Chicuelo Theme

Keigan

Recently updated the theme, now its 1080 fully supported and smooth, with separated sprites so you can edit and replace the content easily. Simplified and optimized code.

Lots of logos added but still missing some character and controller assets (will be delivered soon)

Special thanks to @EctoOne and @Keigan, you really helped me guys!

Hope you enjoy the theme!

No worries man! Such a great clean look in my opinion.

I made launch screens for my theme to sort of match the clean look. I had made these for my previous theme, with accenting colours to the system, but changed them to be dark grey on light grey for this one.

new

Now my issue is tweaking a good overlay look.

This is what I am currently doing or now, but need to fill the dead space. If anything I'll just center it on a plain BG

overlay

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@msheehan79 said in Chicuelo Theme:

ntastic looking theme! I'm looking forward to trying it out with your latest updates.
Not sure if you are thinking about adding additional systems to this theme, but if so one suggestion I would love to see is a TurboGrafx-16 system with Bonk as the artwork, given he was the "mascot" for the TG16 when it launched here in North America.
In any event, both this theme and the arcades you have built are really quite impressive.

I made the pc engine version, that as far as I know is like turbografx, the difference is I used a bubble bobble character.
You can create your own version with the latest update, you only have to put the image in the character folder with the same size and system name, also the controller PNG and you are done with it. Its very simple!

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@keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

Now my issue is tweaking a good overlay look.
This is what I am currently doing or now, but need to fill the dead space. If anything I'll just center it on a plain BG

That screens look amazing, can you use one for each system?

The one thing I don't get is the last image, do you want to integer with the bg image?

msheehan79

@chicuelo

TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine are the same technically yes, but the TurboGrafx was very different looking, with a different logo, etc.

In terms of creating my own version, you make it sound so easy :) If I had even half the graphics skills to make my own I would indeed! But maybe I'll take a crack at it someday, it might be a fun way to get up to speed on PhotoShop :)

Newellj79

I love the look of this theme. Is that any chance of you eventually making a 4:3 version?

Keigan

@chicuelo said in Chicuelo Theme:

@keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

Now my issue is tweaking a good overlay look.
This is what I am currently doing or now, but need to fill the dead space. If anything I'll just center it on a plain BG

That screens look amazing, can you use one for each system?

The one thing I don't get is the last image, do you want to integer with the bg image?

Yeah the loading screens can be for every system, just flashes for a few seconds instead of the default blue box, unless that has changed too.

The last image is the screen where the game plays in. I wanted to have the logo implemented somehow, but in the end just may center it on the background colour to keep it clean. With all the different screen sizes it's tough to figure out a design that might work.

I don't like stretching my screen out, I want the pixels to be square, so I just force the game to run at 3x or 4x the actual size. Whichever keeps in smaller than my screen size.

My old theme overlays were like this, but sized at 1920 x 1080:

SNES
Imgur

NES
Imgur

GB
Imgur

GBA
Imgur

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@newellj79 said in Chicuelo Theme:

I love the look of this theme. Is that any chance of you eventually making a 4:3 version?

Not sure now but I tried this theme in a more square aspect ratio than 16:9 and it looks good. Don't know how it looks on a 4:3 screen.

nevsan

This theme is gorgeous @chicuelo. Are you intending to add this to download and install via emulation station?

chicuelo

@keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

@chicuelo said in Chicuelo Theme:

@keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

Now my issue is tweaking a good overlay look.
This is what I am currently doing or now, but need to fill the dead space. If anything I'll just center it on a plain BG

That screens look amazing, can you use one for each system?

The one thing I don't get is the last image, do you want to integer with the bg image?

Yeah the loading screens can be for every system, just flashes for a few seconds instead of the default blue box, unless that has changed too.

The last image is the screen where the game plays in. I wanted to have the logo implemented somehow, but in the end just may center it on the background colour to keep it clean. With all the different screen sizes it's tough to figure out a design that might work.

I don't like stretching my screen out, I want the pixels to be square, so I just force the game to run at 3x or 4x the actual size. Whichever keeps in smaller than my screen size.

My old theme overlays were like this, but sized at 1920 x 1080:

SNES

NES

GB

GBA

I get it now, those are the bezels for the game. I do prefer a image stretch, but I like yours because they are well excecuted.
When I launch a game I don't see anything but a black screen until the game is loaded. I think its because I disabled all notifications

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@nevsan said in Chicuelo Theme:

This theme is gorgeous @chicuelo. Are you intending to add this to download and install via emulation station?

Thank you @nevsan ! Yes, I am actually trying to make it available on ES theme menu manager. I have the repo working and I am waiting for a pull request. Hope it will be soon

EctoOne

@chicuelo said in Chicuelo Theme:

@nevsan said in Chicuelo Theme:

This theme is gorgeous @chicuelo. Are you intending to add this to download and install via emulation station?

Thank you @nevsan ! Yes, I am actually trying to make it available on ES theme menu manager. I have the repo working and I am waiting for a pull request. Hope it will be soon

Have you seen the comment on your pull request? Your edit was faulty, you need to put 4 spaces before your entry, you did a tab or something else. You can close it and send another one or wait till it gets manually added.

herb_fargus

@ectoone said in Chicuelo Theme:

You can close it and send another one

This is not the proper way to modify pull requests. Just needs a commit to fix the formatting/to be squashed.

EctoOne

@herb_fargus Ok, well that's way easier then. I don't have that much experience with github myself.

jonathandownin

@keigan Do you have a download for those two splash screen sets (colored and grey)? I would love to have them for my setup. Thanks, and the theme looks great @chicuelo! Can’t wait to get my hands on it!

Keigan

@jonathandownin said in Chicuelo Theme:

@keigan Do you have a download for those two splash screen sets (colored and grey)? I would love to have them for my setup. Thanks, and the theme looks great @chicuelo! Can’t wait to get my hands on it!

I have them for the systems I use. I'm not crazy about having a million systems, which is why I sadly never release themes.

So I have them for:

NES
SNES
GB
GBA
GBC
PSX
PC
Hacks
Genesis
Master System

If you have a list of systems you would like them for I will gladly make them, and if you have a particular colour you'd like for the coloured ones, let me know.

jonathandownin

@keigan Thanks, much appreciated. I stay pretty lean systems-wise too, but I guess I would also want Mame, N64, Arcade, and Ports as of now. I’ll take what you have and then if you could just let me know where I can get the main system logos (dark and light) and let me know the font you used for the bottom text I can get them together myself to save you the trouble.

I’ll share back my additions as well if you would like.

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@ectoone said in Chicuelo Theme:

Have you seen the comment on your pull request? Your edit was faulty, you need to put 4 spaces before your entry, you did a tab or something else. You can close it and send another one or wait till it gets manually added.

I got a mail from an admin with this advice, but I have no idea where is the part I have to put 4 spaces. He told he will add manually on next update

A Former User

Wow, this theme looks so clean and minimal! I really love the style you're going for!
I'd use this theme if my Raspberry Pi wasn't busted.

Keigan

@jonathandownin

Loading screens: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1spB3GkRqiOST4Mmv6IrDqEPKgJeKxHMM

Subfolders: colour / grey include the saved png's

There is a PSD in the main folder that is set up you just need to throw the logos in, resize and change the colour. The fonts used are also in the main folder.

For the grey theme the hex values for the colours are

Logo: #F8F8F8
Bottom Text: #A5A5A5
Background: #4D4F5B

Anyone can use this to make the loading screens look how you please

herb_fargus

This is now in the theme installer btw