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    • rand0mR
      rand0m @chicuelo
      last edited by

      @chicuelo Welcome back Chicuelo, the theme is looking amazing! great job! But the name can get confusing with the original.

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      • WildfireW
        Wildfire
        last edited by Wildfire

        Welcome back @chicuelo, glad to hear your working on a new theme! looks awesome already :)

        I prefer the full-color versions rather than the ones that fade to black and @mitu's makes a good point about switching game count and console summary.

        I think the theme would look better without the consoles in the background of the black section. On darker consoles like the Genesis, you can't really see it anyway and I think a more simple approach with just the picture and controller would work better.

        Do you have any mockups of the gamelist view? I'd highly recommend looking into @alphatoanant's work on the Art Book theme. He had a set of custom templates that manipulated the gamelist view based on the orientation of the boxart (i.e. vertical, horizontal, square)

        A very effective option that I've only seen in his theme and you can set up as many custom themes as you want. I've implemented it in modded themes before and had custom templates for "system options", "power", "arcade" and "loose" versions of the original templates so Artwork wouldnt get stretched.

        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11728/theme-art-book

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          svera
          last edited by

          @chicuelo great to have you on board again! Looks great so far, looking forward to test it. But please, don't forget about us owners of 4:3 displays :)

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          • chicueloC
            chicuelo @Wildfire
            last edited by chicuelo

            @Wildfire Thanks for the advice! I will think about this when I go over the game list view!
            I want a modern look on this approach, and asking people they say they prefer the colorful version too

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              BJRetro @chicuelo
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              @chicuelo I hope you keep the big videos/images in the gamelist view unless you are going to do a Grid View with this! That really made your original theme unique!

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              • chicueloC
                chicuelo @BJRetro
                last edited by

                @BJRetro
                Yes, the idea is to keep the images as big as the hardware handle them fine!

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                  brigada @chicuelo
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                  @chicuelo
                  Your design is awesome, great job.
                  Your old design is still number one with me.

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                  • chicueloC
                    chicuelo
                    last edited by

                    Updated to the final design

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                    • lilbudL
                      lilbud
                      last edited by

                      Just a thought, maybe change the controllers to the outlines from the carbon theme. That might look a little nicer

                      Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                      Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                      • IanDaemonI
                        IanDaemon @mitu
                        last edited by IanDaemon

                        @mitu @chicuelo I think having the red text in the middle of the white text makes it "pop" and draws attention to the number of games on the system. I also see it as adding to the "topography" of that portion of the screen.

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                        • A Bored NinjaA
                          A Bored Ninja
                          last edited by

                          This looks awesome!

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                          • chizzerC
                            chizzer
                            last edited by

                            That's a thing of beauty. Stunning design, mate.

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                            • chicueloC
                              chicuelo @lilbud
                              last edited by

                              @lilbud Thanks, I thought about it. But that will make a big black area on that bottom corner. I think the realistic version matches with the character too

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                              • chicueloC
                                chicuelo @IanDaemon
                                last edited by

                                @IanDaemon Agree, also the red text above the white button looks odd, because you have 2 call to actions very near, so I decided to leave in that position and make an information split, on the top the system name and on the bottom the specifications

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                                  xFJSx @chicuelo
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                                  @chicuelo this looks awesome. But I suggest to change the screen for Sega master system from ristar to Alex kidd. Which was more common for that system.

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                                  • chicueloC
                                    chicuelo @xFJSx
                                    last edited by chicuelo

                                    @xFJSx I was using Alex Kidd before, but there where not enough images in a good quality so I decided to use Ristar.
                                    I also thought about Asterix

                                    14b.jpg

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                                      Weatherby
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                                      Love the look of this, but I'm curious if there will be an option to customize the background images used when released? Not that I dislike them by any means, but my preference would be to use screenshots directly from the games.

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                                      • chicueloC
                                        chicuelo @Weatherby
                                        last edited by chicuelo

                                        @Weatherby I will not release the artwork, only the main structure of the theme and maybe a psd template. All the backgrounds, characters and controllers will be created by each one, as a collaborative theme so you can get the look of your choice

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                                          Weatherby @chicuelo
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                                          @chicuelo Sorry, I didn't mean the art exactly. You said you might provide a PSD which is more or less what I was trying to get at. For example, say I wanted to do a bit of customizing, have a different game represent a system than what is pre-packaged in the theme. What I would want to do then is replace the character and background they appear on with something I custom made using my own assets or screencap from an emulator, and I was wondering how doable that would be.

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                                          • chicueloC
                                            chicuelo @Weatherby
                                            last edited by

                                            @Weatherby Yes, my idea is to provide a psd where you can replace the artwork to match with your style, then you export each asset and replace on your theme

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