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    • TMNTturtlguyT
      TMNTturtlguy @LinuxArcadeGuy
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      @linuxarcadeguy Hey man, for the sake of @ruckage great work and respect for his work and his post, please start a new post with your issues. Share details about your build and exact problems. We all want to help you out, however @ruckage and his thread do not deserve all of your posts with issues and problems. Keep this thread for thing directly related to the awesome theme and art. Please also take some time to search the forum and read up on the docs, the wiki, and use google and youtube. Thanks for understanding.

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      • FlyingTomahawkF
        FlyingTomahawk @LinuxArcadeGuy
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        @linuxarcadeguy

        Oh you meant the game videos inside the system not the splashscreen video at the beginning. Sorry my bad.

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          LinuxArcadeGuy @TMNTturtlguy
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          @tmntturtlguy i completely understand, also dont like how this forum works, am more familiar with a different forum setup and posting layout, more cleaner, as this is a bit of a chaotic format, but my post was directly attributed to this theme, am not sure where the theme wants the videos, and also cant get the scraped gamelist.xml to work with it...

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          • TMNTturtlguyT
            TMNTturtlguy @LinuxArcadeGuy
            last edited by

            @linuxarcadeguy I understand, however your questions have nothing to do with the theme. The theme works fine, it is not necessarily made for video, but video will work in it just like any other theme. The gamelist also does not need to be any different than any other theme. Please open a new thread with more information on your setup and your issue and we can help you there.

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            • ruckageR
              ruckage @LinuxArcadeGuy
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              @linuxarcadeguy said in Neo Geo X Build:

              @tmntturtlguy i completely understand, also dont like how this forum works, am more familiar with a different forum setup and posting layout, more cleaner, as this is a bit of a chaotic format, but my post was directly attributed to this theme, am not sure where the theme wants the videos, and also cant get the scraped gamelist.xml to work with it...

              Hi.

              As @TMNTturtlguy said this isn't a theme issue, the theme has no control over that. It's most likely a gamelist issue - either it's pointing to an incorrect directory for the videos or it's possible there could be a duplicate gamelist.xml somewhere which is overriding the one you've created (I'm sure there is a separate gamelist directory, try checking there ).

              The theme should work with video (it's actually the only view it supports) though I only use it with screenshots myself. You have to use the default video player though as the OMX player doesn't support the z-index - depending on your video resolution this may cause overheating/slowdown as it isn't hardware accelerated.

              If you're still stuck regarding the gamelist and videos not showing then as @TMNTturtlguy said you may get more help if you open a topic in the help section as more people are likely to see it.

              SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

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              • ruckageR
                ruckage @LinuxArcadeGuy
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                @linuxarcadeguy
                Actually I've just had a thought - aren't you trying to use this theme on a 4x3 display? If that's the case then it could be that the videos are being displayed behind everything else so you won't see them. This is simply because the theme is designed for a 16x9 display so you'll just have to wait until I make a 4x3 version. If however you can see the preview screenshots then something else is the cause.

                SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

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                  smoothmalik
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                  Can anyone point me to a topic on steps to add themes (marquees) manually, as I have encountered some issues as I stated above.

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                  • Stuart2773S
                    Stuart2773 @smoothmalik
                    last edited by Stuart2773

                    @smoothmalik said in Neo Geo X Build:

                    Can anyone point me to a topic on steps to add themes (marquees) manually, as I have encountered some issues as I stated above.

                    check theses 2 posts above by @skj they should help you

                    (watch the video on how to scrape marquees)
                    https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10806/neo-geo-x-build/203

                    https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10806/neo-geo-x-build/208

                    put your neo geo roms in the neogeo folder
                    and the capcom roms in the fba folder

                    then just edit the:- es_systems.cfg as in the other link, and it scrapes perfectly.

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                    • ruckageR
                      ruckage @smoothmalik
                      last edited by ruckage

                      @smoothmalik said in Neo Geo X Build:

                      Can anyone point me to a topic on steps to add themes (marquees) manually, as I have encountered some issues as I stated above.

                      I don't think there is one, as I said earlier in thread you will need to scrape the images for your roms, including marquees and then replace the downloaded marquees with the ones I've provided.

                      @smoothmalik said in Neo Geo X Build:

                      @ruckage
                      A little help if possible...

                      2.I have capcom games also in the neogeo folder however Im only getting the neo geo option system selector option on the theme. How do I see the capcom screen?

                      If you have them all in the neogeo folder then only the neogeo system will show - you need to setup a capcom system and place the capcom games in there own folder.

                      An easier alternative for you may be to go into the neogeo theme folder - you will see a folder named capcom - rename this to fba. Then go to your roms folder and place your roms in the fba folder.

                      3.Also once i select the neo geo system the images on the next page of the theme to choose a game aren't displaying.

                      I don't know what you mean by this - what images aren't displayed? The previews?

                      SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

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                      • FlyingTomahawkF
                        FlyingTomahawk
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                        @ruckage

                        Do you still have those 2 shaders that you showed in post 53?

                        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10806/neo-geo-x-build/53

                        If yes can you share them please?
                        Or what shader would you recommend to get that classic look?

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                        • ruckageR
                          ruckage @FlyingTomahawk
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                          @flyingtomahawk

                          Would you like them with or without the borders?

                          SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

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                          • FlyingTomahawkF
                            FlyingTomahawk @ruckage
                            last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                            @ruckage

                            Didn't make up my mind yet. Therefore, only if possible, I would like to have both versions, with and without the borders to compare.

                            With border is good.

                            Thanks.

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                            • Stuart2773S
                              Stuart2773
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                              @ruckage

                              Ive found some marquees that are missing from you cps/neogeo build that are pretty much ready to go, all they need is the drop shadow adding.

                              ive uploaded them for you, should you wish to use them for your build.
                              https://www.mediafire.com/file/33vxrcfui9c22f2/marquees.ZIP

                              stuart.

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                              • ruckageR
                                ruckage @Stuart2773
                                last edited by

                                @stuart2773 said in Neo Geo X Build:

                                @ruckage

                                Ive found some marquees that are missing from you cps/neogeo build that are pretty much ready to go, all they need is the drop shadow adding.

                                ive uploaded them for you, should you wish to use them for your build.
                                https://www.mediafire.com/file/33vxrcfui9c22f2/marquees.ZIP

                                stuart.

                                Thanks

                                SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

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                                • ruckageR
                                  ruckage @FlyingTomahawk
                                  last edited by ruckage

                                  @flyingtomahawk

                                  Hi, sorry for the delay - I had to dig up the old files and redo the overlays as I couldn't find the completed ones.

                                  The zip contains borders with an aperture grille + scanlines for the following systems:

                                  Capcom
                                  Neogeo
                                  Mastersystem
                                  Megadrive
                                  PCengine
                                  SNES

                                  These are further broken down into different opacities so that you can pick how dark you want the scanline - eg. neogeo-25 has a scanline opacity of 25% , neogeo-75 has a scanline opacity of 75% - higher the number, the darker the scanline.

                                  Also included are scanlines and scanlines+aperture grille without the borders. As they don't have borders you can just adjust the overlay opacity within retroarch to get the effect you like.

                                  These are all designed to work at 1080p and in order for the scanlines to line up with each row of pixels you need to make sure that the image is being stretched to the full height of the screen (this is the default retroarch setting so unless you changed it yourself it should be okay).

                                  *There may be problems with the pcengine overlays as the resolution on the pcengine is variable - it looked okay when I originally made it though I haven't tested this new version

                                  0_1497706098682_neogeo overlay.jpg

                                  0_1497706125369_capcom overlay.jpg

                                  DOWNLOAD

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                                    skj @ruckage
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                                    @ruckage

                                    Where do these overlay shader files have to be placed?

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                                    • FlyingTomahawkF
                                      FlyingTomahawk @ruckage
                                      last edited by

                                      @ruckage

                                      Wow, that is more then I expected. Thanks a lot!

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                                      • FlyingTomahawkF
                                        FlyingTomahawk @skj
                                        last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                        @skj

                                        create a folder inside the overlay folder and name it whatever you like, just make sure you change the path in the sample below. For this example we use a folder named arcade-bezels.

                                        You find the overlay folder here

                                        /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay

                                        Then create a cfg file for each game with the following contents and name it like the rom name. For example for Metal Slug the rom name is mslug.zip so name the cfg file mslug.zip.cfg and place that inside the same place where the rom zip file is.
                                        Change capcom-50.cfg to whatever you need.

                                        input_overlay = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezels/capcom-50.cfg
                                        input_overlay_enable = true
                                        input_overlay_opacity = 0.900000
                                        input_overlay_scale = 1.000000
                                        
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                                          skj @FlyingTomahawk
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                                          @flyingtomahawk

                                          Thank you for the help 😀

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                                          • FlyingTomahawkF
                                            FlyingTomahawk
                                            last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                            @ruckage

                                            Just a quick feedback.
                                            So I got finally everything setup including overlays.
                                            I normaly use the 50% overlays for horizontal games but I needed an overlay with vertical lines for shoot em ups so I just took the 25 and 50 overlays and edited them in Photoshop so that the lines show vertical. A bit of layer copy, rotate and paste kinda thing.
                                            Created capcom-25-vertical, capcom-50-vertical, neogeo-25-vertical and neogeo-50-vertical.
                                            Not sure if that is the right way to do it but it does work great thus far.

                                            I also needed another system theme for fba as generic arcade for games that are not capcom or neogeo and here is the result.

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                                            Need to still work on some details like the selector font color.

                                            Not sure if you had troubles with this theme but sometimes it seems to have a bit of a struggle to load the system page when I return from a game.
                                            I had similar issues with my Futura theme due to too large sized pictures.
                                            I took the 2 system background images, neogeo and capcom and ran them through the tinypng[dot]com site and the result is great.
                                            Both images were reduced by 70-80% without any loss in quality which makes browsing through the theme now lot smoother and quick without bugs.

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