Pixel Theme

[Rookervik]

Nope, that's how I do it. Either change themes and back, or close it and re-open it. That's all you can do. -_-

[Parzival]

YES!!!! i wants it!!!

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

Nope, that's how I do it. Either change themes and back, or close it and re-open it. That's all you can do. -_-

Oh well, thanks for letting me know. It can get a bit tedious at times can't it. I suppose once I've wrapped my head around how everything works and what does what, then I won't have to refresh as often to see the changes.

Onwards!

[Rookervik]

@mattrixk Just be glad you don't have to transfer the theme over to the Pi and refresh EmulationStation there. :P

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik Heh yeah. The whole thing was pretty daunting until I read your other post^ about using EmulationStation on Windows. I wasn't even aware ES was made for platforms other than the RPi.

^I think it was over on the old forum at petrockblog.

[Vega]

I want to say gorgeous theme im currently using this, I downloaded it from emulation station. Im curious as a total noob, how do i access the turbo cd and sega cd folders? Im not seeing them in my rom directory? or is there something im missing? I noticed you said choose the tgcd theme but i dont see that option unless im missing it.

thanks for any help you can give.

[Rookervik]

@Vega SegaCD already has a rom folder. Put your games in there and it should show up. I don't think I made a MegaCD logo. Just SegaCD.

Turbo Grafx CD has a theme, but no link to it as RetroPie doesn't want to add that right now. You can edit your es_systems.cfg and duplicate the pcengine section and rename everyting to TurboGraphicsCD. Tell it to use the "tgcd" theme.

Duplicate this section:

<system>
    <name>pcengine</name>
    <fullname>TurboGrafx 16 (PC Engine)</fullname>
    <path>~\.emulationstation\roms\pcengine</path>
    <extension>.pce .zip .cue .PCE .ZIP .CUE</extension>
    <command>%HOME%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L %HOME%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\cores\mednafen_pce_fast_libretro.dll "%ROM_RAW%"</command>
    <platform>pcengine</platform>
    <theme>pcengine</theme>
</system>

And change it to this:

<system>
    <name>tgcd</name>
    <fullname>TurboGrafx 16 CD</fullname>
    <path>~\.emulationstation\roms\tgcd</path>
    <extension>.cue .CUE</extension>
    <command>%HOME%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L %HOME%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\cores\mednafen_pce_fast_libretro.dll "%ROM_RAW%"</command>
    <platform>pcenginecd</platform>
    <theme>tgcd</theme>
</system>

Note: If your TGCD games are in a different format than CUE, add that format above in the <extension> section.

That will add a Turbo Graphics CD section. After you create a folder called "tgcd" in the rom directory and place your cd images there, it should appear after restarting emulationstation.

[edmaul69]

@mattrixk adding emulationstation kids makes it really easy. Set it in kiosk then all you have to do is press start, a, a

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik
I finished my take on your Pixel theme.

I called it MetaPixel and I made a post about it here.

I think I did the attribution correctly, but if you would like me to change it, let me know.

[Rookervik]

Eh, too much work... 70+ of these? No thanks. Haha

[herb_fargus]

@Rookervik would be super impressive though

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik Looks awesome though.

[edmaul69]

@Rookervik looks pretty cool though. Only problem i think you would have comes with older consoles. Some can be a little hard to have useable graphics to make a theme out of. I am going to run into the same issue with the theme im making.

[dankcushions]

@Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

Eh, too much work... 70+ of these? No thanks. Haha

omg, you tease! that is so ace :)

[Rookervik]

Got tired of the ugly Ports graphics. So I boosted the green, and changed the logo a little. I like it better.

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik Is there any particular reason you chose the Linux penguin as your image for Ports? When I made MetaPixel I changed it to your default Computer image, I guess because I just see Ports as "computer games" so the Computer image fit.

Also, your colour choices are much better than mine. Do you have any sort of system for choosing colours? I started trying to make companies follow a colour scheme (all Sega consoles are red, all Nintendo are blue etc), but it was time consuming so I didn't really follow through with it.

Unrelated note: Have you ever been able to get the Gamelist to show in lowercase? It's frustrating being stuck in uppercase.

[Rookervik]

@mattrixk Ports was the hardest logo to try to think up. I sketched a dozen different things. I asked a bunch of people what would make a good ports logo. I didn't want to re-use art from other sections. I finally just said, "fine, it's linux, I'll just draw the linux penguin."

For colors, I just matched a color in the system's logo. If the logo was just black and white, I tried to look at the console to see some colors to use. If none of that worked, I just looked at all the colors and picked one that hadn't been used too much, yet.

As for upper case gamelists, I don't think you can change it. I have the <forceUppercase> set to zero and it doesn't change the gamelist. So that's something we'd have to as the ES coders to fix.

[Rookervik]

Also kinda tired of tetris. Messing with new ideas.

[Rookervik]

Give it a little transparency like SNES could do :D

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik That looks really, really nice. You are very good at backgrounds especially.

How would you do the borders and transparent background? Would you just do a big png and use <size> to stretch it to the size you want? You'd risk messing with the border width doing it that way...

I've been meaning to try using <ninepatch> for borders, then a small 16x16 white png stretched as the background (and then use <color>00000033</color> to change colour and opacity), but I haven't had the chance to see if it works yet. Have you given ninepatch a go?