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    screech
    last edited by 18 Jan 2017, 15:56

    I can do lot's of things in UXS... (and you can too ;) it's widely open ;) and configuration are barely easy to understand, even if it's undocumented ;) ).
    Just ask precisely what you want. And I'll try to make it real ;) (when I have time ^^)

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      Furluge @screech
      last edited by 18 Jan 2017, 22:24

      @screech I know, but I can't ask because I am not quite sure what the theme wants currently. :)

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        HurricaneFan
        last edited by HurricaneFan 18 Jan 2017, 23:06

        @Furluge old room theme uses 3 pieces: marquee logo (also known as wheel image), video file, boxart.

        Example gamelist entry:

        	<game>
        		<path>./10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes</path>
        		<name>10-Yard Fight</name>
        		<desc>The game is viewed in a top-down perspective and is vertical scrolling. The player does not select plays for either offense or defense. On offense, the player simply receives the ball upon the snap and either attempt to run with the quarterback, toss the ball to one of two running backs, or throw the ball to the one long distance receiver - basically the option offense. On defense, the player chooses one of two players to control, and the computer manipulates the others. The ball can also be punted or a field goal can be attempted.</desc>
        		<image>./boxart/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</image>
        		<video>./videos/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).mp4</video>
        		<marquee>./marquees/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</marquee>
        		<releasedate>19851018T000000</releasedate>
        		<developer>Nintendo</developer>
        		<publisher>Nintendo</publisher>
        		<genre>Sports</genre>
        		<players>2</players>
        	</game>
        
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          HurricaneFan
          last edited by 18 Jan 2017, 23:16

          I'm noticing my NES videos are having issues with sound, it starts the videos fine but then has a small noticeable amount of time where no sound plays. Happens over and over no matter which game I'm on. When I exit emulation station I see the following error repeatedly:

          ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underpin occurred

          Has anyone else seen this behavior?

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            hansolo77 @HurricaneFan
            last edited by 19 Jan 2017, 00:26

            @HurricaneFan said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

            I'm noticing my NES videos are having issues with sound, it starts the videos fine but then has a small noticeable amount of time where no sound plays. Happens over and over no matter which game I'm on. When I exit emulation station I see the following error repeatedly:

            ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underpin occurred

            Has anyone else seen this behavior?

            Not sure if it'll help in your case, but I did a quick Google on that red quote and I found this. Might be helpful:
            https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=185736

            Who's Scruffy Looking?

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              Furluge @HurricaneFan
              last edited by 19 Jan 2017, 10:50

              @HurricaneFan Thank you. For the arcade sections is it the wheel logo under marquee and the the actual arcade machine marquee as the image?

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                Nismo @Furluge
                last edited by Nismo 19 Jan 2017, 12:41

                @Furluge For arcade (mame and fba at the moment) use marquee images instead of wheel art, then that image will be displayed in the marquee of arcade machine of the theme.

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                  naxxi
                  last edited by naxxi 21 Jan 2017, 11:22

                  hello all i'v followed all message here but i didn't find an steep by steep instruction to install and made working OdRoom, someone can give me a link or a copy - past in answer about full instruction?
                  Thanks in advance to all
                  and kiss from france

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                    daeks
                    last edited by daeks 23 Jan 2017, 07:44

                    @fieldofcows Great project, I have 2 ideas/requests:

                    • Add an option for the default media shown on detail grid - image or video - then it would be very easy to swap the media without modifying the metadata gamelist each time
                    • is there a way to add a functionallity that shows the video only on request? I am thinking on something like press X or Y to toggle video/picture instead of the other media. Advantage would be to quickly scroll through the gamelist and only watch the video if the game is more interesting
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                      fieldofcows @daeks
                      last edited by 23 Jan 2017, 08:09

                      @daeks There is an option in the theme to introduce a delay before the video starts. You can also configure it to display the static image during the delay period using another theme flag. Maybe this goes some way to meeting your requirements.

                      Have a look at the 'showSnapshotDelay' and 'delay' options in the first post here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi

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                        HurricaneFan
                        last edited by 23 Jan 2017, 21:34

                        @Nismo Any chance you can add a theme for Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket and Neo Geo Pocket Color? Also, random question: How would I build a retropie menu theme. I know you said you use EmulationStation on windows. On the Pi we have a retropie section that has 13 pi options that is unthemed with old room theme.

                        Thanks again for all the work you've put into this. I love the look.

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                          Nismo @HurricaneFan
                          last edited by 23 Jan 2017, 21:47

                          @HurricaneFan Yes i'll add that systems, last system added was sega game gear but i didn't upload that build yet.

                          I really don't understand very well what you mean 13 options not themed, maybe for my poor english, can you upload some screenshots?

                          For retropie menu... ???? retropie uses ES (Emulationstation) as gui for emulators, for making a theme for ES there is a good very nice guide on the wiki, and for adding video support you need to read the latest commits, or this thread.

                          I don't know what you mean with retropie menu.. maybe retroarch menu?, because retropie uses ES(emulationstation) for emulator gui and retroarch for emulators...

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                            HurricaneFan @Nismo
                            last edited by 23 Jan 2017, 22:10

                            @Nismo This is a screenshot of what the menu looks like in another theme:
                            https://delightlylinux.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/retropie-setup.png

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                              Nismo @HurricaneFan
                              last edited by Nismo 24 Jan 2017, 00:15

                              @HurricaneFan That's the detailed view, it's working since version 1.6 if I remember well... Can you upload a screenshot what's the problem with my theme? and... please... what version of oldroom theme do you have?? it's 1.8?

                              Thanks for the tips.

                              Edit: Wait a bit, seems you have a retropie menu that it's like another system... I didn't know that.

                              Can you tell me if in a theme, where that menu is working themed, do you have a retropie folder inside that theme folder?

                              Thanks.

                              @administrators I love this forum and the people sharing all their skills to make it going better, but... we need a way to send private messages... please, make it possible. Regards.

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                                HurricaneFan @Nismo
                                last edited by 24 Jan 2017, 01:52

                                @Nismo The retropie menu section does look like another system as in its in it's own folder and when Emulationstation is loaded you browse and select from it just like your selecting a game.

                                Example of what is in the Emulationstation Simple Retropie folder:
                                https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-simple/tree/master/retropie

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                                  HurricaneFan @naxxi
                                  last edited by 24 Jan 2017, 02:02

                                  @naxxi This thread is getting long but I'll try to help explain how this theme works.

                                  1. Make sure your roms are all scraped as in you have a gamelist.xml file populated with all of your rom names and paths.

                                  2. Download the Old Room theme: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vs3tr3sstrxud42/oldroom_1.8_720p.zip

                                  3. Place the OldRoom theme in /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes folder
                                    (not sure where you would place this if it was not on a raspberry pi)

                                  4. Update your gamelist.xml file with references to your additional media (marquee, boxart, video) files. You can download these files on sites like emumovies.com or hyperspin-fe.com .

                                  Example:

                                  	<game>
                                  		<path>./10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes</path>
                                  		<name>10-Yard Fight</name>
                                  		<desc>The game is viewed in a top-down perspective and is vertical scrolling. The player does not select plays for either offense or defense. On offense, the player simply receives the ball upon the snap and either attempt to run with the quarterback, toss the ball to one of two running backs, or throw the ball to the one long distance receiver - basically the option offense. On defense, the player chooses one of two players to control, and the computer manipulates the others. The ball can also be punted or a field goal can be attempted.</desc>
                                  		<image>./boxart/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</image>
                                  		<video>./videos/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).mp4</video>
                                  		<marquee>./marquees/10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).png</marquee>
                                  		<releasedate>19851018T000000</releasedate>
                                  		<developer>Nintendo</developer>
                                  		<publisher>Nintendo</publisher>
                                  		<genre>Sports</genre>
                                  		<players>2</players>
                                  	</game>
                                  
                                  1. Copy over all of your files (updated gamelist.xml, media files, etc) to the Raspberry Pi.

                                  2. Use the SELECT menu on the raspberry pi to select your Old Room theme you copied to it.

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                                    herb_fargus administrators @Nismo
                                    last edited by 24 Jan 2017, 02:47

                                    @Nismo we will not provide a platform for sharing ROMs. If you want more real time development there is always IRC.

                                    If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                    Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                      Nismo @herb_fargus
                                      last edited by Nismo 24 Jan 2017, 03:44

                                      @herb_fargus Mate, i'm not sharing roms and i didn't say to anybody to share roms...

                                      I'm only sharing art, not roms.... so can you tell me what i'm doing wrong please?

                                      I never share one rom in this forum or another one...

                                      Anyway I respect all admins but I don't understand what happened here, I didn't upload no one rom for any system, and i'll never do.

                                      Regards.

                                      Edit: I'm very confused about this, because the only thing I was sharing in this forum are my themes and art to everyone... and no hidding roms inside the theme... maybe you talking to another user?? and it's an error? i'm very confused...

                                      Please if someone saw to me sharing roms in this forum tell to admins... I need some help here...

                                      @fieldofcows @Zigurana @Rion @HurricaneFan @mattrixk @Rookervik @pjft @robertybob @MWGemini @amadeus @Furluge @alphatoanant @administrators

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                                        MWGemini @Nismo
                                        last edited by 24 Jan 2017, 04:22

                                        @Nismo I can't speak for @herb_fargus, but I think that what he meant is that private messages are disabled because users can send ROMs or links to ROM sites in private messages. I don't think he was saying that you had personally shared ROMs. That's how I read it, at least.

                                        @herb_fargus it might be worth adding a link to the IRC channel on the navigation bar, since many users probably aren't aware that it exists.

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                                          Nismo @MWGemini
                                          last edited by Nismo 24 Jan 2017, 04:29

                                          @MWGemini Omg, all of this because private messages? I don't think he's speaking about sharing roms because private messages, It has nothing to do, and it doesn't even go through my head, so if I request private messages you automatically thinking i'll share roms?

                                          And of course a private message it's far away to real time platform... for real time messages there are thousands of platforms instead a private message so i don't think he is speaking about that.

                                          Yes what you said could be a good reason for the forum, but I really was not thinking about roms.

                                          I needed to send private messages a lot of times in this forum and no one for sharing roms.

                                          It was just only a basic request... nothing to do with roms.

                                          But if you read carefully, he's almost saying I was sharing roms here... or maybe it's my poor english... or maybe it's just me that I can't understand things.

                                          Anyway sorry I only don't understand, don't try to offense anybody.

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