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    • FlyingTomahawkF
      FlyingTomahawk @abunille
      last edited by

      @abunille

      Thank you for your efforts. I will download both tonight and test them on Windows and RPi.

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      • abunilleA
        abunille
        last edited by abunille

        @FlyingTomahawk

        No problem.
        Its only fair if i can give something back.
        I hope it is good enough :)

        For users with "favorites"...
        I have done this also.
        A little modification in the futura.xml is needed.

        But you must decide. I love to see this theme also on other systems. (i hope it is allow to write this)

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        • FlyingTomahawkF
          FlyingTomahawk @abunille
          last edited by

          @abunille

          If you don't mind I would like to have a look at your futura.xml file.
          If you like my theme wait until you see the Newgen theme by ruckage. I based this on his theme which was never released...but he is back and will hopefully continue where he left off.

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          • abunilleA
            abunille
            last edited by abunille

            @FlyingTomahawk

            Ah yes, i know the Newgen Theme. I take a look for this theme long time ago.

            Dont laugh when you look into the xml file :-)

            futura

            I have done the "for me simplest way" (example, the positions).
            It is not my finished Version, i think i finished up the next days.

            Here you can see the not finished version:

            EDIT: Deleted the Screenshots

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            • FlyingTomahawkF
              FlyingTomahawk @abunille
              last edited by FlyingTomahawk

              @abunille

              Interesting....that favorites stuff is this in the Kids EmulationStation version?
              And I see that you use numbers like 100.58, are you using those to hide them?
              If yes, then you might want to use

              <pos>1 1</pos>
              <size>0.01 0.01</size>				
              

              ...but that is up to you.
              You said should use this in other systems? What systems do you mean?

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              • abunilleA
                abunille
                last edited by abunille

                yes, to hide them.
                Thank you for the right pos and size numbers.

                Actualy i made this theme for recalbox. And there are the favorites default.

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                • FlyingTomahawkF
                  FlyingTomahawk @abunille
                  last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                  @abunille

                  Sieht sehr gut aus. Auch gut zu sehen dass die Umlaute mit dem Font kompatibel sind.
                  I am not familiar with Recalbox. I see you used the Universal XML Scraper. My theme looks similar to yours I also put the image larger on top and bottom I have the metadata without description.
                  Please go ahead and use/change/install/share the theme when and where ever you like.

                  alt text

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                  • abunilleA
                    abunille
                    last edited by

                    @FlyingTomahawk

                    Stimmt, danke ebenso :-)
                    Die Umlaute in der Beschreibung haben aber nicht funktioniert. Das muß ich erneut testen und korrigieren.

                    Thank you for your permission.
                    When i can do something, let me know.

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                    • FlyingTomahawkF
                      FlyingTomahawk
                      last edited by

                      The Scumm and PC data looks good. I just need to find English explanation text and also find screenshots since I need them for the 10px versions too.
                      I need to take time over the weekend and do this.

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                      • abunilleA
                        abunille
                        last edited by abunille

                        No rush :-)
                        Need you the screens i have used?

                        Thanks again for the work.

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                        • FlyingTomahawkF
                          FlyingTomahawk @abunille
                          last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                          If you can't get the Umlaute to show in the system description you could change the font type to this one for example.

                          Good Times

                          I used it at the very beginning when I was building the Futura theme but it needs a commercial license to share and that is why I changed it.
                          I contacted the creator of the font and he said, if you don't share the font data itself and use it personally then it's OK.

                          Still, strange that it doesn't work there but it does in the menu at the bottom for example.

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                          • abunilleA
                            abunille
                            last edited by abunille

                            Cool, good font.
                            But i i test it again with the other.

                            When you need the screens i have used.
                            orig-screens-scummvm-pc

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                            • C
                              cylum
                              last edited by

                              I didn't realize until earlier that I used the wrong center screenshot for the Atari 2600 theme lol. Here is the one that was meant to go with it if you want to replace it. I accidentally put a screenshot for the Basketball game instead of River Raid.

                              0_1487967876697_screenshot_center.png

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                              • FlyingTomahawkF
                                FlyingTomahawk @cylum
                                last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                @cylum
                                lol, that is probably my bad I think. I chose that image.
                                I updated the image with yours and will push it to github as soon I get the MSDos and Scumm done.
                                Thank you.

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                                • FlyingTomahawkF
                                  FlyingTomahawk
                                  last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                  Futura Themes v1.3.2 now available.
                                  (Link to first post)

                                  Change log

                                  v1.3.2 - 2017-02-26

                                  • Updated Atari2600 center screenshot (Special thanks to cylum)
                                  • Added MS-Dos system (Special thanks to abunille)
                                  • Added ScummVM system (Special thanks to abunille)
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                                  • DeadStretchD
                                    DeadStretch
                                    last edited by

                                    First off amazing theme! 10px Dark is my fav.

                                    So I am running into a small issue involving the PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16. I have manually changed the 'theme' and 'platform' in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg to tg16. While booted in EmulationStation it displays as a blank theme pcengine.

                                    I've tried editing the theme.xml from system.svg to tg16.svg and that didn't change anything. Any tips/help?

                                    Thanks!

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                                    • FlyingTomahawkF
                                      FlyingTomahawk @DeadStretch
                                      last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                      @DeadStretch

                                      Thank you.
                                      The reason that is happening is there is no tg16 theme folder or theme. You have 2 choices;

                                      1.) Leave the es_systems.cfg entries as they were and just replace the logo path to tg16.svg.

                                      2.) If you really want to have a dedicated tg16 theme folder and roms folder then you'll have to copy and paste the pcengine theme folder. Then change the logo path name and change all the pcengine description stuff like system_name or system_name_year. You most likely have to adjust positions too.
                                      Also create a tg16 roms folder and add the definitions into the es_systems.cfg file.

                                        <system>
                                          <name>tg16</name>
                                          <fullname>Turbografx 16</fullname>
                                          <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/tg16</path>
                                          <extension>.pce .ccd .cue .zip .PCE .CCD .CUE .ZIP</extension>
                                          <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ pcengine %ROM%</command>
                                          <platform>pcengine</platform>
                                          <theme>tg16</theme>
                                        </system>
                                      

                                      Not sure about the <platform> part though, last time I scraped my pc engine roms a lot f them had the Turbografx 16 covers. I think if you change that to tg16 it won't be able to scrape the roms. Try it once and if it doesn't scrape revert back to <platform>pcengine</platform> like in my sample above.

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                                      • DeadStretchD
                                        DeadStretch
                                        last edited by DeadStretch

                                        I hadn't even thought about the scraped media. All of my scraped data for my pcengine roms folder all show TG16 images granted I only have 20 or so games. So maybe that is what the platform is used for?

                                        I may as well just revert the es_systems.cfg changes since your theme works a bit differently.

                                        Thanks again!

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                                        • FlyingTomahawkF
                                          FlyingTomahawk
                                          last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                          Yes platform is used for scraping. If you say most or all your scraped images are TG16 versions then just replace the logo inside the pcengine theme folder and you are good to go.

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                                            HallelujahJaffar
                                            last edited by

                                            I was wondering about this. If I download a theme that I enjoy from someone, and then modify it, some of the ones I have modified have had quite a few large modifications, is it okay to post and share with the community, with credit to the original creator of course?
                                            Or is it frowned upon to post a theme that you did not create from the ground up?
                                            Thanks guys and great work

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