Retrorama Comic Theme

[ExarKunIv]

@ohmycommodore

yep, that was what i had, that and Atari 2600 and apple 2e

the good old days, lol

[ExarKunIv]

@meleu

ill give it a shot, cant hurt

[cyperghost]

@exarkuniv you will not regret it - 100% retro guarantee

[barrymossel]

Nice theme! But... Will there be 4:3 support? :)

[meleu]

Hi all! The artist @lipebello created launching images for RetroRama. And, guess what?, I've made them installable via rpie-art. :)

How to do this:

1. launch rpie-art.
2. choose the .../meleu/rpie-launching-images repository.
3. choose Update files from remote repositoriy.
4. choose Launching image list.
5. check the files you want to install with space (or button B if using with joystick).
6. choose continue and the image files will be downloaded and installed.
7. done! you can exit the rpie-art and launch some games to see the beauty.

[lipebello]

@meleu said in Retrorama Comic Theme:

launch rpie-art.
choose the .../meleu/rpie-launching-images repository.
choose Update files from remote repositoriy.
choose Launching image list.
check the files you want to install with space (or button B if using with joystick).
choose continue and the image files will be downloaded and installed.
done! you can exit the rpie-art and launch some games to see the beauty.

Thanks Meleu! gonna update this information on the README

[meleu]

@lipebello hey bro, I'm glad to see you back here! I've just submitted a PR for your repo updating the README with some improvements on formatting and installation instructions. ;-)

Cheers!

[retrogamelife]

@hex I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I can only download a few themes. My list of themes ends at 36, and is missing some of the great new ones like retrorama. Do I need to update emulationstation?

[meleu]

@retrogamelife you need to update RetroPie-Setup.

[lipebello]

@meleu Request pulled. Thanks!

[cyperghost]

@lipebello Great theme, great work!
It's my standard theme. I've added this also to ES themes ready for favorite, all games, recently played and custom-collections

There is one thing what might be need to be improved. In Main Menu the navigation bar (Launch Screensaver, Menu, X Random, A Select) is yellow, in game selection list it's black. If you press select or start to get menu access the big yellow buttons come back. That looks a bit disappointing - but here you have created a nice theme. What am I missing is a view to next / last emu system but that's how the theme works.

[spruce_m00se]

Ive installed this theme on my cabinet, it looks amazing, the only thing I dont like is that you feel a little "blind" because you cannot see the next system in the line.
perhaps a small carosel at the bottom to show which direction to move to get to the system you want would be good.

@hex the artwork is mint! do you have any artwork that is in this style for the side of a cabinet?

[cyperghost]

@spruce_m00se Same idea here?

[lipebello]

@cyperghost , @spruce_m00se - at first, i was going to add the caroulsel where the logos are, but then i added the overlays to make it look old and dirty and i didn't want to heva a clean logo on top of it, so i put the logos on the images. i Tried some variations but didn't like the results, they're all too fake.

@cyperghost - i think that the menu itens can't be themed (at least on the older versions), they used to be black with ES default font, but i think that was changed on the last update.

[cyperghost]

@lipebello anyway.... It's a real nice theme.
Biggest respect to you - the shabby look is awesome

Welcome back :D

[lipebello]

@cyperghost Thanks!

[ohmycommodore]

@meleu

I played around with this a bit over the last hour, grabbing some selected images for BOTH Retrorama and Comic Book. I of course grabbed images that matched my installed systems (ie. I may have a C64 image for each theme, etc). Two questions:

(1) I end up with a mix of launch images across my systems. For example, I might get a Retrorama launch image for one system, and a Comic Book image for another system... and yes this is regardless of which of the two themes I have set in retropie. Is the correct way to work with this to only download and have "active" launch images to match one theme at a time?

(2) Related to this, I can't seem to delete images and tidy this up. I see options to "delete local repository files" as well as "uninstall art", but in my first couple of attempts neither avenue seems to remove the installed images (even after a reboot). Am I missing something here in terms of the process to delete / tidy up / manage images?

Running retropie 4.2 with just-updated retropie setup script 4.2.12. Latest theme updates today as well. Hardware is a Pi3 B with a good power supply. Keyboard and PS4 controller attached via USB.

[meleu]

@ohmycommodore can you please post this same report on the rpie-art topic? (link on my signature)

I'll try to take a look at it when I have a chance. Thanks. :-)

[ohmycommodore]

@meleu ok will do

[ExarKunIv]

@lipebello

is there a plan to do a Odyssey2 / Videopac and ResidualVM ?

those are the only systems that i have that are not in your great theme.
if it is not hard to add them that would be amazing, if not i under stand it takes alot of work.

your theme is still beautiful