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    • BriganeB
      Brigane
      last edited by

      Amazing theme buddy, this is highly appreciated!

      Systems: Raspberry Pi 0/2/3 Model B+
      Os: RetroPie 4.5
      Frontend: Emulationstation & Attract Mode

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      • R
        retroplayer
        last edited by retroplayer

        can you please do it also compatible for 4:3 ? like to use for my gameboe zero. this looks so amazing

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        • R
          rajbhalsod
          last edited by

          A fantastic looking theme! I’m so glad that you have decided to release your work again, just love your designs. When will this be available to from the es-themes menu?

          Once again, a massive well done to you and lilbud.

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          • chicueloC
            chicuelo @rajbhalsod
            last edited by

            @rajbhalsod We are finishing some collections and optimizing some files, I think in the next days we will upload to GitHub

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            • chicueloC
              chicuelo @retroplayer
              last edited by

              @retroplayer we will look forward to this in a future, by now we are finishing the wide version

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              • HurricaneFanH
                HurricaneFan
                last edited by

                Looks stunning!

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                • chicueloC
                  chicuelo @HurricaneFan
                  last edited by

                  @HurricaneFan Thanks! it will be available soon!

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                  • chicueloC
                    chicuelo
                    last edited by

                    The theme is available for download now, just follow the link https://github.com/c64-dev/es-epicnoir
                    Please send your feedback!

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                    • nil06N
                      nil06
                      last edited by

                      Did anyone call my name? :)

                      I am thrilled to be seeing such great response to this new project.
                      From the initial idea by Nico to the final development it took a lot of work but the result is worth it.

                      Among other things, one of the things that I'm personally quite proud about is the optimization of the theme. With the old Chicuelo theme I found that it was very heavy on the little Pi, and I wanted to try to optimize this one to run as fast as possible.
                      As a result, all the code has been written from scratch and although it is fairly graphics-heavy, all the images have been optimized using algorithms to reduce their sizes (some by even 70%), while keeping the image quality as high as possible.

                      As @chicuelo said, we are waiting to hear your comments about it! :)
                      Hope you enjoy.

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                      • SPS
                        SP @chicuelo
                        last edited by SP

                        @chicuelo So, it's designed just for retropie? Because it doesn't work properly on my pc. :(
                        Pics:
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                        I restarted emulationstation and the saturn background appeared. I restarted it again and it disappeared.
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                        It appears that it has to do with my laptop's display settings. The recommended display setting for my laptop is 125%. If I leave it at 125% then all themes won't fill the entire screen, but it will properly display all of the artwork. Pic below:

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                        I have to lower the display setting to 100% so they all cover the entire screen.
                        It's on my end. I apologize.

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                        • Mr. BerlinM
                          Mr. Berlin @SP
                          last edited by

                          @SP try to download it again , theme's folder size should me 44.50 mg

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                          • SPS
                            SP @Mr. Berlin
                            last edited by SP

                            @Mr-Berlin I'll give it a shot. The one I downloaded is only 18mb.

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                            • Mr. BerlinM
                              Mr. Berlin @SP
                              last edited by

                              @SP yeah i don't know what wrong with github today it . download speed is 17 kb and i hate that

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                              • SPS
                                SP
                                last edited by SP

                                I re-downloaded it, but the zip file was the same size.

                                With my display settings at 100% every system background except for the nintendo 64 displayed correctly.

                                Edit: I added more games and now every system I have does not display the background.

                                I changed my display settings back to 125% and the theme works properly.

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                                • Mr. BerlinM
                                  Mr. Berlin
                                  last edited by

                                  @chicuelo @lilbud , as always sorry for my bad English :" but the theme is a peace of art , i like artworks so mush , how it all blend together and how it's look like so gentle and classy , it really shows that it take alot of work a time so thank you for both of you

                                  for cons , it miss a lot of systems like cps1,cps2,cps3, Naomi, Atomiswave, satellaview, sufami, amigacd32, PC-88 , PC-98 , Sharp X1 , odyssey2 and videopac+
                                  i hope u can add these in the future
                                  the dots panel on right which change when you change system , i have ocd and it's make me really angry , i hope they move with sequence and not being a static part of system art
                                  At last it's a great theme , easily one of the best so a lot of thank for you both and keep the good work up

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                                  • chicueloC
                                    chicuelo @Mr. Berlin
                                    last edited by

                                    @Mr-Berlin Hey, more systems will be added on a future!
                                    The dot indicator works fine, you just need to rename the images properly, if your first system is mame, you have to rename the indicator with the first white dot as mame, the second as your second system and so.
                                    In my build I have 16 systems, retropie, power and favorites so they match perfect with the indicators.

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                                    • chicueloC
                                      chicuelo @SP
                                      last edited by

                                      @SP I had some font issues on my pi when I was testing, If I set a big size it will not display. By chance can you change Emulationstation vRam to 150 mb? On my Pi3b I have splitted memory to 512 mb and increased ES vram. That made all display fine

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                                      • chicueloC
                                        chicuelo @SP
                                        last edited by

                                        @SP I think those are font size issues. Lets ask @nil06 that he has more knowledge than me on this

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                                        • SPS
                                          SP @chicuelo
                                          last edited by

                                          @chicuelo Unfortunately, it did not work. I set it to 150 and restarted emulation station, but did not work. Then I set it to 600mb and it did not work.

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                                          • chicueloC
                                            chicuelo @SP
                                            last edited by

                                            @SP The theme goes fluid? are you using pc o raspberry? How many systems do you have?
                                            I think the issue is caused by the fonts not by the performance of the pi, let me make some research. In my build it goes flawlessly

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