Epic Noir - Dark Mode Theme

Brigane · 18 Apr 2020, 07:45

The theme has been added to ES Themes, in case some people haven't noticed.
I am really looking forward to give this a spin on my setup.
Thank you again for this massive theme!

chicuelo · 18 Apr 2020, 15:40

@Brigane Thank you! and please give us your feedback!

Quackwalks · 18 Apr 2020, 20:32

Since I've changed the order of emulators in es_systems.cfg in opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation, the dots on the left side don't make sense. Even without changing the order they don't make much sense. Is there any remedy to this by rearranging them or removing them?

chicuelo · 18 Apr 2020, 21:35

@Quackwalks Yes, you have to order by yourself. You have to rename the files in order to match your system list.
If your first system is megadrive, you rename as megadrive the dot file wich has the white dot in first position, if your second system is nes, you rename as nes the one who has the white dot on the second place..
Do that across your first 16 systems and you have power, settings and favorites in the las 3 positions in case you use more than 16 systems.
Since retropie doesn´t have an indication system it is an emulated way to achieve that misfunction

Quackwalks · 19 Apr 2020, 00:33

Here's a detail I'm sure will annoy people. The art for SNES has "The Legend Of Zelda" in the top right while N64 has "The Legend of Zelda". Also, the text at the bottom states that button X favorites, but X is for random selection.

lifenight · 19 Apr 2020, 09:15

It look's good, i use the 4:3 version on my arcade system, just thank you !

chicuelo · 19 Apr 2020, 14:39

@Quackwalks the legend of zelda (a link to the past) and the legend of zelda (ocarina of time) are games for each system so that´s why they both are the legend of zelda.

Quackwalks · 19 Apr 2020, 18:11

@chicuelo The SNES has a capital O in "of" and the n64 doesn't. I know it's nitpicking but just something I noticed.

chicuelo · 19 Apr 2020, 18:18

@Quackwalks Thanks, I think you where talking about the game name. On the next big update I will fix it

Jste84 · 19 Apr 2020, 23:08

First off I love the theme. Noticed things other have pointed out. The dots... How do I change the systems to align with the dots?

I've got the ghost writing in virtual boy, wonderswan, wonderswan colour and favourites too.

Beautiful artwork though.

chicuelo · 19 Apr 2020, 23:38

@Jste84 I will make a tutorial about changing the dots, basically you have to rename the dot images in order to match your system order. It´s very simple but most users are asking frequently.
Im still figuiring out about the ghost text, check your ES menu a logo display option, maybe its trying to display something or you have enabled any related option

RetroJoe · 19 Apr 2020, 23:56

@chicuelo
theme picture
I've been making the theme more friendly with retropie. Thanks for sharing. It's still a little sluggish but I've been working hard on it as I love the theme you made.

I removed the bottom navigation bar as it doesn't seem nice to disable on screen help and enable for other themes. I compressed images further, edited the background at the bottom and changed some things in theme xml

I'm still working on it to improve more speed I've managed to get rid of the white screens when scrolling to fast by adjusting the above. But sometimes it gets delays when scrolling. Not got this with other themes I'm sure it will get better with time.

chicuelo · 20 Apr 2020, 01:10

@RetroJoe Depending on how much systems you have, retropie will handle them fine or not. And depending on your system. If you use a pc you will have not issues with performance. On a pi if you split memory properly and adjust the vram you will get a great performance also.

I decided to remove the info because everyone knows how to navigate. At least you know how to go up and down, and you have favs, back and enter on the bottom plus the game info.

tpo1990 · 20 Apr 2020, 07:18

@chicuelo Thank you for fixing the FinalBurn Alpha system that now display as it should. I have now done some more testing. On my Raspberry Pi 3B in UI Settings I have tried disabling the following options: Quick System Select, Carousel Transitions, Enable Filters and restarted Emulationstation. Still it does not fix the ghosting text problem. The only solution to this at the moment is to not have Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color installed as a system, since those are the only systems I have seen that causes it.

I also have tested your theme on my Raspberry Pi 4B with the latest nightly unofficial RetroPie to see if there is any difference and the problem is the same with the ghosting text. I even tried displaying on a TV instead of my PC monitor. Another thing to fix is the white images from when you scroll fast through all the systems. This increases more after when you have played a game, then exit and try to scroll through all the systems again.

In the end this is a really nice theme and I think it is the best theme design created of all the other themes out there from my opinion, but it has some quirks that needs to be solved in order to increase stability.

chicuelo · 20 Apr 2020, 12:38

@tpo1990 I make some changes over the main xml hiding and reducing the size of the carousel logo sicne we dont use this feature and I assume this is the text is displaying. When my partner make the PR it will be live.

About the white screen, There is no way I can change the bacground color, so I also get that light gray color when I exit a game or when you go fast across systems. It would be great to have a tag and set a bacgkround color like an html file, but unfortunately I haven´t found this feature, instead I used a 1x1 black pixel and stretched all across the screen to make the background black

Jste84 · 20 Apr 2020, 12:57

@chicuelo if you need someone to test it let me know 👍

chicuelo · 20 Apr 2020, 14:30

@Jste84 When the changes are applied I will let you know!

tpo1990 · 21 Apr 2020, 05:35

@chicuelo Sounds great. I will look forward to seeing the changes and the theme live on RetroPie repository.

Maybe some other theme creators have a clue about how to get away with the white screen. Keep up the good work. Thanks. :-)

chicuelo · 22 Apr 2020, 18:08

@tpo1990 Im waiting for my partner to upload the changes, but you could try replacing this on your main theme.xml
unfortunately the white flash that appears when you exit a game has no solution. At least I could not find one yet. Using a black background has the same result because the true ES backgroudn is dark gray and the theme loads over that

    <carousel name="systemcarousel">
        <type>vertical</type>
        <color>00000000</color>
        <origin>1 1</origin>
        <pos>1 1</pos>
        <size>0.01 0.01</size>
        <logoScale>1</logoScale>
        <logoSize>0.01 0.01</logoSize>
        <maxLogoCount>0</maxLogoCount>
    </carousel>

iMacosiris · 23 Apr 2020, 21:33

Hi Chicuelo (buenas tardes)
I'm new with RetroPie and I just finish to install your theme (is amazing !! congrats !!!)
But I have some questions
I put my roms in a HDD and I follow the rules to name the folders, but I found that no all the systems shows when I browse the interface.
This is my current list, I wonder if I have some wrong here
It's possible to put some personal image or name the system if the system is no cover from the theme itself ? (if its possible can you say how can I do this ??)

List of systems in my storage (I will check the directory permissions)

drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 72 Apr 7 01:32 3do
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 19 Apr 22 23:15 amiga
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 11 Apr 10 02:16 amstradcpc
drwxr-xrwx 1 501 pi 337 Apr 7 00:41 apple2
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 4 Apr 23 03:18 arcade
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 1692 Apr 11 19:24 atari2600
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 327 Apr 7 00:55 atari5200
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 88 Apr 10 19:34 atari7800
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 637 Apr 7 02:02 atari800
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 125 Apr 12 09:30 atarilynx
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 529 Apr 11 19:29 atarist
drwxr-xrwx 1 501 pi 3106 Apr 11 20:09 c64
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 374 Apr 5 23:26 coco
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 150 Apr 11 19:50 coleco
drwxr-xrwx 1 501 pi 25 Apr 7 03:33 crvision
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 24 Apr 5 02:59 daphne
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 01:50 dragon32
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 02:09 dreamcast
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 01:59 fba
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 489 Apr 11 19:51 fds
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 62 Apr 12 16:53 gameandwatch
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 442 Apr 11 20:26 gamegear
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 1275 Apr 12 01:54 gb
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 986 Apr 12 02:14 gba
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 865 Apr 12 02:38 gbc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 23 03:27 genesis -> megadrive
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 168 Apr 12 02:40 intellivision
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 3 Apr 22 23:18 macintosh
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 2032 Apr 23 03:18 mame-libretro
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 02:36 mame-mame4all
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 485 Apr 12 03:02 mastersystem
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 2514 Apr 12 03:03 megadrive
drwxr-xrwx 1 501 pi 647 Apr 8 16:22 msx
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 606 Apr 12 03:09 n64
drwxr-xr-x 1 501 pi 767 Apr 6 01:43 nds
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 148 Apr 21 21:17 neogeo
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 1454 Apr 21 21:17 nes
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 22 Apr 3 23:54 ngp
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 52 Apr 11 00:58 ngpc
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 10 Apr 22 23:39 oric
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 03:25 pc98
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 401 Apr 12 03:10 pcengine
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 01:57 pcfx
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 03:28 pokemini
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 10 Mar 26 05:29 ports
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 66 Apr 3 23:42 psp
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 251 Apr 3 23:43 psx
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 40 Apr 21 21:18 samcoupe
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 61 Apr 12 03:14 sega32x
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 02:10 segacd
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 234 Apr 21 21:18 sg-1000
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 1595 Apr 11 19:14 snes
drwxr-xr-x 1 501 pi 13 Apr 11 01:04 supergrafx
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 01:46 ti99
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 01:30 trs-80
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 30 Apr 3 23:44 vectrex
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 03:25 videopac
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 30 Apr 3 23:37 virtualboy
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 116 Apr 12 06:29 wonderswan
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 94 Apr 12 20:49 wonderswancolor
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 273 Oct 3 2018 x1
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 456 Apr 3 23:48 x68000
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 37 Oct 4 2018 zmachine
drwxr-xrwx 1 pi pi 73 Oct 4 2018 zx81
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2 Apr 23 02:09 zxspectrum

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Saludos desde Bs As