Chicuelo Theme

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!

EctoOne

@chicuelo Yeah, I won't mess with the graphics/layout. I was just thinking to simply create a version that can use various extra xml files to overwrite settings. Basically a better version of the code I posted before to change certain elements.
That would be pretty easy to do, because I could keep the original theme.xml and just had to create the extra ones.
But last night I had some more ideas I want to try, so I will probably rip the whole code apart and see what I can do.
I will look into it on the weekend.

chicuelo

@DarishZone Hahahah I understand. I run it on a pi 3b and a pi3 b+ and it runs smooth and flawless. I remove the sliding effect due a personal preference

waldnercharles

Great theme @chicuelo!

I've been having a lot of fun modding it. I made a version in HTML/CSS so that I could tweak settings and layer images easily (I'm not great with photoshop or gimp.)

I tried to combine this theme with the CRT theme. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when a system is selected, but was thinking maybe I could just get rid of the character and show a video on the right instead of the screenshot.

Edit: Here's a link to my fork for anyone interested. https://github.com/waldnercharles/es-theme-Chicuelo (It may not look like the screenshot anymore... I like to change things.)