Comic Book Theme 16:9 Full Release
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Stupid. Just noticed the setting under the ES UI for "Gamelist view style." Mine was defaulted to "basic" after the update. I now see the metadata and box art I was expecting. I thought that was determined by whether or not you had metadata at all. Everything's working now.
Anyway, I'll let you know on the Screenshots vs. video. I'm going to try it both ways. My issue is that I'm running off SD, and I'm concerned I will have to increase card size like a mofo if I go to video, and I don't really want to waste several gigabytes of storage just holding a bunch of mp4s. data.
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@chrisdodgen great that you have it working! As for video, again all you need is one video per system and then the theme will show the image in the large black box. Give that a try before editing the theme.
Also you should make sure to reduce the size of your videos using a program like handbrake so they will not use as much space and run better in ES.
I have also requested that a future improvement for ES be the ability to theme multiple scraped images in a theme. Right now we are only allowed one scraped image per view. When this request is implemented i will be able to improve this theme.
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@AlexMurphy cool! I believe I should be covered in the theme then!
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@TMNTturtlguy Man, you must just love work... That is one BIG theme. But you are unlikely to get ant shitty white screens!
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@TMNTturtlguy said in Comic Book Theme 16:9 Full Release:
@chrisdodgen great that you have it working! As for video, again all you need is one video per system and then the theme will show the image in the large black box. Give that a try before editing the theme.
This is confusing to me. Does this mean it would just play the same video across all games for that system? And where would I put each video? In the system folder for the theme?
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@TMNTturtlguy Have you asked for the theme to be included in the
theme downloader? There is some fairly bland stuff on there, not that I am criticising, but yours is something a wee bit different. -
@AlexMurphy He mentioned this on the other board. He's kinda beta testing it right now, with plans to try to get it incorporated once he's sure there's no major bugs.
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@chrisdodgen Did he not just announce the release last night?
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@AlexMurphy There was another comment in there somewhere that mentioned he was holding off until he'd made some final tweaks, I believe. I may be mistaken, but that's what I thought I read.
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@AlexMurphy not yet, I wanted to get feedback first to make sure it is working properly, which it appears it is. I am also creating a special edition which will replace the classic logo above the video preview with wheel art for each game. This will only work for users with wheel art in their gamelist as <marquee> so it will be for advanced users. Once this is ready I will request to get this on the retropie theme menu!
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@TMNTturtlguy At some point you will need to stop tinkering with it and just "Let it GO!" I understand that we love our children but... bugs can be worked out.
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@chrisdodgen no it won't play video for all games. You need to put 1 video on the same location as your images for the system. In your gamelist you add the path to that video for just one game. This will tell the theme to play a video for that specific game, all the other games will then show the large image in the black box.
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@TMNTturtlguy Interesting. I'm going to try something crazy. I'll report back.
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@chrisdodgen Don't try to influence space/time by busting open your microwave oven. Please!
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@TMNTturtlguy I posted an issue on the old repo explaining what steps you need to take for it to be included in the retropie installer, but it seems it got deleted when you created the two new repos.
The way the installer works through git takes into account any changes so if you go to update the theme if you've made any changes to the repo since the original download it will just pull the changes, so users can always be on par with any of your development changes,
Though from your commit history it looks as though you're using the web interface which is pretty limited in terms of development, I would recommend at the very least using the windows desktop gui so that you can make multiple changes at once without having to manually do things over the web interface.
If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@AlexMurphy "Oh a lesson in not changing history from Mr. 'I'm My Own Grandpa...'"
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@herb_fargus Thank you for the note. I apologize for deleting the old repo, i am new to github and when I decided to create 2 different versions i abandoned the first one and deleted it without looking at it.
I also did not realize that there was another way to use github outside the web interface which is horrible to use as you have stated. I will now research better ways to use the site.
If i could bother you to re-post the instructions i would greatly appreciate it. Thank you again for your time and I apologize for asking you to double up on the work you had already done to help me. Thank you
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@TMNTturtlguy github is a pox on humanity, but it is needed.
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@chrisdodgen that was the same question I was going to ask. I've spent the last 3 months cleaning up the image that I have now and making sure every game had art work. On a lot of the games I actually did game shots for my art work. I would be fine having screenshots in place of the videos
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@TMNTturtlguy no worries, I would have used the same thing except the first time I used github the web interface wasn't really as usable so I was forced to learn the command line.
The command line is really useful but if you're running windows the desktop app is pretty straightforward for the most part if you're just modifying files and whatnot, and you can get by without the command line.
Basically for inclusion in the retropie theme downloader the repos have to be named with this format (you can rename the repo from the settings):
es-theme-yourthemenameand then you just add a line in the retropie setup script for your repo eg:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/esthemes.sh#L88If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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