Pixel 2: A Dump Ground

[Rookervik]

@CodeDrawer Hahaha. The book isn't set up to match the original pixel theme. So the logo, gamelist and screenshot won't line up inside the book. I was thinking about getting a nice layout and just releasing skins for Pixel. Then people could pick whichever background they wanted.

[CodeDrawer]

@Rookervik Oh. I like books, too bad! :(

[tronkyfran]

#3 and 5# are my favorites. Keep up the good work!!

[Hex]

#7 Twine Plant is my favourite. Books one is good too

[AndersHP]

Is Pixel 2 only for 16:9 formats?
I prefer #5 :)

[sergioad]

#5 all the way, or #3 as an alternative

[Rookervik]

I seem to really like a dark coal grey top bar. Then a bar you can change colors on for each system.

[Syhles]

@Rookervik
I think this is my favorite out of all of the mock-ups so far.

[cafarellidigital]

@Rookervik needs just oooonnneeee more metadata box for my OCD 😜

[Rookervik]

@cafarellidigital Heh, one more would fill it out better. I didn't even count. Just mocking things up. :D

[Syhles]

@Rookervik
Also looking closer at that new mock-up the box that I'm assuming to be the description box should extend as far as the boxes above it. Still I understand that this a mock-up.

I look forward to more mock-ups!

[Rookervik]

@Syhles Yeah, let's not nit-pick dumps that will most probably never pass mock-up phase. We can tear it apart when I choose a theme to go with.

[Syhles]

@Rookervik
I apologise that wasn't my intent.

[Rookervik]

Guess I can use this for now:

[Syhles]

@Rookervik
I like this, I would suggest using a selector image though.

[Rookervik]

@Syhles What is a selector image? I don't keep up with all the ES changes. I like my themes to be compatible with older systems, pipplware, recalbox, and windows. Because my themes come pre-packaged on pipplware, and are also available for other raspberry pi distributions.

[lilbud]

@Rookervik Instead of using a color for the gamelist selector, you can use an image instead, as seen by @ruckage

@ruckage said in Neo Geo X Build:

[Rookervik]

@lilbud Ah yeah, that's not possible in the older versions of emulationstation.

[Hex]

@Rookervik Regarding the mini Genesis in the top right corner, the contrast is not that good.

[Rookervik]

@Hex Yeah I've noticed a lot of them don't scale very well. ESPECIALLY on the raspberry pi. They can even get a white halo around them. So I'll probably remove them.

I haven't designed the system select screen yet. I'm thinking about trying the carousel bar at the bottom but make sure it works on older versions of ES as well. My pi hasn't been updated in a while and it's a lot of work to set everything up again if something goes wrong.

Also, many of the systems use black or dark grey as their background color, so those need to be changed as well. And to make it video-preview friendly... at least for my system... I need to change the name of some of the backgrounds. I'm still using an ES version that doesn't have layering added.

After I finish this up good enough to use for myself, I will probably tweak pixel so we can start working on the per-system backgrounds... theme each system. I'll get help from everyone to complete that.