RVGM (Retro/Retropie Video Game Museum) Theme in development

UDb23

@darknior A really great theme ! Thanks for all your hard work.

On Vic 20, if I may give you a suggestion, I'd use Demon Attack, Jelly Monsters or Radar Rat Race art as background as these were the most famous (or "iconic") games on that home computer.
I owned it as a kid ;-)

darknior

@duiz ... sorry i change all you give to me, but i have made some search and for me the console is not MSU1, It's the Super Disc System. With an MSU1 chipset to add FMV and CD-Rom audio support. And i prefer describe the system and his story, not really the emulator to use it.

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It's why i made an SDS theme, but i also made some MSU1 logo you can found on the system directory like ever if you want to change.

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And then :

I use Killer Instinct because i already made this graphic stuff, and a new Killer Instinct MSU1 pack was release last week and it is really fantastic !!!
If i can found some time and stuff, i really dream to release an alternate one with Daemon Crest :p

@UDb23 Thanks a lot.
I have search for stuff a little, and i think i can only work on Demon Attack or maybe Radar Rat Racer ...
It's very hard to found what i search if i don't to draw so much ... an image with a good resolution to cut the center Sprite of the theme, and a background that i can let empty of characters. I will try ;)

It will be many work for me, but i finally found some good ideas for the 3 default game list : All Games, Favorites, Last Played ;)

I have PUSH a BIG part of all the new stuff on GIT ;)
Now you can try it.

UDb23

@darknior Thanks for checking the images. I don't want to create additional work for you.
As it's available on GIT, if I find time, I could try making the Vic20 background myself. If successful I'll submit it to you.

duiz

@darknior

I got some stuff for Demon Crest here

https://mega.nz/#!x1M23IrC!zO1SmVnluebl9R-gZJwSVGoxNct5ZRu8VcNZz4u8U5w

MikOzzZ

Hi @darknior

is it normal that under the system retropie the display be like that? thank you

darknior

@mikozzz No for me it's impossible, i don't understand how is it possible to do it with my skin lol

When i will work on this "system" i will modify my XML to hide many info and make it better.

MikOzzZ

@darknior said in RVGM (Retro/Retropie Video Game Museum) Theme in development:

When i will work on this "system" i will modify my XML to hide many info and make it better.

well I do not understand either because I did not change the system xml

Nowun

Very nice! Looking forward to trying it!

darknior

@mikozzz said in RVGM (Retro/Retropie Video Game Museum) Theme in development:

well I do not understand either because I did not change the system xml

I don't change anything too ... really i don't know.
Maybe stand my future update that will fix some other bugs and maybe this one for you ?

darknior

@udb23 said in RVGM (Retro/Retropie Video Game Museum) Theme in development:

On Vic 20, if I may give you a suggestion, I'd use Demon Attack, Jelly Monsters or Radar Rat Race art as background as these were the most famous (or "iconic") games on that home computer.

I made it for you, and i will use it too lol

And there are the models :p
1_1523400796198_Demon Attack2.jpg 0_1523400796198_9ba824ee3cfc7f07fd6006442960511c5c99e992_s2_n1.jpg

And a new better SNES too :

UDb23

@darknior Wow.
That Vic20 page looks so cool !!
Thanks a lot!! Really appreciated.

darknior

@udb23 Thanks :)
And i have forgot to to it yesterday, i have update GIT with them.

darknior

Refactor of the MSU-1 theme too with a new alternative :)

By working on this :

MikOzzZ

@darknior good theme I love it by cons it is very heavy and I often have white images of the problem of memory

darknior

@mikozzz Thanks
Yes it's the problem, but i also made a lite version with only one image by system and it's same, i try to remove transition effect, reduce image size to 720p, etc ... i try many things and there is always the problem of memory and white images.
The problem come from ES and it's really bad, i must open an issue, some one must try to fix this problem ... we have 1Go of RAM and a Quad Core !!!

MikOzzZ

@darknior said in RVGM (Retro/Retropie Video Game Museum) Theme in development:

Yes it's the problem, but i also made a lite version with only one image by system and it's same, i try to remove transition effect, reduce image size to 720p, etc ... i try many things and there is always the problem of memory and white images.
The problem come from ES and it's really bad, i must open an issue, some one must try to fix this problem ... we have 1Go of RAM and a Quad Core !!!

yes and what I find weird is that some theme that consume very little memory with the latest MAJ consumes much more even on theme HURSTY blue style, did you notice?

darknior

@mikozzz said in RVGM (Retro/Retropie Video Game Museum) Theme in development:

yes and what I find weird is that some theme that consume very little memory with the latest MAJ consumes much more even on theme HURSTY blue style, did you notice?

No i don't see it, i don't know this theme. Maybe it's because they have had the GRID support on the DEV branch ?

Used2BeRX

@darknior Hey bud.

I wanted to try this skin out, but I'm having a problem. I downloaded and unpacked it, but when I try to FTP it over to /etc/emulationstation/themes/, I get an "Unable to create directory [Permission Denied]" error. Seems this is one of those folders I can't actually do anything with.

Any suggestions to work around this?

Sorry. I'm still a Linux noob and the permissions always give me a problem.

darknior

@used2berx I don't know ... how do you upload it ?
It's a right problem, for my part i use SSH with root user.

mitu

@used2berx Just copy it in /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes as the pi user and don't worry about root. If the themes folder doesn't exist, create it first.