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      smartgenes @smartgenes
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      @smartgenes I found out the file for scroll speed is here and would have to be edited in the source code strangely enough:

      https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/escore/src/components/ScrollableContainer.cpp

      (It defines a constant called AUTOSCROLL_SPEED.)
      So, my workaround is just adding the title of game, Some Game (1988) and a blank line in the description ( <desc> in the gamelist.XML) which at least gives more reading time.

      But the text limit is odd, surely an almost infinite space should be available for text in the scroll box?

      For TMNTturtleguy's ComicBook theme, switching the order of <filledPath> and <unfilledPath> didn't work on its own (the file is also in ./art/ rather than /asset/ ). But changing the <pos> value from 0.87 to 0.82 worked.

      Also changing the <pos> value from 0.88 to 0.86 under lbl_playcount fixed the issue of the overlapping text in "last played".

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        Lolonois @smartgenes
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        I implemented a patch a while ago to let the user control the description scroll, because the reading speed depends on many factors (Theme/Font, Displaysize, Lightning, Vocabulary of description text, reading abilities of user, ...)

        What the patch enables in a nutshell:
        Hotkey held/released: Description scrolling stops/continues
        Hotkey held + Up/Down: Scroll description Up respective Down

        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/31981/control-scrolling-of-game-description-in-emulationstation

        You can upvote there to make it more likely to get it into the mainline of ES.

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          Clyde @smartgenes
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          @smartgenes said in New Comic Book Theme!:

          So, my workaround is just adding the title of game, Some Game (1988) and a blank line in the description ( <desc> in the gamelist.XML) which at least gives more reading time.

          I once made a one-liner for RetroPie's command shell that adds x number of lines at the beginning or end of each game's description of a given system.

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            smartgenes @Clyde
            last edited by

            @Clyde Yes, I read your post with the added lines script. I wondered if the scroll box would include those lines as part of its line count? If so, it's not so useful yet to me, as I'm already short of lines for description.

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              smartgenes @Lolonois
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              @Lolonois That's a great idea, for sure I would upvote a way to move up and down the text box. Only some clowns downvoted my posts so I need three up votes to be able to vote again.

              Any idea what is controlling the box's line limit? I can't see why it would need any limit at all.

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                Clyde @smartgenes
                last edited by Clyde

                @smartgenes Alas, I don't know if the limit applies to the lines or characters of the description, i.e. if /n counts as only one or two characters or a line.

                But you can test that easily by just adding 10 /n or so and see where the text stops being displayed compared to no empty lines.

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                  smartgenes @Clyde
                  last edited by smartgenes

                  @Clyde @Lolonois I've just noticed that if you switch to another console and back, then the scrolling text box doesn't reset - it continues from where it last was. So you can read the rest of the text. So emulationstation is "seeing" all the text but arbitrarily stops it after some count. So it should be changeable somehow.

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                    Lolonois @smartgenes
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                    @smartgenes said in New Comic Book Theme!:

                    Any idea what is controlling the box's line limit? I can't see why it would need any limit at all.

                    Hmm. No. But you can try Ctrl-t when EmulationStation is started with the --debug flag. Maybe it shows a hint why the bounding text box does not show all of the text.

                    I don't assume it is related to this issue FYI.

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                      Logandros
                      last edited by Logandros

                      My contribution, needed this one.

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                      • kcoconnor76K
                        kcoconnor76
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                        Anybody got a "PC-FX" logo?

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                          Sweetness
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                          So lately I've been loving this theme and I've been making stuff but I can't make my own text? I know you can use PS but I don't have it so is there any way to make it in Paint.net?

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                            Sweetness
                            last edited by

                            I just finished making a switch theme for it I think it came out pretty nice!
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                            The backround is low res because of the file limit too so.

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                              duglor
                              last edited by duglor

                              Hi, I have a Retropie.

                              1. Can i put in a request for an Apple 2G theme/art?

                              2. I also have duplicate entries in my menu for sega genesis and the sega megadrive. I know they are the same -usa version and japan, but I'd like just the sega genesis menu and not the other. A way to do this?

                              Be well.

                              Doug , age 58, in California

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                                Sweetness @duglor
                                last edited by

                                @duglor Are you talking about the apple 2G phone?

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                                  3Draco
                                  last edited by 3Draco

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                                  https://retroachievements.org/user/3Draco

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                                    3Draco
                                    last edited by 3Draco

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                                    https://retroachievements.org/user/3Draco

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                                      mitu Global Moderator @Sweetness
                                      last edited by

                                      @Sweetness said in New Comic Book Theme!:

                                      @duglor Are you talking about the apple 2G phone?

                                      I think they meant Apple2 GS.

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                                        3Draco
                                        last edited by 3Draco

                                        @duglor I hope you like it.

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                                        https://retroachievements.org/user/3Draco

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                                          duglor @3Draco
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                                          @3Draco THAT'S JUST AWESOME!! THANKS!!!

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                                            duglor @mitu
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                                            @mitu Yep :D

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