[Theme] CRT

alphatoanant

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)

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@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?

mattrixk

@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.

alphatoanant

@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

mattrixk

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

abodi

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?

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.

mrpinchy

@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

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.

wiltur

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

Devster

@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.

mrpinchy

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

Furluge

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. :)

Dominus

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

Nismo

@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.

Dominus

@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.

Keigan

@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

Dominus

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...

MWGemini

@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.

pjft

@Dominus and @MWGemini

Thanks. I replied in the other thread.

480x360 at 30fps don't give me the temp warning, at least in my case. 320x240 are good as well.

Most old consoles would render at 320x240 or lower, so that should be good for the majority of videos.

What I found, however, is that the available videos to download at 320x240 at EmuMovies are low quality (unsure why that would be the case, as it's clearly more resolution than the SNES, NES, or most Arcade games from Mame and FBA, but that's how they were captured...) and the 640x480 ones are actually good quality, but when resized to 320x240 become super blurry, so it isn't a decent compromise.

For MAME videos, I found

http://www.progettosnaps.net/videosnaps/

To have the majority of videos at a decent resolution for us to use, most at 320x240 and super sharp.

EDIT: @Nismo I suspect by "distant" video he means "remote" video (i.e. from a web address, rather than a local path). It's likely a translation error. That would be cool, to some extent, I suppose.

Dominus

@pjft I think most of my videos are 480p. The ones on EmuMovies are lower quality because you need a membership to get the better ones. I got mine from other places though, or old torrents.