MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme

Nismo

@mattrixk Now emulationstation support to displat video instead of images if video are available.

I'm making a new theme and ported pixel theme to support video too.

I like your theme so I want to add video support (maybe you want to do it yourself) and share it here with the community.

Here's an example of pixel theme with video support i made:

Regards.

CthulhuAndFriend

@BuZz said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:

I'm getting the bounces.

I use it to prevent spam, what could you possibly need to email me for after I activate my account?

BuZz

@CthulhuAndFriend Why would you get spam ? Your email is private by default on the forum.

Also for things like password recovery etc. And the fact you were getting email notifications which were bouncing.

It's not up for discussion anyway.

mattrixk

@Nismo That looks pretty good. Can you point me to the thread that started it?

Nismo

@mattrixk of course: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4820/video-preview-in-emulationstation?page=1

mattrixk

Thanks @Nismo. Wow... 264 posts in that thread. This may take me a while.

Rookervik

@CthulhuAndFriend Accents and other font errors are ES problems and not theme problems.

mattrixk

Thanks @Rookervik, good to know.

Nismo

@Rookervik Not tested but it can't be fixed by using another font with special characters?

Rookervik

@Nismo Nope, I've deliberately tried fonts with complete accent and special characters and they still don't display properly. Some sort of long-standing bug in ES, sadly. I believe there are problems with the & symbol as well. I just edit my games to remove the accent or special characters to get around the bug.

Furluge

@Rookervik I noticed the pixel theme displays the accented e character property. Do you know what the difference between the two themes that makes one work and the other not work?

Rookervik

@Furluge Hmm, I can't tell you. Unless some changes have been made to ES since the Carbon days. I know we couldn't get accents working back then. (But to be honest, long ago I changed all my games to remove the accents, so I couldn't tell you if it's been fixed. LOL)

derek2k09

hey hello hehehe, i personally love that theme and i need to ask.

now with the video preview option, you have planned to update the theme to have the support for the videos to this theme??

mattrixk

Hey @derek2k09. Yes, it is on my list of things to do. I need to update all my themes to support Video Preview, but I have other stuff on my "to-do" list before it. I just finished making my ES Toolkit, so that's a big thing out of the way, but I'm also elbows deep in a new theme. Making dozens of custom console graphics is time-consuming, I don't know how Rook does it so efficiently.

I think I'm going to set a little time aside soon to update my existing themes, because it might be a while if I wait until after I've finished my new one.

herb_fargus

@mattrixk once you've incorporated video view we can update this chart:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Themes/#theme-gallery

mattrixk

@herb_fargus That page is a work of art. Also, I thought @Rookervik had updated Pixel to use video previews (although I could be wrong).

herb_fargus

@mattrixk the theme gallery is many thanks to @wetriner all I did was generate a markdown table of the theme gallery he set up.

our good friend rookervik being the genius artist that he is has been resistant to any changes that arent stable and worthy enough for his art ;) so im not sure where he is at with his themes. I know he's been pretty busy with his new job though

derek2k09

woah, thanks for your answer, hope to see it soon, i really love that theme :)

Rookervik

@herb_fargus You're very right with my time. I have no time for anything any more.

I haven't updated to the newest ES on my Pi and any theme with video tags crashes the theme. So until 90% of the RetroPie community has updated to the newest ES, I don't want to add video support to any of my themes and make them incompatible with older ES versions.

I could make multiple versions, but I just don't feel like maintaining many versions of the same thing. And I'm really totally uninterested in video previews. That's a massive amount of space to take up on your SD card. Fine if you have 20 games per system. Not for collectors like me.

I also don't like how they're implemented, I don't like how you can't control the volume of the playback, I don't like how the layering works. My current Pixel 2 is totally impossible to add video previews to because it uses 2 backgrounds. 2 Backgrounds aren't supported. <shrugs> It's just a hack job right now.

I'd rather wait for more issues to be worked out before I go and update my themes and break them on a lot of peoples' systems.

herb_fargus

@Rookervik well there is a way to implement them without breaking older builds but I'll hash through a few other themes first before I attempt yours ;)