Neo Geo Mini theme

joharibk

@ruckage oouuu....... ive been waiting for this from day one you show it to us! hope its due to release soon. :D

Stuart2773

I love this theme too and an customizing it for my personal use to replicate the PC Engine Mini console interface

however i would like to add a different background for the system select screen & the PC Engine CD but not sure how to, any help would be much appreciated

joharibk

@Stuart2773 looks so good! Yes I would love to be able to change the system background too! Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do that as well. 🙁

ruckage

I've just completed a pack of square image files for NeoGeo, CPS1, CPS2, and CPS3 which are Ideal for the Neo Geo Mini theme, they are available to download from Mega or EmuMovies.

square art preview.jpg

The Mega file has everything in one pack and in various formats:

PNG 504x504
JPG 504x504
PNG 344x344 (ideal size for neogeo mini theme)
JPG 344x344 (ideal size for neogeo mini theme)
PNG 256 colour 504x504
PNG 256 colour 344x344 (recommended for neo geo mini if you want to use png due to the small file size)

You can download the zip file here: https://mega.nz/file/v4MWkC4b#Gy4aHlgoJ0fxJJbcSZ3UUic7_3wl3CKaFqzlHkEmifg

Or alternatively from EmuMovies (504x504 png only):https://emumovies.com/profile/2660-ruckage/content/?type=downloads_file

If I've missed any images due to duplicate names etc. let me know and I can update the pack.

joharibk

Hey guys, is scroll sound supported yet on grid theme? Or any way around it.

yurioberg

hello @ruckage , i want to know if its possible for you to create an samurai shodown V Perfect image for your theme. Thanks in Advance!

Stuart2773

@yurioberg said in Neo Geo Mini theme:

hello @ruckage , i want to know if its possible for you to create an samurai shodown V Perfect image for your theme. Thanks in Advance!

heres mine i created for the recently dumped rom

yurioberg

@Stuart2773 Amazing!!! Thank you so much for sending me this!!!!!

A12C4

@sergioad @joharibk Scroll sound is very high in my todo list, just give me some time to get back into ES dev.

@ruckage If I remember right, your most wanted feature was a scroll bar for the user to see the currently selected game position in the list. What you wanted originally was something like this but it seems a bit out of reach, does something more basic like a classic scrollbar would still interest you ?

ruckage

@A12C4
Hi @A12C4 , good to see you. I hope you're keeping well.

A standard scroll bar would be great, just have the option to theme it however we like and have the option for a vertical or horizontal scrollbar if possible.

Also if possible having the option to display the selected game number out of the number of games in the list would be a great addition. e.g if you had 100 games and you're on game five in the list it would display 5/100

A12C4

@ruckage Yes it's been quite a while ! Time fly so fast man..

I can do both. I thought you would have wanted something more visually appealing like a scrollbar but we can start with a simple text field that show the current position / number of games. It should be pretty straightforward.

ruckage

@A12C4
Having both would be great and I do love the idea of a theme-able scroll bar but starting with the text sounds like a good idea - I thought it would probably be easier to implement.

Ultimately having the choice between text and scroll bars is ideal as it allows for more variety as text will suit some themes whereas a scroll bar will suit others. Either will be very useful though for the end user as at the moment you don't really have an indication of where you are in the list - especially if you choose to sort the list by anything other than the title of the game.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with :)

A12C4

@ruckage Sure ! I will keep you updated.

Are you interested into grid scroll sound and other more global changes to sounds for themes? Because I would like to have some feedback from designers on that feature.

ruckage

@A12C4 said in Neo Geo Mini theme:

Are you interested into grid scroll sound and other more global changes to sounds for themes? Because I would like to have some feedback from designers on that feature.

Definitely, I think a lot of theme devs and end users have wanted sounds for various actions for a long while, I think having an option so the end user can switch off sounds if they wish would be a good idea though if they are implemented as that keeps everyone happy.

One other thing I'd really like is some way to add animated elements to themes. The most obvious would be some way to support animated gifs or something similar just to add some more interesting elements to themes. Another nice addition would be to have some way to have scrolling images/backgrounds.

A12C4

@ruckage Wow that's a lot of insanely good suggestions for new developments, I need to bookmark that somewhere !

But for now let's tackle the sounds first. I sent a pull request on EmulationStation's github repository that add more sounds support. Could you try it out by adding sounds to one of your theme and tell me how you feel about it ?

ruckage

@A12C4 said in Neo Geo Mini theme:

But for now let's tackle the sounds first. I sent a pull request on EmulationStation's github repository that add more sounds support. Could you try it out by adding sounds to one of your theme and tell me how you feel about it ?

Sure, do you happen have a version compiled for windows that I can experiment with?

A12C4

@ruckage No I don't have one at the moment. If @jdrassa can share me his build script for appveyor I would be able to share a windows build easily, otherwise I will have to write it myself.

jdrassa

@A12C4 Below is a link to my appveyor build configuration. Appveyor has the option to specify an external configuration. You should be able to just remove the parts that invoke ciuploadtool, that is used to upload the builds to github. For test builds, I normally just share the link to the appveyor artifacts.

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jrassa/0b8f5caa7a9e4d0d146ac988fcc02f5f/raw/

A12C4

@jdrassa Thank you a lot ! Nice to you again btw.

I'm still having troubles configuring appveyor, it keep failing uploading the binary with this error message from ciuploadtool: "No dev token for AppVeyor CI job, won't do anything"

jdrassa

@A12C4 That's what I was referring to about removing the parts that invoke ciuploadtool. For your purpose you shouldn't need to upload the build to github. I checked out the log for your build on appveyor and even though the upload fails, the build still completes and the artifacts are available for download.

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/benjdero/emulationstation/builds/33906173/job/w2s3vwq5ea55mfc5/artifacts

Also note, I would recommend not adding the Appveyor config to your repository. Doing so will cause it to be included in any PRs and it is not something we want to have included in RetroPie at this time. In the project settings in Appveyor, you can specify a url to an external configuration file. That is what I do. I just have the file in a gist and link to that.