[Theme] Art Book

pjft

@alphatoanant apologies, actually a question: would you have plans for a Singe system?

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/27426/request-add-daphne-singe-emulator

It's kind of like Daphne, but has a plethora of other games that aren't compatible with Daphne.

Just curious, as it's been recently added and it opens a lot more games to play.

Hope you're doing great!

alphatoanant

@pjft awesome I love laserdisc games - glad to see this available.

Yes would be happy to add this. I'll research logos, see what is out there already or think about a design for one from scratch.

Maybe something like the original laserdisc logo but with Singe lettering instead: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Laserdisc-logo.svg/1280px-Laserdisc-logo.svg.png

Boxart wise I remember from building the system theme for Daphne that most of these games fit well with arcade flyers so I'll go with a portrait layout for now.

Reading through that thread it looks like the folder name for the system theme would be "singe" is that correct?

pjft

@alphatoanant I imagine it might end up being "singe" - there is no current RetroPie-Setup script, but I imagine that singe would make sense indeed.

I think the old Laserdisc logo with Singe lettering - or, honestly, even "Laserdisc" already - would be awesome. These systems did have arcade flyers indeed for the most part, so that is the correct layout indeed.

Thank you so much, and let me know if I can help as well :)

alphatoanant

@pjft well that was quick =). Just made a first commit on the singe system theme. Decided to keep it simple out of the gate by just using the laserdisc logo.

pjft

Awesome, that was quick indeed :) I'll set it up during the weekend, thank you!

Hope you're doing well.

pjft

@alphatoanant just saying, looks awesome! Thank you! :)

peligwe

Just added the Sharp X1 to my build and was wondering if logo could also be added to theme?

alphatoanant

@peligwe yes totally will look at it today

alphatoanant

@peligwe ok I have added the x1 system theme and it’s up on GitHub. I added 2 options for a logo. One with the sharp logo (system.svg) and one without (system-alt.svg).

peligwe

Just pulled down the latest version. As always thanks for the quick response and great work.

Unfortunately the splashscreen generator didn't like your logo for pc98.

alphatoanant

@peligwe thank you I’ll check to see what’s going on with that

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant Happy New Year!

I'm tinkering again. Today I got a desire to scrape up a mix image of front and back of boxes, so I started a small sampling with the Virtual Boy (only 27 roms). The scrape mix looks great, but I wish I had more real estate.

I'm using the video view.

I thought since the NES has a potrait layout for its large boxes, I thought simply adding "<include>./../_inc/templates/portrait.xml</include>
" into the virtual boy theme would change the layout. It didn't, it broke it.

So I reverted back.

What am I not seeing? Can I get some pointers on how to change the layout of the small hand held systems to be similar to the consoles such as NES and MegaDrive?

alphatoanant

Hi @phoenixflood! Happy New Year to you too - hope you have been well.

What you are trying should have worked so I am not sure but lets step through it...

VirtualBoy theme.xml (es-theme-art-book/virtualboy/theme.xml) in the base theme should look like this before any changes...

<theme>
   <formatVersion>4</formatVersion>
   <include>./../theme.xml</include>
   <view name="system, basic, detailed, video">
      <image name="logo">
         <path>./_inc/system.svg</path>
      </image>
   </view>
</theme>

Then to get it to use portrait layout it should only need one addition like this...

<theme>
   <formatVersion>4</formatVersion>
   <include>./../theme.xml</include>
   <include>./../_inc/templates/portrait.xml</include>
   <view name="system, basic, detailed, video">
      <image name="logo">
         <path>./_inc/system.svg</path>
      </image>
   </view>
</theme>

Is that what your change looked like when things broke?

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant Yup, I put that line in there exactly like that, and you can see how it changes. It even changes the main menu.

Here's the before:

Then I add the line:

Then here's the result:

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant And on emulationstation restart after adding that line, I get this error.

alphatoanant

@phoenixflood this had me stumped 😀. I looked at it with fresh eyes this morning and I think I see the issue - try moving the include line above the view line and see if that fixes it (check my code block above - that’s the main difference between what you and I have)

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant You were right, I'm an id10t. Thank you!

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant

peligwe

@alphatoanant Did you ever figure out the splashscreen generator issue for pc98?

alphatoanant

@peligwe, no I haven't had a moment to go back to that unfortunately.