Epic Noir - Dark Mode Theme

rajbhalsod

Hi,

I’ve installed the theme and it’s running a treat, great work. Quick question - what settings should I use to create custom artwork - for example the fade that you have (black to image), font name, etc? Just trying to create come custom artwork and wanted it to look as close as possible to your wonderful work!

Thanks

chicuelo

@rajbhalsod
You can take the images and set the fade from its start to its end and replicate on your artwork. The fonts are listed on the readme!

2Play

@chicuelo
Thank you for another great work.
You might have noticed Im fan of your work as on my PlayBox Base, by creating the 2Play-Systems & 2Play-Walls
Thenk you for another great theme in collaboration with c64-dev

A Bored Ninja

@chicuelo I just switched over to using Batocera (mostly because of the super fast boot time) and am using this theme on there.

However, Batocera uses B to enter instead of A. A is actually the back button in Batocera.

Is there any way for me to flip that around on my end? Or would it be possible to get a Batocera version?

Thanks!

chicuelo

@A-Bored-Ninja On the gamelist you can easily change the vaules for A and B buttons changing the text on each one! For the button on the main screen if you have a little knowledge on illustrator you could change the A to B, otherwise I will upload an alternate version for this cases

A Bored Ninja

@chicuelo I've got zero experience with illustrator. Haha.

It would be amazing if you were able to make a dedicated Batocera version with key mapping updates.

B = Enter
A = Back
Y = Favorite

Thank you again!

chicuelo

@A-Bored-Ninja replace the button, the background and swap with text edit A for B in the theme.xml

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t6t688gp74lxphd/epic.zip?dl=0

A Bored Ninja

@chicuelo Outstanding!

I'll try that out and report back.

Thank you!

A Bored Ninja

@chicuelo Sorry to bother you.

I noticed that the ingame-global-bg.jpg is A, B, Y.

It should actually be B, A, Y.

Would it be possible for that to be updated?

It's perfect everywhere else.

Thanks!

chicuelo

@A-Bored-Ninja It´s intended, first it is alphabetically ordered and then, you have first the return button in case you want to go back, and then the enter one. I think is the logical order ←, →, ✓ (Back , Enter, Fav)

Diablo Loco

I have registered in the forums just to thank you guys for such a great theme. I've been using retropie for a while, and now I love it using it more with this fantastic theme.

I realized that there is a power menu option in the theme, is there any guide on how to use it?, thanks in advance.

chicuelo

@Diablo-Loco Thank you Diablo!
In my case, I have installed the nespi case script, basically you create a system called power, and place there two scripts as it roms where, also you create the gamelist and then drop a script file on the retropie scripts folder. if you need the files you can search or contact me and I will send you mines.

Diablo Loco

@chicuelo Thanks, and sorry for the late response. After a lot of reading and testing, I found a solution. I'm got it working right now. Just need some kind of box art or image for the menu.

chicuelo

@Diablo-Loco Yes, you have to treat each element of the menu like a rom, you can add a video too!
I forget to mention that. Great you have now working!

iMacosiris

Hi guys
I know I stupid but I like to understand this
I have my moms and if I rename the files in this directory ~/.emulationstation/themes/es-epicnoir/_art/indicators, the systems shows in order ?
I did rename the directory but I don't see any change

pi@retropie:~/.emulationstation/themes/es-epicnoir/_art/indicators $ ls -la
total 100
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  8 21:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Aug  7 01:29 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3919 Aug  7 01:29 10th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3947 Aug  7 01:29 11th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3929 Aug  7 01:29 12th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3906 Aug  7 01:29 13th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3840 Aug  7 01:29 14th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3603 Aug  7 01:29 15th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3865 Aug  7 01:29 16th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3951 Aug  7 01:29 6th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4007 Aug  7 01:29 7th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3992 Aug  7 01:29 8th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4010 Aug  7 01:29 9th-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3751 Aug  7 01:29 auto-favorites.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6148 Aug  7 01:29 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3888 Aug  7 01:29 gamegear.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3911 Aug  7 01:29 genesis.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7762 Aug  7 01:29 left-ray.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3924 Aug  7 01:29 nes.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3734 Aug  7 01:29 power.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3886 Aug  7 01:29 psx.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3636 Aug  7 01:29 retropie.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3927 Aug  7 01:29 sega32x.png
pi@retropie:~/.emulationstation/themes/es-epicnoir/_art/indicators $

What I'm doing wrong ???
Br

chicuelo

@iMacosiris If you rename those png you only will display the indicator dots in the order you want.
For example if your first displayed system is snes, if you rename the 1st system.png to snes.png when snes is displayed you will see the white dot in the first position.
If your second system is megadrive, you have to rename 2nd-system.png to megadrive.png

iMacosiris

Well thanks
so something is not working here..
The system names are not show in order
there is any file that show the order ? (let me refresh that) is any way that I can change the order in witch the system are display ? and hide the rest of the dots ?
Br

chicuelo

@iMacosiris To reorder the systems you have to edit the es_systems.cfg. the first in the list will be the first displayed.

The dots are only png images simulating a scrollbar, you have 16 files in which the white dot goes from the position 1 to the 16th. if you name the png with the whit dot at first position, as the first system displayed it will match, if you rename the 4th system in your list, with the 7th png dot position you will notice something strange.

If you have more than 16 systems you could not display any dot from the 17th. If you only have 3 systems in your setup, you will have 16 dots but only using 3

Frakatchoo

Hi guys !

I recently ported this theme to the Odroid Go Advance (theme compatible with Batocera, Emuelec 3.7+, ...). I mainly reworked the system pages, gamelist pages... to fit perfectly with the OGA screen. This theme will also work very well on other systems (Retropie, Recalbox, ...) with a resolution of 320×480 ;)

Link in video description ;)

Again, THX Chicuelo for this amazing work !

chicuelo

@Frakatchoo Great outcome! glad you could port it to other systems! great job!