RetroPie forum home
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Home
    • Docs
    • Register
    • Login

    New ES Feature: Random Collection - Testers and Theme makers needed

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Ideas and Development
    emulationstatiorandom gametheming
    40 Posts 9 Posters 7.2k Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • mrmadcatzM
      mrmadcatz @mitu
      last edited by mrmadcatz

      Ah! I didn't realize it had to be updated via experimental packages for the dev version. Giving it a try now. Thanks @mitu!!

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • mrmadcatzM
        mrmadcatz
        last edited by mrmadcatz

        Any advice on how to add an icon for a theme like snes-mini? I can't figure out how to add one for an automated collection. I forked the original repo and was going to work on adding an icon, but I'm not sure where to put it or how to implement it.

        Actually, I think I've figured out how to add an icon to the es-theme-snes-mini theme. What would be the best way to submit this? I know ruckage no longer seems to be active with this theme, so a PR of my fork to the original repo may not be the best here.

        pjftP 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • pjftP
          pjft @mrmadcatz
          last edited by

          @mrmadcatz Hm. You may submit a PR to the original repo, but certainly feel free to commit it to your fork, if you'd like to maintain it.

          mrmadcatzM 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • mrmadcatzM
            mrmadcatz @pjft
            last edited by mrmadcatz

            @pjft Will do. Here is the icon I came up with. It's as close to the "theme" as I could get, but I think I did alright:
            auto-random.png
            This is an alternate:
            auto-random_alt.png
            And one more:
            auto-random_alt2.png

            pjftP 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
            • pjftP
              pjft @mrmadcatz
              last edited by

              @mrmadcatz Wow, this looks cool! Thanks for putting it together :)

              mrmadcatzM 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • mrmadcatzM
                mrmadcatz @pjft
                last edited by mrmadcatz

                @pjft Okay, these are the finals that I landed on. I think I imitated the actual icons & logos in the original with 99% accuracy.
                for art/icons and art/icons_usa:
                auto-random.png

                and for art/nes_icons and art/nes_icons_usa:
                auto-random.png

                I also updated the various folders in the backgrounds folder to ensure that however the user has their theme configured via the config.xml used to customize the theme, a corresponding background will be present.

                I created a pull request to the original ruckage/es-theme-snes-mini upstream repo. Not sure if it'll get accepted, but here's to hoping. Otherwise, I can share my personal Fork of the repo with you that has these icons in it if you'd like (or if you can direct me where to submit them for RetroPie in general, it would be much appreciated).

                Either way, cheers and thanks for the awesome new auto-collection.

                pjftP 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                • pjftP
                  pjft @mrmadcatz
                  last edited by

                  @mrmadcatz Thanks! I don't know know the exact process to submit a new theme to be included on RetroPie.

                  @mitu is there a process to get a theme added to esthemes? Couldn't find much in the Themes docs.

                  mituM 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @pjft
                    last edited by mitu

                    @pjft said in New ES Feature: Random Collection - Testers and Theme makers needed:

                    @mitu is there a process to get a theme added to esthemes? Couldn't find much in the Themes docs.

                    Yes, it's a PR to add a line to the esthemes module, like this.

                    In this case though, @ruckage's theme readme asks for not redistributing modifications of their theme, so I'll ty to respect that and maybe not approve any forks to be included. However, if you can add it just as a patch/diff to the existing theme, (like this), then I'm ok with it.

                    EDIT: fixed the PR example link.

                    pjftP 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • pjftP
                      pjft @mitu
                      last edited by

                      @mitu of course! Thanks for the context and guidance.

                      mrmadcatzM 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • mrmadcatzM
                        mrmadcatz @pjft
                        last edited by

                        @pjft @mitu Thank you both! Anything needed from me for this?

                        mituM 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @mrmadcatz
                          last edited by

                          @mrmadcatz for now, can you post a link to https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8391 or (again) the image, just for reference ? Thank you.

                          mrmadcatzM 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • mrmadcatzM
                            mrmadcatz @mitu
                            last edited by mrmadcatz

                            @mitu @pjft
                            Here is the reply on the post as requested by mitu.

                            I submitted a PR for my fork to ruckage's upstream repo, but doubt I'll hear back. Otherwise, here are the rest of the images I added. I created, copied and renamed background files in each necessary directory to go along with these:

                            background/bg_tron/auto-random.png
                            auto-random.png

                            background/bg_tron_blur/auto-random.png
                            auto-random.png

                            background/bg_tron_blur_usa/auto-random.png
                            auto-random.png

                            background/bg_tron_usa/auto-random.png
                            auto-random.png

                            background/blurred_shots/auto-random.png
                            auto-random.png

                            background/nes_mini/auto-random.png
                            auto-random.png

                            pjftP 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                            • pjftP
                              pjft @mrmadcatz
                              last edited by

                              @mrmadcatz Cool - thank you! These look great :)

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • mrmadcatzM
                                mrmadcatz
                                last edited by mrmadcatz

                                @mitu @pjft Sorry to have posted these so many times, but this is the last update (I felt I could get the icons even closer to the style of ruckage's originals, and believe that I have). I will update the other thread as well. Here are ALL of the assets I've adjusted for the ruckage/es-theme-snesn-mini theme for RetroPie. This includes backgrounds, labels and icons for the auto-random list that goes with all the different configurations of this theme that are available by editing config.xml that comes with the theme. They are as follows:

                                Icons
                                es-theme-snes-mini/art/icons and es-theme-snes-mini/art/icons_usa
                                auto-random.png

                                es-theme-snes-mini/art/nes_icons and es-theme-snes-mini/art/nes_icons_usa
                                auto-random.png

                                Logos
                                es-theme-snes-mini/art/logos and es-theme-snes-mini/art/logos_usa
                                auto-random.png

                                Backgrounds
                                es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron/auto-random.png
                                auto-random.png

                                es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_blur/auto-random.png
                                auto-random.png

                                es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_blur_usa/auto-random.png
                                auto-random.png

                                es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_usa/auto-random.png
                                auto-random.png

                                es-theme-snes-mini/background/blurred_shots/auto-random.png
                                auto-random.png

                                es-theme-snes-mini/background/nes_mini/auto-random.png
                                auto-random.png

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                • 3Draco3
                                  3Draco
                                  last edited by

                                  @pjft
                                  Today I had time to make a copy of the system and test your new function. So far everything is going well and I think the settings you can make are great! thank you for the fantastic work!

                                  https://retroachievements.org/user/3Draco

                                  pjftP 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                  • pjftP
                                    pjft @3Draco
                                    last edited by

                                    @3Draco Why, thank you for the feedback. Glad you find it helpful and fun!

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                    • 3Draco3
                                      3Draco
                                      last edited by

                                      Just for your Information ->Updated the Random for the New Comic Book Theme!

                                      [https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/294674]

                                      https://retroachievements.org/user/3Draco

                                      pjftP 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                      • pjftP
                                        pjft @3Draco
                                        last edited by

                                        @3Draco Thank you!

                                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • M
                                          mingaldrichgan
                                          last edited by

                                          I submitted a PR for RetroHursty69's Supersweet theme.

                                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                          • First post
                                            Last post

                                          Contributions to the project are always appreciated, so if you would like to support us with a donation you can do so here.

                                          Hosting provided by Mythic-Beasts. See the Hosting Information page for more information.