Material Theme

caver01

@lilbud Looks like Arcade is still missing, yet it's not listed on the repository as a missing system. I know others have mentioned it. We really need more support in themes for Arcade, as it conveniently allows us to group games regardless of the emulator it takes to run them.

lilbud

@RetroPieNerd @caver01

Will work on those now,

Like a single theme for arcade systems?

PokeEngineer

@lilbud

Thanks!

PokeEngineer

@lilbud @caver01

I think that is what he means....

caver01

@lilbud Take a look at your RetroPie configs folders, roms folders, etc. You will find one called Arcade. It's part of RetroPie, but theme builders overlook it because it's not a specific emulator. If I put mame roms into the Arcade folder, I can use runcommand to choose whether I want them to launch with any version of mame or FBA. The problem is this: If I do this using your theme, I get no theme graphics. It's like you are forgetting an emulator, and it looks all generic and horrible.

If you happen to use FBA and multiple versions of MAME for a complicated set of ROMs, using Arcade is a godsend because it unites all of these under one generic SYSTEM called Arcade.

lilbud

@RetroPieNerd @caver01

Theme has been updated with requested systems

caver01

@lilbud Awesome! Yours will be one of just a few that will support the use of Arcade. Gives folks like me more options. I appreciate it!

lilbud

@caver01 I thought more supported it. I must have overlooked it when I was making the theme

PokeEngineer

@lilbud Awesome! Thanks!

herb_fargus

@caver01 all of them have the potential to support it and more or less aren't that difficult to update, sources are all available so pull requests are welcome

caver01

@herb_fargus That's a good point. My comments weren't intended as criticism. Rather, I appreciate the scope of such a project. I also respect consistent artwork and design intentions. However, given the source availability, perhaps my approach should have been more in the spirit of collaboration than calling out deficiencies. Sorry, @lilbud !

herb_fargus

@caver01 no criticism intended, I'm just as guilty ;) generally I'm happy to suggest improvements when themes are actively maintained but for the themes that aren't (I.e. all the ones that lack the arcade folder currently among others) then those are more or less up to the community to fill in the gaps, I don't want to have to maintain a bunch of abandoned themes but I'm happy to merge any valid contributions :)

caver01

@herb_fargus Ok, so this might be a good way for me to make a contribution. I do a little reading about how to contribute to a repository. I am probably not going to be coding a libretro core any time soon, but I have skills I might be able to apply to themes. Any suggestions for starting out?

herb_fargus

@caver01 the best way for me was to take an already existing theme, find how it works and then just apply it to the missing systems. The default carbon theme is up to date and has all the systems currently in RetroPie (and a few more that we'll likely add at some point in the future) so that gives you access to all the logos you'll need, then you just find what system is missing, match the theme style which typically is as simple s copying the theme.xml from one of the existing folders and just changing the reference to the logos and text.

For example someone just added the arcade system to the simple dark theme here: https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-simple-dark/pull/7

It needs to be tested before merging, I just haven't gotten to it yet.

For more detailed documentation on themes: https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/master/THEMES.md

caver01

@herb_fargus Thanks for taking the time to provide some details!

PokeEngineer

@lilbud

Could you also make PSP art and fix the Love logo because it does not appear. I would myself but, I can't really figure out how to because there is no one theme.xml that is the same for every system...

lilbud

@RetroPieNerd I'll get to that later, I'll be away from my pi for most of the day.

lilbud

@RetroPieNerd

Repository has been updated with psp. And love should be working now, it was working on my end.

PokeEngineer

@lilbud

Ok.

caver01

@lilbud Question--when I downloaded new themes using the retropie menus, I obviously grabbed the Material Theme, but the Daphne logo looked white-on-white. Is that intentional? Or do I have some issue? Or maybe the repo wasn't updated yet? What am I missing?