[ES Theme] OmegaDrive (updated to v 1.4)

Arcanthur

@Avigrace under your es_systems.cfg for final burn (fba) you can change the <theme>fba</theme> to <theme>cps1</theme>

Avigrace

@Arcanthur Awesome, thanks!

Unknown

@Arcanthur said in [ES Theme] OmegaDrive:

@Unknown Not yet, I'm going to add support for a few more systems before I try to add it there

Great! As soon as it's available and supports all Neo Geo's, I'm gonna use it.

pythonli

@Arcanthur I have the same issues with my TG Mini theme. Oddly though the slow refresh only happens after I exit a game. At first boot everything is smooth and no issues. Weird. I’m going to have to run ‘top’ before and after to see what’s going on with the memory. Even setting the VRAM all the way doesn’t fix it.

Arcanthur

Updated theme to version 1.1

Changelog:

Systems Added:

Neo Geo Pocket
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Final Burn Neo

Auto collections:

All Games
Favorites
Last Played

Updated:

Added better lcd "grid" effect to all handhelds on the homescreen backgrounds.

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GeekOB

Amazing work @Arcanthur ! these look as slick as the ones in v1.0.
Keep them coming please! (My offer to help still stands, btw)

Arcanthur

@GeekOB Thanks, hit me up at Arcanthur@gmail.com

Send me some examples of your work

Arcanthur

Version 1.2 will be out in a few days. Adding SuperGrafx, VirtualBoy, and ZX Spectrum:

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mattrixk

@Arcanthur I really like the design of the Auto Collections game pages. I'd be tempted to use a whole theme of just that design.

harshl

Love the look of this theme. Never installed one outside of the GUI before, I think I did it right, but it crashes ES as soon as I select it or reboot with it applied.

Here is what I did:

Set VRAM limit in ES to 160 per your suggestion
Downloaded a zip of the git repo
Extracted the contents in a tmp folder on my server
Created a 'themes' folder in ~/.emulationstation
SCP'd the files from my server to the retropie ending up with ~/.emulationstation/themes/OmegaDrive-master/
Restarted ES
Selected the theme from the list in ES which was found after restarting ES

It crashes after a short time of loading, maybe 3 seconds or so, same thing if I leave it applied and reboot.

I am on a Raspberry Pi 4 with the RetroPie image loaded and updated just today.
Linux retropie 5.4.51-v7l+ #1327 SMP Thu Jul 23 11:04:39 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
ES Version is 2.9.3RP
File owner and permissions are as follows:

drwxr-xr-x 60 pi pi 4.0K Aug 11 02:06 OmegaDrive-master

Please let me know what else I can provide to help figure this out. I am really excited to use the theme! Fantastic work!

Arcanthur

@harshl hey I'm sorry you are having issues. I just ran into a similar issue trying to run my theme on Windows ES at 4K resolution. For whatever reason, I think it's memory related, ES crashes when you try to load the theme at 4K. If you happen to have your pi 4 running at 4k that may be the culprit.

harshl

@Arcanthur It is hooked to a 4K TV. I will try and increase the memory limit and see if that helps at all. Let me know if I can test anything for you.

Thanks!

Arcanthur

@harshl check that RetroPie isn't running at 4K. If it is, change it to 1080p.

harshl

@Arcanthur Changed it to 1080p 60hz and all is well. No more crashing.
Thanks!

Arcanthur

@harshl awesome, glad to hear that fixed it for you!

Arcanthur

Version 1.2 of the theme is now on GitHub

CHANGELOG 1.2

Systems added:

SuperGrafx
VirtualBoy
ZX Spectrum

Updated:

Found borders on some home screen platforms had missing elements, now corrected.

New:

Added PSD templates for the home menu and generic system list

Arcanthur

Version 1.3 is now live on the GitHub

CHANGELOG 1.3

Systems added:

Neo Geo CD
3DO
X68000
Vectrex (Since Vectrex is such a unique system, I created a unique interface to go along with it)

Fixed:

Description for Neo Geo AES was using the one for the MVS (corrected).

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mattrixk

I have to say @Arcanthur, I really admire your dedication to creating completely custom screens for each individual system. It must be a huge amount of work.

I tend to get lazy and only make one screen that can be used for each system, and just changing the logo.

Arcanthur

@mattrixk Thanks! Yeah, I started the project almost a year ago. I went through several iterations to get it to where I now have a workflow that doesn't take me forever for each system.

mattrixk

@Arcanthur Nice. I used that have a somewhat decent setup with testing area and github, a place for completed themes and place for WIP themes...

I've gone through a couple of computers/motherboards/whatevers since then, and now everything's a mess. I can't find any of the original files for many of the things I was working on. I need to basically do a full refresh, get everything sorted again, but it's a big job.