RetroRoom Theme!

[DRA6N]

Working on a new theme, with a big nod to @Nismo 's theme, Old Room. I decided I wanted a theme similar to this in nature where the tv and room changes based on the console you're viewing, but with some touches of my own.

So far this is a WIP, and I am working out the kinks, tweaking images, fonts etc. and setting it up as a 'template' so I can build the other systems much faster. Here is what I have so far.

System View screens:

Game View Screens:

I will post here periodically as I update the theme!

[CapNinja]

@dra6n Hahaha, that's cute. Keep goin'!

[mattrixk]

@dra6n Looks interesting. I'm having a bit of trouble reading the black text on the light white backgrounds though.

[KN4THX]

@mattrixk Yes I agree. It looks awesome but that white background needs to be around 80-90% opaque.

[DRA6N]

@mattrixk said in RetroRoom Theme!:

@dra6n Looks interesting. I'm having a bit of trouble reading the black text on the light white backgrounds though.

@thedatacereal said in RetroRoom Theme!:

@mattrixk Yes I agree. It looks awesome but that white background needs to be around 80-90% opaque.

Yeah, I was trying to find a happy medium. I'll try and make it less transparent. All else fails I will toss up some sort of BG image to go behind the text.

[DRA6N]

@capninja thanks! I plan to hit the major consoles at a bare minimum. Atari(s), NES, SNES, Sega, N64, PSX, Gameboy, GBC, GBA and then start to fill in the odds and ends.

[DRA6N]

WIP preview of the SNES screen

[ClassicGMR]

@dra6n Either Luigi on the NES screen or the Red Ranger on the SNES screen should be an Optimus Prime dammit!

Hehe looks great so far! :)

[mattrixk]

@dra6n: This is just an idea, but you have a pretty big wall space on the right. You could move the window to the right, remove the shelf and make the poster larger, then use the larger poster as a background for the gamelist.

[DRA6N]

@classicgmr was there a transformers game on NES/SNES? hmmm I'll have to check!

[DRA6N]

@mattrixk I thought about it, but having a mix of colors in the poster might make the text on the game list hard to read. I'll play around with it and see how it looks. I think for Mega Drive/ Genasis I'll remove the window or make it barely there, and play around with the wall space a bit more. ES is kinda weird in which if I set it to put the games list in 1 location , it uses that same location on every system.. unless I re-wrote the master XML file and set individual parameters for each.. not even sure if that would work...hmmm

[DRA6N]

oh and here's a re-lighted NES screen, displaying an old school nintendo commercial.

[ClassicGMR]

@dra6n Well it's an 80's/early 90's toyline that was very popular so there's that. 😉

But yes in Japan they had a Famicom Transformers game - The Transformers: Mystery of Convoy:

The SNES / Super Famicom didn't have a Transformers release that I could find.

[DRA6N]

@classicgmr hmm fair enough :)

[DRA6N]

working on the Gameboy screens now. Decided to go with the "open on Christmas day" kinda feel.

[DRA6N]

gameboy screens done, changed the fonts around a little to make them easier to read. haven't decided on a good font just yet.

System Screen:

Game List Screen:

[fawked]

@dra6n coming along nicely 🙂

[cylum]

Awesome theme!

I have a question. In your gamelist, it seems to be ignoring "the" in the game title, is that something new they added or something you did on your end? I haven't turned my Pi on in a while, so I wasn't sure. Thanks.

[DRA6N]

@cylum It goes off the no-intro naming convention. Whatever the scraper picks up based on that, is how it is displayed. shrug

[DRA6N]

Added GBC!

System Screen:

Game List Screen:

Also, a teaser of the virtualboy screen: