New Comic Book Theme!

Zenjiro

@Striderx99 Yes I have a 3DS and Naomi theme queued up to be pushed to my repo. As well as several others. Progress is slow, and I am waiting for the next major release of RetroPie. I hope it supports ogg or mp3 playback for theme sounds. Right now it only supports wav files and they take up a bunch of space.

EmulationStation Developer fabricecaruso has recently added some new auto-themes, arcade being one, which I am also in the works for making sure this theme supports them.

I also want to add support for marquee, and wheel art. Just be aware that I am only supporting the 16:9 version of this theme. I don't have the resources, or time to maintain both. But if anyone wants to collaborate and take on the 4:3 I am willing to help.

Here are all the current themes that will be added with the next release (more will likely be added):

Fixed the Following:
- Renamed chrashbandicoot to crashbandicoot

Changed the Following:
- PC is now MSDOS

Added Systems:
- C64-Classic
- Capcom-Classic
- Famicom-Classic
- Famicom-Shonen
- Mega CD
- Mega Drive-Japan
- Naomi
- Neo-Geo CD
- NES-Classic
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo 64DD
- PC
- PlayStation-Classic
- Pokemon Mini
- SFC-Classic
- SNES-Classic-US
- SNES-Classic-EU

Added Themes:
- Advance Wars
- Blizzard
- Darkstalkers
- Diablo
- Dragon Quest
- Halo
- JRPG
- Kingdom Hearts
- Konami
- Shining Force
- Starcraft
- Starfox
- Star Ocean
- Star Trek
- Street Fighter
- Warcraft
- Wario
- Witcher
- Yoshi

Striderx99

Thank you for the response. I created a few of these icons (including one for Wii and the WiiU) this past weekend. They don't include the transparency. I used either a white or black background along with some .png images for each console that I found. I know they a bit different from the others, but for now it works. As for the developers and the year of production on the bottom of the icons, I just cut and pasted from a few of the samples that are already available. When the ones you mentioned become available, I'm sure they will far surpass what I created. I'll just update the theme when the time comes. Thank you for putting effort on this project.

Zenjiro

If anyone has any recommendations for systems or themes, that are not currently added feel free to open a ticket on
Github: https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook/issues

Also feel free to request:

Games, or Screenshots, of what you would like to see in the comic background for said system/collection
Color scheme of the system/collection image
Launch Sound for when you start a game

If you can provide the images (with source) and/or the audio file(s) it will also help out.

If you find any issues while running the theme such as graphical glitches or clipping of the drop shadow let me know.

Zenjiro

Wanted to share this cool bit of inspiration that hit me. While I was creating the custom theme for the .Hack series I decided to change it up a bit and use a cyber/circuit board pattern for the system image:

And while I was finishing it I thought it would be cool to add a "glitch" effect to it:

I think it came out nicely.

mikeydoom

@Zenjiro

I love the glitch version!

Zenjiro

Sometimes I forget to take a step back and get some R&R, and actually use the theme I am working on. So for the last couple of months I have been catching up on some old N64 games, RA Profile.

And with Doom and Animal Crossing recently releasing I figured I should make themes for them. Here are the previews:

Mr. Berlin

@Zenjiro glitch effect turn out so nice , and theme over all so sweet , but is there any planes to add missing systems like neogeo cd , pc-88 and pc-98

Zenjiro

@Mr-Berlin Neogeo CD is planned, PC-88 and PC-98 are now planned.

Mr. Berlin

@Zenjiro man you are amazing :D

Mr. Berlin

@Zenjiro if you plane to add more systems there is sharp x1 , sharp x68000 , satellaview, sufami, and atomiswave

Zenjiro

@Mr-Berlin Satellaview, and Atomiswave are already done, just not uploaded yet.

Mr. Berlin

@Zenjiro man i know my English is bad but i wanna you to know that you make amazing work and keep one of the most awesome theme alive and that deserve appreciation

MakPro

Hello! Anyone tell me please, where i can download the latest version of this wonderfull theme ?

mitu

@MakPro You can install it from the RetroPie's themes menu - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Themes/.

MakPro

@mitu thank you very much!

dusty048

I love this theme. I know its not being officially developed for now but I've noticed some people are continuing development is other ways.

I can't find a banner/logo for Naomi? Can anyone link me to the best tutorial post? ( I found one but I followed the instructions and it didn't come out well) or can I be cheeky and some one knock one out for me?

Now the RPi4 is out and able to run more taxing systems like atomiswave and Naomi I want to add them to my bartop arcade and need some art to make them fit with this theme.

Thanks in advance.

Zenjiro

@dusty048 You are in luck I already made one.

I'll go ahead and post them here for you and anyone else who wants to use them.

Striderx99

Any possibility of producing a comic.png, bannerlogo.png, and comic_rip.png for the Atomiswave set?

Thanks :-).

Zenjiro

@Striderx99 Yup already made one.

Zenjiro

Since it seems some people are starting to request certain themes now, instead of me posting them individually when asked, I have went ahead and uploaded my current 3.2-Beta of this theme. Which can be found here: https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook/tree/3.2-Beta

!!!PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A BETA!!!
To my knowledge it should work fine, most people might say it is in a "good enough" state to at least be usable.
But I assure you there are still several tiny issues here and there. Of which you are free to open a ticket on or mention here and I will address it when I find the time.

28 New System Themes
34 New Custom Themes

Current Change Log:

Upscaled older system image files by a factor of 2 using Waifu2x.
Removed Tutorial archive
Removed Unused assets
Optimized all PNG images to 128-bit color using PNGquant
Moved launch WAV files to corresponding "hacks" systems
Replaced all SVG files with PNG files
Removed all "controller" images

Fixed the Following:
- Renamed chrashbandicoot to crashbandicoot

Changed the Following:
- PC is now MSDOS

Added Systems:
- Atomiswave
- Auto-at2players
- Auto-at4players
- Auto-neverplayed
- C64-Classic
- Capcom-Classic
- Famicom-Classic
- Famicom-Shonen
- Mega CD
- Mega Drive-Japan
- Naomi
- Neo-Geo CD
- NES-Classic
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo 64DD
- PC
- PC-88
- PC-98
- PlayStation-Classic
- Pokemon Mini
- Satellaview
- SFC-Classic
- SNES-Classic-US
- SNES-Classic-EU
- Sufami Turbo
- Nintendo Switch
- Sharp X1
- Sharp X68000

Added Themes:
- Advance Wars
- Animal Crossing
- Ape Escape
- Blizzard
- Custom Robo
- Darkstalkers
- Diablo
- Doom
- Dot Hack
- Dragon Quest
- Earthbound
- Golden Sun
- Halo
- Humongous Entertainment
- JRPG
- Kingdom Hearts
- Konami
- Metal Gear
- Mother
- Pac-man
- Phantasy Star
- Pheonix Wright
- Ratchet & Clank
- Rayman
- Shining Force
- Starcraft
- Starfox
- Star Ocean
- Star Trek
- Street Fighter
- Warcraft
- Wario
- Witcher
- Yoshi