Pandora Theme

wallmachine

Hey @ruckage would you mind if I ported this over to LaunchBox?

Stuart2773

Hey @ruckage would you mind if I ported this over to LaunchBox?

Pandora theme
Theme designed by Ruckage
Version 1.0
19/12/2018

Theme based on the Pandora's Box 4 frontend

License

This theme is being actively developed, a great deal of work has been put into the theme and art so please do not use the graphics I have created in other projects.

You are free to modify the theme for your personal use only - please do not share modified versions of this theme.

Commercial distribution is prohibited

If in doubt please ask in the dedictated topic at the retropie forum: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/

wallmachine

@Stuart2773 said in Pandora Theme:

You are free to modify the theme for your personal use only - please do not share modified versions of this theme.

thanks

JesseBlue

@ruckage

I think I've found a bug:

If a game entry has no video attached to it (no <video> tag in the gamelist.xml), the skin won't display any other images (eg. boxart), even if they are are linked in the gamelist.xml

This only happens with this theme. All other themes (incl. SNES-Mini) work fine.

ruckage

@JesseBlue said in Pandora Theme:

@ruckage

I think I've found a bug:

If a game entry has no video attached to it (no <video> tag in the gamelist.xml), the skin won't display any other images (eg. boxart), even if they are are linked in the gamelist.xml

This only happens with this theme. All other themes (incl. SNES-Mini) work fine.

Hi. Thanks for the feedback. @Stuart2773 also reported this and I addressed it in this post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20380/pandora-theme/24

Draugr

Hello Everyone.

Question on getting this theme to work.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+, also downloaded the proper Retropie image as of today (Mar 3rd, 2019).
I installed the emulationstation-dev package.
I made the themes folder within the configs/all/emulationstation folder. So I have configs/all/emulationstation/themes/pandora
When I attempt to change themes within ES, I don't see any Pandora themes. I even tried rebooting.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or what step I'm missing. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
John

mitu

@Draugr You don't need to install the dev package anymore, the latest Emulationstation version (2.8.1) has Grid View support.
Did you copy the files posted by @ruckage in the pandora folder ? What's the content of \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\themes\pandora ?

paffley

Hey @mitu is there anywhere we can view what has been updated with the latest emulationstation? like a changelog?

Draugr

@mitu The files inside the ~/.emulationstation/themes/pandora folder are the following...

art (folder)
config.xml
pandora color guide.jpg
settings (folder)
colour.xml
main.xml
readme.txt
theme.xml

Thanks,
John

mitu

@Draugr It looks ok - can you offer more details about your system (as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first) and attach a copy of the ES logfile from ~/.emulationstation/es_log.txt ?

mitu

@paffley No quite a changelog, but here are some highlights that I've taken from the git commit log:

Grid View support for themes
Reworked internal scraper and the addition of another source to it (Screenscraper)
Reworked some artwork (svg icons) for the input configuration and help system
More granular Audio settings (supporting more audio settings than the standard HDMI/Analog).
A few additions to theming (DateTime component changed, variable support in import statements).
Ability to search for local art and show it (disabled by default since it has a performance impact), looking after <rom-name>-image and <rom_name>-video files to show them instead of relying on the gamelist data.
Ability to add a sortname entry to a ROM entry in the entry to control the sorting in the gamelist (instead of relying only on the name tag).
A lot of small fixes (2G+ files support on Windows, UI modes showing unwanted roms, etc.)
Loading screen added progress messages during start-up.
Under-the-hood - the most notable change is removing the dependency to boost, this greatly improved the compilation and shortened the volume of dependencies to a great extent.

paffley

@mitu that's fab thank you! the new features look great! :)

simpleethat

@mitu said in Pandora Theme: > * Ability to add a sortname entry to a ROM entry in the entry to control the sorting in the gamelist (instead of relying only on the name tag).

That's so useful! I like to try to keep games in a series grouped together in their respective systems and it can lead to really awkward names. I'll have to play around with that.

Draugr

@mitu I tried rebuilding my image and now its working like a charm. :)

Thanks for the help and suggestions.

John

paginein

@ruckage hello is possibile have logo text for pandora theme:

Amiga CD32
Neogeo MVS
Neogeo CD
Finalburn

Thanks

rand0m

@ruckage Yup great font (Road Rage), really gets that arcade-y feel. Are you using Theme to color the font or edited the font itself?

wallmachine

Hey, @ruckage what font did you use for CREDIT (S):

acidrain97

how do you get the game previews working? All I get is a still and sound no previews.

thx

Juez

Hi there, firs i so sorry for my english. ^^ And now i go with my issue.

I love this theme and i try using in Emulationstation for PC (windows 10). How i can install ?. I try copy the theme in the themes folder "....emulationstation\themes" but when y try change in Emulationstation i get a white background.

Any help pls ??

mitu

@Juez First, you need to be using a recent version of RetroPie's Emulationstation fork. You can find a Windows version here.
Second, after you change the theme, you also need to change the Gamelist View Style to Grid and then the theme will work.