GBZ 3.5" Theme

[RxBrad]

@tsoliman Added that to the issues list. I'll take a look at it.

In the meantime, here's an almost-finished project along the same vein that I'm working on that you may be interesting in previewing. I have all of the same systems themed on it as you'll fin d on the Carbon theme.

It's not on RetroPie-Setup yet, but the wiki give instructions for installing which should still be compatible once it does end up in RetroPie-Setup.

https://github.com/rxbrad/es-theme-freeplay

[RxBrad]

Just pushed a few updates to the old theme... These changes should be available now by updating in RetroPie-Setup / ESThemes.

• Improved handling of missing systems.
• Fix system logo alignment in detailed/video views.
• Added Atari 800, Atari 5200, PC Engine (alternative PCE naming), & ZX Spectrum.

More to come before the new year. EDIT (Jan 8, 2020): Or not.. I'll add them eventually. I promise.

[Dezmancer]

@RxBrad love this theme on my CRT pi image, is there any support for PC Engine CD/Turbografx-CD?

[RxBrad]

@Dezmancer said in GBZ 3.5" Theme:

@RxBrad love this theme on my CRT pi image, is there any support for PC Engine CD/Turbografx-CD?

There is now. I just added them. :)

[RxBrad]

At some point, an update of EmulationStation caused clipping from the right-edge of several of the system logos in this theme. I've just updated the logos in both versions of the theme to prevent this clipping.

[RxBrad]

I'm slowly filling out all of the systems for the arcade cab folks who might have more powerful systems under the hood... Added Gamecube, Saturn, SuperGrafx, and Wonderswan Color.

[RxBrad]

A few more systems added to the mix, along with a few visual tweaks on some of the system logos.

Added Apple II, PS2, Wii, and Xbox.

[mattyj513]

@RxBrad Evening sir! Somewhat off topic, but I have been trying to find a way to contact you regarding your themes. First off, love em, thanks for all the work you put in on em. After utilizing your dark theme on my pi build I spent some time converting it to run on the Pegasus frontend for android. My newest endeavor was getting it to run on the rg350 handheld, which I did, by utilizing your files from the dark theme uploaded on github on 7/24/17. Works flawlessly, the system bar is white instead of black, not sure if that's how the theme was then though. I wanted to check to see if it was ok sharing this info and associated screenshots with proper credit and links to your gh with the rg350 guys. Thanks again, Matt

[RxBrad]

@mattyj513

By all means, share away. :)

Regarding the carousel being white instead of black, I actually themed the carousel to be black on the July 21, 2017 release. So, it should be themed using files from 7/24/17 (3 days later).

Unfortunately, I suspect that means that whatever branch of ES that the RG350 version uses didn't implement the carousel theming that Retropie added around that timeframe.

Here's the relevant part of the code that themed it at that time (in gbz35.xml):

<feature supported="carousel">
		<view name="system">
			<carousel name="systemcarousel">
				<color>000000aa</color>
			</carousel>
			<text name="systemInfo">
				<backgroundColor>11111199</backgroundColor>
				<color>FFFFFF</color>
				<fontPath>./_inc/fonts/RobotoCondensed-Regular.ttf</fontPath>
				<fontSize>0.045</fontSize>
			</text>
		</view>
	</feature>

Which has since been tweaked to:

<feature supported="carousel">
	<view name="system">
		<carousel name="systemcarousel">
			<color>000000cc</color>
			<logoSize>0.22 0.115</logoSize>
			<logoScale>1.7</logoScale>
		</carousel>

		<text name="systemInfo">
			<backgroundColor>11111199</backgroundColor>
			<color>FFFFFF</color>
			<fontPath>./_inc/fonts/RobotoCondensed-Regular.ttf</fontPath>
			<fontSize>0.05</fontSize>
		</text>
	</view>
</feature>

Also, I'm in the RG350 Discord (and rarely the RG350 Dingoonity forum) if you need to contact me in either of those places.

[mattyj513]

@RxBrad thanks for the quick response. I am not on any of the various social media platforms, i mainly stick to forum types. I am gonna throw this up on the dingoonity board. I experimented a little and came to a similar conclusion, the es used is not the most current, i think that is why alot of the themes either don't work or have issues. I preferred the darker overall tones on the gbz35 dark theme, the carousel being white was not a deal breaker, still looks awesome.

[celly]

@RxBrad this looks fantastic on my Retroflag GPi case! Any chance of adding a Pokemon Mini theme to the mix?

[RxBrad]

@celly
Sure thing! I just added it now for both gbz35 and gbz35-dark.

EDIT: Made a quick edit to the logo. It didn't look great at low-res.

[celly]

@RxBrad thanks a lot!

[ClassicGMR]

I just purchased a RetroFlag GPi Case with a Pi Zero W installed. No lie I was about to throw it against a wall (or send it back I guess...) because the themes weren't legible. Then my brain finally stopped drooling or woke up or whatever... and said "Duh Google search retropie.org.uk gameboy theme..."

This is awesome! Thank you for putting the time into this theme and maintaining it. :)

[MarzipantZ]

If I were to use the GBA 3.5 Theme to build my own Game Boy Classic Edition, what type of splash screen would you recommend in this situation?