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    • FlyingTomahawkF
      FlyingTomahawk @TMNTturtlguy
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      @tmntturtlguy said in Neo Geo X Build:

      @flyingtomahawk I see one major flaw.....Turtles Arcade deserves 5 stars!

      lol, totally agree.
      Need to edit the gamelist file asap! ;-)

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      • ruckageR
        ruckage @FlyingTomahawk
        last edited by ruckage

        @flyingtomahawk said in Neo Geo X Build:

        @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.

        For scanlines to look correct you need to make sure that you have 1 scanline per row of pixels (column for vertical arcade games) so simply rotating the image won't look correct. Unfortunately as you lose a lot of resolution when rotating the screen it's difficult to get good looking scanlines for vertical games. The other problem is you'll find that there are several different resolutions that are used and so you need a different overlay for each.

        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.

        Looks good, I want to make at least one more system for this as a general arcade system, still deciding on a style for it though :). I may also add a default system to make it easy to expand - probably in the neogeo stripe style but made so it can be coloured however you like.

        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.

        Yeah, I have noticed retropie occasionally struggling with this when exiting games and my first thought was the file size of the images. I actually tried PNG compression before releasing this and it didn't seem to improve anything though so I don't think file size is the main issue. Also compression does adversely affect image quality, not too bad for the neogeo images but it is quite noticeable on the capcom theme (to me anyway) due to the smooth gradients - this is because the compression works by converting to an indexed image of only 256 colour but preserves a full alpha channel.
        It's possible the lag is has more to do with the resolution so reducing the images to 720p may work better but obviously at the cost image sharpness.

        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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        • Stuart2773S
          Stuart2773
          last edited by

          Here's something i threw together for my self, using the "cannonball emulator"

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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69 @Stuart2773
            last edited by

            @stuart2773 excellent choice. I really like it. Im an outrun series fan.

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            • edmaul69E
              edmaul69 @ruckage
              last edited by

              @ruckage now you made me want a konami section.

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              • Stuart2773S
                Stuart2773 @edmaul69
                last edited by

                @edmaul69 said in Neo Geo X Build:

                @ruckage now you made me want a konami section.

                I know exactly what you mean, i was thinking of creating a separate Konami section, but if i go down that road i would end up categorizing every arcade game that i have, im already playing with the idea of doing a Double Dragon and the PGM IGS Arcade system (they have some great side-scrolling beat em ups)

                This theme that @ruckage created is just so damn nice you just want to showcase all your favorite arcade games.

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                • FlyingTomahawkF
                  FlyingTomahawk @Stuart2773
                  last edited by

                  @stuart2773 said in Neo Geo X Build:

                  This theme that @ruckage created is just so damn nice you just want to showcase all your favorite arcade games.

                  Amen to that!
                  I also like this theme the most and I even don't own an arcade cabinet. So I can only imagine how excited meleu must be since he owns a NeoGeo cabinet.

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                  • ruckageR
                    ruckage @Stuart2773
                    last edited by

                    @stuart2773
                    Looks really good, it fits in well with the rest of the theme as well.

                    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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                    • Stuart2773S
                      Stuart2773 @ruckage
                      last edited by Stuart2773

                      @ruckage said in Neo Geo X Build:

                      @stuart2773
                      Looks really good, it fits in well with the rest of the theme as well.

                      Cheers for the feedback :) , here's another one i created for the PGM system, but im undecided with the actual system logo, any thoughts?

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                      • FlyingTomahawkF
                        FlyingTomahawk @Stuart2773
                        last edited by

                        @stuart2773

                        I like it!
                        Share?

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                        • Stuart2773S
                          Stuart2773 @FlyingTomahawk
                          last edited by Stuart2773

                          @flyingtomahawk said in Neo Geo X Build:

                          @stuart2773

                          I like it!
                          Share?

                          if @ruckage dont mind me uploading them, i will gladly share the PGM & Outrun themes :)

                          (here's my final version for the PGM System)
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                          • FlyingTomahawkF
                            FlyingTomahawk @Stuart2773
                            last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                            @stuart2773

                            I take it! :-P
                            Looks really great.

                            Where do you get your game screenshots from?

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                            • Stuart2773S
                              Stuart2773 @FlyingTomahawk
                              last edited by Stuart2773

                              @flyingtomahawk

                              they are actually video previews, just search the rom name here for screenshots & videos :-
                              http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/default.php

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                                LinuxArcadeGuy @ruckage
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                                @ruckage said in Neo Geo X Build:

                                @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

                                @ruckage do you happen to have the psd you could share or a hi-res png 75% scanlines without the words/logos just the diamond plate?

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                                • DigitalMonkeyD
                                  DigitalMonkey Banned @LinuxArcadeGuy
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                                  @linuxarcadeguy said in Neo Geo X Build:

                                  @ruckage do you happen to have the psd you could share or a hi-res png 75% scanlines without the words/logos just the diamond plate?

                                  This would be greatly appreciated :)

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                                    LinuxArcadeGuy
                                    last edited by LinuxArcadeGuy

                                    are there any updates to this theme? and is there an official download link?, the one that was posted seems to have disappeared...

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                                      LinuxArcadeGuy
                                      last edited by LinuxArcadeGuy

                                      €42.59 ($50usd) Bounty for @ruckage to finish neo geo theme with 4:3 support asap, so who's in to add more? I will happily pay the €42.59 personally.

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                                        LinuxArcadeGuy
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                                        @ruckage what is your PayPal?, I will send upon completion if you are interested.

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                                          A Former User @LinuxArcadeGuy
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                                          • ruckageR
                                            ruckage @A Former User
                                            last edited by

                                            @ruckfuckage said in Neo Geo X Build:

                                            @linuxarcadeguy said in Neo Geo X Build:

                                            €42.59 ($50usd) Bounty for @ruckage to finish neo geo theme with 4:3 support asap, so who's in to add more? I will happily pay the €42.59 personally.

                                            He would be, initially, salivating over that amount, however as we know in order to keep the donations coming in he can't actually finish any of his themes.

                                            He has to continue to make empty promises of doing this & that, & every now then release a fix or minor update.

                                            If he actually finishes any of the themes then why would anyone donate?

                                            Its the same reason he doesnt want anyone taking his themes & adding to/improving them & then sharing them free of charge.

                                            *** Before he gets me banned - I've still got those emails Ruck ;) ***

                                            You really do have a problem and I think you need help.....

                                            Please, enlighten me regarding these emails @DigitalMonkey considering I've had zero contact with you outside of these forums (for which I'm very grateful).

                                            Not that it's any of your business what donations I receive I'm going to list every donation I've had in the hope it will finally shut you up - minus the names but anyone can easily verify this as I thanked every person who donated.

                                            03/7/17: £10
                                            03/7/17: £5
                                            03/7/17: £10
                                            04/7/17: £5
                                            06/7/17: £10
                                            23/7/17: £30
                                            31/7/17: £3
                                            09/8/17: £3
                                            16/8/17: £2
                                            28/9/17: £15
                                            28/9/17: £5

                                            Paypal fees: - £5.53

                                            Total: £92.47

                                            The themes represent months upon months of work, I began work on the themes 7 months ago and have worked on them consistently since then - do you seriously think that these donations would be the driving force keeping me creating the themes? It would be the equivalent of being paid fractions of a pence per hour if I was doing it for the donations - get a grip.
                                            I do it because I enjoy making the themes and further more I enjoy sharing the work I've made with others.

                                            This is nothing more than an enjoyable hobby for me, I have enough problems in my life without dealing with vindictive bullies like yourself.

                                            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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