Chicuelo Theme

movisman

@movisman
I think the character assets are ok now so that's complete.
I changed slightly the global and in game backgounds, make them a little bit darker and added a texture so yes, they are new

Also I noticed this, from a year ago :) the backgrounds are now the older lighter colour for some reason, rather than the darker type you preferred/updated to. Again, I have a backup of this luckily so I can easily help restore.

I will spend a little time going through and updating my fork to be basically the most 'up to date' in terms of logo and xml, and i'll include your new characters of course - as I can see you have reworked several of them when you reuploaded the theme :)

movisman

@chicuelo

Ok the more I study this the more I understand what's happened here. A lot of the theme.xml files are also out of date, as I remember some of the changes we made to them aren't there any more.

But don't worry - i'll fix this all up for you and raise a PR.

Basically, what i'm going to do, is use my backup of the latest version of the theme, but leave the characters directory alone as they contain new images. I will also make a neogeocd theme.xml as I see you have a controller/logo image for that, i'll duplicate the neogeo character like we did with other CD images.

Stand by...in a couple of hours i'll have a PR raised which should hopefully bring the theme back up to where it was (with the new character imagery).

Thanks!

chicuelo

@movisman Great! I really did not use this version of the theme. I only have 16 systems and spanish version.
What i am sure is that the characters are ok because I manually updated all of them.

movisman

@chicuelo

No worries! You are correct, the characters are all good. I've spent some time fixing things up and restoring the latest version, and will create a PR shortly. I also fixed an outstanding issue with the system logos occasionally cropping at the right edge by adding a 5px padding around the x/y on each.

Here's what i've sorted:

update readme.md to add neogeocd support
copy neogeo.jpg character to neogeocd.jpg for neogeocd support
restore correct / newest versions of logos+controllers
restore system specific theme.xml files to correct / latest versions
restore latest version of background files
restore missing systems (supergrafx, etc)
leave characters folder 'as is' as this contains new artwork, seems fine
rework all logos so they have a 5px padding/margin on x/y, this fixes occasional logo cropping on the system select screen for certain systems

PR incoming shortly. I'll then update and test.

Thanks!

movisman

@chicuelo

PR all raised with the above fixes/changes/file restorations.
https://github.com/chicueloarcade/es-theme-Chicuelo/pull/36

Hope this helps!

Thanks

chicuelo

@movisman all done!

movisman

@chicuelo

Updated and looking good! Thanks for accepting the PR :)

A Bored Ninja

@chicuelo Are you planning on publishing your Epic Noir/Chicuelo hybrid theme soon?

I am excited to download it!

chicuelo

@A-Bored-Ninja Im still considering, because some people told me the epic noir was too heavy for their sons, and It would nice to have a child-friendly theme and a more adult one. I think I could make an alternative folder with the adult variant and let the user swap between images

A Bored Ninja

@chicuelo Great idea! The images are easy enough to swap out.

CCFox

I have created a hybrid of nostsoepicnoir and @chiculeo 's artwork. I have also changed the system text to show the system logo and changed the controller image to show an image of the console/computer.

I don't know how to generate finished images from the pi. If anybody can tell me how to do this I will happily upload screenshots.

Or I could take photos?

Rgds

CCF

mitu

@CCFox said in Chicuelo Theme:

I don't know how to generate finished images from the pi. If anybody can tell me how to do this I will happily upload screenshots.

You can use raspi2png to grab a screenshot - https://github.com/AndrewFromMelbourne/raspi2png. It's a command line utility, so you should have SSH enabled.

CCFox

@mitu

Have clicked the link and I notice that it says new build for Raspbian Buster. I am still using Stretch as I did install RetroPie 4.6 but didn't get on well with it so downgraded back to 4.5.

Will this still work?

Kind Regards

CCF

mitu

@CCFox said in Chicuelo Theme:

Will this still work?

Yes, the installer compiles the application from source, so it works on both systems.

Ecks

@PittStone nice theme but i would of replaced the image of Sakura for like Marco from Metal Slug for the NGP.

CCFox

@mitu

Do I copy the folder over to the pi and then do the sudo install etc from my PC using Putty?

Which folder would be best..? RetroPie-setup be OK?

KR

CCFox

mitu

@CCFox Follow the simple install steps - it's a single command you need to execute.

CCFox

@mitu

Followed the instructions and I'm sorry I haven't a clue how to use this program.

I don't know much about Linux at all.

KR

CCFox

CCFox

@mitu

I think I've sussed it although I can't tell for sure......

I just treated it like an ffmpeg instruction and the command ran without an error but no idea if it has worked or not as I don't know where the png file would be saved.

KR

CCFox

mitu

@CCFox just run it like this:
raspi2png -p $HOME/RetroPie/roms/capture.png
then browse the roms file share on \\retropie to view the screenshot.