New Comic Book Theme!

[TMNTturtlguy]

@modmaster I saw it, will shoot you an e-mail. Are you ok with just using the arcade background i already have done for all of the FBA and Mame backgrounds? I don't see a need to redo them at all.

[modmaster]

@TMNTturtlguy yeah definitely! I forgot you had one. Here is what I have left on my short list:

master system
mega drive
neo geo
neo geo pocket
neo geo pocket color
pc-engine
sega 32x
sega CD
sg-1000
turbo graphics 16
Super Grafx

[TMNTturtlguy]

@modmaster could master system and mega drive just reuse the sega genesis? I suppose the controllers need to change?

[modmaster]

@TMNTturtlguy mega dive/genesis yes ill do a mastersystem

[dizmodawg]

When will this theme be available and does it support Daphne? as that is one of my favorite systems!

[TMNTturtlguy]

@dizmodawg the theme is already available, scroll way up on the thread and you will find the links. All systems are currently supported however daphne uses standard logos and a generic background for the time being. @modmaster and I are working on completing logos and backgrounds specific to each system now. The daphne logo will be included in the next update for sure. Look for the update sometime in the next 2-3 days. Keep checking this thread. Thanks

[dizmodawg]

@TMNTturtlguy said in New Comic Book Theme!:

@dizmodawg the theme is already available, scroll way up on the thread and you will find the links. All systems are currently supported however daphne uses standard logos and a generic background for the time being. @modmaster and I are working on completing logos and backgrounds specific to each system now. The daphne logo will be included in the next update for sure. Look for the update sometime in the next 2-3 days. Keep checking this thread. Thanks

Also could you please do a tg16, segacd, mastersystem, 3do? And eventually i hope you do every retropie supported system like coleco and scum!

[modmaster]

@dizmodawg Definitely! I am hoping the next release will have everything in the current build and all of your requests eventually every system will have its own background!

[TMNTturtlguy]

@modmaster @dizmodawg We are trying to get as many systems into the next release as possible. It takes a lot of time to update everything on github, and I don't want to keep having to make everyone download and install the system over and over again to get a few updates. My hope is for a big release for the 16:9 V2 possibly tonight, but for sure before the end of the weekend. We will then follow up with a few smaller updates to complete more of the backgrounds.

[fatelvis1]

This may be a stupid question but where do you have to put the video files to get them to load in the theme?

[TMNTturtlguy]

@fatelvis1 did you scrape for video? you need to have the video files in your gamelist.xml for each system. The gamelist tells the theme where to pull the video from. There are a few placed you can put these files including in a "downloads" folder within the roms folder, or in a "downloads" folder within the .emulationstiation folder. I don't have access to send a link right now, but i would search the forum or the documents, otherwise youtube also will show you how to accomplish this.

[fatelvis1]

@TMNTturtlguy I was not aware there was an option to scrape for videos. i will take another look.

[felleg]

@TMNTturtlguy We can scrape for video? I didn't know about that either. I did a quick google search: does this require the Universal XML Scraper? Does it work on the Pi or Windows only? If that's not the proper tool, what must we use, sselph's?

I don't mean to derail the thread, sorry in advance!

[backstander]

@fatelvis1
Easy way to add video and marquees tags in your gamelist for video support (in Windows 7/10)
A lot of users will put the videos in a "videos" subfolder in the rom system's folder.
Example: ~/RetroPie/roms/nes/videos/

[pjft]

Wow. So much progress these last few days!

Would it help if tomorrow I still at least get you raw/clean images and controllers for the ZX Spectrum, as it seems it's not been mentioned recently?

[TMNTturtlguy]

@pjft that would be great! The logo is done for that one already!

[TMNTturtlguy]

@nismo when using riot to compress the images, the dots stay clear but the colors get very muddy and the look is not good. I am thinking I can correct this by going with 720 instead of 1080 images but keeping some of the file sizes at 512. Only the newer systems would be 512. Most older systems with simple color schemes would be under 400kbs. I know you don't like 720 images at 512kbs, but do you see any issues? We will get clearer crisp images and better color this way. I think the 720 will still look ok on larger screens. I will test on my 4K for sure. Thanks for the input.

[pjft]

@TMNTturtlguy Great!

Here's the link. I got a few images - I started with comic/cartoons related only images, but soon noticed that the majority of them weren't especially colorful, so then went on to some more iconic ZX Spectrum games.

https://mega.nz/#!1ccRACbB!l1PmBrmyy04TKXiZnd-IOexmFjaMyNoJKm8t1Z-RBxo

Let me know if these work - several are original resolution, which means they'll need to be scaled on your end. Also, let me know if you have any preferences in regards to the games or images - i.e. do you want them more comic/cartoon related, more "best games of the system", more "most iconic games" of the system?

I believe you can get a mix from here, but let me know.

Thanks!

[TMNTturtlguy]

@pjft thanks, i am creating this background now and it will be included in our next release!

[pjft]

@TMNTturtlguy thanks! As I said, let me know what kind of images or games you'd want represented and I'm happy to find them. :)