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    • FlyingTomahawkF
      FlyingTomahawk @jdrassa
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      @jdrassa

      I see...
      Thanks.
      You not might happen to know how to create fake roms for testing?

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        jdrassa @FlyingTomahawk
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        @FlyingTomahawk Just save an empty text file with the appropriate extension. You can see the supported extensions for each system here https://retropie.org.uk/documentation/systems-in-retropie/

        Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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        • mattrixkM
          mattrixk @FlyingTomahawk
          last edited by

          @FlyingTomahawk: When I was making the Theme How-To for the wiki I made some fake games for the Spare theme. You can download the zip file here. It's just 15 games each for gameboy, nes and snes. They are just empty renamed .txt files, but they scrape fine with the built in scraper (not the sselph scraper).

          You can make your own pretty easily (but it's time consuming):

          • Make a new empty .txt file and rename it to game.zip
          • Paste game.zip into every single ROM directory (eg: gb, new, snes, etc)
          • When you restart ES, every system that accepts .zip format will now have a game in it called Game. This is fine for testing System View and Basic View, but as they aren't named after a real game, they won't scrape.
          • For each system, go to Wikipedia and type in "list of [system] games", then choose one from the list and rename game.zip to whatever that game is. You can also check the RetroPie Wiki to get the right file extension (eg: .gb for gameboy games, so game.zip will be Aladdin.gb).

          Like I said, time consuming, but it should do the job.

          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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          • FlyingTomahawkF
            FlyingTomahawk
            last edited by FlyingTomahawk

            Thanks guys.
            That is simple enough for me.
            Hopefully I'll be able to finish this theme in the next few days and then move it to my RPi for further testing.

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            • FlyingTomahawkF
              FlyingTomahawk
              last edited by

              I finished the theme but I need to get it running on my Pi for further testing.
              What are the right steps to do that? I accessed my Pi via FTP but can't find any theme folder.

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              • lilbudL
                lilbud
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                @FlyingTomahawk The file path is /etc/emulationstation/themes

                Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                • RookervikR
                  Rookervik Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  A less dangerous directory to place a theme is /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes This directory takes dominance over /etc/emulationstation/themes and does not require you to chmod the directory to give you write permissions.

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                    liquidzoo @Rookervik
                    last edited by liquidzoo

                    To go along with what @Rookervik said, you can also add that path to your Samba shares so you can modify the theme without SSH or FTP just in Windows Explorer (or another OS, I'm not picky). Here's how:

                    SSH into your Pi (I use PuTTY) and type sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

                    Scroll all the way to the bottom and add the following:

                    [themes]
                    comment = themes
                    path = "/home/pi/.emulationstation/themes"
                    writeable = yes
                    guest ok = yes
                    create mask = 0644
                    directory mask = 0755
                    force user = pi
                    

                    After that, you will need to restart the samba service:

                    sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop
                    sudo /etc/init.d/samba start
                    

                    Then when browsing to \RETROPIE you will see a themes folder where you can add and modify your theme all you need.

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                    • FlyingTomahawkF
                      FlyingTomahawk
                      last edited by

                      Thank you guys.
                      I'll get to it asap.

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                      • FlyingTomahawkF
                        FlyingTomahawk
                        last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                        Everything worked as explained, thanks. Putty is a very nice tool. I could create that theme folder and uploaded the theme files to my RPi.
                        I then downloaded the missing emulators/cores and put 1 fake rom in each rom folder.

                        30+ systems showed and I could finally test this theme on the resolution that it was build for. On my Notebook I only had max 1366x768.
                        Because of that all the custom text needed to be moved to its right positions again.
                        It did work with one rom in each system and detailed view worked fine too.
                        When I activated the show FPS feature in ES it showed 45-59 fps VRAM: 172.78mb (texs: 130.83mb, fonts: 41.94mb). I am not sure if the theme crashes if you have 10+ systems active with 50+ scrapped roms in each one of them.
                        Would be nice if someone could test this in the near future.

                        I think the next step now would be to create a package with a readme file and then offer it for download? Not very familiar with github. I used it once, a while back though, in combination with a program called sourcetree. Never really figured out the whole push and pull stuff.

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                        • lilbudL
                          lilbud
                          last edited by

                          I'll test if you need someone to test. You can create a README file with screenshots and info on the theme. Just a reminder, name the repository with the naming convention.

                          es-theme-futura

                          Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                          • FlyingTomahawkF
                            FlyingTomahawk
                            last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                            I somewhat managed to upload the theme to github. YEAH!
                            I have no idea how to proceed from here but I guess I'll soon find out.

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                            • mattrixkM
                              mattrixk @FlyingTomahawk
                              last edited by

                              @FlyingTomahawk Congratulations. It feels good to get your first theme up there for people to take a bite of.

                              My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                              • FlyingTomahawkF
                                FlyingTomahawk @mattrixk
                                last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                @mattrixk said in Futura Theme:

                                ...to get your first theme up there...

                                first? that is my first and last theme. :-D

                                The work behind it is very tedious and time consuming and mine is rather a simple theme.
                                I can only imagine the work behind a theme like Pixel where all the console icons and system names are self made.
                                All the people that have released themes thus far have my out most respect since I now know how much hard work is put into it.

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                                  backstander @FlyingTomahawk
                                  last edited by

                                  @FlyingTomahawk
                                  Awesome looking theme! I can see all the attention to detail!

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                                  • lilbudL
                                    lilbud
                                    last edited by

                                    @FlyingTomahawk Will you be doing the alternate color schemes shown here? http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/newgen-theme/#post-118636

                                    Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                    • FlyingTomahawkF
                                      FlyingTomahawk @lilbud
                                      last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                      @lilbud

                                      That could certainly be done.
                                      Is there a particular one you like?

                                      Or I could create a couple backgrounds and frames and let the user decide which combo he likes.

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                                      • FlyingTomahawkF
                                        FlyingTomahawk @backstander
                                        last edited by

                                        @backstander

                                        Thank you. :-)

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                                        • lilbudL
                                          lilbud @FlyingTomahawk
                                          last edited by

                                          @FlyingTomahawk Just create the backgrounds. If the frame is white, we can color it with color codes

                                          Ex: setting the frame to ff0000, would make it red

                                          Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                          • FlyingTomahawkF
                                            FlyingTomahawk @lilbud
                                            last edited by

                                            @lilbud

                                            Roger that. I'll see what I can do.

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