MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme
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Actually that screenshot was originally created by mattrixk for the PC Engine folder. Since I could place CD games into that folder and play them, it didn't cross my mind that the pce-cd/tg-cd folders existed until I looked through Rookervik's Pixel theme. Also I'm not sure if the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 wiki mentions the existence of these last three folders, so I figured that most would probably use the PC Engine folder for their CD games and that Castlevania: Rondo of Blood would still be appropriate.
But since they do exist, I've added a screenshot for Bonk's Revenge as an alternative in the pcengine and tg-16 folders. Thanks for the feedback.
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@CourierSS I update the carbon and pixel themes quite often with systems people ask for. Not saying I want you to keep an eye on my themes for more stuff to port to your theme. :P
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Haha I'm actually almost finished with adding all of the systems from the Pixel Theme. There should just be Desktop, Pipplware, Steam, and System left if I'm not mistaken.
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Added Desktop, Pipplware, Steam, and System.
The MetaPixel theme should now have reached parity in number of systems with the Pixel theme. I don't think I saw a system folder for Oric-1/Atmos in the Pixel theme, so I haven't created that one.
For the most part, there are only minor adjustments left. Mainly just background colors (making sure that systems by the same creator has similar colors and change as a gradient when going to newer hardware), possible font issues (can't handle CD-ROM² and NEO・GEO), and maybe stylistic/grammar errors.
Screenshot:
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@CourierSS this is impressive! Been wanting Steam to finish out my RetroPie.
An issue I noticed was in Famicom Disk System, I can't tell which game is highlighted on the left unless I get right up to the screen and can barley make out the color differences lol.
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I noticed that too, and thought it was just me
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Should be fixed now. I accidentally deleted a line in the theme.xml file.
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@backstander: I'd never heard of the PC Engine before getting into RetroPie, so for that one I pretty much just googled "pcengine screenshot" or something similar and found the best looking images.
@CourierSS has been doing a fantastic job picking up from where my laziness left off. I originally just made folders for the systems I use/would potentially use in future, and just left it at that.
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@mattrixk
Growing up I had the (PC Engine) TurboGrafx 16/CD & TurboExpress (handheld TG16) and one of my best friends had a SNES, Atari Lynx & and Apple IIc and our other friend had a Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32X and a Windows 3.1 PC. We all 3 had a NES and 2 of us had Gameboys. I also had an Atari 5200. Every now and again we would stay over at one of our houses and just stay up all night playing video games lol.No one else I went to school with had a TG16 so I was always able to brag about it :-)
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I've finally gotten through making various grammar/stylistic corrections and updating the color to almost every system folder. There should be a semblance of consistency in colors but I am not the best with colors, and there may be some systems, outside of those made by the same manufacturers, that have similar colors.
There are also two minor differences between the theme I uploaded and mattrixk's theme. I've added the scrolling sound from Rookervik's Carbon theme and modified the letter "a" in the PlayStation logo to match the original style. If you don't want either of those changes, then don't copy the metapixel.xml file in the base folder and use mattrixk's version, and replace the logo.png with logo_og.png (by renaming) in the psx folder.
If anyone sees any grammar/spelling mistakes in the system descriptions, please let me know so I can make changes. If the theme behaves strangely, I will see if I can figure out the issue.
Stating again, this is now matches the same amount of systems as Rookervik's Pixel Theme v1.92 and is compatible with Retropie 4.0.2. Descriptions are based mostly on Wikipedia. Screenshots of games that I added are mostly from MobyGames, a group of them are mine, and maybe a few from theGamesDB.
Updates
- Dec. 12, 2016
Added BBC Micro, Channel F, Mega-CD, Oric, Stratagus, and SuperGrafx to match Pixel Them v.1.93 and compatible with RetroPie 4.1
The big album of screenshots of all systems.
Download: Dropbox Folder - MetaPixel Theme
Screenshots:
- Dec. 12, 2016
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@CourierSS @Rookervik Made some new changes to pixel theme and added Sega Mega-Cd and a few others.
Would you mind updating your theme to reflect these changes?
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@Rion Wow, you don't want much do you? Just, lots. -_- If you need metadata so bad as to bug someone to update their theme with my art, just use pixel with metadata. It's been added to the theme installer.
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@Rookervik Sorry to come off as needy. Was never my intention.
Thank you for the tip. 😊
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@Rookervik Sorry if i have offended you in anyway. I have the utmost respect for you and what you have created.
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@backstander said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
No one else I went to school with had a TG16 so I was always able to brag about it
Ah, so you were that guy. You wanna know what we did to that guy at our school? Do you? We were as nice as we possibly could be, in the hopes that we could play 'Splatterhouse'!
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Ah, so you were that guy. You wanna know what we did to that guy at our school? Do you? We were as nice as we possibly could be, in the hopes that we could play 'Splatterhouse'!
Haha, I actually still have my TG16 HuCard for Splatterhouse:
Not as cool looking as the PC Engine version:
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@backstander said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:
Not as cool looking as the PC Engine version:
I would seriously frame that one.
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Been really busy lately so it'll be a while before I can do an update with the added systems in the Pixel theme.
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@mattrixk and @CourierSS
Are you still up for MetaPixel updates?I'm wondering if we could get Stratagus added since we discovered exactly how to get it to work. I installed Pixel from the RetroPie ES Themes menu and it seams to have stratagus even though I can't find it on https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-pixel.
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Still been busy so have only lately been getting around to it. The following have been added: BBC Micro, Channel F, Mega-CD, Oric, Stratagus, and SuperGrafx. This should being it up to parity with Pixel's 1.93.
Screenshots:
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