Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18)

[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.

[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

[hooperre]

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[lilbud]

@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.

[cyperghost]

@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

[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!

[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.

[EctoOne]

@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.

[lilbud]

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.

[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.

[cyperghost]

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

[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

[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

[Garisaan]

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

[SuperFromND]

@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.

[cyperghost]

@supercatfooz Nice set. But that's the reason I like this theme - you can create new systems at ease. So why not consider to use "Switch" as default theme with the possibility to add new icons via a dedicated dialog-bash script?

[DarishZone]

Update on updated version :D
Everything working now. No lag or artifacts even with vram default.
It missing only one system which i forgot to mention, sorry :/
SG-1000

Great theme and great work however!

[lilbud]

@darishzone SG-1000 is already in the theme.

[SuperFromND]

@darishzone SG-1000's in the theme, it's just named differently from what you might expect: the theme name is sg_1000 rather than sg-1000.

[lilbud]

@supercatfooz Yeah, I'm on it.

Update: SG-1000 name is fixed. I had it with an underscore instead of a hyphen.