EctoOne
                                last edited by

                                I'm not really sure why origin was listed for helpsystem. I think maybe it was when I was trying to see if I could enable it for @cyperghost who requested it. I removed the origin tag from the theme.xml and updated.

                                Update on your ends.

                                Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                • lilbudL
                                  lilbud @cyperghost
                                  last edited by lilbud

                                  @cyperghost said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

                                  About the HowTo: I think that's very usefull ;) Thx

                                  Thanks.

                                  I felt like making this guide because when I had the original icons. I had someone submit a PR with some truly awful icons. Super low quality.

                                  So I like to hope that people will see the guide and will send in higher quality ones.

                                  Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                  Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                  • cyperghostC
                                    cyperghost @lilbud
                                    last edited by

                                    @lilbud Let's vote us for the switch theme as standard theme for retropie 4.5 ;)

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                                    • lilbudL
                                      lilbud @lilbud
                                      last edited by lilbud

                                      @lilbud said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

                                      So I like to hope that people will see the guide and will send in higher quality ones.

                                      Already got some new ones. Done by @SuperCatFooz

                                      PC-88, PC-98, and PC-FX
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                                      Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                      Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                      • SuperFromNDS
                                        SuperFromND
                                        last edited by SuperFromND

                                        I actually made plenty more icons for some non-standard systems I have installed. Since I don't plan on submitting these as a PR (mostly because they're not part of RetroPie officially), I figured I'll just place them here on the forum instead. Enjoy!

                                        Sega Pico
                                        FM Towns
                                        Super Cassette Vision
                                        Flash
                                        J2ME
                                        N64DD
                                        CD-i
                                        Plug and Play
                                        Satellaview
                                        Tiger Game.com
                                        Sega Naomi

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                                          Garisaan
                                          last edited by

                                          Since we're at the task of making icons, any chance for a TurboGrafx-CD and/or PC Engine CD icon into the mix?

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                                          • SuperFromNDS
                                            SuperFromND @Garisaan
                                            last edited by

                                            @garisaan Funny you mention that, I just submitted a PR for both of those icons.
                                            Click here for the PC-Engine CD-ROM2 , and here for the TurboGrafx-CD.

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