Switch Theme

Syhles

@lilbud
Lol, sorry I just saw the Chrono Trigger marquee and was lost for a second.

mattrixk

This will be the first, and probably last, theme I create using @mattrixk's ES Toolkit for Windows.

Aww, why is that? Anything I can do to make it better?

Edit: words are hard.

EctoOne

I like the detailed, video view. But the system view is not what I expected. I thought it would be full-screen with the system name in the middle and the boxes at the top. Should have probably seen it coming tho, since you made all the icons in the first place.

spruce_m00se

@AlexMurphy antartic adventure is wierd. I first played it on an MSX a few years ago when someone chucked one my way. I dont understand why the game goes through seemingly random countries that have little to nothing to do with the antartic! it is fun to dodge the seal though

lilbud

@mattrixk no no no, there is nothing wrong with it, it has saved my sanity. But this is probably the last theme I do.

Syhles

@lilbud
That's slightly disappointing but I appreciate all you've done so far and hope you do more in the future.

AlexMurphy

@lilbud Yeah, yeah... You'll be back. You'll get an idea and won't be able to stop yourself.

Syhles

@AlexMurphy
Crossing my fingers for a psp/ps3 style theme.

lilbud

@Syhles I'm still going to make stuff for retropie, like splashscreens, but making a theme is very time consuming, at least a whole week. Besides, there is not much to be done with ES at this point. I think development has reached it's end on ES.

Syhles

@lilbud
It's had fairly good development over the last six months, I'm not going to say that added a bunch of the things I've been wanting but they've adding stuff, we can sort games now and style the carousel.

lilbud

@AlexMurphy I probably will be back, but no more themes like this one, with 60 custom icons.

@Syhles A PS3 theme would probably be impossible, at least in ES. But it could definitely be done in @fluffypillow's Pegasus front end. Which I will take a stab at theme creation

Also, ES had made a ton of improvements since when I started with retropie 2.6, but, what else could be done that you want to see?

AlexMurphy

@lilbud No problem, totally understand but keep busy! Idle hand are the devil's playground!

mattrixk

@lilbud said in Switch Theme (WIP):

making a theme is very time consuming, at least a whole week

Hah, the Indent theme took me about 4 months to make.

AlexMurphy

@mattrixk Yeah... I laughed at that too! You obviously don't have the work ethic of young people these days.

A Former User

@AlexMurphy I'm one of those young people.

mattrixk

@AlexMurphy I think the problem is I have too much work ethic. I actually do work while I'm at work. I also lack any sort of free time, due to work and family obligations.

The only time I get to do ES related stuff is during my lunch break at work and on the nights at home after everyone else has gone to bed.

lilbud

@mattrixk Just replace work with school and you got my life.

In the next 3 weeks, I got 10 tests/final exams. I hope to get this theme done by the end of this week, and the dark variant done shortly after.

mattrixk

@lilbud Yikes. I'm so glad I finished schooling years ago. Good luck!

lilbud

@AlexMurphy said in Switch Theme (WIP):

You'll get an idea and won't be able to stop yourself.

How do you think this theme came about?

lilbud

ARE YOU READY TO BETA?!?!

This is the first beta release of the Switch theme, a few things to mention:

This is only a beta release, this is by no means finished
This only supports 6 systems at the moment, this was done so I had less systems to make changes to
If you have any bugs/glitches/crashes, post an issue on the GitHub. No angry mobs, please. :)

Github Link: https://github.com/lilbud/Switch-Beta