Chicuelo Theme

Jimiga

Hi everyone :)

Seeing Epic Noir's clean, modern game selection menu inspired me to attempt on one with a very similar layout - adding in the idea of using the space on screen-right showing box art and marquee (wheel) art with video snaps simultaneously, like this work in progress mock-up screenshot.

I've found I cannot enable more than one piece of visual metadata, and posted a feature / help request on the projects and themes forum > here

Just curious as to whether anyone here has any advice! Hope this is okay to post here @chicuelo, I love the new theme and it really got me thinking about how to present historic game info in a clean uncluttered way.

chicuelo

@Jimiga Nice approach! I think you will have some issues with landscape game covers and portrait format game logos, but anyway it looks clean! I would make the gamelist darker than the rest to maintain the dark mode aspect

ohmycommodore

"go dark or go home" – someone, probably

Jimiga

@ohmycommodore Hehe go dark or go home! I like it!
Funnily enough I did these two alongside each other as a test. Dark does look better for sure.

@chicuelo I know what you mean about the wider boxes/ portrait titles being a banana skin for this idea. That's where 3mix art does help. My other tweak experiment was this:

I'm researching whether it's possible to just show the year and not dd/mm/yyyy - I think it's cleaner to have just the year.
All fun, experimenting and learning!

A Former User

@Jimiga said in Chicuelo Theme:

I'm researching whether it's possible to just show the year and not dd/mm/yyyy - I think it's cleaner to have just the year.
All fun, experimenting and learning!

Second one looks best.

You can have it just display the year for the release date:

Using the format tag with %Y gets you there.

Jimiga

@LiveFastCyYoung Thanks so much! That date thing had been bugging me for ages, works a charm!

RumblinBuffalo

@chicuelo Thanks very much for uploading this again. I love the clean look of this theme (and no metadata!). One quick question - on the newest version it appears some systems are Spanish and some are English - do you have English versions of the systems?

chicuelo

@RumblinBuffalo mayebe I messed up! Scince I am from argentina, I have the spanis version on the systems I use, I will correct them!

chicuelo

@RumblinBuffalo done, they are in english now!

RumblinBuffalo

@chicuelo Thanks very much! I’ll give it a try. My last build was a couple years ago and it looks like you’ve made some cool updates as well. Appreciate your great work.

RumblinBuffalo

@chicuelo Couple more quick questions - it looks like the Sega CD logo is missing (replaced by 32X logo/description).

Also, I know it's only partially supported but the TI-99 logo seems to be a bit off centre (I'm testing on a 4:3 screen but it appears different/wider than the others?. It might look OK on 16:9 display which I will try).

And both MAME and FBA are showing "Arcade" logos/descriptions. Is that by design?

chicuelo

@RumblinBuffalo I really don´t use too many systems so I could not tell that logos are well displayed, also I do prefer calling "Arcades" to mame or fba because those are the name of the emulator, and not the systems so yes, in that case is a design/ display decition. If you want you can replace any logo of your prefefrence, or edit existing ones to match your build preferences!

RumblinBuffalo

@chicuelo That makes sense. I'll play with the logos and see what I can learn. Thanks again!

movisman

@chicuelo @RumblinBuffalo

Hey :) I just had chance to update the theme from my old copy (since you kindly re-uploaded it and made some tweaks) and all works great except I too noticed that the Sega CD system now incorrectly displays the 32x logo.

We had a Sega CD logo before, I think I might have put it together or tweaked it when I helped with a few bits on the theme previously.

I found an old copy of the logo you previously used, and I created a pull request to restore it.

If you are happy to restore that would be great! Just need you to accept the pull request if so.

Thanks!

chicuelo

@movisman Thanks! I will check it, I think I didn´t check when I reupload all the files!

movisman

@chicuelo said in Chicuelo Theme:

@movisman Thanks! I will check it, I think I didn´t check when I reupload all the files!

No worries! I actually noticed a few others, the Megadrive logo is now Genesis for some reason (we had separate Genesis and MD logos before), also Atari 2600 is now just Atari (but 5200 and 7800 are ok), and Sinclair ZX Spectrum is now just Sinclair.

Not sure if these changes were deliberate - or maybe you uploaded older versions of the files?

I also noticed MAME and FBA logos were replaced with just 'arcade', however there is already an arcade.svg for people to use who use the 'arcade' folder. Maybe it is worth restoring those too to give people the choice?

I have copies of the latest version of the theme before you had to remove it, so I can easily help re-upload any missing logos. Happy to cross check each and raise a pull request accordingly.

Didn't want to start doing pull requests for things you don't want without checking first though :)

movisman

Hmm, TurboGrafx-16, PCE-CD, Supergrafx etc are all also missing from your reupload, but I have copies of them. 3do also looks a bit strange.

I'm wondering if you reuploaded an older version of the logos folder, or maybe removing these was deliberate.

If you like, I can always take the logos I have (which were the latest before you removed the theme originally) and raise a pull request to restore everything?

chicuelo

@movisman Yes please! I dont know what happened, If you could make a pull of all the correct ones it would be great

movisman

@chicuelo

I will take a look for you!
Do you remember adjusting any of the logos deliberately between when you took the theme down originally and when you reuploaded it recently?

Just so I don't go overwriting any 'deliberate' changes you might have made.

Otherwise, i'll do just a full restore of all the logos from my last copy (fully up to date before the theme was pulled) and raise a PR.

Thanks!

movisman

@chicuelo said in Chicuelo Theme:

@movisman
I think the character assets are ok now so that's complete.
I changed slightly the global and in game backgounds, make them a little bit darker and added a texture so yes, they are new

Also I noticed this, from a year ago :) the backgrounds are now the older lighter colour for some reason, rather than the darker type you preferred/updated to. Again, I have a backup of this luckily so I can easily help restore.

I will spend a little time going through and updating my fork to be basically the most 'up to date' in terms of logo and xml, and i'll include your new characters of course - as I can see you have reworked several of them when you reuploaded the theme :)