[Theme] SegaCD Mini (Updated to Version 2.0)

Jste84

@Arcanthur said in (New Theme + Build + Music) SegaCD Mini:

I've been working on a project for the last couple weeks with the Sega Mega CD Tower of Power addon for the Genesis Mini. I added a Pi3A inside the MegaCD shell, and added LEDs for the "Ready" and "Access" on the front panel so it works just like the OG SegaCD.

Here is the build in action:
https://i.imgur.com/G64yXbM.mp4

Then I decided to create a theme based on the Genesis Mini UI for Emulationstation, and wrote some original music to use as BGM.

Music preview here:

Loading screen:

Download here:

https://github.com/Arcanthur/Sega-CD-Mini

!!---Be sure to read through the readme.txt fully as due to the way the grid view works in ES, you will need to reduce your boxart size, or you marun into memory errors.---!!

I also created an add-on pack with the music, optimized box arts, gamelist.xmls and es_systems.cfgYou can download that here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kw5XMNTz0hGp9zgSBFcpTevjYp0whJ3C/view

This looks awesome, this may not be what you're looking to do... But it would be great to see this theme devlop and also cover other non sega systems.

Arcanthur

@Jste84 I may add support for some non Sega based system later on, but it will be after I add support for basic, detailed, and video view types.

Arcanthur

Redesigned the Game Gear section, inspired by the US boxart:

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Boxart:
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momaw27

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Arcanthur

Version 2.0 of the theme is coming soon (hopefully this weekend).

Added support for the Detailed and Video view types
Redesigned settings menu
Cleaned up several graphical assets
Further optimized the XML
Added custom navigation helper icons
Full support for Favorites, Last Played, and All Games auto playlists

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Arcanthur

Version 2.0 is now available, first post is updated

Arcanthur

Version 3.0 will add support for non Sega based systems, here are the ones I have created so far:

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pjniche

Wow! Nice job.
Can I mod for the Xbox layout controler?

Arcanthur

@pjniche said in [Theme] SegaCD Mini (Updated to Version 2.0):

Wow! Nice job.
Can I mod for the Xbox layout controler?

Yes, the controls at the botom are just based on the Genesis 6 button to fit the theme.

Arcanthur

Finished the Atari2600 and PlayStation sections:

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Arcanthur

Neo•Geo section is done:

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edit Changed the up/down buttons

HurricaneFan

Awesome improvements to version 2.0. Do you know when you'll push out these new supported systems to GitHub?

Arcanthur

@HurricaneFan as soon as I can finish creating all the assets for all the systems. I'm averaging about 1 a day, and I've got 2-3 more consoles to go, then I'm going to add support for more handhelds. Then at that point I need to do some cleaning up to the XML. Probably looking at a couple weeks. So...Christmas-ish

HurricaneFan

@Arcanthur Take your time. Love your work!

Arcanthur

GameBoy...Portable Power!™

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quicksilver

Looking good! If retroflag comes out with a Genesis case for the pi 4 I'm definitely going to be using this theme. Do you plan to support most of the systems or just the main ones? No pressure, just curious. :)

Arcanthur

@quicksilver I'll support as many as I can, but the more obscure systems will probably be for a later version.

HurricaneFan

@Arcanthur Whats the best way to scrape the right sized images for this theme?

Arcanthur

@HurricaneFan The easiest way is to use Skraper for windows, when choosing 2D box art look at the resize options and type in 270px for height, and keep aspect ratio. If you want to go 1 step further you can save all the pngs as index color in photoshop or use a png compressor like Pngoo. Images will be about 30-45kb each after all that

Arcanthur

Finished the arcade section:

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