Runcommand System Splashscreens!

meleu

@Rookervik said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

Runcommand art needs to be disabled

The "launch menu art" is not required to be disabled, BUT if it is enabled the launching.jpg will only be displayed when the game has no scraped art.

English is not my native language, so this may not be very well written. I've just changed it a bit and hope that it's more clear now:

The conditions to show the custom launching image are:

Launch menu: enabled
existence of the launching.jpg or launching.png file in the proper config directory.
Launch menu art:
- disabled OR...
- enabled, AND there's no emulationstation art for the chosen game.

meleu

@Rookervik i arrived home and went to try these launching images with pixel theme... it's so beautiful that tears flowed from my eyes. :~)

Rookervik

@meleu Hahaha, glad you like them.

Rion

Omg this is so sweet! Thank you!

lilbud

@Rookervik Did you finish those flat icons for the retropie menu?

Rookervik

@lilbud They're done but they look like ass.

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I'd personally suggest using the icons already included in the pixel theme. They are in pixel/retropie/icons

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Rookervik

@lilbud I submitted them to the devs but I don't think they wanted to use them.

dankcushions

these are great! thanks :)

for anyone curious about the pixel theme, it's available in the theme manager: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes

robertybob

Perhaps this is taking the piss a bit, but it there a way for automate this? i.e. a script that'll install the images to their respective folders (assuming they've not been renamed) and also enable the launch menu + disable menu art ?

Would be pretty sweet to have this as a menu item item much like installing additional Emulationstation themes!!

dankcushions

@robertybob said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

Perhaps this is taking the piss a bit, but it there a way for automate this? i.e. a script that'll install the images to their respective folders (assuming they've not been renamed) and also enable the launch menu + disable menu art ?

Would be pretty sweet to have this as a menu item item much like installing additional Emulationstation themes!!

IMO the theme manager could do it at the same time as installing the theme.

Rookervik

@robertybob

My customization stuff is really just that; my little tweaks. For this stuff to make it into the RetroPie installer, Herb or Jools would have to create the installer and add it to the system. That's fine if they want to, but I don't want to bother them about it.

herb_fargus

@Rookervik at the very least I could probably include them in the pixel theme repo (like I did with the alternate icons)

robertybob

@Rookervik said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

@robertybob

My customization stuff is really just that; my little tweaks. For this stuff to make it into the RetroPie installer, Herb or Jools would have to create the installer and add it to the system. That's fine if they want to, but I don't want to bother them about it.

I was just thinking that it's such a neat idea, and well executed, that it would be such a shame if, over time, this was lost deep within the forums.

meleu

@robertybob OK. I'll put a link to the @Rookervik dropbox file in the runcommand wiki page.
Thanks for the idea! :-)

detron

I think these look Great! I installed them on my Retropie with no issues. thank you!

backstander

I can't wait to get home and try this out! Great work @Rookervik !

meleu

@herb_fargus I had another idea, see if you agree:
create a subdirectory in your retropie-splashscreens-extra named runcommand and then subdirectories with the runcommands launching image packages.

Not sure if I described well... Here is an example using the pixel-friendly images that @Rookervik made:

https://github.com/HerbFargus/retropie-splashscreens-extra/
    - runcommand/
        - pixel/
            - atari2600/
                - launching.jpg
            - mame/
                - launching.jpg
            - megadrive/
                - launching.jpg
            - nes/
                - launching.jpg
            - snes/
                - launching.jpg
            - ... etc...

And maybe in the future the the retropie_setup Splashscreen menu can manage the runcommad's splashscreens too.

detron

@meleu I think that would be a great idea.

also themes could include their own runcommand art, or maybe make it so the user can quickly switch runcammand "themes"

Rookervik

@detron Haha, I don't see any themers making full packs of system run command screens. That's 70 systems to do. Mine was easy since I had the art for all the systems already.

meleu

@detron said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

also themes could include their own runcommand art, or maybe make it so the user can quickly switch runcammand "themes"

I disagree. It's a matter of modularity... emulationstation and runcommand are different things.

Fortunately @Rookervik made runcommand launching images that fit nicely with ES pixel theme. But it's not a rule...

Besides that, some user may want to keep a custom launching image for a system and don't want to change it after a theme changing.

BUT I'm not the one that make decisions here! I'm just exposing my opinion. :-)