[Theme] Art Book

alphatoanant

Hi @peligwe, I just committed an update to the repo to add the custom theme for pspminis: https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book/commit/6f5ca8924bdbb8e012406edd5cbe0db39d533835

I wasn't able to find a good reference point for the boxart orientation. So for now I matched the psp theme layout (which uses portrait orientation for boxart). Let me know how that looks on your end.

peligwe

Just updated theme today, looks great!!! And I also see you removed the trademark stamp. Thumbs up!!!

peligwe

Discovered one issue when generating launch images. The logo is cutoff.

alphatoanant

@peligwe I unfortunately don't currently have a test harness set up to check launching images. But I did compare the SVG and think I may have found the difference that is causing what you are seeing above. Just committed the change to github now. I hope that works - if not I'll see about getting a launching images setup going.

peligwe

Just did another update and your fix worked! Greatly appreciated.

alphatoanant

Awesome! Glad that worked out @peligwe

peligwe

Since I recently got an RPI4, I'm back into retro gaming and have been and new systems to my gaming setup. Looks like I got Philip's CD-I working and wanted to see if it could also be added to your theme?

alphatoanant

Hi @peligwe there is a folder for CDI in the theme called "cdi". Do you know what folder name emulationstation is looking for? If so I can update the name to that and it should work.

HurricaneFan

@alphatoanant According to another post it looks like "cdimono1" is the folder name. I also double checked what RetroHursty uses for his themes and that matches up to the folder above.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12671/tutorial-cd-i-emulation-in-retropie-via-lr-mess-warning-slowdown-especially-during-fmv-but-surprisingly-playable

alphatoanant

thank you @HurricaneFan! Just updated the source folder name to match and merged to github. That should do the trick after updating @peligwe.

peligwe

@alphatoanant Sorry didn't get the chance to replay, family matters. Yes the cdimomo1 is the correct working folder. Will give it shot later today.

peligwe

@alphatoanant Just did an update and everything looks stellar. Once again thanks for the quick response.

celly

Man! You can’t beat the support here. Although the CD-i stuff doesn’t pertain to me, Art Book is by far my favorite theme for my RPi. Always. Thanks again a million times @alphatoanant

PhoenixFlood

Hello everyone! I've been tinkering but can't quite get the desired result. Is there a way to have the main menu icons to be colorized? I love the minimalisim of this theme, just want a touch of color to splash up the main menu. Again, just want to colorize the system logos on the main carousel.

HurricaneFan

@PhoenixFlood You could swap out the logos with logos from a different theme. You just have to make sure you name the replacement files the same as the art book theme files.

PhoenixFlood

@HurricaneFan Thank you! That totally triggered a lighbulb of new ideas in a different direction!

cnoto

@PhoenixFlood I actually had the same idea and swapped out the logos.

anderocha

Hello guys, what configuration to use a SCREENSHOT instead of the video?

alphatoanant

@anderocha this happens somewhat automatically in EmulationStation depending on what you have scraped (If you have video scrapped it will show the video view for example)

So there are 2 ways I know of to have it display images:

Scrape only images for your games (do not scrape video) - this makes emulationstation show detail view by default
or
you can manually set the view to detail view in emulationstation settings (its under settings menu / ui settings)

gnargoyle

@alphatoanant I have a couple questions. My guess is that I can fix these on my end, but I just bought a pre-made cabinet so I'm new to this.

Is there a way to remove the "favorite" and "launch" instruction imagery? It's not accurate to my button layout.
Any plans for a 5:4 aspect ratio version? Some of the font is too big/details are cut off, unless I can customize that?
Video doesn't seem to display in video mode, it's just a black rectangle.