Neo Geo X Build

TMNTturtlguy · 24 Jul 2017, 04:15

@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.

FlyingTomahawk · 24 Jul 2017, 07:23

@linuxarcadeguy

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

LinuxArcadeGuy · 24 Jul 2017, 16:11

@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...

TMNTturtlguy · 24 Jul 2017, 16:27

@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.

ruckage · 24 Jul 2017, 17:46

@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.

ruckage · 24 Jul 2017, 19:15

@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.

smoothmalik · 25 Jul 2017, 12:10

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

Stuart2773 · 25 Jul 2017, 12:50

@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.

ruckage · 25 Jul 2017, 12:56

@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?

FlyingTomahawk · 26 Jul 2017, 06:38

@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?

ruckage · 26 Jul 2017, 12:13

@flyingtomahawk

Would you like them with or without the borders?

FlyingTomahawk · 26 Jul 2017, 12:57

@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.

Stuart2773 · 27 Jul 2017, 11:31

@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.

ruckage · 27 Jul 2017, 14:18

@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

ruckage · 27 Jul 2017, 14:33

@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

DOWNLOAD

skj · 1 Aug 2017, 09:56

@ruckage

Where do these overlay shader files have to be placed?

FlyingTomahawk · 27 Jul 2017, 21:50

@ruckage

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

FlyingTomahawk · 8 Jan 2017, 12:41

@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

skj · 1 Aug 2017, 11:16

@flyingtomahawk

Thank you for the help 😀

FlyingTomahawk · 8 Feb 2017, 00:55

@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.

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.