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    • HurricaneFanH
      HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
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      @alphatoanant I like the colored controller images idea on the system view. I feel like the system view almost seems too muted in lack of color.

      While I do have marquee images in my setup, I'm on the fence on if this theme needs to use them. I really like how the box art and video are the main focus. The marquee image would start to clutter the look of this theme.

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        gaavoid
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        This is a real sleek theme. I'd consider this to be in the top few.
        Any plans on adding Famicom and Supergrafx?

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          EvilDindon @HurricaneFan
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          @hurricanefan said in [New Theme] Art Book:

          @alphatoanant I like the colored controller images idea on the system view. I feel like the system view almost seems too muted in lack of color.

          While I do have marquee images in my setup, I'm on the fence on if this theme needs to use them. I really like how the box art and video are the main focus. The marquee image would start to clutter the look of this theme.

          Yeah you're right. Boxart or flyer is enough. Let's keep it simple

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            EvilDindon @HurricaneFan
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            @hurricanefan said in [New Theme] Art Book:

            @alphatoanant I like the colored controller images idea on the system view. I feel like the system view almost seems too muted in lack of color.

            Yeah this would really spice up a bit the theme, while staying still simple and clean

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            • alphatoanantA
              alphatoanant
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              More updates

              I am working on logos for the genre folders being discussed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12024/themes-custom-collection-standardized-naming

              Here is what I have so far:
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              I am thinking through a different icon for fighting but wanted to see what you thought so far.

              All are up on github now with a few other custom systems so you can test them in real time if you like.


              @barrymossel, I am not currently planning a 4:3 version. Once I finish more logos I am going to take a step away to refocus and come back fresh. I will add it to my backlog to see if there is a way to make it work and let you know.

              @gaavoid, I will add Famicom and Supergrafx to my list to complete.

              @EvilDindon re: "Are these custom systems or custom collections ?":

              I have kind of been using those interchangeably (which may be wrong) =)

              Essentially I am creating folders that can be used by the "Create New Custom Collection From Theme" function in the new Game Collections feature. This is done so that you would get a nice logo/art for say a collection of "zelda" games.

              That said the theme also supports creating collections without referencing an existing folder and they will still look good - they just won't have a custom logo. Does that make sense?

              My RetroPie Themes:
              Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
              Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
              TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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              • HurricaneFanH
                HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
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                @alphatoanant I like this idea.

                For the fighting one, you could do tiny stick fighters like this, of course much smaller:
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                • alphatoanantA
                  alphatoanant
                  last edited by alphatoanant

                  Updates 8/5/17:

                  • updated fighting theme
                  • added themes for: metalslug, metroid, mortalkombat, pacman, streetfighter, lightgun, supergrafx, famicom

                  Updated Genre Theme Logo Set
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                  @HurricaneFan for the fighting genre I tried a pair of boxing gloves. It feels like it fits well with the other icons - what do you think?


                  @gaavoid supergrafx and famicom are available now

                  My RetroPie Themes:
                  Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                  Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                  TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                    pjft @alphatoanant
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                    @alphatoanant these look great to me!

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                      gaavoid @alphatoanant
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                      @alphatoanant Nice. Will give it a try later on. I feel this could be my new main theme.
                      It's a battle between this, retrorama and comicbook.

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                      • HurricaneFanH
                        HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
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                        @alphatoanant I like it!

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                          DeadlyEdna
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                          Hi,

                          I've signed up purely to say how much I love this theme. Please don't add colour or controllers or screenshots or any of that to the system menu; there are plenty of other themes that have that all over them, and I cannot stand most of them. What you have created here is something beautiful in it's elegance. It makes me actually WANT to use emulationstation. That's a genuine statement.

                          Everything about it - the clean logos, the box art/video slight overlap, the font choice, the button help... I adore it.

                          If you do go down the road of adding colours and filler to the system menu, would you consider keeping this one as clean as it is now? I would be gutted if you followed half of the suggestions here (no offence meant to those suggesting, we've all got our own likes and dislikes).

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                            JuL1Xxx
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                            How to Scrape HD images? in my TV the images screaped are in low graphics.

                            Another question: Square videos like GBC, is there a solution for black bars in the sides?

                            Thanks for this amazing work!! :)

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                            • TMNTturtlguyT
                              TMNTturtlguy @JuL1Xxx
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                              @jul1xxx depending on how many games you have scraped higher resolution images and video are hard for the pi to handle and you may have performance issues when in the gamelist. Most users actually reduce video sizes due to this.

                              You can reformat video sizes in a program like handbrake. That program allows you to resize and format.

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                              • alphatoanantA
                                alphatoanant
                                last edited by alphatoanant

                                I had a chance to set up Game & Watch today and am really enjoying it. The implementation of lr-gw is awesome and very easy to get running.

                                It also gave me a chance to check out how it would look in the theme and work out the command for selph's scraper to get things looking clean.

                                Here is what it ends up looking like:
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                                To get this look:

                                • make sure you have selph's scraper installed (see: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/)
                                • from the command line navigate to the gameandwatch roms folder
                                cd RetroPie/roms/gameandwatch
                                
                                • and run this command
                                /opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -console_src=ss -console_img=clabel,b,s -img_format=png -max_height=540 -max_width=505 -image_dir=media -image_path=media
                                
                                • These settings make sure the scraper uses Screenscraper as a metadata source and prioritizes downloading Label images (clabel) which is how the system images are catalogued there

                                I added these details to my github readme (in addition to scraping options for other systems). Hope you find them helpful!


                                Thank you all for your feedback on genre icons. Are there any others that you would find useful (like "platformer", "puzzle")?


                                @DeadlyEdna thank you. The system view design as it looks now is what I was originally shooting for and I am very happy with it as well (and amped to know you and others are digging its simplicity).

                                I noted a few posts back that one of the principles I am following for this theme is "can I leave this on a tv in a room and not have it feel out of place, does it feel subtle, not overwhelming".

                                So if I do work on a variant design I will be checking it against that principle at each step - I have left a few ideas on the floor so far because of it =)

                                All that said I am focusing on custom system logos now so its not likely I am going to get to trying out other ideas for system view for a while

                                If I come up with something interesting my plans are:

                                • This theme and its design would remain as is
                                • and I would release the new design xml here for users to manually change by hand or release a variant (new name/github repo)

                                I hope that helps and I again I very much appreciate your thoughts on this. Thank you for joining the forums and helping out.

                                My RetroPie Themes:
                                Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                                Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                                TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                                  incunabula
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                                  Amazing theme, i love the layout! Quick question about the scraper settings -- i'm looking at the example command line you provide for consoles and was wondering if you are running that command line in each rom dir separately or just the roms (parent) dir?

                                  When i run it in the roms dir it creates the \roms\media dir but i would prefer to have the media for each system in its own directory. Just curious if i'm missing something obvious before i go and run it multiple times in each systems directory. Thanks again for the great theme and all of the platforms you've added support for!

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                                  • HurricaneFanH
                                    HurricaneFan @incunabula
                                    last edited by

                                    @incunabula You run it inside of the system you want to scrape. so if its arcade roms, you have to go inside the arcade roms folder before you run the command.

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                                    • alphatoanantA
                                      alphatoanant @HurricaneFan
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                                      @incunabula yes you run the commands in each system's rom folder individually (example: run it in RetroPie/roms/nes). I'll update the readme with those details - thanks for catching that and asking.

                                      I am wondering if there is a way to run it from /roms and still have it create the /media folder in each system's rom folder. Will see what I can find.

                                      My RetroPie Themes:
                                      Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                                      Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                                      TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                                      • HurricaneFanH
                                        HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
                                        last edited by

                                        @alphatoanant I just threw on a Nintendo DS rom onto my system to run a test and I noticed the Nintendo DS logo looks super tiny compared to all your other logos. Any chance you can take a look at that?

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                                        • alphatoanantA
                                          alphatoanant @HurricaneFan
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                                          @hurricanefan totally - will check this evening. By chance have you updated the theme recently? (I made a bunch of changes last night and wanted to see if thats what caused it)

                                          My RetroPie Themes:
                                          Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                                          Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                                          TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                                            incunabula
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                                            FYI, same issue with the SG-1000 logo. I updated the theme yesterday, btw.

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