New NotSoEpicNoir-Chiculeo Hybrid Theme

[bmoxey]

I have made more progress with my theme, including centering text on left, using the console image and console logo and changing some of the system logos. I probably should simplify the PC Engine one (or call it TurboGrafx 16).

[AkiAfroo]

@bmoxey you can create a github and we can enjoy it while you are doing some change xD. im in love of your mod.
pd,would be possible to add video preview in the background ? like after 1s or 2s after scroll the platforms display a blurry video in background with same effects backgrounds does.

backgrounds image + ..waiting 1s and platform video autoplay.

[CCFox]

Update:

I have completed the majority of the game list screens. A choice of three....

Screen with one up and down arrows:

Screen with two up and down arrows:

Screen with no up and down arrows:

All three are in each system folder. There are 3 theme.xml files named theme1.xml, theme2.xml and theme3.xml. You pick the screen you want and rename the filename to theme.xml.

With the screen with no arrows I would like to have the system logo centralised if possible. I've tried a few different ways on the script to achieve this without success. Any pointers would be appreciated.

The back images are a mix from Tronkyfran theme and @hoover900 's images. @hoover900 kindly let me have a copy his image to work with and guide me on who to use them and credit should go to him for it.

I will now start digging around the net for the missing console images.

Comments good or bad always welcome....

Kind Regards

CCFox

[SP]

@CCFox Thank you. I really think the theme looks better without the arrows.

[CCFox]

@SP I did you have in mind when I did this....just got the logo centralised.

RGDS

CCFox

[SP]

Thanks, man. I really appreciate it.

[CCFox]

Final update this evening:

On the non arrows screen I have managed to centralise the logo. I even got a ruler out!!

Screen shots:

Nintendo NES - This is the widest looking logo I have:

Vectrex - This is the deepest looking logo I have:

Bout done and ready to share is anybody wishes to.

Kind Regards

CCFox

[SP]

Looking forward to it.

[CCFox]

A few more tweaks now done. I do have a slight problem though. When the theme first starts it for a split second on the game list the marquee art appears then disappears. Then it never comes back until you restart the theme. I am guessing it shows it before it loads the game list screen background. Not a major but I would like to stop it. Anybody have any ideas on how to do it?

I will be culling some of the older systems that I can't find artwork for.

KR

CCFox

[bmoxey]

I have made some progress on the Game List view. Still tweaking and moving things about. I have created a github and will upload when I am happy with the look.

Updated system view.

I am using skraper to create a large image file with the wheel, 3dbox art , mask and image art. Is there a better way to do this?

[CCFox]

@bmoxey

Looks lovely matey. Might combine your game list with my front screen...lol

As for skraper I used that as well to scrape my games. I registered so i was able to get 20k scrapes per 24 hours. Took about a week for mine. I scraped 3d box art, game image with game logo and box art combined and marquee.

Rgds

CCFox

[CCFox]

@bmoxey

correction...I scraped images, marquee and videos.

I would have to re scrape my games for this to work for me....oh hum no great shakes there.

Thankfully I still have my old 3d scraped images somewhere.

Rgds

CCFox

[bmoxey]

@CCFox Do you combine the images in the theme file or in skraper? I don't like that I am creating a very large graphic file for each game in skraper. I would prefer to just create a separate file for the screenshot, wheel and 3dbox art and combine them in the theme file. But I dont know how to add images, 3dbox art and wheels in the theme file. I only know you can add a md_image and md_video.

[bmoxey]

@CCFox Just to clarify. I have created my own xml file for skraper to use to combine the images as I want into one png file.

[CCFox]

@bmoxey

When I scraped I chose the screen shot with the game image, box art and wheel combined as one image. each image is a .png file and averages around 100-300k per file depending on the system. Atari image's are smaller than megadrive for instance (whether is something to do with the amount of colours I don't know)

I don't know how big the 3 separate files added together would be but I don't think the difference would be that much.

Also I am struggling to understand about the 3 images at once on the screen. It looks like you have. Or is that what you mean when you say about the xml file in your second post.

Hope I'm making sense..

Rgds

CCFox

[CCFox]

Also....I am a complete novice at this....

[bmoxey]

@CCFox I have created my own custom user provided mix file to skraper. This puts the objects I want in the exact location I want. I think this is probably the best way to do this. The files are only a bit larger that your files. However it does eliminate the possibility of having video, but I think I already decided I dont want video in my theme.

[CCFox]

@bmoxey

Right....Didn't know you could do that with skraper.

Bit of a shame about not having videos but looking at the theme I can see why.

Rgds

CCFox

[CCFox]

Evening All

I have now finished my adjusted hybrid NoSoEpicNoir-Chiculeo theme. I went a little further than originally planned and decided to combine both themes together using both posters hence giving you the choice of posters used. All you do is choose a desired theme and then copy over the corresponding theme file supplied. There are six variations of the theme. The first three theme files give the following screens:

Sample screenshots below:

Adjusted system screens with chiculeo posters:

Now a choice of 3 different game list screens:

1 Arrow

2 Arrows

No Arrows

The second three variations offer the same three game list screens but with NoSoEpicNoir posters

Adjusted system screens with NoSoEpicNoir posters:

As the chiculeo theme was a work in progress and NoSoEpicNoir was further along I was limited to the systems I could create. The following systems are therefore supported:

3DO
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Apple II
Arcade
Atari 800
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
Atari ST
Commodore 64
ColecoVision
Capcom CPS
Daphne
Final Burn Alpha
Intellivision
Kodi
MAME
MSX
MSX 2
MS-DOS/PC
NeoGeo
NeoGeo CD
NeoGeo Pocket
NeoGeo Pocket Colour
Nintendo 64
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Famicom
Nintendo Famicom Disk System
Nintendo Game & Watch
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Game Boy Colour
Nintendo Game Cube
Nintendo NES
Nintendo SNES
Nintendo Super Famicom
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii U
PC Engine
PC Engine CD
PC FX
Ports
Power
PlayStation
PlayStation 2
PlayStation Portable
ResidualVM
Retropie
ScummVM
Sega SG-1000
Sega 32X
Sega CD
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis
Sega Master System
Sega Mega 32X
Sega Mega CD
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Saturn
Sharp X68000
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Steam
SuperGrafx
TurboGrafx
TurboGrafx CD
Vectrex
Wonder Swan
Wonder Swan Colour

One slight problem with the theme and that is I was unable to stop the marquee art appearing briefly on first loading of the game screen. It only does this once (on mine anyway).

I am happy to share this theme as long as I don't tread upon anybody's toes. As I have previously stated this is an adjustment NOT a re-write and credit should always go to the original authors for their outstanding work.

And personal thanks for help and ideas directly and indirectly:

@chicuelo
@hoover900
@mitu
@bmoxey

And anybody I have missed.....

Just got to now work out how to use GitHub...……

Kind Regards As Always

CCFox

[chicuelo]

@CCFox Great work! hope people enjoy your variations!