Pixel Theme

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

J.Beau

@Nismo Thanks!!

J.Beau

@Rookervik Awesome!!!

Rookervik

@Nismo Thanks, I'll get some pixel logos created for these.

-Edit: Might be easiest to just remove the "genesis" from the 32x logo. LOL.

Rookervik

On the topic of European VS American system names... how would you like these packaged? I suppose there are several ways to do it...

Release a Euro and an American version of the theme. Wouldn't require any effort on your part. Really annoying for me to keep track of.
Continue to pack the European logos named logo2.png in the theme folders. You would continue to need to break into the theme and rename the files if you want the European logos.
Add folders in the theme for the European versions of systems. And you can change your es_systems.cfg to point to the correct theme you want to use for your games. So instead of segacd going to the theme 'segacd' it would go to 'mega-cd'

I don't care which of the last 2 options... I do care having a second repository created and having to maintain that one as well. I'd rather not do that.

What are your thoughts?

Rookervik

New logos have been added to the segacd and sega32x folders. Update the theme and get to replacing logos. I won't bother updating the main post of the thread right now.

Nismo

@Rookervik I think that add folders in the theme for the European versions of systems, and select the theme in es_systems.cfg it's the right way to do it. Also there are more themes that do the same for european names of systems.

Maintain two versions of a theme have no sense when you can simply add the folders.

Of course it's just humble opinion, but it's just the way I do in my theme.

Regards.

mattrixk

Which systems have the 2 different versions? The only ones I can think of are:

PC Engine/Turbo Graphix 16
MegaDrive/Genesis
Other sega stuff like the segaCD/megaCD
SNES/SNES (both US and EU are called the same, but have a different console. Then you have the Famicom in there somewhere too)

There are probably others, but that's all I know of.

I don't mind making a separate folder for each, then the user can change their config file to point to whichever they want to use. I'm just curious how to get around that with the SNES though.

backstander

@Rookervik
I think the 3rd option would probably be the best for everyone but like @mattrixk said "I'm just curious how to get around that with the SNES though". I think just for the SNES you could do the "pack the European logos named logo2.png in the theme folders" option.

Thank you @Rookervik for your awesome work and maintaining these themes that you do! We all appreciate it!

Nismo

@mattrixk @backstander I don't understand what's the problem for snes, you can have as many folders as you need and with the names you want.

For example Snes, SnesUSA. SnesEU, SnesJAP, Superfamicom, Sfamicom...

mattrixk

@Nismo hmm, interesting thought. Could just have 'snes' as the default, then a 'sneseu' folder.

Nismo

@mattrixk Yes that's what I mean.

pauwus

@mattrixk Thanks for the advice. I'm happy to go in and rename the image - I'm just not sure where to find that image when FTP/SSHing into the Pi. As far as I can tell the themes are located in the etc/emulationstation folder which is inaccessible via FTP? I'm using samba shares via Mac and can't find the themes folders (I might be looking in the wrong place!). I can SSH in but I'm not sure how to find that image file and rename it. Can anyone advise?

backstander

@pauwus

As far as I can tell the themes are located in the etc/emulationstation folder

Mine is also located at:
/etc/emulationstation/themes/pixel/

After you have SSH'd into your RPi...
you need to change the working directory to the snes folder inside of the pixel theme folder by typing:
cd /etc/emulationstation/themes/pixel/snes/

Then rename the files:
mv console.png consoleUS.png
mv consoleEU.png console.png

Last restart either ES or your RPi.

Nismo

@pauwus said in Pixel Theme:

I'm happy to go in and rename the image.

Renaming the image it's not the right way to do the things, just because for some systems need to do more changes than only the logo (depends on the theme).

Example with snes:

Snes usa.

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European Snes.

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Offtopic: I think the european snes it's by far more cool than american version.

Snes japan (super famicom).

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For example for Super famicom you need to change the logo and the console, that's because the use of different folders, yes you can change images, but it's more easy to select the theme for the suystem in es_systems.cfg.

Also in other themes it's more elements to change, maybe need to change some parameters in xml to resize some elements or change descriptions. That's because the use of folders.