Chicuelo Theme

MadHorse · 18 Sept 2018, 08:39

I really like your theme, is fast and clean.
I have a question, do you have in mind to create a theme for commodore 128?

Thank you

chicuelo · 18 Sept 2018, 12:35

@madhorse
Yes, I am planing to complete the higher amount of systems when I have some time, but there are so many consoles that it takes a lot of time.

svera · 18 Sept 2018, 18:56

Lovely theme @chicuelo! Would like to have a 4:3 version of this to put on the new Picade, any plans for it?

chicuelo · 19 Sept 2018, 03:11

@svera
Maybe in a near future!

MadHorse · 19 Sept 2018, 19:01

@chicuelo thank you.

lokize · 20 Sept 2018, 04:16

Please, how to config sound to systems in selection screen, for example: when i select snes play a super mario sound...

EctoOne · 20 Sept 2018, 08:31

@lokize
That's not possible. As far as I know, the only sounds we can implement in a theme, are a scrolling sound for the text gamelist and one for launching roms.

chicuelo · 20 Sept 2018, 12:59

@ectoone
I think recallbox does that. Once I saw a pi with a distrurbing music on every theme.

EctoOne · 20 Sept 2018, 13:27

@chicuelo yeah i know that recalbox has a build in background music player, but i don't think that was he was asking for. If i'm wrong there should be at least one script around that can be installed on retropie.

chicuelo · 20 Sept 2018, 18:58

@ectoone
I understand. You mean when you change through systems or games. I tried once but no succeed with that. All the files where there and with correct paths but it didn't worked

lokize · 20 Sept 2018, 19:07

bgm sound is a good resource i think team of retropie look for that post!

EctoOne · 20 Sept 2018, 19:13

@chicuelo there was a post recently on github and the windows build thread that was about the sound system. I believe the original developer of ES was working on that before he abandoned the project. The launch sound seems to be the only thing that got implemented in a new way (scrolling sound in gamelists is different). Some themes have the code for all options (i believe the snes mini has them for example) but they just won't work. When I was helping someone with a theme a few weeks ago, I couldn't even get the launch sound to work, but maybe that was just a windows build error or something else.

Sheyk90 · 21 Oct 2018, 21:46

Hi! @chicuelo I love your theme but I have Recalbox on my Raspi... Could you adapt your theme to it?? I think is not difficult for you; I don't know how to do it :(
Thanks!

chicuelo · 22 Oct 2018, 12:26

@Sheyk90
Sorry I don't use recall box so I don't know either how to adapt the theme. Maybe you can switch to retropie! :)

rajbhalsod · 23 Nov 2018, 09:06

Hi Chicuelo,

An amazing theme - just what i was looking for, you have put together a clean and professional looking theme. One question - is it possible to have video previews on the main menu for each system? Similar to how it works the games - box art first and then the video preview?

Thanks, Raj

EctoOne · 23 Nov 2018, 11:31

@rajbhalsod No, EmulationStation has no support for videos on system view.

rajbhalsod · 23 Nov 2018, 11:53

@EctoOne thank you for the quick response, very much appreciated :)

rajbhalsod · 23 Nov 2018, 12:17

Another question - sorry :(
I've been playing around with the RetroPie software and added some new systems to see how they work. When cycling through the systems, there is lag. I've tried increasing the vram under settings but this does not work and after increasing it to around 400, the system crashed! I also found that if I removed the system logos, it ran a lot more smoother. Obviously I would like to keep the system logos as they make the theme look complete. Again, any suggestions as to how I can avoid the lag and keep the system logos, etc.

Really sorry for asking questions - i've been searching on the internet for days and tried all sorts of solutions!

chicuelo · 23 Nov 2018, 12:33

@rajbhalsod said in Chicuelo Theme:

Another question - sorry :(
I've been playing around with the RetroPie software and added some new systems to see how they work. When cycling through the systems, there is lag. I've tried increasing the vram under settings but this does not work and after increasing it to around 400, the system crashed! I also found that if I removed the system logos, it ran a lot more smoother. Obviously I would like to keep the system logos as they make the theme look complete. Again, any suggestions as to how I can avoid the lag and keep the system logos, etc.

I think its a matter of your build. I have no troubles about lag with the theme. It runs smooth in every card I tried. Maybe your sd is almost full? You could try to start from scratch and ensure you get a clean performance

mitu · 23 Nov 2018, 17:26

@rajbhalsod The video RAM allocated by the system to the GPU is by default 256Mb on a system with 1Gb ram (PI 3/3B+/3A+), if you increase the VRAM limit in ES it's normal you get a crash since you're over the limit.
You should try to increase the GPU memory first - from the /boot/config.txt file - and then increase your VRAM in Emulationstation. Don't go overboard with the limit, the VRAM is also used by the emulators and you might get them to crash if you don't reserve enough RAM.