Retrorama Comic Theme

[HurricaneFan]

@ohmycommodore Random question, do those 2 systems use a controller to play games or is it all keyboard controlled?

[ohmycommodore]

@HurricaneFan

O2 yes (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Magnavox-Odyssey-2-Console-Set.jpg/1200px-Magnavox-Odyssey-2-Console-Set.jpg).

Text adventures no, just keyboard.

I think this system will be an interesting one to conceptualize and design. For starters, do you use the title Z-Machine, Infocom (which is kind of the "Kleenex" brand I suppose, or simply Text Adventures?). I think I'd prefer Text Adventures, but I guess Z-Machine follows suit if the system name is what is normally chosen. It's a unique one, so I suppose it's up for discussion.

[Zombomaster]

@lipebello You build the best theme for Retropie by far, congrats and thanks to you. Any plans on adding Daphnee emulator?

Thanks!

[twd]

@ohmycommodore man your old ;) only ever seen pics of them systems never mind use them

[HurricaneFan]

@lipebello Custom Collections is officially released. Can you make a theme folder for it?

[lipebello]

Sure thing! gonna make custom collections, odyssey 2 and daphne for the next update. Need to research about Z-machine, because i've never seen anything about it yet.

[ohmycommodore]

@lipebello

This might help a bit.

I have an O2 console (not my original, but a replacement at least) and all my old games. Very identifiable style and colour palette on the box arts, for those who remember them. Example here: https://stiggyblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/odyssey-2-game-box-art/ Will be interesting to see how you interpret it and make it your own.

For Z-Machine, In the Comic Book theme it's called "Infocom", which is likely the best title, and the main company for the most famous text adventures. The Z stands of course for the Zork series. You can research Infocom with these links. There's also the documentary "Get Lamp". Oh, and if there's not a Hitchhiker's Guide "Don't Panic!" button in your eventual screen... you're doing it wrong :)

http://www.infocom-if.org/company/company.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom
https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/info/infocom-presentation.pdf
http://toucharcade.com/2017/06/22/classic-reload-lost-treasures-of-infocom/

[ohmycommodore]

@twd

I'm 46... though i could be 47... They say -something- is the first to go, I forget what. Memory maybe. Math is the second to go, so I'm probably +/- a year either way.

Go play O2's "Showdown in 2100 A.D." against a friend and let me know how you like it.

[lipebello]

Wow! Zork I! never played because when i only started to learn english when i was 15 and the Nes RPGs had those beautiful maps and battles.
But i played a lot of Ian Livingstone's books. Those were awesome.

[ohmycommodore]

I'd like to get my kids into some text adventures. Anyone who had the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books (I'm sure there are descendants of them today, and there are certainly iOS games) found the Infocom games pretty interesting and easy to get into.

I'm positive I played the HitchHiker's Guide game before I read the book(s). I think that was part of the plan, so it worked. Fun fact: I have my original Hitchhiker's Guide "invisi-clues" (game solutions) book.

[twd]

@ohmycommodore lol yeah I am at that stage now 34 going on 54. well your not that old just a bit of banter. ;)

[NoP]

Hello,

It's a real work of art. Thank you very much.

I use emulationstation on windows and I use the emulators for ps2, wii and wiiu. Have you planned to make themes for these consoles?

[meleu]

Hey @lipebello , you are a very kind guy. You quickly add the systems people are requesting...

Could you share here a way to make donations and then we can show our gratitude for your amazing work? ;-)

[lipebello]

@meleu Thanks! I have my paypal account, filipebello@yahoo.com.br, and a lot of people asked me to make some shirts with the covers, so i'll leave the link here too. https://www.teepublic.com/user/lipebello

[MrJordaaany]

@lipebello I've just installed and tried your theme and I have to say its goddam amazing. Thank you so much for making it!

[MrJordaaany]

@mrjordaaany said in Retrorama Comic Theme:

@lipebello I've just installed and tried your theme and I have to say its goddam amazing. Thank you so much for making it!

One thing I've noticed is that my images for Neo Geo games don't show up when using this theme, but they do for any other theme. I've tried changing the VRAM limit to 80, but no luck so far. Any other ideas?

[gaavoid]

I've noticed that box art doesn't show when view mode is set to auto, but only for systems with video snaps when no video is available for a particular game.
E.g. My Neo-Geo pocket colour only has boxart and no video snaps. Box art shows fine as it would in detail view.
A few of my Japanese Mega Drive games only have box art but 95% of them have videos. The videos show fine but the games that don't have videos, don't show the box art in place of the video.
Is there a way to implement this feature so that when a game has no video snap, the box art will show in its place? Comic book theme does this so thought this would also.

[lipebello]

@mrjordaaany - I'm a noob in retropie, the only two things that i know to fix this is ser the vram limit to 80 and overclocking.

@gaavoid - i need to mark the option for ES show snaps when there's no video available. gonna do that on the next update.

[lipebello]

I'm working on some overlays for the systems.

[MrJordaaany]

@gaavoid You hit the nail on the head! This is exactly the issue. They only thing different for my Neo Geo games is that there is a few videos in there. So changing it from auto will solve it, but I will loose videos for now.

@lipebello Sounds like you are on it :) Look forward to the next update. Love the overlays too. Where did you find that awesome image of Tarma in the Metal Slug?