Mega Drive/Genesis Mini Theme - Like Snes Mini Classic Theme
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I'm currently working on a new project from scratch, inspired by the official Genesis Mini menu and taking some cues from Tripware's Blast16. For now it's still just an early visual mock-up.
Genesis:
Mega Drive:
The number of players icon is already functional in theory, the blue part is actually a font, so it can easily be changed to 1, 2 or 4 players according to metadata, similar to the players icon in ruckage's SNES Mini theme.
By the way, can anyone please tell me if it's possible to display the text of a selected game title from a list, apart from one already displayed on the list itself? Say, can I have a game list, and then also display that selected game title in a bigger text at another part of the screen, separately from the list? Thanks.
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@Fred_PJ You can use <text name="md_name"> to display the name of a game in addition to the game list.
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@smartazz104 Ah, excellent, thanks a lot for the tip!
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@Fred_PJ Can you put the Brazilian logo of Mega Drive TecToy together? The Blast 16 already have it.
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@pjniche said in Mega Drive/Genesis Mini Theme - Like Snes Mini Classic Theme:
@Fred_PJ Can you put the Brazilian logo of Mega Drive TecToy together? The Blast 16 already have it.
No, sorry. I'm using high resolution logos and couldn't find a proper TecToy Mega Drive high resolution logo, just really bad scans or inaccurate reproductions (like completely black letters without borders). So unless you are able to find a proper high resolution logo, no.
Here's an updated mock-up:
I've tried to replicate the official Sega Genesis Mini menu background from scratch. And yes, I'm aware that the official Sega Mega Drive Mini has a different background.
I plan to start work on the skin sometime next month. Since it's meant to be a Sega based theme it will only support the following Sega systems: Genesis, Mega Drive, Sega CD, Mega CD, 32X, Master System, Game Gear, Arcade.
The Arcade logo is partially inspired by the Sega Mega Tech logo:
Stay tuned.
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@Fred_PJ said in Mega Drive/Genesis Mini Theme - Like Snes Mini Classic Theme:
Although you guys have done some really great work, I'm not a fan of the available themes, I prefer simple designs. So instead of complaining and yelling at clouds I did a mod of ruckage's SNES mini theme for personal use only. Also, I've borrowed frgn's nice looking help images. I just wanted to share with you guys a couple of screenshots, in case someone likes this style of layout/design feel free to copy it entirely.
System screen:
Gamelist screen with large boxart and simultaneous video preview:
Hi!
I like this classic theme with video!
Are you still working on it, or is it canceled?
I hope it is not canceled ;-)
Best regards!
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@legendos That SNES Mini mod is currently outdated and slightly broken. I may fix it one of these days and release it as a patch (with different made from scratch help visuals), but it's not on my plans for now, sorry.
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@Fred_PJ I'm in love with the Sega Genesis mini theme your working on!!! Have you released it yet by chance!? Just curious. You do amazing work!
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@frgn Wooow. This case looks pretty nice! Where did you get it from?
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@pjniche try this logo.
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@frgn Thanks! :D
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@Fred_PJ I’ve got a few of questions.
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Are you still working on this? If so, do you have an estimated release date? It looks great.
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You say this is Sega only. Does that mean it simply won’t display ROMs from other systems that I may have on my system, such as SNES?
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Will this be installable on an existing setup or would you need to start from scratch?
Thanks!
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