Picade Theme (WIP)

[alphatoanant]

Hi Everyone, I recently built the new Picade from Pimoroni and started work on a simple theme for it.

The design is pretty light so far and takes its major queues from the rainbow detail of the case itself (see here)

Full list of systems supported can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gzaP0klzaBaE5_oB1_hQwr46qOmQnacSvSU3o-p5Q7U/edit#gid=0
Also supports the allgames, favorites, lastplayed and custom collections

It's still very early so please let me know what you think. I am going to be looking at metadata display and grid view next. Glad to make updates and fixes as they come in. Thank you!

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Download

https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-picade

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Screenshots

Basic View

Detailed & Video View

In Person

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Details

• Built specifically for the Picade and its display resolution of 1024x768
• Support for "All Games", "Favorites", "Last Played" and "Custom Collections" features in latest version of EmulationStation
• Full list of supported systems: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gzaP0klzaBaE5_oB1_hQwr46qOmQnacSvSU3o-p5Q7U/edit#gid=0
• Supports many custom collection themes such as mario (Super Mario Bros), zelda (Legend of Zelda), megaman, etc... (see "custom themes" tab in the google doc above for the full list)
• System, basic, detailed and video views are supported

Acknowledgments

• System logos modified from the Carbom theme by Eric Hettervik
• Worksans-Bold font by Wei Huang

Thank you for any feedback and for checking this out

[qrayg]

You make the best themes, I'm really looking forward to the final version. This is looking really great so far.

[svera]

Looks great, can't wait to put this on my Picade, great job!

[lipebello]

Looking sexy :)
I think you should make the systems color brighter, like the mame logo, to match the Bezel.

[justjones]

Thank you exactly what my picade needed. Really great work

I have noticed one issue while using it. Could you please correct the size of the FBA logo so it fits better. Again thank you

[justjones]

@justjones using it everyday and your theme is really adding to my enjoyment of the whole system. Would you consider making a themed splash screen?
Fingers crossed Bryan

[forktong]

@justjones I changed the size of the fba.svg file (made canvas higher) so that it looks better in the system carousel. You can replace it in the logos folder to check it out.

The system carousel resizes the logos but the resize doesn't work well on square logos like this, so I made the canvas wider.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwvasb96oxxv5zp/fba.svg?dl=0

[quicksilver]

@justjones Not sure exactly what you are looking for but here is one I made as a 1024x768 splashscreen. Im not the most photoshop savy person out there so Im sure others could do a lot better but you are welcome to use it if you wish.

[hhromic]

@alphatoanant , this theme is very nice and streamlined for PiCade owners! great work!

I noticed that this theme is not in the es-themes menu of RetroPie. Your current available themes are:

'anthonycaccese crt'
'anthonycaccese crt-centered'
'anthonycaccese art-book'
'anthonycaccese art-book-4-3'
'anthonycaccese art-book-pocket'
'anthonycaccese tft'

Are you interested on including this picade theme there? and also your art-book-micro theme? for completeness :)
I can submit a quick PR to add them if you are ok. Thanks again for your contributions!

[alphatoanant]

Hi all, sorry I have been away for a bit.

@forktong thank you so much for the FBA logo fix and helping out @justjones! I'll update that on github now so its in the main repo going forward.

@quicksilver your splash screen looks awesome! Let me know if you would like me to add it to the repo as an option (i'll be sure to give you credit for it in the readme if that works)

@hhromic yes that would be great! I hadn't had a moment to do it on my end so if you are open to add both picade and art-book-micro to es-themes that would be very much appreciated.

If you see anything else you would like in the theme I should be freeing up again to make updates soon. Thank you all for checking this out.

[hhromic]

@alphatoanant great! no problem, happy to help the talents in this forum!
I just submitted a PR for both of your themes here. Hopefully it makes it into RetroPie soon. The picade theme makes a great add-on for that popular barcade kit. Cheers!

[quicksilver]

@alphatoanant I don't like to step on other peoples toes when it comes to creative projects. So if you want to keep it separate that is fine or if you think it worthy enough to be an optional part of your great looking theme then feel free to use at as you see fit.

[hhromic]

@alphatoanant , good news! your two themes picade and art-book-micro are now officially part of RetroPie in the es-themes installer. Thanks again for your handy and nice themes!

[alphatoanant]

Thank you so much @hhromic! Cheers :)

@quicksilver I added your splashscreen to the repo as an optional image and added an acknowledgement to you in the readme (commit details are here: https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-picade/commit/ac499eb867c9db045eb25604a17d026c5166b42c).

Thank you for creating it! I am using it on my picade now and it looks awesome. If you want to change anything about the acknowledgement please don't hesitate to let me know.

[forktong]

@alphatoanant My pleasure, thanks for submitting it

[PiperCalls]

Love this theme for my new Picade! Thanks.

Is there any way to "left justify" the video snaps? The vertical games just show a sliver of the video and are hard to get a sense of the game.

Thanks.

[PiperCalls]

@PiperCalls Ahhh...nevermind, I had OMXPlayer turned on and it wasn't displaying the video snaps correctly...all good now.

[yop39]

guys I made a short video from the ad for video splash screen here
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zRQkniA6lBnr7NKrqWECiJTAq811quv7

thanks for this theme !

[alphatoanant]

Wow thank you @yop39 the video splash looks great. Would you be ok with me adding it to the github repo (i'll be sure to give you credit for it in the readme if that works)

[yop39]

@alphatoanant sure go ahead ! Thanks for your great job, if I can help let me know