Retrorama Comic Theme

[lipebello]

@hex i made some sketches to a small screen theme. already found out that the resolution is 320x240. i'm thinking in make it with a few systems so people can test it to see if it looks good, then keep doing it

[Hex]

@lipebello The resolution is 320x240 if and only if using DPI/HDMI.

If using Composite (majority of the screens are) the resolution is (720x576) PAL or (720x480) NTSC. Please take a note of this.

Many themes dont work as expected if they are made for 320x240 and user is using composite. This is because Pi outputs either PAL or NTSC resolution only (for composite) and the display IC scales it to screen size (320x240, 480x272)

Here is a small program I wrote that gives you exactly the resolution Pi is outputting
https://gist.github.com/hex007/fc4396de31e0c9e04a511869038d889c

[lipebello]

@Hex , i don't have a small screen to test it, so, if i make a theme in 720x480, it will work ?

[Hex]

if you make it for 720x480 720x576 and 320x240 then it covers all variations

[Jonas S]

Awesome theme! Thank you.
The only systems I miss are:
-ResidualVM
-Macintosh (old black/white system)

[AlphaUMi]

@lipebello Thanks again! It worked and it's just perfect!! I've also installed your mp4-splashscreen, really like it

[zeroclash]

I installed kodi but it shows in the Add Ons section, how do I get it to it's own page?

[Sun Bro]

@zeroclash I have the same question

[Aengeon]

@zeroclash If you're talking about Kodi showing up as its own system like Nintendo, PlayStation, etc. You'll have to go into the command line and do some work.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/KODI

On that page you'll find some information on what to do and how to do it. Scroll down the page a bit.
Hope this helps.

[zeroclash]

@aengeon thanks!

[RichardBr]

Well I especially like this theme, its classic look and green/purple color such ease to the eyes.

[Hex]

@lipebello let me know if you need your themes tested on said resolutions. I have all types of screens SPI, DPI and composite(NTSC/PAL)

[lipebello]

i'll make a beta version on these 3 resolutions and send to you, so you can test them

[Hex]

@lipebello Sent you a mail. you can mail me the beta version if you want.

[MrJordaaany]

Hey @lipebello I have started adding videos to my arcade games. They work great with your theme! I was wondering through if there is a way to show the scrapped game image first, then fade into playing the video? For example like the Pixel theme.

Right now it just goes straight into playing the video without showing the scrapped image at all. It's small I know, is there any way i can do it from editing the theme? Thanks!

[lipebello]

@hex Hey bro. saw you email. i'm fnishing some adjustments and will send you a test version
@MrJordaaany I'll change it on the next update, but you can do it, just edit the main file theme.xml and change this
<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay> from false to true.

[MrJordaaany]

@lipebello Thanks man!

[MrJordaaany]

@lipebello Sorry one for question. The game description text for Neo Geo and FBA start halfway down the description box for some reason. It's always been like this for Neo Geo so assumed it was a error, but now it just started happening for FBA. I've checked my gamelist for extra spaces or syntax errors, but no issue there.

Any ideas? Anything i can check it theme.xml?

Thanks!

[MrJordaaany]

@lipebello I took a photo of the issue to make it more clear. It only seems to happen when I add videos to a gamelist:

[lipebello]

@mrjordaaany Hi, yes, when there's videos, the description opens space for the marquee. If you don't want thiis, you can copy the <description> tag on the detailed view to the video view. it's just the size and position of it.