Playstation CRT Theme for 480p and 240p (version 1.4)

edmaul69

Here is a theme that was made by me and @lostless . It was designed specifically for using on a crt monitor. I really feel that more themes need to be made for crt's. Hope you guys enjoy it. Thank you @lostless for your wonderful hd Playstation theme and all the work you did on these splatter logos. Without your work this theme wouldnt have been possible. Sorry for the bad images. I did it at night and in my sun room while using an rf cable. Wish i had a tv smaller than 32" to test this on. Looks better in person. If you zoom in you will see the images are from the tv in 240p. This is not designed to be used with images or metadata. If images are displaying let me know, as i will have to edit the theme. i dont have anything scraped so i dont see them.

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Playstation Crt Theme 1.4

480i

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240p

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lostless

@edmaul69 dont upload a .zip file in GitHub, you let it upload the raw files, so if you make changes, it only upload the change. Git hub will make the zip. LOL we all learn

edmaul69

@lostless i will try to fix that. Thanks

edmaul69

@lostless github says there is a delete button at the top of the page but i dont have one. Cant try to use app because i dont have a 64bit windows.

edmaul69

@lostless i dont have a way to update and github will not let me upload a folder

edmaul69

Deleted

edmaul69

deleted repository and created a new one named properly with all folders and files now. not a very user friendly site.

lostless

@edmaul69 would you mind if your help tweak the theme? There's a lot of junk data in it.

edmaul69

@lostless you just made me realize i forgot to remove the junk art out of the main _inc folder. i am not sure which junk you are referring to but if there is stuff in the files you can help me with i would love it. I cant see what people with scraped info see. The retropie xml has extra stuff in it due to a glitch now in emulationstation theming and i have to do that to work around it.

lostless

@edmaul69 the extra stuff is all code for images that don't exist anymore. Also if you make a base xml for the game list view, you can just copy it over to all the themes. I made one each for different highlight colors and just copied one of them to each system based on what highlight color

lostless

I can test it in 640x480 mode and see what I get and tweak it from there

edmaul69

@lostless i scraped one game, then i corrected the xml's and i just removed all the excess junk out of them and the main theme.xml. I will finish copying the theme.xml's to the one i fixed then i will upload. I will let you know when i get it uploaded to test.

edmaul69

@lostless theme version 1.1 is up. Please download and check. Just an fyi, if you arent in 640x480 or 320x240, the help menu will be slightly shifted to the left and not centered. Widescreen/hd will do that on an sd theme. It is still in the box its in though. So no big deal

lostless

@edmaul69 try this

<!--
theme name:     PlayStation CRT
version         1.1
Created by Lostless and Edmaul69
Splatter logos Created by Lostless
-->

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<theme>
   <formatVersion>4</formatVersion>
   

<feature supported="carousel">
   <view name="system">
      <carousel name="systemcarousel">
        <type>vertical</type>
        <pos>0.02 0.10</pos>
        <size>0.50 0.72</size>
        <logoScale>1.2</logoScale>
        <logoSize>0.40 0.2</logoSize>
        <color>00000000</color>
        <maxLogoCount>3</maxLogoCount>
      </carousel>
      <image name="background" extra="true">
         <origin>0 0</origin>
         <pos>0 0</pos>
         <size>1 1</size>
         <path>./_inc/images/background.png</path>
      </image>

      <text name="systemInfo">
         <pos>0.0001 0.855</pos>
         <backgroundColor>00000000</backgroundColor>
         <color>FFFFFF</color>
         <fontPath>./_inc/fonts/RobotoCondensed-Light.ttf</fontPath>
	 <fontSize>0.065</fontSize>
      </text>
      		<text name="logoText">
			<fontPath>./_inc/fonts/RobotoCondensed-Light.ttf</fontPath>
			<color>FFFFFF</color>
			<forceUppercase>true</forceUppercase>
		</text>
   </view>
</feature>
   <view name="system,basic,detailed,video">
      <helpsystem name="help">
	 <pos>0.070 9.870</pos>
         <textColor>1C1C53</textColor>
         <iconColor>1C1C53</iconColor>
         <fontPath>./_inc/fonts/RobotoCondensed-Light.ttf</fontPath>
         <fontSize>0.03</fontSize>
      </helpsystem>
   </view>

   <view name="system,basic,detailed,video">
      <helpsystem name="help">
	 <pos>0.070 9.870</pos>
         <textColor>1C1C53</textColor>
         <iconColor>1C1C53</iconColor>
         <fontPath>./_inc/fonts/RobotoCondensed-Light.ttf</fontPath>
         <fontSize>0.03</fontSize>
      </helpsystem>
   </view>

   <view name="basic,detailed,video">
      <textlist name="gamelist">
         <pos>0.025 0.2170</pos>
         <size>0.950 0.62</size>
         <selectorColor>0000ff50</selectorColor>
         <selectedColor>00ffff</selectedColor>
         <primaryColor>FFFFFF</primaryColor>
         <secondaryColor>00ffff</secondaryColor>
         <fontPath>./_inc/fonts/RobotoCondensed-Light.ttf</fontPath>
         <fontSize>0.075</fontSize>
         <forceUppercase>1</forceUppercase>
         <scrollSound>./_inc/sound/click.wav</scrollSound>
         <alignment>center</alignment>
      </textlist>
   </view>

   <view name="detailed,video,basic">
      <image name="background" extra="true">
         <origin>0 0</origin>
         <pos>0 0</pos>
         <size>1 1</size>
         <path>./_inc/images/background2.png</path>
      </image>
         <image name="logo">
         <origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
         <pos>0.23 0.135</pos>
         <maxSize>0.40 0.40</maxSize>
      </image>
        <textlist name="gamelist">
         <pos>0.03 0.163</pos>
         <size>0.4 0.75</size>
         <alignment>left</alignment>
      </textlist>
   </view>
   

   
 
</theme>

as the main theme.xml. I think i got the original look down, except the 3 splatters instead of 2. and if you want theres still room for console artwork. But it does look good plain

edmaul69

@lostless thank you. i dont know how you fixed the logo sizing but it is great now. version 1.2 is uploaded. the only reason i made the logo so big was to be able to see the othe 2 on a crt. but this fixed that issue. i will look over the xml and try to learn how you fixed it. again, thank you.

lostless

@edmaul69 most of it is just experimenting with the numbers and getting the right size. Basically, the whole carousel takes up the 50% of the screen. That centers the middle of the icons at 1/4 the screen. Just like a ps1 menu. Then I had to find the right size. 40% most at x axis is good, each icon stays smaller than the the whole carousel so nothing is chopped off and it come out looking just right. i fiddled. with other sizes. I made every icon the exact size pixel wise, so the paint spatters would stay the same size.

lostless

@edmaul69 maybe we should recreate the menu with all the dithering that was present? Low color resolution? I shall experiment. The image you took from is an emulator running the bios with dithering turned off. hence the harsh color gradient

edmaul69

@lostless that would be really cool. I am a pixel artist so anything beyond 8-bit pixel art, i know nothing about it.

lostless

@edmaul69 Oh. I dabble in photoshop, photography, electronics, yada yada. almost done

lostless

@edmaul69 give this new main background a try. Added low color dithering
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4f605wtj6wahgsn/backround.png?dl=0
I try the game list next. You've given me a guide.
I think ill move onto my logos as well and low color res them as well. And maybe shrink them It'll take time, but not much. But i think i it'll make it even more like the PS1