PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script
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Combining them makes it very nice indeen.
Let us choose system7.svg, agreed ?How does it look in the theme ?
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@folly said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
Combining them makes it very nice indeen.
Let us choose system7.svg, agreed ?How does it look in the theme ?
Yeah I think system7.svg is the best candidate for the final system.svg
But I haven't tried it in the theme yet. Not exactly sure how to make the XML for that or what the numbers in it represent. Will try it soon.
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@benmclean said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@folly said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
Combining them makes it very nice indeen.
Let us choose system7.svg, agreed ?How does it look in the theme ?
Yeah I think system7.svg is the best candidate for the final system.svg
But I haven't tried it in the theme yet. Not exactly sure how to make the XML for that or what the numbers in it represent. Will try it soon.
You can just use an XML from an other system.
I added it quickly, it looks like this :
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@folly Wow, that looks great! I say let's go with it. :D
What would be the next steps?
(later edit) I was gonna say somebody should add the Pokemon Mini system but apparently there's already a pull request pending for this.
(later later later edit) How would I get started making my own EmulationStation theme? I'd like to make one which looks a little like the SNES "Super Mario All Stars + World" menu (like what inspired Carbon) but shows the different systems as overlapping sections on a historical timeline based on their commercial lifespans, (maybe with optional info boxes that show up that have some historical information about each console and a picture of the physical device) and which also defaults to large print for everything cause I'm visually impaired. It'd be themed like a virtual museum of gaming history.
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@benmclean This might be an obvious answer but have you seen the Retropie Docs page on Creating Your Own EmulationStation Theme?
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@ln_rc said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@benmclean This might be an obvious answer but have you seen the Retropie Docs page on Creating Your Own EmulationStation Theme?
No, didn't know that one existed. I'll definitely read up on that, thanks.
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@benmclean said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@folly Wow, that looks great! I say let's go with it. :D
What would be the next steps?
It should also have that controller.svg .
As the carbon theme is the default it should certainly be added to that theme.
You have to make a fork of :
https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon
Then add your theme and do a pull request so it can be added.I have learned now that they want everything in one commit.
Before doing a pull request ask Mitu or Buzz if the commit is enough otherwise you get tangled in pull request without knowing what to do next.
Read this and you know what I mean :
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3400 -
@folly it's pretty standard for projects wanting changes grouped into single commits, but squashing commits is a 1 minute job in the command line once you know how. i know it's a pain but i encourage you to learn git on the command line: https://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial - it's a useful skill these days!
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@dankcushions said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@folly it's pretty standard for projects wanting changes grouped into single commits, but squashing commits is a 1 minute job in the command line once you know how. i know it's a pain but i encourage you to learn git on the command line: https://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial - it's a useful skill these days!
If I get a good or at least reasonable pull request put in for adding pico8 to Carbon, will it take months or years to be merged in? I see other PRs sitting there a long time.
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@dankcushions said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@folly it's pretty standard for projects wanting changes grouped into single commits, but squashing commits is a 1 minute job in the command line once you know how. i know it's a pain but i encourage you to learn git on the command line: https://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial - it's a useful skill these days!
Well it seems I did manage the squashing part, but the pushing part did't work
Thanks for giving me the link, I will look into it deeper.
Hopefully I will get the picture ;-) -
@benmclean said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@dankcushions said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@folly it's pretty standard for projects wanting changes grouped into single commits, but squashing commits is a 1 minute job in the command line once you know how. i know it's a pain but i encourage you to learn git on the command line: https://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial - it's a useful skill these days!
If I get a good or at least reasonable pull request put in for adding pico8 to Carbon, will it take months or years to be merged in? I see other PRs sitting there a long time.
Please, do continue, otherwise we don't get any further and that would be a shame as we are almost there.
I think the pico-8 will be accepted much sooner than other systems. -
@folly said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@dankcushions said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@folly it's pretty standard for projects wanting changes grouped into single commits, but squashing commits is a 1 minute job in the command line once you know how. i know it's a pain but i encourage you to learn git on the command line: https://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial - it's a useful skill these days!
Well it seems I did manage the squashing part, but the pushing part did't work
Thanks for giving me the link, I will look into it deeper.
Hopefully I will get the picture ;-)You have to force push like a Jedi in order to rewrite history like that.
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This is what happens when I try to load emulationstation on Windows.
So I guess something about how the Windows version draws SVGs is messed up.
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Can you share your controller.svg ?
Let me see how it looks on Linux. -
@folly said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
Can you share your controller.svg ?
Let me see how it looks on Linux.I tried it on RetroPie and it looks correct on there. Just not on Windows. Weird.
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Not sure what the problem is.
I had a look at the system.svg .
I can pop out all objects so it seems to be a pure .svg .
Nevertheless vector images and inkscape can be a pain.Are the other systems looking good on windows ?
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@folly said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
Not sure what the problem is.
I had a look at the system.svg .
I can pop out all objects so it seems to be a pure .svg .
Nevertheless vector images and inkscape can be a pain.Are the other systems looking good on windows ?
The Windows version I set up only had SEGA Genesis and Super Mario War which looked OK.
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@benmclean are you running retropie on windows or is it just emulationstation ?
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@unknown said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@benmclean are you running retropie on windows or is it just emulationstation ?
It was just the emulationstation portable build for Windows provided in the tutorial of how to make your own themes.
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The hold-up at this point is the controller.svg. I'm going to try a few different things to decide what looks best before submitting the PR.
I might also want to do TIC-80 and LowRes NX soon-ish.
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