New Comic Book Theme!

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

Striderx99

Thank you. Now I'm only missing Sega Model 2 (AM2) and Sega Model 3. If you ever complete those, I'll look for them here again. You have done a great job at including more systems. In my opinion, this is a nice theme and is just as impressive as the SNES-Mini, but unfortunately my TV uses a 1024x768 resolution. Because of that, it doesn't show the title of each game centered with box art on the left and the description/information about developer, publisher, the genre, and game rating on the right.

dusty048

Thnak you @Zenjiro this work is amazing and thank you for updating the collection as a whole on github, my Rpi4 setup will now be complete.

Zenjiro

@Striderx99 I got a Model 2 and 3 in the works. Also I am curious as to what it looks like, are you able to upload a screenshot to here or my github?

@dusty048 I still have a lot of work to do. My grand scope for this project is to also make it more accessible for others to create and build upon it.