Chicuelo Theme

A Former User

Going to install this theme this weekend and give it a shot.

Can anyone report how it works using boxart vs. screenshots?

Newellj79

Awesome theme. If you are taking requests I would submit ms-dos and arcade. Then I could use it on my bar top. :)

Keigan

@keigan said in Upload My Theme:

my way isn't really a "proper" way, as so much as a work around. Without it being added into ES and automatically figuring out the number of systems to create the number of indicators, there isn't really a proper way.

I understand this method. The only issue is that you have to create the dots based on the amount of systems you have. And if you add some, you have to do all again

Exactly my reasoning for saying it's likely not worth your effort to do on a large scale.

More or less I was thinking if you wanted to make them to release, do multiple numbers all at one time. Make indicators starting at 5 systems and do it for up to 20 or 25 or however many you feel like doing, if any. Depending on if you wanted to keep the spacing the same it shouldn't take much more than 20 minutes to set up and save them all.

Like I said, it's a cheat, not a true solution. Though even if they built it in to ES, there would likely be issues as far as how much customization we could do to it. With this way you could do some cool indicators such as something like these (credit for the icons go to OpenEmu):

indicator

Where you could use icons, or anything instead of circles.

I'm certainly glad you originally included them because I'm definitely using them in my personal theme set ups.

jwbmonk

Has this been added to retropie setup?

Keigan

@newellj79 said in Upload My Theme:

Awesome theme. If you are taking requests I would submit ms-dos and arcade. Then I could use it on my bar top. :)

Check under the MAME folder, he has a nice looking ARCADE one made there.

mitu

Nice an clean theme, but some of the images are not loading.
For instance, theauto-lastplayed/theme.xml file (https://github.com/chicueloarcade/Chicuelo/blob/master/auto-lastplayed/theme.xml) references the /system-bg.jpg image, but in that folder there is no such image. Emulationstation complains:

lvl1: 	  Warning from theme "/etc/emulationstation/themes/chicuelo/auto-allgames/theme.xml"
    could not find file "./system-bg.jpg" (which resolved to "/etc/emulationstation/themes/chicuelo/auto-allgames/system-bg.jpg")
lvl1: 	  Warning from theme "/etc/emulationstation/themes/chicuelo/auto-lastplayed/theme.xml"
    could not find file "./system-bg.jpg" (which resolved to "/etc/emulationstation/themes/chicuelo/auto-lastplayed/system-bg.jpg")

The result is a blank screen when that system (collection) is selected.
Maybe you forgot to add the image in the repository ?

Just a quick suggestion - add a .gitignore file at the root of your folder, so that your uploads will ignore the .DS_Storefiles that the macOS Finder so graciously adds to every folder you browse. See https://gist.github.com/octocat/9257657 for a good example you can just copy and paste.

chicuelo

@livefastcyyoung said in Upload My Theme:

Going to install this theme this weekend and give it a shot.

Can anyone report how it works using boxart vs. screenshots?

Using box art works fine for me both landscape and portrait, but now im scrapping manually all again to have in game screens with all the same size. a big work ahead

chicuelo

@mitu said in Upload My Theme:

estion - add a .gitignore file at the root of your folder, so that your uploads will ignore the .DS_Storefiles that the macOS Finder so graciously adds to every folder you brow

Hey you are right, I forget to upload that bg!

On the next update I will add some more systems and the ignore file

chicuelo

Exactly my reasoning for saying it's likely not worth your effort to do on a large scale.

More or less I was thinking if you wanted to make them to release, do multiple numbers all at one time. Make indicators starting at 5 systems and do it for up to 20 or 25 or however many you feel like doing, if any. Depending on if you wanted to keep the spacing the same it shouldn't take much more than 20 minutes to set up and save them all.

Like I said, it's a cheat, not a true solution. Though even if they built it in to ES, there would likely be issues as far as how much customization we could do to it. With this way you could do some cool indicators such as something like these (credit for the icons go to OpenEmu):

Where you could use icons, or anything instead of circles.

I'm certainly glad you originally included them because I'm definitely using them in my personal theme set ups.

Thanks! I use dots because its a minimalistic interface, it was intentional, I thin in another theme that icons would be awesome.
It would be great if ES includes a native indicator, at least to let users how many systems they have to navigate through

chicuelo

@jwbmonk said in Upload My Theme:

Has this been added to retropie setup?

When I have the whole theme working I will try to upload there :)

Keigan

@chicuelo said in Upload My Theme:

Thanks! I use dots because its a minimalistic interface, it was intentional

Yeah I am all for that, that's why I loved it. I just used the icons as an example of what people could do if they wanted to. I got mine set up using dots, nice and clean

jwbmonk

@chicuelo Sounds good!

EctoOne

@omgmog said in Upload My Theme:

This is a great theme!

I've whipped up an additional system-bg.jpg to use for Kodi if anybody is interested.

To use it, I simply cloned another system (e.g. psx to kodi) and replaced the asset, then with a Kodi launcher under ~/RetroPie/roms/kodi and a system added in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg it works.

I had to reproduce the text styles myself, so they might not be perfect. If you've got a .psd or something as a template that would be great!

Thanks!

I would use a remote instead of the TV image, because most of the other systems use controllers as well. Also Kodi is not just for videos and the TV kinda implies that.

chicuelo

@omgmog

I would use a remote instead of the TV image, because most of the other systems use controllers as well. Also Kodi is not just for videos and the TV kinda implies that.

I like that! Great Idea

anderocha

I loved this theme! This and PIXEL are my favorites.
I took the liberty of trying a small change, make a "version" with the consoles in scanlines. Big hug from Brazil!

anderocha

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anderocha

@chicuelo

If possible:

Atari5200
Atari7800
Colecovision
Intellivision
MSX
PC-Engine CD
P S P
SegaCD (separate)
TurboGrafx-16
TubroGrafx-CD
Vectrex

chicuelo

@anderocha said in Upload My Theme:

ed this theme! This and PIXEL are my favorites.
I took the liberty of trying a small change, make a "version" with the consoles in scanlines. Big hug from Brazil!

Nice one! at first attempt I used scaliness too but when I tried the theme in different screens they don't look good so I removed.
I use a character and a game background because you already notice the system with the logo and the controller so you don't need to tell the story again, but its an interesting approach.
Cheers from Argentina!

NYIslanders91

Where is the link to download?

EctoOne

@nyislanders91 https://github.com/chicueloarcade/Chicuelo

@chicuelo Maybe you should add the link to the first post and maybe rename the topic (although I'm not sure if it's possible).