Space Oddity theme

[mitu]

@Clyde It needs to be added to a github.com repo first. Maybe @lipebello can add it alongside the existing theme on github and then we can add it to RetroPie's esthemes package.

[Brigane]

@chizzer much appreciated thank you :)

[dtinsley]

@chizzer thanks! sorry for the multiple mentions....

[lipebello]

@chizzer , it is ok to host it on a github project to submit for ES themes? thanks for the upload!

[chizzer]

I would be honored @lipebello :)

[lipebello]

@chizzer Thanks bro!
https://github.com/lipebello/es-themes-spaceoddity43

[Emerikant]

@lipebello I was curious as to what font you used for this theme. I'm loving this theme but want to make a custom logo for a collection rather than it saying just custom collection.

[mitu]

@Emerikant There's a menu.ttf in the _art folder which is used by the theme. Reported as Stormfaze-Regular - https://www.dafont.com/stormfaze.font.

[Emerikant]

@mitu Thanks! I didn't even see that in there.

[fraggle200]

@chizzer I take it the 4:3 version of this is still slightly different from the CRT one you had created as well? Is the CRT version lost to us all now?

[M3th0D]

@fraggle200 @chizzer I'd like to know about the CRT version too.

[thiagogs]

@lipebello It is unfortunate that all of this happened precisely in the "Raspberry pi BR", an environment clearly aimed at the Brazilian public. I am Brazilian and this attitude described about your work does not represent us as a Brazilian nation! I come here to apologize on behalf of the entire Brazilian nation (especially those passionate about games), for this horrible event that you experienced.

I have become a great admirer of your work for the themes you have done. My "front-end" is quite different from the others, because I am a Designer and I decided to include new systems (in addition to creating my own themes). I have no published work of mine on this subject, (Themes and illustrations for games front-end).
When I came across your work, I immediately captured the dimension of the work and dedication you applied! I don't know what you do professionally, but you are at least an incredible professional in the creative field!

I recently met the overlays you created and I understand you perfectly. I suggest that you don't mind these threats so much. Here in Brazil we have an old saying: "Dog that barks a lot doesn't bite." That is, behind a computer, many people become brave. You certainly have the means to prove your authorship, so it would be interesting if you met some Brazilian Youtuber who addresses old game subjects on your channel, to talk about the authorship of your themes, with the intention of informing and reporting what happened .

I hope everything will work out. And congratulations on your great talent.

[claudiomet]

@lipebello Any possibility to update Space Oddity theme? I have installed recently and looks awesome! But I miss some retrosystems like AmstradCPC, Amstrad GX4000, Amiga500/600(OCS), Amiga1200(AGA), Amiga CDTV, FM Towns, MSX2+, MSX TurboR, Nec 8801, Nec 9801, Nec PC-FX, NeoGeo CD, Atomiswave, Naomi, Naomi GD-ROM, Sharp X1, Sharp X68000 , Spectravideo, SuperCassette Vision, Thomson TO8...

[lipebello]

@thiagogs Thanks for your kind words, i really appreciate it. sorry about the delay, but on tha last month i was focused on finishing the new retrorama theme in order to deliver it by the end of year. It was a bad year and i thought that it would be nice to have something cool for everyone.

Drawing is my hobby, my carrer is on IT (data scientist focused on logistics, lol), so i decided to don't let what happened ruin the fun for people who enjoy using the stuff that i created. And people like you really makes me feel happy about my decision.

I will focus in converting the retrorama to 4:3, but if you want the illustrator files to continue this theme, don't hesitate to ask. There's a lot of systems missisng and a lot of people would like to see it more complete;

Thanks a lot

[Harkonnen0]

@lipebello Welcome back lipebello, glad to see you back and not letting those losers win that took advantage of your work. I am an IT guy too Telecommunications tech now. I started out on Commodore Amiga 500 & 2000 in the mid 80's and my best friend had a C64 then of course PC and Mac came afterwards. I am new to Linux and raspberry Pi so I guess even being an IT guy I'm a bit of newbie with this stuff lol. I for one am glad you are back I first came across your theme from one of ETA Prime's videos and was immediately blown away with your work. Your artistic talent and vision and eye for detail is absolutely astonishing, professional and makes one go WOW that is something else! I just installed the space oddity theme. The vertical carousel and artwork is amazing and retrorama is my next favorite theme keep up the great work!!

I'm trying to get space oddity to display correctly, I think it's either my scraping settings or need to modify the video xml settings for size and possibly position, the video is overlapping the gameslist as well as top and bottom sections. but the themes.xml is protected from changes. What's the best option, I read some post about creating a new folder and adjusting the settings with xml by giving it a new name or rescraping with different settings? if the latter what settings are best to scrape with to get video to display properly? I installed the lipbello Space oddity theme from retropie es themes. is that the 16X9 ratio version or 4:3 version? I'm using a 13" 16x9 display or 55" 4k 16x9 tv depending which hdmi output im using in 1920x1080 resolution.

Also,

I was looking at your merchandise for sale, I think I'm going to order some of your retrorama hoodies and laptop case :-), you should add some retrorama baseball caps to your merchandise. Whats the difference between yer merch where it shows like 01, 02, 04 is there a difference between the versions?

Best Regards

[lipebello]

@harkonnen0 Thanks a lot! i started with an MSX 1.0, lol. Then we bought a PC 486 DX2. Even now i remember the sound of the cassete reader, lol.
The problem with the Space Oddity theme is the OMX player that overlaps the emulationstation itself. I think that i will update it with some space for the video different from the image, so when people use videos on it, it doesn't go over everything.

I only put my drawings on teepublic, every other site that i tried, had the images deleted, so i stopped trying, lol

[Harkonnen0]

@lipebello Thats too bad, I'm sure a bunch of others like us that are into retro gaming would order some of your stuff with the retrorama stuff on it if they let you post it up :) Ya good call, I turned the DMX accelation off and it seems to display properly for stills anyways. Didn't think to check that as the video review from ETA prime although a couple years old video appeared to display using the same physical size as when it displays video, might have been previous version or some other settings used. I personally like the look of how you currently have it when displaying still image. Don't go out of your way, however if you do have some time to make a few changes at some point in time these are the only things I would suggest:

• Modify frame size for still image (such as screen shot with or without boxart) to start underneath system logo and end just above onscreen help. That way there would no overlap regardless if on screen help is on or off.
• Same as above for video, however if possible display screen shot first and if remain on same screen game selection after a few seconds switch over to video playback using same location/boundaries.
• Unused space above and below just have your current background fill empty space

This is Intro video for Elite, adjust so left border starts at far left, top underneath Amiga logo and bottom about onscreen help

Stills very little issues, I don't mid the system logo overlap on this game, other games don't display quite as nice. I would just keep the stills and video consistent with the same borders and sizing. I have just changed my settings to display the screen shot and not video for the Space Oddity theme since you let me know about DMX issue seems to work pretty good in this setting.

Now to check out retrorama and a few other themes :)

Thanks again and all the best to you.

[lipebello]

@harkonnen0 said in Space Oddity theme:

l image (such as screen shot with or without boxart) to start underneath system logo and end just above onscreen help. That way there would no overlap regardless if on screen help is on or off.

The first image is a video playing?

thanks for the suggestions. i'm remodelling it to make it look better

[Harkonnen0]

@lipebello yup sorry looks like it put a large white border when i resized image so my text didnt appear proper. first image is video with omx enabled. Video doesnt appear to play when omx is off not sure if thats normal or not. Remodeling to look better cool appreciate it as long as not taking you away from other projects :-) My best friend had a tape drive for his c64 lol Hi tech back then i tell ya lol. Sorry I don't have a 4:3 screen but if you need someone to do testing for you just let me know. I actually had to look up what a MSX 1.0 is lol

[lipebello]

@harkonnen0 Yes, msx was our first computer at home, lol

Made a little change on the theme. Still in progress...