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    • ruckageR
      ruckage @LinuxArcadeGuy
      last edited by ruckage

      @linuxarcadeguy said in Neo Geo X Build:

      @ruckage one request: when you do categories, can you please include a "shooters" myself and many of my generation (40) are not a fan of the term "shmups"

      Being in that generation myself I'm not a fan of 'shmup' either but it was quicker to type. We called them 'Shoot 'em ups' which is what I'd label the category.

      @linuxarcadeguy said in Neo Geo X Build:

      @ruckage also shouldnt it be aes-controls.xml and mvs-controls.xml :)

      Yeah, I was trying not to confuse people - I was going to label 'AES' 'console' instead as well. If I add more controls they will probably need a better naming scheme anyway.

      @linuxarcadeguy said in Neo Geo X Build:

      @ruckage neo-geo missing loading & marquees: ---------
      and the theme itself does not have a 4x3 layout just 16x9...

      I knew there would be some missing images as I was limited to what I could get from the Hyperspin website. I believe there are more wheel packs that would add many of the missing marquess but you have to be a paid member to get them. Some though like 'puzzle bobble/bust a move' are trickier as there is only one rom - it's just the in game title that changes when set to US. This is just an initial release though so I'll be able to add seperate zips of missing art as time goes on.

      Already said about 4x3. I will sort something out for that but it's not a simple task as It will basically require a completely separate theme. I think I have an idea for it but you may have to wait a little while.

      @linuxarcadeguy said in Neo Geo X Build:

      @ruckage, small favor for a high res image, otherwise i would do it, can you include an mvs controls image without "menu" and "options"

      So, to be clear would you like a controls image with the last 2 buttons removed completely? Or do you just want them to be labelled with a different function? If you can give me specifics then I can make any control art that is requested.

      SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

      If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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      • ruckageR
        ruckage @felleg
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        @felleg said in Neo Geo X Build:

        This is better than the original neogeo X
        LOL

        Thanks:) - though judging from the hate/critcism that the Neo-Geo X received I should hope so :D

        SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

        If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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        • FlyingTomahawkF
          FlyingTomahawk
          last edited by FlyingTomahawk

          @ruckage

          First off, a big thank you for all your work. Well done.
          To collect and edit all those marquees and launch images must have been a big pain in the rear.

          It took me a while to pick all the right marquees and launch images for each system but I got it done. Now here some issues I have encountered thus far.


          Video Player issue

          Not sure about you or other guys but in my build I have to use the OMX player to play the videos since the VLC player doesn't do a good job at all. The downside of the OMX player is, it is always floating most top no matter what the index of all other elements are.

          alt text


          Players Icon issue

          Another issue I have is the Player thing on the bottom-right.
          I get these white empty squares.

          alt text


          Marquees and Images issues

          The following marquees are just screenshots.

          For CPS

          cworld2j-marquee.png
          jyangoku-marquee.png
          qndream-marquee.png
          qtono2j-marquee.png

          I had the marquees so I created my own launch images and marquees. If you need the raw marquee images I can share them if you like and you can redo them your style.


          Missing thus far was the following

          For NeoGeo

          maruko chan quiz game (marukodq-marquee.png)

          For FBA or generic Arcade

          Raiden II
          Raiden DX


          screenshot images issue

          Was this theme meant to be a video based theme only or was it also intended to use still images like screenshots too? Because if a video is missing I get this here.

          alt text

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          • ruckageR
            ruckage @FlyingTomahawk
            last edited by ruckage

            @flyingtomahawk said in Neo Geo X Build:

            @ruckage

            Video Player issue

            Not sure about you or other guys but in my build I have to use the OMX player to play the videos since the VLC player doesn't do a good job at all. The downside of the OMX player is, it is always floating most top no matter what the index of all other elements are.

            Unfortunately there is very little I can do about that, I can maybe add an option in the settings to move the marquee up slightly for those using omx player - would that be okay? I m not using video myself, just screenshots.

            Players Icon issue

            Another issue I have is the Player thing on the bottom-right.
            I get these white empty squares.

            That's strange - I haven't seen that myself. My initial thoughts are that it's something to do with the gamelist.xml - could you post an excerpt from you gamelist.xml from one of the affected games (or upload the whole xml somewhere for me to see)?

            Marquees and Images issues

            The following marquees are just screenshots.

            For CPS

            cworld2j-marquee.png
            jyangoku-marquee.png
            qndream-marquee.png
            qtono2j-marquee.png

            I had the marquees so I created my own launch images and marquees. If you need the raw marquee images I can share them if you like and you can redo them your style.

            Yes please, I'll start a missing images pack.

            screenshot images issue

            Was this theme meant to be a video based theme only or was it also intended to use still images like screenshots too? Because if a video is missing I get this here.

            Strange - It should scale the image up (I'm not using any video on my system - only screenshots.)
            My only suspicion is that it's another issues caused by the OMX player. Can you test it in the default video player and see if it resolves it? If so then it's a bug that will need to be reported.

            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

            If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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              skj
              last edited by

              Where do I place the marquees pack ? And do I have manually edit the game metadata for them to display? Or will they auto show like the launching images, thanks

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              • FlyingTomahawkF
                FlyingTomahawk @ruckage
                last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                @ruckage

                Unfortunately there is very little I can do about that, I can maybe add an option in the settings to move the marquee up slightly for those using omx player - would that be okay? I m not using video myself, just screenshots.

                To be honest I did not expect to have videos for this theme so I am good with screenshots only. I just renamed the video folder to deactivate the videos from appearing.


                Regarding the players icons, I know what caused it. For example, when a game is for 1 or 2 players I had the following entry in my gamelist.

                <players>1-2</players>
                

                this needs to be changed to

                <players>2</players>
                

                then it shows just fine. Of course the same has to be done for 1-3 or 1-4 players.


                Yes please, I'll start a missing images pack.

                Download here: Missing Marquees


                Strange - It should scale the image up (I'm not using any video on my system - only screenshots.)
                My only suspicion is that it's another issues caused by the OMX player. Can you test it in the default video player and see if it resolves it? If so then it's a bug that will need to be reported.

                You were right, I could fix that by switching back to the normal VLC video player. No clue why the video players should affect the images but as long it works I'm good.

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                • ruckageR
                  ruckage @skj
                  last edited by

                  @skj

                  You could manually edit the gamelist.xml but that would be very time consuming. The easiest way to do it is to scrape you roms using sselph scraper and make sure to tell it to also get marquees (see the help options in sselph scraper).
                  You can then just replace the downloaded marquees with the ones in my marquee pack.

                  SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                  If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                  • FlyingTomahawkF
                    FlyingTomahawk
                    last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                    If someone is curious to see this theme in action here a short video.
                    Sorry for the bad quality but it was a spontaneous thing and my phone cam is not the best.

                    @ruckage
                    Thanks again for all your hard work. This theme is really awesome!
                    Now I only wish there would be some sort of profiles feature in RetroPie so that I can swap easier from Arcade mode (Arcade games) to Famicom mode (Console games). Maybe something that will come in the future...

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                    • Stuart2773S
                      Stuart2773
                      last edited by Stuart2773

                      @ruckage

                      What an amazing theme, well done,

                      not sure if this is any help to you, but here is a list of missing neogeo marquees & launch images from my rom sets

                      Bang Bang Busters - b2b.zip
                      Chibi Marukochan Deluxe Quiz - marukodq.zip
                      Crossed Swords II - crswd2bl.zip
                      Crouching Pony Hidden Dragon - chpd.zip
                      Dragon's Heaven - dragonsh.zip
                      Frog Feast - nfrog.zip
                      Jockey Grand Prix - jockeygp.zip
                      Last Hope - lasthope.zip
                      Master of Syougi - moshougi.zip
                      Neo No Panepon - neonopon.zip
                      Neo Pong - neopong.zip
                      Poker Night - poknight.zip
                      Quiz Daisousa Sen/The last Countdown - quizdais.zip
                      Quiz King Of Fighters - quizkof.zip
                      Quiz Meitanitei Neo & Geo - quizdai2.zip
                      Taisen Idol Mahjong Final Romance 2 - froman2b.zip
                      Treasure of the Caribbean - totcarib.zip
                      V Liner - vliner.zip

                      also, here is a site that has logos that you may be able to use for the missing marquees,

                      http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/results?id=neo geo

                      hope you find them useful.

                      Stuart.

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                      • meleuM
                        meleu @FlyingTomahawk
                        last edited by

                        @FlyingTomahawk

                        Now I only wish there would be some sort of profiles feature in RetroPie so that I can swap easier from Arcade mode (Arcade games) to Famicom mode (Console games). Maybe something that will come in the future...

                        You can get some inspiration in @TMNTturtlguy 's approach:
                        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11499/change-es_systems-cfg-script

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                        • TMNTturtlguyT
                          TMNTturtlguy @meleu
                          last edited by

                          @meleu @FlyingTomahawk i have already included a selection option for @ruckage neogeo capcom theme. Be sure to read the instructions. It works really well. You will need to manually switch your theme after you run the script.

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                          • FlyingTomahawkF
                            FlyingTomahawk @meleu
                            last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                            @meleu

                            Thanks meleu.
                            That I have installed already. ;-)
                            I mean choose a profile and it would be setup already with the right theme and all the necessary launch image options.
                            But the possibility to swap the es_system files is a good step forward.

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                            • TMNTturtlguyT
                              TMNTturtlguy @FlyingTomahawk
                              last edited by

                              @flyingtomahawk do you run your roms off of a USB? One suggestion is to store your roms on a USB, save your images and gamelist in the roms folder. Simply change the USB stick and run the Es_systems script and it will work almost as you wish. The only thing that won't work is the launching screens, however I believe you can set those up on a per rom launch as well.

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                              • FlyingTomahawkF
                                FlyingTomahawk @TMNTturtlguy
                                last edited by

                                @tmntturtlguy

                                Thanks.
                                I just tested your script and it works great. Only the theme needs to be switched manually but other then that all works great. Even the preset launch images.
                                I can live with the theme swapping.

                                Great work!

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                                • meleuM
                                  meleu
                                  last edited by

                                  @ruckage can you put the launching images on github so I can make them installable via rpie-art?

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                                  • cyperghostC
                                    cyperghost @ruckage
                                    last edited by cyperghost

                                    @ruckage @skj About the gamelist fix....

                                    It's should be okay if you use Notepad++ and scan for <players>1- and replace with <players> of course a nice script will also do the job :)

                                    @FlyingTomahawk Are you going to be kind of Terminator in RL? (red eye on screen?)
                                    Well done Famicom mod - indeed :) Is the joypad also selfmade?

                                    @TMNTturtlguy I will use the es_systems script for my next Pi embedded build. But not with the intention to exchange es_systems.cfg rather exchange /boot/config.txt

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                                    • ruckageR
                                      ruckage @FlyingTomahawk
                                      last edited by ruckage

                                      @flyingtomahawk
                                      Thanks for posting that video, shows it off nicely and I'm glad you've got it working properly now. Love the Famicom - great idea putting a power LED under the cartridge flap. b^.^d

                                      And a big big thanks for the donation you made, that's amazingly generous of you. I really appreciate it :).

                                      SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                      If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                      • ruckageR
                                        ruckage @meleu
                                        last edited by

                                        @meleu said in Neo Geo X Build:

                                        @ruckage can you put the launching images on github so I can make them installable via rpie-art?

                                        Sure, I'll get a github respository setup for them.

                                        SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                        If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                          LinuxArcadeGuy @ruckage
                                          last edited by

                                          @ruckage YUP 'Shoot 'em ups' is perfect, i think its this newest generation "Gen Z" that uses Shmups...

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                                            LinuxArcadeGuy @ruckage
                                            last edited by

                                            @ruckage just the labels removed, as the buttons do not have a secondary function just the peimary 1P & 2P start, the ES admin screens i have put under 2 other mapped buttons on a bracket in the coin door... make sense or am i an idiot again ? ;)

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