New Comic Book Theme!

Striderx99

Here are two links to those pictures I mentioned. I apologize if the pictures aren't that great, but they should at least give you an idea of what these games are like.

Model 2:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1F0OSikYunmQdQoYQH8rp6A8pmnQWPY-H

Model 3:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1F1FwkOEtT7wNL3YEGY9Aru4d5vG_oc_-

Zenjiro

@Striderx99 Thanks for the screenshots I will try to include them in the Model 2 and Model 3 comic.

Also what exactly does this look like?
@Striderx99 said in New Comic Book Theme!:

... 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.

Striderx99

Sorry, but I was referring to the issues I'm having with the SNES-Mini theme. It doesn't seem to "behave" well with the Retrobat version of EmulationStation on Windows 10. The funny thing is that I have used this same theme on Retropie on my Raspberry Pi 3B and it displays exactly the way it should. To see exactly what I mean, just click on this image here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FtiW3227m3YUUQPrcsO4gkb7zowxq-Rp/view?usp=sharing

mitu

@Striderx99 You should report this to the RetroBat package maintainer, the difference is the EmulationStation version included in that package - it might be a bug there, not in the theme.

salor10

@Zenjiro great job.

salor10

@Zenjiro art for naomi. I made it so time ago. YOu can use it.

salor10

@Zenjiro art for atomiswave..You can use it too.

Zenjiro

@salor10 Thank you for sharing. I added them, and they will be included in the next official release. I also added you to the ReadMe for credit.

Zenjiro

I wanted to post this here for feed back.

One of the biggest changes I am planning for this next release is to make this theme more "Living-Room Friendly" which basically means, increasing the font size by a lot. (Also see 10ft Interface)

I did not include these changes in the Beta I just but out because I was afraid it might be to distracting for some users. Here are two snap shots of before and after the font change:

Current:
Preview 2.png

New:
2020-04-26 22_33_59-EmulationStation.png

Notably I only changed the Font Size of the Game List and the Description sections. I also tinkered a bit with the description scrolling and selection highlight cursor to better fit their respective areas. If you wish to try it out your self just replace the comic_book.xml file with this one. Beta_Comicbook.xml

salor10

@Zenjiro thanks, some comic.png for naomi, atomis, and X68000:

Clyde

@salor10 They look great! Any chance that you'll make them for 4:3, too?

salor10

a X68000 rip.png

salor10

@Clyde Sorry only in 16:9, but i can try to 4:3.

Zenjiro

@salor10 Are you able to provide, original 1080p PNGs without the newsprint filter?

salor10

@Zenjiro of course, where do you want to send you?

Zenjiro

@salor10 Let's not flood them here. How about you open a ticket on my github and upload them there. Or if you prefer, you can post them here but do so as a dropbox, or google drive link. That way it doesn't generate a preview, and it will be less spam-y.

salor10

@Zenjiro https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O3r5TOYgAabiCariRV51y-dMp3pJ0QvN/view?usp=sharing link for the images.

Zenjiro

Progress from here on out is probably going to be slow. I went ahead and uploaded 3.2-Beta2 to my repo.

However any issues or tickets reported here, or on github, I will do my best to swiftly fix if possible.

Adding any new themes will be secondary to fixing what is already created, and a lot of what I created has some graphical issues here and there.

kzieres61

@TMNTturtlguy said in New Comic Book Theme!:
When I follow these steps, my retropi does not let me pick a system like the arcade does.

I worked my way around it and got it to FINALLY ask about the system to use, but it refuses to launch the TMNT Arcade game (I have not tried any other rom yet in this folder) the TMNT game DOES work in my arcade folder.

Did I miss something here?

Zenjiro

@kzieres61 Not entirely sure what you mean. If you are able to launch a game from the Arcade, or any other system for that matter, you should be able to launch it from the custom system you created, as long as you added it to the collection's config.

Here is a small ~2min video of me adding the games from Arcade to a Custom System/Collection and launching them successfully: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x700fhzkhmnf9d3/2020-05-15 18-16-28_2.mp4?dl=0

I'd also imagine you could also edit the es_systems.cfg to get something similar, but you would be locking yourself in to a specific emulator to launch. So I do not recommend it.

<system>
	<name>tmnt</name>
	<fullname>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</fullname>
	<path>C:\PATH_TO_COLLECTION\tmnt</path>
	<extension>.zip .ZIP .7z .7Z .etc .ETC</extension>
	<command>COMMAND_LINE_LAUNCH_OF_SYSTEM</command>
	<platform>tmnt</platform>
	<theme>tmnt</theme>
</system>

If anything else, if your issue persists after following the video then more than likely the issue is not related to the theme.