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    • AliendonA
      Aliendon
      last edited by

      Love this theme, I have a desktop system category also on my emulationstation, is there any way you can make a pixel theme for that system on here to?

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      • InsecureSpikeI
        InsecureSpike
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        this is cool! love it!

        RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
        RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
        both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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        • dankcushionsD
          dankcushions Global Moderator
          last edited by

          favourite theme! thanks so much :) did you ever get around to the euro super nintendo image/logo?

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          • meleuM
            meleu
            last edited by

            I would love to show this splash screen (on a high definition) before the amazing pixel theme:

            Image from petrockblog twitter

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              tronkyfran
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              My favorite theme and the one I use, your work is awesome!!!!!

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              • RookervikR
                Rookervik Global Moderator @dankcushions
                last edited by

                @dankcushions
                I think I worked on it. I know I made the Super Famicom separately. The European SNES logo is the same as the American logo. I remember someone checking their SNES and noticed the logo was the same, even though they thought it was different. So if the European SNES looks like the SFC, just use the SFC system. Then you can move around logos if you need.

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                • RookervikR
                  Rookervik Global Moderator @Aliendon
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                  @Aliendon
                  You can easily make any system you want. Just copy a system and make a couple adjustments to the XML. Choose whichever system has the colors you want for desktop. Then you just need to make a couple of icons. I wouldn't know what icons to make. I just launch the desktop from the ports menu. What is included in your desktop menu?

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                    General_Toxic @Rookervik
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                    @Rookervik

                    Do you have any plans to merge this theme with the 'child friendly' Emulation station? I've tried myself but it always seems to crash for me.

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                    • RookervikR
                      Rookervik Global Moderator @General_Toxic
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                      @General_Toxic
                      I don't have a version of Child Friendly ES to edit the theme for. It will require removing the flair text and the console images to make room for the icons. So, basically a theme re-design. And each of the 60+ system XMLs will have to be edited. That's... a lot of work. LOL. Unless it's an OMG we HAVE TO HAVE THIS I'd rather not work on it yet. I have looked into it. I will definitely make the changes if RetroPie moves to make Child Friendly the default ES.

                      Also, making the changes for Child Friendly would make large blank areas for non-child-friendly, other distros, and windows and linux versions of EmulationStation. So I'd actually need to fork my own theme and maintain 2 separate themes. One for regular ES, and one for Child Friendly -_-

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                        General_Toxic @Rookervik
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                        @Rookervik
                        Well, It was never going to be easy, I guess that's why mine keeps breaking :D

                        Thanks for the reply anyway, awesome theme and my default from now on.

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                        • InsecureSpikeI
                          InsecureSpike @General_Toxic
                          last edited by InsecureSpike

                          @General_Toxic said in Pixel Theme:

                          @Rookervik
                          Well, It was never going to be easy, I guess that's why mine keeps breaking :D

                          Thanks for the reply anyway, awesome theme and my default from now on.

                          I think the tags at the top of the xml file are different too, have a look at each of them, changing them may make it work, but you won't have the added extras for kid-friendly....
                          but there's a high possibility it may break it

                          edit: if I remember correctly there's an xml version number in the top tags of each xml file of the theme

                          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
                          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                          both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                          • AliendonA
                            Aliendon @Rookervik
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                            • meleuM
                              meleu
                              last edited by

                              I left the laziness behind and did a googleimages search, and found the splash screen (1920 x 1080) to perfectly match with pixel theme. Guess where?! petrockblock.com (d'oh!)

                              http://blog.petrockblock.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pixel-Art.png

                              @administrators can you please make this image an "official" splash screen?

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                              • AliendonA
                                Aliendon
                                last edited by Aliendon

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                                Thank you for your help. Best theme ever. The only thing in my desktop section is just the Desktop sh file to launch me straight to XFCE since i didnt care for LXDE. didnt know how to make the word desktop pixelated but still works for now.

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                                • RookervikR
                                  Rookervik Global Moderator @Aliendon
                                  last edited by

                                  @Aliendon
                                  Ah yeah, I totally just threw XFCE in my Ports section. Way easier (and less systems to have to scroll through). LOL. Looks good tho. Used the DOS pixel art ^_^. Nicely done.

                                  I made a boot splash image on the old forum. Haven't linked it here. Little less blocky than that one.
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                                  Massive pixels are a little distracting :P

                                  Here's a pixellated Desktop image if you want to use it. Made a gradient so you can be sure to see it on a dark background.
                                  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60872572/Forum Topic Files/Retropie_Forum/desktop.png

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                                  • AliendonA
                                    Aliendon @Rookervik
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                                    @Rookervik
                                    Thank you so much, you absolutely Rock. Will apply them to the theme in tomorrow and take a pic and post it. went with the blue background instead of the black one, looks way better now, i had XFCE in my ports section but just wanted some thing different and had way to many things in the port section, keep up the good work and thank you again.

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                                      Aliendon
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                                        General_Toxic @InsecureSpike
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                                        @InsecureSpike @Rookervik
                                        I believe the term is 'do'h'

                                        Just realized kid friendly mode does work with any theme, but it's only if you want the extra UI options you need to edit all the XML files...

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                                        • InsecureSpikeI
                                          InsecureSpike @General_Toxic
                                          last edited by

                                          @General_Toxic said in Pixel Theme:

                                          @InsecureSpike @Rookervik
                                          I believe the term is 'do'h'

                                          Just realized kid friendly mode does work with any theme, but it's only if you want the extra UI options you need to edit all the XML files...

                                          did you try it? it was just a theroy, I suggested

                                          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
                                          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                                          both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                                            General_Toxic @InsecureSpike
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                                            @InsecureSpike
                                            Yeah I tried this evening and it seems to work fine - Did the usual testing via menu options, locking, unlocking etc. and no issues since the update a few days ago -

                                            Only thing I didn't do was put it in kid mode, just full and kiosk but it seems fine...

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