Chicuelo Theme

Sheyk90

Hi! @chicuelo I love your theme but I have Recalbox on my Raspi... Could you adapt your theme to it?? I think is not difficult for you; I don't know how to do it :(
Thanks!

chicuelo

@Sheyk90
Sorry I don't use recall box so I don't know either how to adapt the theme. Maybe you can switch to retropie! :)

rajbhalsod

Hi Chicuelo,

An amazing theme - just what i was looking for, you have put together a clean and professional looking theme. One question - is it possible to have video previews on the main menu for each system? Similar to how it works the games - box art first and then the video preview?

Thanks, Raj

EctoOne

@rajbhalsod No, EmulationStation has no support for videos on system view.

rajbhalsod

@EctoOne thank you for the quick response, very much appreciated :)

rajbhalsod

Another question - sorry :(
I've been playing around with the RetroPie software and added some new systems to see how they work. When cycling through the systems, there is lag. I've tried increasing the vram under settings but this does not work and after increasing it to around 400, the system crashed! I also found that if I removed the system logos, it ran a lot more smoother. Obviously I would like to keep the system logos as they make the theme look complete. Again, any suggestions as to how I can avoid the lag and keep the system logos, etc.

Really sorry for asking questions - i've been searching on the internet for days and tried all sorts of solutions!

chicuelo

@rajbhalsod said in Chicuelo Theme:

Another question - sorry :(
I've been playing around with the RetroPie software and added some new systems to see how they work. When cycling through the systems, there is lag. I've tried increasing the vram under settings but this does not work and after increasing it to around 400, the system crashed! I also found that if I removed the system logos, it ran a lot more smoother. Obviously I would like to keep the system logos as they make the theme look complete. Again, any suggestions as to how I can avoid the lag and keep the system logos, etc.

I think its a matter of your build. I have no troubles about lag with the theme. It runs smooth in every card I tried. Maybe your sd is almost full? You could try to start from scratch and ensure you get a clean performance

mitu

@rajbhalsod The video RAM allocated by the system to the GPU is by default 256Mb on a system with 1Gb ram (PI 3/3B+/3A+), if you increase the VRAM limit in ES it's normal you get a crash since you're over the limit.
You should try to increase the GPU memory first - from the /boot/config.txt file - and then increase your VRAM in Emulationstation. Don't go overboard with the limit, the VRAM is also used by the emulators and you might get them to crash if you don't reserve enough RAM.

rajbhalsod

@mitu apologies for not replying earlier, I’ve just got in from work. Thank you for the explanation, very informative and helpful. Any suggestions as to what I should set the amount to in the config file? Or is that down to how it performs and then I tweak until I find a best fit for it all to run smoothly?

Once again thank you, there are so many solutions online and coming here to the forum has really helped me understand how these things work, no thanks to you and the other members.

mitu

@rajbhalsod I would try at first increasing the VRAM to 160 MB at first and restarting Emulationstation to see how it works, without modifying the system allocated VRAM. If that doesn't work, increase the system VRAM to 386 Mb (settting gpu_mem_1024=386 in /boot/config.txt) and then increasing the VRAM to 200-220 Mb - but don't do this unless you have a Pi with 1Gb RAM.

brigada

@chicuelo is really a strong themes, will there be more consoles?

chicuelo

@brigada
The idea is to achieve the most part of the consoles as possible, but now im very busy to work on this, so in a near future I hope to complete the list

brigada

@chicuelo Thanks, that's very good

DarishZone

Luscious theme, actually still one of the best for me, could be taxing due to hi-quality images used.

chicuelo

@DarishZone
Thanks! But there are a lot of images I use from other design partners, so I could never charge for others work. They are listed and credited on the readme. The quality for a designer must be a non-negociable

DarishZone

@chicuelo said in Chicuelo Theme:

@DarishZone
Thanks! But there are a lot of images I use from other design partners, so I could never charge for others work. They are listed and credited on the readme. The quality for a designer must be a non-negociable

Could not agree more!

EctoOne

Hey @chicuelo I was considering to rewrite the whole theme to make it more modular. There was a recent change which enabled variables in <include> tags, using that I could create a simple config file which allows to change certain parts. E.g. to use metadata/game description instead of the logo/system description.
Also with that change it is possible to get rid of all the system sub folders (although I still don't know how that would affect custom collections).

Would you be interessed in that? Because I currently don't use my Pi anymore and would just do it for fun, but if you're not interessted I wouldn't even begin.

HurricaneFan

@EctoOne I think that sounds pretty fun.

chicuelo

@EctoOne
Yes, it seems to be interesting. I have no time to work on the project but if you are interested on making it better and respecting the visuals go ahead. All the art is available on the repo.

DarishZone

@chicuelo I apologize but I think there was a misunderstanding in my words, I meant to say that theme could be challenging for the system because of the high quality images used (it really depends on each setting), I would never be allowed to say to sell it! However I am obviously agree what you said!