PS1 theme

DD-Indeed

Quick feedback:

The images makes it slow down a bit, when you move between the working console images. But when going into the PS1/PSP/RetroPie icons, they move smoothly due the lacking photos and finish. Otherwise, I love it!

edmaul69

@lostless looks good so far. Still could use some more systems of course. I only need the splash logos myself. I am going to remove the consoles to use on mine. I really prefer the simplicity with no photos. Thanks for making this sweet theme. Cant wait for more.

lostless

@dd-indeed I've only tested on a pi3 and noticed no slow down. What are you using?

DD-Indeed

@lostless

Pi3 too. But, it seems that the carousel-effect does that. I now disabled it and it's much more smoother. But with carousel, it looks even better. I lifted up the RAM limit for EmulationStation up to 300 MB, but that didn't do any difference.

lostless

@dd-indeed I've seen slowdowns other themes with a lot of separate assets. To make mine work at different resolutions and ratios, I had to separate out all the different elements and not just make them all part of the backeound image.

DD-Indeed

@lostless

Okay, cool. I'm not worried about it, it's great theme, just what I had wanted. And this is still in beta nevertheless, so surely you will optimize and polish it more.

Edit: Btw, when we were talking about the fonts, I think that this is the true PS1-style font:
(http://www.dafont.com/zrnic.font)

lostless

@dd-indeed lol that's the font I originally used that someone said that looked too modern.

DD-Indeed

@lostless

For real haha ? They used the same font on PS2 stuff, so maybe that's why some people think it as too modern. But it's up to you, I like the looks nevertheless, but of course, I wanna help you to polish this into something it truly should be. You could create some variations of the theme with different fonts, if that's not too much asked.

lostless

@dd-indeed
Look at this and the only 2 fonts. I'm trying to recreate this as close as possible. The thin plain font for the game name and the big bold for the paint splatters. If you want to add your own font, by all means make it your own.

DD-Indeed

@lostless

Aah, so you wanna use that bold font for the consoles and that thin font for the game lists?

lostless

@dd-indeed that's the plan to make it close to the original as possible.

DD-Indeed

@lostless

Okay, now that you explained it, go ahead. The bold font for the consoles is the right one, but as you propably also know, the thin font for the gamelists is not correct yet. The one on the original console is very narrow font, when you look other images of that memory card manager menu.

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A-letter and 1-letter are narrow ones especially.

lostless

@dd-indeed I'm going to put it in the close enough category unless someone wants to find it. Unless theres a way to make a font more condensed.

DD-Indeed

@lostless said in PS1 theme:

@dd-indeed I'm going to put it in the close enough category unless someone wants to find it. Unless theres a way to make a font more condensed.

I have too much time haha:

Attentica 4F Font

It's free to use and it's the closest I could find. Some minor differences can be found, when comparing this last image to the example list of the font. Like the middle line on E-letter and the circular shape of the R-top. I keep looking for another options.

lostless

@dd-indeed Im torn. But the new font is WAY to condensed. Its actually skinnier (its thinness is fine) than the original font from the main menu and the numbers dont look right. decisions decision. Roboto condensed, the one I'm using now, is still closer in my opinion all around.

DD-Indeed

@lostless

Hmm, tricky indeed. I know, that the one you use now on it is close and pretty much the correct shape, except for the width of it. You couldn't find that font in more narrow form ?

lostless

@dd-indeed Thats the narrowest of that font. the original is wider

DD-Indeed

@lostless

Well keep it like it is, it's fine. It's smoother, than the other front, but I'm sure that was your intention as well.

lostless

Slowly working on the carousel icons right now. These thing are a such a pain to make. Why do i do this to myself?

lostless

It's beginning to look like a real theme. I should have it completed for most systems in a week or 2. Going to do the basics and then maybe the odds and ends.