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    • DevsterD
      Devster
      last edited by

      Registered just to comment and say this theme looks great; if/when it works with the "emulationstation-kids" experimental package, I'm switching.

      I need those "favorite" and "kids" buttons along the bottom. :) Not sure if it helps, but there's some info on that package's page that migth help....

      Pi3B, Dell 19", RetroPie 4.1 (ES Kid Version)

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      • mattrixkM
        mattrixk @Devster
        last edited by mattrixk

        I can help with the kid friendly icons if needed.

        My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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        • alphatoanantA
          alphatoanant
          last edited by

          Updates 1/17:

          • Added initial child friendly emulation station icons for detail and video views (this may not work yet)
          • Added placeholder for backwards compatibility discussed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6964/video-view-for-all-themes (commented out for now - I think the commit is pending while fieldofcows is focused on metadata improvements)

          Quick Preview:
          alt text

          Download latest:
          https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt/archive/master.zip

          @ebtalk, very glad to hear you liked the updates. Thank you for the feedback!

          @Devster, I just added initial support for child friendly es icons and added a preview of what it would look like above. I think I have the elements in place but I am not sure if the child friendly version available to download through retropie setup has video view support yet so my theme might not work. I have tested it on my local instance and its looks to be good to go but I would be grateful for your help as well. If it doesn't work yet I can create a version without the video view for the time being until backwards compatibility is added (the status of which can be followed in this thread - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6964/video-view-for-all-themes). I am available to help either way.

          @mattrixk, thank you again for your help.
          Is it safe to say the 3 elements needed are:

          <image name="md_hidden">
             <origin>0 0</origin>
             <pos>0.390625 0.558</pos>
             <path>./_inc/images/hidden.svg</path>
             <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
             <color>bba35880</color>
          </image>
          <image name="md_kidgame">
             <origin>0 0</origin>
             <pos>0.4171875 0.558</pos>
             <path>./_inc/images/kid.svg</path>
             <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
             <color>bba35880</color>
          </image>
          <image name="md_favorite">
             <origin>0 0</origin>
             <pos>0.4359375 0.558</pos>
             <path>./_inc/images/favorite.svg</path>
             <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
             <color>bba35880</color>
          </image>
          

          If so is there anything else to watch out for?

          My RetroPie Themes:
          Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
          Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
          TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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          • mattrixkM
            mattrixk @alphatoanant
            last edited by

            @alphatoanant: That looks right. I had trouble for ages initially because I had extra="true" for each of them, but they didn't need it. I removed extra="true" and they worked.

            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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            • alphatoanantA
              alphatoanant @mattrixk
              last edited by

              @mattrixk, I ran into the same thing when I started working on it initially...
              If anything it helped out with testing placement =)
              Thank you again

              My RetroPie Themes:
              Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
              Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
              TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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              • mattrixkM
                mattrixk @alphatoanant
                last edited by

                @alphatoanant No wuckers. It's a great looking theme.

                My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                  abodi
                  last edited by

                  Fantasic work! I love that it's so clean.

                  Been fiddling the last couple days manually adding videos to all my games, it's so damn good.

                  If I did have one thought. The box the roms names appear in is too short for many games especially considering the font size.
                  I was looking at the theme config files and I though I found what I needed to configure to make it wider but it didn't work. Can anyone suggest what I should be looking at?

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                  • mattrixkM
                    mattrixk @abodi
                    last edited by mattrixk

                    @abodi The part you are looking for is in theme.xml (in root)

                    <textlist name="gamelist">
                      ...
                       <size>0.625 0.675</size>
                      ...
                    </textlist>
                    

                    Line 42 and line 99 (from github). The first number is the percentage of X, and the second number is percentage of Y.

                    So 0.625 is 62.5% of the screen width, and 0.675 is 67.5% of the screen height. To change the width of the gamelist, change the first number to anything from 0 to 1.

                    Alternatively you could change the <fontSize> of <textlist name="gamelist"> to make the text smaller.

                    To learn more you can read Creating Your Own EmulationStation Theme on the wiki.

                    Edit: formatting.

                    My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                      mrpinchy @sam85461
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                      @sam85461 said in [New Theme] 'CRT' with support for Video Preview:

                      Hey can anyone help me, i tried to install this on my computer version of emulation station but it shows as all white and none of the assets show up. thanks

                      I'm having the same issue on my RetroPie actually. Not sure what the issue is. I'm running version 4.1.11

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                        Nismo @mrpinchy
                        last edited by Nismo

                        @sam85461 The old windows version you can download doesn't have video support.

                        Download this one for windows: https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.7

                        It has some issues, if you have subfolders with roms inside rom folder ES crash, and if you scrape games it deletes your video tags, but it's the latest for windows with video support till next release with all bugfixes.

                        @mrpinchy seems you have a theme without video support, you need a theme that support video.

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                        • wilturW
                          wiltur
                          last edited by

                          Nice job !
                          Is there a way to use a distant video ? (like http://domaine.tld/video.mp4 )

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                          • DevsterD
                            Devster @alphatoanant
                            last edited by

                            @alphatoanant You're right - the kid friendly version of ES I have (the default) doesn't support video so it reverts to the basic "so bright white you may go blind" theme. Not sure if that's in @ZIGURANA's area or not, but I'll follow the threads to see what is up and keep an eye on it. Thanks for passing it along.

                            Pi3B, Dell 19", RetroPie 4.1 (ES Kid Version)

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                              mrpinchy @Nismo
                              last edited by

                              @Nismo I downloaded this theme directly from https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt

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                              • FurlugeF
                                Furluge
                                last edited by

                                Would it be possible to get Genre and release date displayed in there again in the theme? Possibly at the same time as players and last played? I really enjoy the release date info myself when looking through the roms. :)

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                                • DominusD
                                  Dominus
                                  last edited by

                                  How is this on resources and power when running lots of systems?

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                                    Nismo @wiltur
                                    last edited by

                                    @wiltur said in [New Theme] 'CRT' with support for Video Preview:

                                    Nice job !
                                    Is there a way to use a distant video ? (like http://domaine.tld/video.mp4 )

                                    Sorry what is distant video? I can't open the link or download the file, error for me.

                                    @mrpinchy said in [New Theme] 'CRT' with support for Video Preview:

                                    @Nismo I downloaded this theme directly from https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt

                                    Then you need to be sure that the paths to the video files are set correctly in your gamelists.xml for each game.

                                    This theme is working for me.

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                                    • DominusD
                                      Dominus
                                      last edited by

                                      @alphatoanant This is really good! I just would request that you use up more of the screen if you can. It cuts off the names of the Games on the right, and there is lots of extra space there. Also maybe expand the metadata on the left if at all possible. It says "Last Playe..." and cuts off the end there. Also increase the size of the system logo in each system menu, would be my only gripes! This is amazing, almost exactly what I've been looking for.

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                                      • KeiganK
                                        Keigan @Nismo
                                        last edited by

                                        @Nismo said:

                                        @wiltur said in [New Theme] 'CRT' with support for Video Preview:

                                        Nice job !
                                        Is there a way to use a distant video ? (like http://domaine.tld/video.mp4 )

                                        Sorry what is distant video? I can't open the link or download the file, error for me.

                                        I think he meant linked/streamed video, that he can link via url rather than have it local.

                                        I could be mistaken though

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                                        • DominusD
                                          Dominus
                                          last edited by

                                          I find the videos give me the temperature warning. Anyone else get this? Problem goes away when I plugged my fan in, but then I get the low voltage icon lol. Gonna have to figure something out here...

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                                            MWGemini @Dominus
                                            last edited by

                                            @Dominus You're the second person to report a temperature warning when playing videos (the other was @pjft in this thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi/58 ). @fieldofcows is looking into the issue, but neither he nor I have yet been quite able to reproduce it.

                                            My guess is that it's some combination of a really close fitting case (no airflow), a manufacturing defect (some chips and boards might be of lower quality), or something unique to certain videos that is over-stressing the CPU.

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