MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme
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So I have both an arcade folder and a Neo Geo folder that I have made and am willing to share with the community (king of fighters Screenshot included).
I have also isolated the border that you have around the screenshots so that people can easily make their own, it's available in both PNG and Photoshop files (you just slide your image in behind the border and viola!). I am by no means an expert at photoshop so my borders are definitely not perfect, but I figure they're small enough that it may not matter.
Here is the Neo Geo folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2tg8yhsttn8uowr/AABW7fBLL2W07tXIxUQmadAOa?dl=0And my arcade folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cj7x58af3rp0o6s/AACEyyzWOuLh2WvAiTKXIIEVa?dl=0A note on the arcade folder: I use my arcade as an option for 3 and 4 player games to make it easy for my friends to come over and get into some big multiplayer action. You would need to change the description to make it your own.
Credit should also be given where it's due. I did none of the really good looking stuff, I just took the images and such from the Pixel theme and moved them over, so Rookervik should be complimented for the super nice theme.
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That's some great work @SnipedintheHead. Well done.
I like your idea of using the arcade folder to house your 3 and 4 player games. I may have to look into that.
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@mattrixk said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
That's some great work @SnipedintheHead. Well done.
I like your idea of using the arcade folder to house your 3 and 4 player games. I may have to look into that.
Thanks! Came out of necessity, I didn't have the ability to mark favorites at the time and a number of games worked across various platforms.
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@SnipedintheHead said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
I didn't have the ability to mark favorites at the time
I use @Zigurana's Child-Friendly ES. It lets you select favourites, but also lets you set it to kid's mode which hides a bunch of the setup stuff so you can leave it with young 'uns (or drunk friends) and they are less likely to break everything. It's still experimental and can get a little buggy at times, but it hasn't really effected me too much.
What I'd love most is a Tag and Search system, so you could create tags like '2_player_brawler' and add a bunch of games from different systems, then you could search by tags, or by metadata (like genre, number of players etc) and it would just display all the games in a big list regardless of system. One can dream.
In the meantime, I saw someone mentioned putting your games into folders within the system, so you could split your games up by genre or any other way you prefer, within the single system itself.
Hmm... I wonder if I could split my roms up so they look like this:
- roms
- megadrive
- 1 Player
- Action
- Brawler
- Racing
- Shmup
- 2 Player
- Action
- Brawler
- Racing
- Shmup
- 1 Player
- snes
- 1 Player
- Action
- Brawler
- Racing
- Shmup
- 2 Player
- Action
- Brawler
- Racing
- Shmup
- 1 Player
- megadrive
This may take some time, but it's worth looking into.
- roms
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@mattrixk said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
I use @Zigurana's Child-Friendly ES.
I just switched over, tonight actually. I have no programming skills, so if it bugs out too much, I'm in trouble, but so far it's been great.
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@SnipedintheHead If you backed up beforehand you can always just go back to how it was. I have almost a dozen SD card image backups on my PC, one for each major thing I've attempted. Thankfully I haven't had to use any of them so far.
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@mattrixk said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
@SnipedintheHead If you backed up beforehand you can always just go back to how it was. I have almost a dozen SD card image backups on my PC, one for each major thing I've attempted. Thankfully I haven't had to use any of them so far.
I backed up, but not sure how well it took. I have all my roms on a Harddrive, so I don't have to worry about them disappearing, and I routinely back up the scraped files to make sure I have them. They're really the only things I'm worried about losing.
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@SnipedintheHead That's fair enough. I keep my roms on my NAS so it doesn't matter where the Pi is plugged in. I have a Kodi/RetroPie dual boot and I've spent a lot of time getting it just how I like it, so I'd be crushed if it broke and I had to start from scratch. Just thinking about the amount of time I put into some things like getting my PS3 controllers to work with the onboard bluetooth and recompiling the ScummVM player to change the button layout on said PS3 controllers is making me shudder. I don't want to go through any of that again.
That's a good idea backing up the gamelist and game image data separately though. I think I'm going to start doing that. Cheers.
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Pretty nice update on Pixel. can you please add NGP and NGPC when you get the chance
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@Ekstreme said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
Pretty nice update on Pixel. can you please add NGP and NGPC when you get the chance
Thanks mate. I can add them to the To Do list, but I make no promises on a timetable, I'm pretty busy at the moment with work and other things.
One question though... What are NGP and NGPC? Also, I got all the logos and console images from the original Pixel theme, so if @Rookervik has already made them for his theme then no worries, but if not, then you may be waiting for a while as I'm not really too adept at design.
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NeoGeo Pocket and NeoGeo Pocket Color AKA the GameBoy Killer :) . They are both in the original theme. I'm actually lucky enough to own a NGPC with about 15 games, I love it.
I think PC was also missing. I don't really use it so didn't take a lot of notice -
@Ekstreme ahh, no worries then. I've never played them, so do you have any preferences for what games to put in the screenshots? If not then I'm just going to google "Neo geo pocket game screenshot" and find something that looks interesting.
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It's NeoGeo, so always Metal Slug :)
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Need Fatal Fury pocket, Metal Slug, and shanghai mini. But you have to make your own console graphics. You can't use mine. :P jk
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if you make a copy of the mame dir, only name it "arcade" then it will treat the arcade system as mame, which is fine with me. Also looking for an atari2600 and a Daphne folder... will probably make my own just reusing some images from another theme for now
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@gomisensei: You can get the pixel artwork for those systems from the Pixel theme by @Rookervik.
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@mattrixk said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
@gomisensei: You can get the pixel artwork for those systems from the Pixel theme by @Rookervik.
yep, that's what I did, plus made some custom screenshots, and a description blurb from wikipedia. Working great, except for occasional white blocks over the bottom in systems, which seem to go away and reappear randomly.
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@gomisensei said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
Working great, except for occasional white blocks over the bottom in systems, which seem to go away and reappear randomly.
Hmm... can you maybe do a screenshot to show me what you mean? Even just a photo of your tv/monitor would help.
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@mattrixk said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
@gomisensei said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
Working great, except for occasional white blocks over the bottom in systems, which seem to go away and reappear randomly.
Hmm... can you maybe do a screenshot to show me what you mean? Even just a photo of your tv/monitor would help.
https://goo.gl/photos/HM6dvNptYehb9m7j6
now sure how to embed these, i get undefined tags when i try picture or link...
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