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    • SuperMagicomS
      SuperMagicom
      last edited by SuperMagicom

      "Nostalgic" theme for Retropie EmulationStation by SuperMagicom.

      I have always admired the "Nostalgia" platform videos made by Viking for Launchbox and wished they could be used on Retropie. Since EmulationStation does not support platform videos, I decided to try creating a theme using static images of them.

      All credit for the visual aesthetic goes to Viking. My contribution is the code to display the images as an ES theme and align the video snaps for each system individually. It was a lot of work but I am pleased with the results and I hope you will be too!

      The following system folders are currently supported...

      • Amiga
      • Amstrad CPC
      • Apple 2
      • Arcade
      • Atari 2600
      • Atari 5200
      • Atari 7800
      • Atari Lynx
      • Atari ST
      • All Games
      • Favorites
      • Last Played
      • Colecovision
      • Custom Collections
      • Daphne
      • Sega Dreamcast
      • Nintendo Famicom
      • Final Burn Alpha
      • Famicom Disk System
      • Nintendo Game & Watch
      • Sega Game Gear
      • Game Boy
      • Game Boy Hacks
      • Game Boy Advance
      • Game Boy Advance Hacks
      • Game Boy Color
      • Game Boy Color Hacks
      • Intellivision
      • AdvMAME
      • MAME Libretro
      • MAME4All
      • Sega Master System
      • Sega Master System Hacks
      • Sega Megadrive (Genesis)
      • Sega Genesis Hacks
      • Sega Megadrive Japan
      • MSX
      • MSX2
      • Nintendo 64
      • Nintendo DS
      • Neo Geo
      • Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
      • NES Hacks
      • Neo Geo Pocket
      • Neo Geo Pocket Color
      • Nintendo BSX Satellaview
      • NEC PC-Engine
      • NEC PC-Engine CD
      • PC (MS-Dos)
      • Sony PSP
      • PSP Minis
      • Sony PlayStation (PSX)
      • ScummVM
      • Sega 32X
      • Sega CD
      • Super Famicom
      • Sega SG-1000
      • Super Nintendo
      • SNES Hacks
      • Bandai SufamiTurbo
      • SuperGrafx
      • TurboGrafx 16
      • TurboGrafx CD
      • Vectrex
      • Videopac (Odyssey2)
      • Virtual Boy
      • Wonderswan
      • Wonderswan Color
      • ZX Spectrum

      More systems may be added in the future.

      Marquee graphics are supported for arcade-based systems if they are present in your gamelist.xml file.

      Installation

      Download the theme from Github and move the unarchived "nostalgic" folder and all of the contents to

      /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/themes
      

      If this folder does not exist you may create it.

      IMPORTANT: I recommend keeping EmulationStation's VRAM setting at 80. This theme uses 1080p images for each system and the WSOD (White Screen of Death) fix seems to only work correctly when VRAM is at 80.

      Screenshots

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      Acknowledgments

      • Viking for his amazing Launchbox creations
      • RetroNi for his logo sets
      • mattrixk for his ES-Toolkit app
      • rookervik for his Theme Helper app

      Download Link

      https://github.com/SuperMagicom/es-theme-nostalgic

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      • Y
        yaazzz @SuperMagicom
        last edited by

        @supermagicom

        Waoooh!!!! really nice!!!! Thank you for sharing this amazing work.

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        • SgtJimmyRustlesS
          SgtJimmyRustles
          last edited by SgtJimmyRustles

          This is a VERY clean theme. I might be using this one. You even have a mega drive and a genesis logo. That's nice to have. Are you adding a "mega CD" for Japan/Pal? (I'm USA so I'm not affected)

          Check out /r/SBCGaming for Retropie, Recalbox, OGST (Odroid) talk and more!
          http://www.reddit.com/r/sbcgaming

          Hop on the Dicscord as well and chat about all things Retropie (or recalbox, lakka, etc)
          https://discord.gg/JdXc6nx

          Check out our Podcast!

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          • BriganeB
            Brigane
            last edited by

            Waaauw truly nice work. I love the clean design and the shadow work is perfect.
            Thank you for making this great masterpiece for us to enjoy.

            Systems: Raspberry Pi 0/2/3 Model B+
            Os: RetroPie 4.5
            Frontend: Emulationstation & Attract Mode

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            • cellyC
              celly @SuperMagicom
              last edited by

              @supermagicom very clean and simple. I love it! Great work!

              Currently Playing: Tetris (Gameboy)

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              • SuperMagicomS
                SuperMagicom @SgtJimmyRustles
                last edited by

                @sgtjimmyrustles There is no platform video for Mega CD that I can base the background image on. I might be able to hack something together eventually though.

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                  scooter1974
                  last edited by

                  Love it! Great job :)

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                  • SgtJimmyRustlesS
                    SgtJimmyRustles @SuperMagicom
                    last edited by

                    @supermagicom

                    It looks great, just missing MS Dos. I'd cobble something together if you have that background image at the right size.

                    Check out /r/SBCGaming for Retropie, Recalbox, OGST (Odroid) talk and more!
                    http://www.reddit.com/r/sbcgaming

                    Hop on the Dicscord as well and chat about all things Retropie (or recalbox, lakka, etc)
                    https://discord.gg/JdXc6nx

                    Check out our Podcast!

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                    • SuperMagicomS
                      SuperMagicom @SgtJimmyRustles
                      last edited by

                      @sgtjimmyrustles I haven't really added any of the computer systems yet but I will.

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                      • SgtJimmyRustlesS
                        SgtJimmyRustles @SuperMagicom
                        last edited by SgtJimmyRustles

                        @supermagicom said in [THEME] Nostalgic:

                        @sgtjimmyrustles I haven't really added any of the computer systems yet but I will.

                        I made a workaround for now with the Amstrad look and shaved off the logo for a MSDos one I found. Looks good though.

                        But hopefully your next focus is MS Dos.

                        Check out /r/SBCGaming for Retropie, Recalbox, OGST (Odroid) talk and more!
                        http://www.reddit.com/r/sbcgaming

                        Hop on the Dicscord as well and chat about all things Retropie (or recalbox, lakka, etc)
                        https://discord.gg/JdXc6nx

                        Check out our Podcast!

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                        • SuperMagicomS
                          SuperMagicom @SgtJimmyRustles
                          last edited by

                          @sgtjimmyrustles I added support for the pc (ms-dos) folder.

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                          • SgtJimmyRustlesS
                            SgtJimmyRustles @SuperMagicom
                            last edited by SgtJimmyRustles

                            @supermagicom

                            Wow, that was fast. Appreciate it man!

                            Check out /r/SBCGaming for Retropie, Recalbox, OGST (Odroid) talk and more!
                            http://www.reddit.com/r/sbcgaming

                            Hop on the Dicscord as well and chat about all things Retropie (or recalbox, lakka, etc)
                            https://discord.gg/JdXc6nx

                            Check out our Podcast!

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                            • SgtJimmyRustlesS
                              SgtJimmyRustles
                              last edited by

                              Just tried it out @SuperMagicom and it works great! Love the PC you used.

                              Check out /r/SBCGaming for Retropie, Recalbox, OGST (Odroid) talk and more!
                              http://www.reddit.com/r/sbcgaming

                              Hop on the Dicscord as well and chat about all things Retropie (or recalbox, lakka, etc)
                              https://discord.gg/JdXc6nx

                              Check out our Podcast!

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                              • caver01C
                                caver01
                                last edited by

                                @SuperMagicom How about Daphne? I think more than a few of us have Dragon's Lair or Space Ace up and running. . .

                                Great theme! I can't wait to try it out.

                                My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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                                • SuperMagicomS
                                  SuperMagicom @caver01
                                  last edited by

                                  @caver01 Added Daphne. Should work the same as arcade so if you have marquee images in your gamelist.xml they will display on the cab.

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                                  • ande.rochaA
                                    ande.rocha Banned
                                    last edited by

                                    Good Morning! here is WSOD, is it because of the configuration of the scrap image I'm using?

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                                    • SuperMagicomS
                                      SuperMagicom @ande.rocha
                                      last edited by

                                      @ande-rocha Make sure the VRAM is set to 80 in the EmulationStation settings.

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                                      • ande.rochaA
                                        ande.rocha Banned @SuperMagicom
                                        last edited by

                                        @supermagicom
                                        the setting is correct, set to 80 :(

                                        Great work! I really want to test here!

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                                        • SgtJimmyRustlesS
                                          SgtJimmyRustles
                                          last edited by

                                          @SuperMagicom

                                          Fyi, small bug noticed. If you do the whole "Change name of system" for the TG16 and Genesis, the genesis one will not work. You have to manually make a folder for genesis.

                                          Check out /r/SBCGaming for Retropie, Recalbox, OGST (Odroid) talk and more!
                                          http://www.reddit.com/r/sbcgaming

                                          Hop on the Dicscord as well and chat about all things Retropie (or recalbox, lakka, etc)
                                          https://discord.gg/JdXc6nx

                                          Check out our Podcast!

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                                          • S
                                            Sargy
                                            last edited by

                                            How can I change to that theme in ES? I copied the .zip into the direction but how can I tell ES to install and use it?
                                            Thanks in advance!

                                            Appreciate your work, thank you :)

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