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    • RookervikR
      Rookervik Global Moderator @backstander
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      @backstander I agree! That one looks tight. Great find! I will be doing this one for sure. Should I color the PC Engine red and then make the CDROM2 white outline and black inside? (needs to be visible on both dark and light backgrounds.

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      • RookervikR
        Rookervik Global Moderator @Rookervik
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        Eh, scratch that. It's the pixel theme. That's too much detail to squish into a 196x32 title image. Going to have to go with just CD-ROM2 or maybe put PC-Engine on the side.

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          backstander
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          @Rookervik Yeah that is a lot to put into a 196x32 image. As long as you feel like it's good then I'll be okay with it :-)

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          • RookervikR
            Rookervik Global Moderator @backstander
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            @backstander Aight, PCE-CD is finished. On to MVS before I zip it all up.
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              backstander
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              Thanks @Rookervik the logo looks great!

              Perhaps later on we can buy Buzz some beers and rub elbows and see if we can just get the folders. Or perhaps a script that we could run that would add the folders and the system entries to the es_systems.cfg. Then we can just add our roms to either PC-Engine or TurboGrafx and they would be assigned to that theme without any editing on the command line.

              I'm okay with the option to add these manually but having them a single folder by default. Personally I really enjoy editing es_systems.cfg to have the split directories.

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                backstander
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                @Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

                Turbo Grafx already has a section in Pixel. TGCD as well.

                Oh I just figured out why I thought the Pixel theme didn't have TurboGrafx CD, the Carbon theme's directory is "tg-cd" and Pixel's directory is "tgcd".

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                • RookervikR
                  Rookervik Global Moderator @backstander
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                  @backstander That's a really good catch. I need to make sure it's the same as Carbon. Let me make that change before I upload this.

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                  • RookervikR
                    Rookervik Global Moderator
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                    Ok, made the change to Turbo Grafx CD; made the Pixel directory reflect Carbon's "tg-cd" so now you don't need to edit your es_systems.cfg. Thank you very much for bringing that up.

                    And with that, Pixel goes to v1.92 with SNK NeoGeo MVS and PC Engine CDROM. Download updated on the main post. (up there at the top, or I guess here. Hang on let me get the link again.)

                    [Pixel v1.92]

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                      backstander
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                      Thanks @Rookervik great work but I found another small issue. Carbon has "pce-cd" and Pixel has "pcecd".

                      Also I didn't realize you had Pipplware support! That's awesome! I've been wanting to give Pipplware a try!

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                      • RookervikR
                        Rookervik Global Moderator @backstander
                        last edited by Rookervik

                        @backstander Pipplware is, sadly, now obsolete. There hasn't been an update since RetroPie 3.7. And trying to update your Pipplware distro with RetroPie 4.0.3 doesn't work too well.

                        I'll jump in and change PCE-CD as well. Thanks for this diligent bug checking. I can draw these stupid graphics, but I have terrible organizational skills.

                        UPDATE: Ok, it's updated. Didn't bother making a new version. Just re-download the same link and it will have the fixed PC Engine folder. Thank you again. :D

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                        • RookervikR
                          Rookervik Global Moderator
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                          Guh. I know I promised this like 6 months ago. Almost done.
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                          • RookervikR
                            Rookervik Global Moderator
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                            Been a long time coming. I am sorry it took me forever. Pixel theme with metadata... instead of system art and information. I made the screenshot/boxart smaller and brought the bar up to make more room for metadata. All tags are included for all of you lovely OCD people. :P

                            Pixel-Metadata Edition: Download

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                            • herb_fargusH
                              herb_fargus administrators @Rookervik
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                              @Rookervik I wish I had a more efficient way of utilising assets for different ES theme varyations. There are a bunch of themes and variations from you that get lost in the weeds perhaps I should set up a few more repos...

                              If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                              Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                              • RookervikR
                                Rookervik Global Moderator @herb_fargus
                                last edited by Rookervik

                                @herb_fargus Eh, everyone wants something different from a theme. I don't have too many. Luminous, Luminous Mini, Pixel, Pixel TFT, Pixel with Metadata... isn't that it? Really just 2 themes with a couple variations. And from what I know, only Pixel is available in the downloader isn't it? People can just get them on the forum.

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                                • herb_fargusH
                                  herb_fargus administrators @Rookervik
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                                  @Rookervik Perhaps. well I may set up a few of them on github just so I don't lose track of them if that's cool with you.

                                  If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                  Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  • RookervikR
                                    Rookervik Global Moderator @herb_fargus
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                                    @herb_fargus yeah, that's fine. I should probably think about setting up a site or something for my various customizations. Different themes, splash screens, movies, runcommand screens, kodi art, stuff like that.

                                    But in case we're too far off topic, Pixel now has a meta data version. Check a couple posts above, or the main post at the top for a download link. Let me know if it's not lined up or something. And "not lined up" I mean really far off. Haha. Metadata is a B to align in ES.

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                                    • RionR
                                      Rion @Rookervik
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                                      @Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

                                      Been a long time coming. I am sorry it took me forever. Pixel theme with metadata... instead of system art and information. I made the screenshot/boxart smaller and brought the bar up to make more room for metadata. All tags are included for all of you lovely OCD people. :P

                                      Pixel-Metadata Edition: Download

                                      Any plans to support emulationstation-kids?

                                      Love you work and pixel is the theme i install everytime :)

                                      FBNeo rom filtering
                                      Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                                      Fba Arcade Bezels
                                      Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                                      • RookervikR
                                        Rookervik Global Moderator @Rion
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                                        @Rion Carbon has support for ES-kids but it didn't work from what I was told. The author of that version of ES never got back in touch with me so there's no way I know of to get it working. :(

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                                        • mattrixkM
                                          mattrixk
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                                          @Rookervik: Pixel with metadata? Woo! This makes me happy!

                                          @Rion: I created MetaPixel based on Rook's original Pixel theme because I liked it but wanted metadata. I also wanted something that worked with Zigurana's child-friendly ES, so I got that working too.

                                          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                          • RookervikR
                                            Rookervik Global Moderator @mattrixk
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                                            @mattrixk You'll have to give me a little insight with the child friendly. Zigurana said that Carbon's child-friendly icons weren't showing up even though I followed the instructions from his thread. But then he never got back in touch with me. So I'm in the dark. Especially not having child friendly available

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