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    • alphatoanantA
      alphatoanant @meleu
      last edited by

      @meleu awesome, thank you! Your PR has been merged. Sorry for missing such a small change =)

      Knowing this now I can also update my other themes easily.

      My RetroPie Themes:
      Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
      Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
      TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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      • meleuM
        meleu @alphatoanant
        last edited by

        @alphatoanant You're welcome!

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        • cyperghostC
          cyperghost @meleu
          last edited by

          @meleu
          A small improvment imho
          Instead using /tmp would it not be better to use /dev/shm?
          So there is no need for cleanup?

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          • meleuM
            meleu @cyperghost
            last edited by meleu

            @cyperghost My reasoning was "most users use this tool on a Raspberry Pi where the amount of RAM is not so plentiful". If you don't clean up, the files will occupy your RAM. But now I'm thinking about using /dev/shm (and keeping the cleanup procedure) due to possible performance benefits.

            I'll try to make some tests with /dev/shm in the future.

            Thanks ;-)

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            • cyperghostC
              cyperghost @meleu
              last edited by

              @meleu Can you step in here please? I think this is an interesting feature. I never used launching images and so some ideas were reinvented :)

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                EctoOne
                last edited by

                So i just noticed that this script doesn't work with themes that use variables instead of system/theme.xml.
                Would it be possible to implement that?

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                • meleuM
                  meleu @EctoOne
                  last edited by

                  @ectoone yeah, I'm planning to do that. Can you point a theme that uses variables so I can test my code?

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                  • lilbudL
                    lilbud @meleu
                    last edited by

                    @meleu You can try to use my Minimal Theme, it uses variables heavily.

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

                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                    • A Bored NinjaA
                      A Bored Ninja @meleu
                      last edited by

                      @meleu Love this tool!

                      Is there a way to change the text color AFTER you've set it up? Do I just run this again?

                      I find all white letters causes issues reading when Mega Drive is loading.

                      Thanks!

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                      • meleuM
                        meleu @A Bored Ninja
                        last edited by

                        @A-Bored-Ninja you can choose the lettering color on this screen:
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                        • benjaminjayB
                          benjaminjay
                          last edited by benjaminjay

                          I can't seem to get this to generate a single launch image and I've tried a bunch of different themes...
                          EDIT: was able to get this to work with TronkyFran but the launch images have a large black border around them

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                            TheBlueDragon @meleu
                            last edited by

                            @meleu When i try to run your generation script (for lightswitch theme) i get this error:

                            Failed to create background image
                            

                            This error appears for all systems :_( How do i fix this?

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                              DarishZone Banned
                              last edited by DarishZone

                              Seems the script get some error, it installs but say: "failed to install binary"
                              Then you can access menu but unable to generate any image.
                              Any clue?
                              Edit: It installed after update RetroPie but still refuse to generate images, i'm also unable to select specific systems image, toughs?

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                              • ExarKunIvE
                                ExarKunIv
                                last edited by

                                im with @DarishZone i cant update and will not generate anything
                                not sure why

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                                  DarishZone Banned
                                  last edited by

                                  I think script is broken with new RetroPie updates, let's wait meleu answer on this.

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                                  • ExarKunIvE
                                    ExarKunIv @DarishZone
                                    last edited by

                                    @DarishZone i just opened a issue on github for this

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                                      DeweyCox @ExarKunIv
                                      last edited by

                                      @ExarKunIv You have a link to the github repository?

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                                        DeweyCox
                                        last edited by

                                        Any support for the Hurstyblue theme?

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                                        • ExarKunIvE
                                          ExarKunIv @DeweyCox
                                          last edited by

                                          @DeweyCox
                                          https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand#adding-custom-launching-images

                                          not sure if anyone is really working on this anymore

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                                          • UDb23U
                                            UDb23 @ExarKunIv
                                            last edited by

                                            @ExarKunIv said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

                                            not sure if anyone is really working on this anymore

                                            Concerning per game launching images work does goes on: check here.

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