[Theme] Art Book Next

StonedEdge

@alphatoanant Great themes! I wanted to ask how simple you think it is/if there is a guide to getting started porting themes from other platforms? For example, I really like the Modern-DE theme that is used on EmulationStation desktop, but I'd love to be able to use it for RetroPie. Would love to help add more themes to a repostiory somewhere as well.

I noticed you had ported a few other themes on your GitHub. Keep up the great work! Here's a couple of pictures of running the Art Book next theme and also the NX-Retropie theme. Unfortunately my screen is 5:3 so it doesn't look too good at 16:9, but I still really love it.

https://i.imgur.com/unEJeLu
https://imgur.com/CzPy8A4

esteban.canales

@alphatoanant

I just updated from binary and from source and it remains at V2.10.1RP.

alphatoanant

@StonedEdge I have been looking to create a guide for porting between RetroPie, ES-DE and Batocera. I have a good amount of notes to start with so I just need to make the time to put pen to paper so to speak =).

I will likely start with ES-DE to RetroPie as they are most close in structure. I'll post a link here when I have something up. Setting expectations it will likely be closer to December as work is really busy currently.

@esteban-canales I was able to replicate this but unfortunately have not found a way to address it. I'll continue to dig.

flaviometal

WOW! This is the most gorgeous and perfect theme to use with my crt, thanks! Your themes are very cool, Anthony.

Question: I don't know why, but the "Retropie Settings" on this theme doesn't appears to be working for me (it gives me just a black screen with blue letters and ugly font). I'm using the most recent version of Retropie (4.8), with Emustation 2.10.1RP, 4:3 AR, and Steam-OS color scheme. Anyone knows what's the problem? Thanks!

alphatoanant

@flaviometal hmm i may have the name for that system wrong in the theme itself. i’ll need to look at that.

ExcitedTech

EDIT: I totally messed up and mixed up themes. I went down a rabbit hole lol. I apologize for pinging you!

Gonso

@flaviometal IHI Friend, first of all i want to say that this is the best theme i have ever tried. Im really loving it. Thanks to @alphatoanant for his always awesome themes.

Responding your question, you only have to delete completely the retropie folder that is inside the Art book next theme, and all works like a charm!!!

flaviometal

@Gonso , thanks for the aswer. I'll give it a try, man!

EDIT: THANKS, MAN! It worked like a charm! Just renamed Retropie folder, reboot, and voilá!

fpgamesretro

@alphatoanant Hello,

Your theme is magnificent. Congratulations on your talent! 👏👏👏👏👏

I would like to feel that same joy from you, unfortunately I am having difficulty making my theme available.

I'm limited in using Github, not the slightest idea how to create a fork to make my theme available. Would you be able to clarify my ideas?

Sorry for my communication, I'm Brazilian and I don't speak English so well, I needed the help of Google translator.

alphatoanant

@fpgamesretro, if I can, I am glad to help answer any questions you have. Just let me know.

SP

@alphatoanant Your theme was always my favorite when I used to use the old emulationstation years back.

A couple of days ago I decided to try out ES 2.0 on my pc along with your Art Book Next theme and I really love it. I was wondering if you were planning on adding more colors to it. The Famicom color is my favorite, btw.

Keep up the great work.

alphatoanant

Thank you @SP! I don't have any other colors current planned but I am open to ideas as well.

SP

@alphatoanant Is there a way to remove the darkening filter on the screenshot when using the list (no metadata) variant?

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SP

Nevermind. I figured it out.

Remote

@alphatoanant Looks amazing! I'm new to retropie and doing some research on images. Does your theme work with all images?

alphatoanant

@Remote welcome! are you asking about scraped image support for any given game?

Remote

@alphatoanant Thanks for your quick reply!

Let me clarify a bit…

So I was talking to a friend who recommended to download an image with preconfigured games. He mentioned that doing this would be faster and easier than tinkering yourself.

Therefore, I was looking around for these so called images and found a couple. Here’s one that stood out: “Rick Dangerous’ Final Retropie Image”.

Now these images with preconfigured games sound helpful. But, looking around I still gravitate more to the theme you made. Just something about its simplicity makes it look awesome.

So my question then is, if I were to download and install an image such as “Rick Dangerous’ Final Retropie Image”, will I then still be able to use your theme?

Renetrox

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alphatoanant

@Remote thank you for clarifying =). I haven't worked with preconfigured images so I don't know directly but if the image uses retropie as its base then the theme in this post "should" work with it.

pjft

@alphatoanant wow. I had seen this theme in some videos but had no idea it was yours, nor that it was a follow up to ArtBook - which is still the theme I use on my RetroPie instances.

This looks gorgeous. I'll have to take a look at it. I remember having a lot of custom systems already created in the main ArtBook theme, I'll see how hard it might be to create those themes.

Congratulations - it's great to see you around and doing great work!