New Comic Book Theme!

Crush

Glad i came over here, cause the version that can be installed from within Retropie has its ratings broken since the Pi4

Perhaps it'd be a good idea to include @Zenjiro updated version to the Retropie theme installer.

Zenjiro

I've played around with the idea of adding in background music for each system, or at least offering the ability to do so. The issue is, is that Retropie does not support .ogg natively within their version of EmulationStation. It does support .wav files for making sounds which is why this theme has the cursor ticking noise and launch sounds when launching into a game. But even if I convert files to .wav it will greatly bloat the size of theme. (Example: 40sec music clip is 680KB in .ogg but same clip is 6.82MB as a .wav)

I've been successful in adding background music, but with the caveat that you will need to use the Batocera EmulationStaion, which means not all features will work in Retropie, and possibly break existing sound elements within the theme, but will work completely in Batocera. Does anyone have any knowledge on the subject matter of adding background music natively into themes?

Zenjiro

Just a few small updates:

I've converted all .WAV to .OGG files and it saves about 20MB of space. I've not tested it on Retropie's ES yet, but it works flawlessly on the Batocera ES port for Windows. My guess is that sounds will not work on Retropie until .OGG is supported.
I have successfully added a slide sound to the theme so that every time you scroll through your systems/collections it will make an audible "paper page turn" sound.
I have also came up with the idea for each custom collection theme to have its own unique scroll sound. Like for Kingdom Hearts collection, when you scroll through the collection gamelist it will will play the Kingdom Hearts menu scroll sound as to the current default "tick" noise it currently has.

Zenjiro

Small update:

I pushed the five themes listed above to the main branch.

Shantae
Indie Games
Double Dragon
Devil May Cry
F-Zero

Zenjiro

Also I got bored so I created a theme for the Philips CD-i:

evanmoran

I'm blown away by the creativity here. Especially with @Zenjiro and @holy2tack so recently. If I could be so bold as to request more system art, I'm putting together a holiday gift for my nephews and I really want a couple more systems to put it over the top! :)

RPGs
(Inspiration: FF, Chrono, Secret of Mana, Zelda, Phantasy Star, etc)

Platformers
(Inspiration: Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World, Sonic, etc)

Castlevania
(so many good ones!)

Shooters
(Inspiration: Goldeneye, Perfect dark, quake, doom, turok)

Hope you are all doing well!

Zenjiro

@evanmoran Most of what you listed is already available in my fork.

I can make a FPS (First-Person-Shooter) one for you.

evanmoran

@zenjiro Oh awesome. What's the github link? I'm having trouble following 1100+ pages of comments :)

Zenjiro

@evanmoran https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook

evanmoran

@zenjiro Thank you for this! I've made a few UI tweaks that I'll share as a pull request to give back. Feel free to not include them if you don't think they are universally helpful :)

Zenjiro

@evanmoran I'm all for additional help and adding new ideas.

Zenjiro

Added the Russian NES variant Dendy.

Zenjiro

Created a theme for First-Person Shooters:

Needs a banner logo, and I might redo the system image. Feels like it clashes to much.
Edit: @evanmoran This was the shooter one you were looking for.

Shaggy1

hi Zenjiro.

Any chance you could make a theme for the Sega Model3? aka supermodel3

https://www.gamesdatabase.org/system-sega_model_3

Zenjiro

@shaggy1 Sure, it's been on my to-do list for awhile.

Shaggy1

@zenjiro amazing, thank you so much

evanmoran

@zenjiro I'm really digging this. Thank you! You hit on all the best ones: TF2, Quake, Halo. So good!

h2805270

@zenjiro

As somebody who grew up in the East, I'm proud of your resolve to conserve our proud bootleg past.

I didn't even know what Nintendo was until I was 15 (all I knew was Super Mario, and that's it).

All that's missing is putting one of these in the image:

DTEAM

@h2805270

For bootlegs, see also Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

System all_in1

Zenjiro

@h2805270 I'm glad you like it. I never knew of the Dendy console until I watched a small documentary made by "Did You Know Gaming - Region Locked"

I also found out that the emulator Mesen has an option to target and emulate the Dendy hardware:

Retroachievements even has some of the games listed with achievements: https://retroachievements.org/game/2225

Typically for each of these themes I try to keep each panel to iconic games for that system or series. I was thinking about adding an image of one of the multi-game cartridges, but I figured I should just find games that make the system standout and shine.

Edit Feb 27th: DYKG just released this video which also seems appropriate