Chicuelo Theme

RumblinBuffalo

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

movisman

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 :)

movisman

@chicuelo

Ok the more I study this the more I understand what's happened here. A lot of the theme.xml files are also out of date, as I remember some of the changes we made to them aren't there any more.

But don't worry - i'll fix this all up for you and raise a PR.

Basically, what i'm going to do, is use my backup of the latest version of the theme, but leave the characters directory alone as they contain new images. I will also make a neogeocd theme.xml as I see you have a controller/logo image for that, i'll duplicate the neogeo character like we did with other CD images.

Stand by...in a couple of hours i'll have a PR raised which should hopefully bring the theme back up to where it was (with the new character imagery).

Thanks!

chicuelo

@movisman Great! I really did not use this version of the theme. I only have 16 systems and spanish version.
What i am sure is that the characters are ok because I manually updated all of them.

movisman

@chicuelo

No worries! You are correct, the characters are all good. I've spent some time fixing things up and restoring the latest version, and will create a PR shortly. I also fixed an outstanding issue with the system logos occasionally cropping at the right edge by adding a 5px padding around the x/y on each.

Here's what i've sorted:

update readme.md to add neogeocd support
copy neogeo.jpg character to neogeocd.jpg for neogeocd support
restore correct / newest versions of logos+controllers
restore system specific theme.xml files to correct / latest versions
restore latest version of background files
restore missing systems (supergrafx, etc)
leave characters folder 'as is' as this contains new artwork, seems fine
rework all logos so they have a 5px padding/margin on x/y, this fixes occasional logo cropping on the system select screen for certain systems

PR incoming shortly. I'll then update and test.

Thanks!

movisman

@chicuelo

PR all raised with the above fixes/changes/file restorations.
https://github.com/chicueloarcade/es-theme-Chicuelo/pull/36

Hope this helps!

Thanks

chicuelo

@movisman all done!

movisman

@chicuelo

Updated and looking good! Thanks for accepting the PR :)

A Bored Ninja

@chicuelo Are you planning on publishing your Epic Noir/Chicuelo hybrid theme soon?

I am excited to download it!

chicuelo

@A-Bored-Ninja Im still considering, because some people told me the epic noir was too heavy for their sons, and It would nice to have a child-friendly theme and a more adult one. I think I could make an alternative folder with the adult variant and let the user swap between images

A Bored Ninja

@chicuelo Great idea! The images are easy enough to swap out.

CCFox

I have created a hybrid of nostsoepicnoir and @chiculeo 's artwork. I have also changed the system text to show the system logo and changed the controller image to show an image of the console/computer.

I don't know how to generate finished images from the pi. If anybody can tell me how to do this I will happily upload screenshots.

Or I could take photos?

Rgds

CCF

mitu

@CCFox said in Chicuelo Theme:

I don't know how to generate finished images from the pi. If anybody can tell me how to do this I will happily upload screenshots.

You can use raspi2png to grab a screenshot - https://github.com/AndrewFromMelbourne/raspi2png. It's a command line utility, so you should have SSH enabled.

CCFox

@mitu

Have clicked the link and I notice that it says new build for Raspbian Buster. I am still using Stretch as I did install RetroPie 4.6 but didn't get on well with it so downgraded back to 4.5.

Will this still work?

Kind Regards

CCF