Pixel Theme

mattrixk

In addition, we can finally get rid of the hard-coded metadata-label texts, let them be themed entries that are simply text elements with a certain value.
Also, I still have some ideas floating around about combining multiple types of metadata into a single string response by ES.

Yes please. I don't know how it would work, or how you'd get it to work, but I'd love something to happen with the way metadata is output.

fieldofcows

@Zigurana It seems like I've gone quiet on this forum but I've been beavering away...

I'm currently deep in a metadata rework. I had a look at the 'unstable' Aloshi branch which uses sqlite to store the gamelist but wanted to take it one step further. I've implemented a new game data library that separates the list of configured games from the metadata. This makes for a much neater separation between configuring and scraping a system.

This gives us the benefit that saving/loading gamelists and metadata is pretty-much instant but this isn't the real reason I am working on this. The main reason is to store the metadata as tag/values meaning the metadata fields are easily extendable or changeable.

I've also added the ability to specify any tags along with each game (think 'kid friendly' or 'favorite' or 'vertical scroller'). It should be really easy to then build on what you've done and filter on these tags, or even metadata fields.

Again, this is the wrong place to discuss this so sorry everyone wanting to read about the pixel theme. Maybe we should start a new topic?

Zigurana

@fieldofcows
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Yes, please!

fieldofcows

@Zigurana Moved to new topic: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6985/metadata-improvements-in-emulationstation. Sorry again for the off-topic posts.

Necro

@Rookervik Just confirming it's not just me - Pixel-Metadata has NOT been updated with the new graphics, correct?

Rookervik

@Necro Correct. I need to do that real fast. Was working on Carbon and playing Minecraft. :D

Rookervik

Hokay, Pixel -Metadata- has also been updated in the same way regular Pixel was. Just update from the theme updater.

Necro

@Rookervik Great! One comment - the SuperGrafx logo. Personal preference - it looks MUCH better without the black background. Not sure if that was intended to be transparent, but maybe with the black border your doing now it would look better. The black 'square' just looks out of place.

Rookervik

@Necro Feel free to use the old logos! I do not mind at all :D Especially since the Super Grafx only had 4 games ever made for it. Hahaha. /me runs off to the back of the house

Rookervik

@Necro But in all honesty, the SuperGrafx logo didn't change much from the original from Pixel. And the colors are sampled from an actual Super Grafx console.

All logos were enhanced to be visible on a light or dark background. Super Grafx only got some highlights to bring it in line with the rest of the logos.

And the Super Grafx logo has been like that for months and months. Too late for complaints now! :P

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Necro

@Rookervik I just noticed it now because...well...it's SuperGrafx :) All I did was remove the black from the image and have just the text. Understand the contrast issue - just think it's harring to have the black borders and all - looks out of place with all of the other transparent logos in the them. You're theme - I can always edit mine later :)! And thanks again for the kick-ass theme!

goodpi31

Thanks so much for sharing! I'm using this theme- it's beautiful :)

mvmiranda

I really love this theme! It's imply awesome!
Do you plan on creating "separations" for rom sets, like Capcom, SHMUPs, etc?
I'd like to have those!
Thx!

Rookervik

@mvmiranda Uhh, I'm not even sure you can easily separate romsets inside a system. You can do it with some xml magic on the gamelists utilizing the <folder> tag, but that seems like a lot of work. So I hadn't planned on making GENRE tag graphics.

I do need to see if I can skin the different MAME emulators tho. I recently tried another mame and was like "what the hell, which mame is which?" haha.

mvmiranda

@Rookervik Well, if you dig right :) you can find already split romsets insite systems. I already have a folder with every CPS1, 2 and 3 ROMs for MAME, NeoGeo only ROMs, SHMUPS only ROMs, and so forth.
They are not tag separated, but "physically" (if you know what I mean).

BTW, I spent some time today doing a "for me only" SNES Hack logo based on your original SNES one. It came out good-ish, IMO, but I couldn't make it to work (cloned SNES folder inside pixel theme, added a system block tag inside es_systems.cfg (clone from snes), changed the logo only, but it only works for the first ROM I run then it crashes for every other attempt.
Wanna take a look at the logo?
PS: I don't plan on sending it to anyone else.

pauwus

Hi guys, can anyone help me? I'm very much a newbie so will need to be handheld on this. How can I change the picture of the Snes to the EU variant? I've scoured online but I'm just not quite there with figuring this stuff out. Would really appreciate some help (and perhaps a step by step!). I'm using the pixel-metadata theme.

J.Beau

I love your work! Using the launch images as well! Is there also a Megadrive 32x/Mega CD logo?

mattrixk

@pauwus: You'll need to FTP/SSH into your Pi and find the themes folder (someone else will have to help you with this, sorry).

Once you're in the Pixel folder, go into the 'snes' folder, rename console.png to consoleUS.png, then rename consoleEU.png to console.png.

Now, in RetroPie switch to a different theme, then switch back to Pixel and it should show the new image.

Rookervik

@J.Beau I do not have megacd or mega32x logos. Can you give me examples of them so I might add them to the theme?

Nismo

@Rookervik Here you have mega cd and sega 32x logos:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3226/es-custom-logo-pack-includes-specific-mame-logos/21