ZOID theme - looking for help
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@byersjus said in ZOID theme - looking for help:
Again, works great on the Retropie, crashes on my PC.
Most likely there's something related to the ES version used on Windows (Dev vs. Stable). I can take a look if you manage to share the modifications.
I'd like to fix that issue before sharing if anyone has an idea. Speaking of sharing, what is the preferred method of sharing these tweaked themes?
If you wish to include them in the RetroPie setup, a Github repository is the best option - especially if you want to update it in time. Otherwise, you can just provide the link to the .zip file.
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I didn't update the author, version, etc. in the readme or simple.xml header. I guess I can do that, but I won't be maintaining these things in perpetuity.
Here are some links for now:
https://files.byersonline.com/zoid-bigart.zip
https://files.byersonline.com/zoid-nometa.zip -
Thank you everyone for all the provided help regarding the theme and especially to @byersjus for hard work!!! I'll test the modified themes today and will tell you how it works for me.
You people are great!
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Ok so after trying both themes I have to say they are stable and work great! There's just 1 thing that could be improved when it comes to ZOID-BIGART - it's missing the game description (at least I don't see it on the screen), the game information isn't full. I believe font could be smaller so that more game information appears on the screen. Perhaps the game information could be moved to the right of the picture so that it makes picture a little smaller, and below picture we would see the description. But I believe it's much more work on it so everything looks in place.
I'm already satisfied with the result but if anyone likes the simple ZOID theme and would devote more time improving it I'd look forward to new versions :) Thank you again for the help!!!
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I did some adjustments to the zoid-nometa theme provided by @byersjus when it comes to gamelist view. What are the differences?
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changed gamelist and system info fonts, font colors and selector color
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added 2-colored background so that the gamelist is separated from the game image window
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adjusted game image position so it's centered now
This way the new zoid-nometa theme is more consistent to my eye. What do you think? Is there something to be adjusted further in your opinion? Here's one screenshot of my zoid-nometa version:
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@Carnivore you've made some great mods, Carnivore. Do you have your modded version available for download?
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@ratedrguy Thank you very much for appreciating my input. I can upload my version of ZOID-nometa theme for you in next couple days. I'd need to switch fonts for all systems (top right of the screen) before I do so as I've just edited handful of them for my personal use.
If I wanted to make a ZOID version with game metadata visible, I'd have to significantly change the view - make a picture smaller and add info such as publisher, release date etc. to the right side of it, and description to the bottom (just like in the original ZOID version which uses SIMPLE theme for gamelist view). I might do some work on it in the future if there will be at least couple people interesting in having polished version of ZOID with metadata visible. I'm a total newbie when it comes to coding so editing themes is quite painful experience :)
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@ratedrguy Sorry for the delay. Here's a link to zipped ZOID-nometa theme with my adjustments:
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@Carnivore said in ZOID theme - looking for help:
@ratedrguy Sorry for the delay. Here's a link to zipped ZOID-nometa theme with my adjustments:
@Carnivore your mods look great, would you mind uploading your adjusted theme again? It looks like the link has expired. Many thanks!
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@Carnivore Can you reupload zip file?
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