Retrorama Comic Theme

[felleg]

@lipebello Hi Phil, I'm a huge fan of your work. I fully respect your decision to pull the theme from github. It must be maddening to see someone steal your open source work for profit. I find it sad that it had to come to this.

When I learned about this situation, there's one thing that I realized, and if you have time, tell me if you agree or disagree. The people selling your theme surely already have backups of it, at least the version where they (cruelly) removed your username. The version you removed from github is the one with all proper credit and license that people were accessing when self-building their machine. I believe the action taken by revoking access to the repository hurts the people for whom you created this theme in the first place, more than it hurts the thieves. I'm also worried that the theme keeps spreading around from backups, possibly with missing credits. Stopping development out of frustration is one thing, pulling down the official version and letting stolen copies strive is another thing.

I know that @herb_fargus also faces every day a very similar situation with how RetroPie is being sold for money. Did you consider having a chat with him? Not really to help change your mind, but just to feel like you're not alone and to get through this.

This message might be too little too late, I hope you're doing well and that this will not keep you from being artistic, whatever your canvas may be.
Cheers,
Felix

[lipebello]

@clyde Actually, you're right. i got in the middle of a situation that i can't describe, and i know most of people that was send links of people selling retropie with my themes on it was trying to help, but i was felling real bad about it and the trigger was all the harassment that i went with people who became mad when i ask that dude to stop selling my drawings with my name erased from it. (he is indeed a seller).
Maybe i needed a time away from all this and i really tought a lot about this situation and now i'm feeling that i'm punishing the wrong people.
I don't know if or when i'll make more content for the community, but i'm uploading the last 4 complete themes that i've made, so people can use them.
Thank you all for the kind words.
https://github.com/lipebello

[herb_fargus]

@lipebello we are unfortunately very familiar with greedy scumbags taking our work and selling it as their own, tis a pity.

I think I speak for everyone in saying your work is top notch. Thanks for your contributions even if you're put off from future developments

[lipebello]

@herb_fargus I can imagine, it's pretty easy to lost the will to contribute when you realise the amount of people that do these stuff.

I've finished to create all the repositories.
https://github.com/lipebello/es-theme-retrorama
https://github.com/lipebello/es-theme-strangerstuff
https://github.com/lipebello/es-theme-spaceoddity
https://github.com/lipebello/es-theme-swineapple

[mediamogul]

@lipebello

Glad to see you back and sorry for your troubles. Thanks for sharing your work. It really is spectacular.

[meleu]

@lipebello hey bro!

If you remember well you'll know my older son (a comic book nerd) loves your RetroRama theme so much, with all those references to the Super Heroes logos. When the repo was gone I became very sad...

You coming back and posting your work at github again made my day! Very happy to see you here :D

By the way, would you mind to reupload your awesome RetroRama themed launching images too?

Just to remember, the repository was named retrorama-launching-images and it had a directory named 16x9-packs with three directories:

• FRAME
• GRID
• NOGRID

and each one had its own subdirectories with the name of the systems.

You may wonder why I am providing all these details... It's because I made my rpie-art tool able to install your launching images getting from your old repo. If you keep the previous directory structure I won't need to change anything on the rpi-art files (please, don't call me lazy! :P ).

[Clyde]

@lipebello If we would meet in person, I would buy you a drink. o/ᵁ

[lipebello]

@meleu Of course i remember, that's why i was feelling sad to have 10GB of work lying on an ext drive without real use, while sellers out there already have them. I really loved how my childhood passions are the same as a lot of people out there. Also that's why i agree with everything that has been said here, i was feeling like i was punishing the wrong people.

I'll upload the launching images now, but i'm remaking the overlays to make them look more real, so it will take a while for me to finish it.

https://twitter.com/PhillBello/status/984261794435862530

@Clyde , i would love that. Thanks!

[Eldrethor]

@lipebello Thanks for all of your hard work, and I'm glad that you're back in the scene. You have the support of everyone here, and you're not alone; your hard work does not go unnoticed, and neither do your struggles. I also think that as your gain more traction, people will know when they see someone ripping off your work. To add to that, there might even be a way for you to secretly hide or blend in your name, logo, or insignia somewhere in your work, almost like an Easter egg.

[felleg]

@lipebello I echo @Clyde 's sentiment. If you have a paypal.me, I would gladly send over a $10 for the hard work you put into this and the ultra nice graphics I've been showing my friends for the past year. Cheers, thanks for all the fish!

[meleu]

@felleg here's what we can see on his youtube video descriptions:

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Buy me a coffee: http://ko-fi.com/phillsdoodles
If you like to donate, here's my paypal account.
Paypal account: filipebello@yahoo.com.br

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[Clyde]

@meleu Many thanks in the name of all who are too lazy or dumb to look that up, like myself! :D

[meleu]

@lipebello could you please step in here and confirm that you want to see your themes installable via RetroPie-setup: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2373

[cyperghost]

@lipebello Welcome back! Where can I donate?

[Sano]

@cyperghost
See @meleu answer 3 posts above ;)

[cyperghost]

@sano Thanks!
@lipebello Done! You need some new beer coasters!

[scoot75]

@lipebello,ive been wanting to install this theme for months and im glad that you are back,only one question i have, i was trying to look for this via es themes but could not find it,is there something else i should do to be able to install this?

Any information would be greatful and thanks you in advance

[mitu]

@scoot75 Update your RetroPie installation (really only the RetroPie install script needs to be updated) and the themes will appear in the list.

[scoot75]

Ok i will try this again,i also tried on monday this week and they were not showing up in the list,or was the list updated after this time as i did not try after this day?

[mitu]

@scoot75 said in Retrorama Comic Theme:

was the list updated after this time as i did not try after this day

Yes, try updating again.