Pandora Theme

ruckage

@ruckage

Hi there, i have question/issue with this theme regarding snapshots & video snapshots.

im using ES v2.8.0rp-dev

most of my roms have a snapshot & video snapshot, the snapshot displays for a few seconds then the video snapshot plays,

however,

for some of my roms i dont have a video snapshot available only the static snapshot , but in this theme if a video snapshot is not available it will not display the static snapshot at all.

if i switch to the neo geo theme that you created everything works fine when a video snapshot is not present the static will be displayed.

is there something i can amend in the .cfg files to correct this?

many thanks

Stuart.

I think I know what might be causing that but I'll need to look into it, I think its just the way video snapshots work though. In the NeGeo theme I have both the video snapshots and a static snapshots defined separately but the problem with this is if the snapshot is a different shape to the video (eg. if you have box art as the static image) it will be visible behind the video.
The best option is probably for me to add an option to enable static snapshot if needed in the config file so I will update the theme shortly.

ruckage

@FlyingTomahawk said in Pandora Theme:

Well done @ruckage !
This theme is gonna go on to my new PC.

When I saw a new ruckage thread in the Themes section my first thought was "Newgen theme". Did he rename it and finally made it available? Unfortunately it wasn't but this Pandora theme is very nice. Just please stop making more themes I am running out of devices here. Or someone should create a theme randomizer, so that every time you turn on your Pi a different installed theme is loaded. That way I can enjoy all your themes.

I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas.

Hi @FlyingTomahawk, great to hear from you. Sorry for not replying sooner I've been visiting family.
I can't promise I'll stop making themes so you may just have to make space for new device :D (though I really need to get back to the snes mini theme next, especially the recalbox version that I promised).
And I will definitely release a new NewGen, sorry I got your hopes up this time.

I hope you had great Christmas as well, mine was hectic but fun. My Dad liked his console though he was a bit rusty so needs some practise. My 5 year old Niece and Nephew were there as well so they were introduced to some retro games which they both enjoyed enough to put their tablets down. They played Marvel vs Capcom (my niece won every game). Then Bomberman which was tricky for them but they slowly got the hang of it. Then Zombies ate my neighbours which my nephew seemed to enjoy - especially turning into a monster and smashing walls. And finally some Metal Slug which my nephew enjoyed even though he died a lot.

FlyingTomahawk

@ruckage

Your Christmas sounds like a ton of fun, I envy you.
I on the other hand had to work. Japan doesn't give Christmas the same value as you guys in Europe. But I spend a nice evening with my wife and 4 dogs, watched a comedy movie and had a few beers.
Even though I must admit it is hard to ignore and not touch my new PC or gaming in general even for 1 day. But I got through it. :-P

No worries about the Newgen theme. There is still plenty of time... just do what you gotta do first. I know the Recalbox guys are eagerly waiting for your SNES-mini theme.

Again, thanks a lot for the new theme really appreciate your dedication and work done.

greekmanx

@FlyingTomahawk david marti did just this in mb unified release and dwayne hurst made over 200 themes for it

Vassag0

Hello, sorry for my bad english.
Your theme is fantastic and now I'm modding RetroPan OS and I want put your theme by default. But a I need two logos, can you provider me this logos?

Arcade
Game And Watch

Thanks in advance!!!

skj

@Vassag0

These are already included by default !!

ruckage

@Vassag0
Hello. As @skj said they are already included.
I've never heard of RetroPan OS and I get no results from google. Do you have a link with more info?

Vassag0

Hello, yes are include. Sorry for my mistake :(.

RetroPan OS is a project to port RetroPie to Pandora Box. This links, are in spanish, show information to the project:

arcadeforever forum
elotrolado forum

Best regards

wallmachine

Hey @ruckage awesome work!

wallmachine

Hey @ruckage would you mind if I ported this over to LaunchBox?

Stuart2773

@wallmachine said in Pandora Theme:

Hey @ruckage would you mind if I ported this over to LaunchBox?

Pandora theme
Theme designed by Ruckage
Version 1.0
19/12/2018

Theme based on the Pandora's Box 4 frontend

License

This theme is being actively developed, a great deal of work has been put into the theme and art so please do not use the graphics I have created in other projects.

You are free to modify the theme for your personal use only - please do not share modified versions of this theme.

Commercial distribution is prohibited

If in doubt please ask in the dedictated topic at the retropie forum: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/

wallmachine

@Stuart2773 said in Pandora Theme:

You are free to modify the theme for your personal use only - please do not share modified versions of this theme.

thanks

JesseBlue

@ruckage

I think I've found a bug:

If a game entry has no video attached to it (no <video> tag in the gamelist.xml), the skin won't display any other images (eg. boxart), even if they are are linked in the gamelist.xml

This only happens with this theme. All other themes (incl. SNES-Mini) work fine.

ruckage

@JesseBlue said in Pandora Theme:

@ruckage

I think I've found a bug:

If a game entry has no video attached to it (no <video> tag in the gamelist.xml), the skin won't display any other images (eg. boxart), even if they are are linked in the gamelist.xml

This only happens with this theme. All other themes (incl. SNES-Mini) work fine.

Hi. Thanks for the feedback. @Stuart2773 also reported this and I addressed it in this post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20380/pandora-theme/24

Draugr

Hello Everyone.

Question on getting this theme to work.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+, also downloaded the proper Retropie image as of today (Mar 3rd, 2019).
I installed the emulationstation-dev package.
I made the themes folder within the configs/all/emulationstation folder. So I have configs/all/emulationstation/themes/pandora
When I attempt to change themes within ES, I don't see any Pandora themes. I even tried rebooting.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or what step I'm missing. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
John

mitu

@Draugr You don't need to install the dev package anymore, the latest Emulationstation version (2.8.1) has Grid View support.
Did you copy the files posted by @ruckage in the pandora folder ? What's the content of \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\themes\pandora ?

paffley

Hey @mitu is there anywhere we can view what has been updated with the latest emulationstation? like a changelog?

Draugr

@mitu The files inside the ~/.emulationstation/themes/pandora folder are the following...

art (folder)
config.xml
pandora color guide.jpg
settings (folder)
colour.xml
main.xml
readme.txt
theme.xml

Thanks,
John

mitu

@Draugr It looks ok - can you offer more details about your system (as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first) and attach a copy of the ES logfile from ~/.emulationstation/es_log.txt ?

mitu

@paffley No quite a changelog, but here are some highlights that I've taken from the git commit log:

Grid View support for themes
Reworked internal scraper and the addition of another source to it (Screenscraper)
Reworked some artwork (svg icons) for the input configuration and help system
More granular Audio settings (supporting more audio settings than the standard HDMI/Analog).
A few additions to theming (DateTime component changed, variable support in import statements).
Ability to search for local art and show it (disabled by default since it has a performance impact), looking after <rom-name>-image and <rom_name>-video files to show them instead of relying on the gamelist data.
Ability to add a sortname entry to a ROM entry in the entry to control the sorting in the gamelist (instead of relying only on the name tag).
A lot of small fixes (2G+ files support on Windows, UI modes showing unwanted roms, etc.)
Loading screen added progress messages during start-up.
Under-the-hood - the most notable change is removing the dependency to boost, this greatly improved the compilation and shortened the volume of dependencies to a great extent.