New Comic Book Theme!
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I haven't tested yet on Recalbox ;) But I think it will work nearly out of the box...
Just using the detailed view ;)
(And maybe rename some system to match Recalbox/Retropie name, but I'm pretty sur there isn't difference ;) ) -
I suspect the only factor in using the theme in Recalbox is what emulationstation version it has. If I recall correctly from another user who tried it during development, it didn't have the WSOD fix with better texture management in memory, so that's likely a showstopper as the theme is somewhat memory heavy.
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@TMNTturtlguy Super thank you for your response, so I test the theme on recalbox and it passes without worries.
Is there a solution to scrapping the images in place of the square of the videos with xml scraper @screech
As below:
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Just scrape as usual ;)
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@screech said in New Comic Book Theme!:
Just scrape as usual ;)
It will replace the screenshot with the scraped picture.J'ai scrapper comme d'habitude mais il a simplement mis les images dans le petit carré de droite et non à la place du gros carré video
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@MikOzzZ yes, per @screech if you only have image files, then images will show up in the large black box by default, you do not need to do anything differently.
I also noticed in the screen shot that the controller is appearing in the top right corner. Did you make the change to switch from the Comic Rip characters to the controller? If you did, nice work! If you didn't, this means you have an old copy of the theme and you should download the updated version from retropie menu. Hope it all works well for you.
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@TMNTturtlguy said in New Comic Book Theme!:
@MikOzzZ yes, per @screech if you only have image files, then images will show up in the large black box by default, you do not need to do anything differently.
I also noticed in the screen shot that the controller is appearing in the top right corner. Did you make the change to switch from the Comic Rip characters to the controller? If you did, nice work! If you didn't, this means you have an old copy of the theme and you should download the updated version from retropie menu. Hope it all works well for you.
Well seen actually I have version 2.3, for the rest I did not change anything
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@MikOzzZ i see, the photo you sent is an old image i had posted a few months ago! I thought you just took that photo. Thanks
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Loving the theme, @TMNTturtlguy! Love that it has all the systems I use!
Question: I made a 'clone' (locally, not github) and was trying to simply have the only difference in "detailed" and "video" themes be the size and location of the video. Ie. the video theme would have a large video, small snapshot and detailed would have large snapshot, small video. Maybe this isn't possible, as the small video in the detailed view doesn't work.
I edited both the comic_book.xml and retropiemenu.xml in this fashion but am not getting the results I want:
Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/KYr2cN1C
Thanks for sharing your hard work!!
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@hooperre said in New Comic Book Theme!:
I edited both the comic_book.xml and retropiemenu.xml in this fashion but am not getting the results I want
First off, editing the retropiemenu.xml won't do anything for you, that is only used for the retropie menu and the only thing that file does is get rid of the meta data fields for developer, ratings, games played.
@hooperre said in New Comic Book Theme!:
Maybe this isn't possible, as the small video in the detailed view doesn't work.
You cannot have video in detailed view. That is why there are views set up. Basic is jut a gamelist. Detailed is gamelist, meta data and images, video adds video feature for the video view. It is not possible to have Video in the basic view. As soon as your game list has a video in it, emulationstation will automatically use the video view settings. I believe there is now an override option in the menu to tell ES to force a certain view in themes so you don't have to run video view. That being said, you cannot have video in basic view.
They only way to do what you would like is to create a copy of the theme with a different name, revise the video view to put the location and the size of the md_Image and then change the md_image to the size and location of the current video. You would then have a separate theme with these settings. Unfortunately you cannot mix and match on a per system basis within the same theme.
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@TMNTturtlguy Ah okay. Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me! I think that's what I'll do.
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Hi Guys! I posted a video to help get his theme installed. I also explain how ti set up he "Themes" folder as a Samba share. Most likely old news to a lot of people here but I found it helpful when working with @TMNTturtlguy . Check it out and let me know what you think!
I also wan to say to @TMNTturtlguy thanks for all this effort (and for letting me help... I've learned a lot!). The community is blowing up about it and I really think it has opened people's eyes to the potential ES has as a front-end. So many in his post contributed and I think it shows the potential of this community to work together and grow!
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Hi @TMNTturtlguy , Is it possible that you create logos in png of additional system please.
As I wish to stay in the theme of your work: Cave story, lutro, moonlight, zx81, apple2, favorites.thanks again
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I put together a video on editing the ES_systems.cfg file to take advantage of some "extra" systems we added such as Capcom, and "Hacks" or "Homebrew" games.
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@MikOzzZ Apple2 is already completed and part of the theme, how are you running cave story? That's a single game and not system? I am not sure if and when i will add more systems, but i will note note the others. What is your intention for Favorites?
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@TMNTturtlguy @MikOzzZ could Cave Story be under Ports? I've never set it up before.
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@modmaster it is under ports by default. He probably set it up under a separate system.
I don't think it's a normal configuration at all but rather a very individual customization.
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@pjft Gotcha.
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@modmaster "probably" being the important keyword here :)
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@pjft LOL! hat is what I love about this front end. Make it exactly what you want... Then change it later!
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