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    • cafarellidigital
      cafarellidigital last edited by cafarellidigital

      Here's a splashscreen I made late last year, and I figure I should give back since this community has helped me answer a lot of questions. This splashscreen is based off of a design made by user jrdbnsn (original post here). I've taken the idea of that design, recreated it using new images, different consoles, a different font, and animated it to the sound of the Dreamcast console intro. I made this for my nephew when I built a RetroPie for him for Christmas.

      You can download all three versions of this splashscreen here. I am currently using the Loading version as part of my RetroPie 3.6 4.2 build. By the time the Loading version has finished playing, I'm already at the console select screen, and have skipped past the EmulationStation splashscreen (no offense to ES, it's just a little too "bright" for me, and I can't change it).

      Update 1: I updated the video files with a better, more efficient encode. They should run better now.

      Update 2: I also made 4x3 versions, which you can find at the link above, and I changed the download location from Mega to Dropbox (links updated).

      Here's some video previews...
      Fade:


      Hold:

      Loading:

      Thanks, and I hope you enjoy it!

      Console Stripe Video Splashscreen | Mushberry Splatter Splashscreen

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      • wookiees_uncle
        wookiees_uncle last edited by

        I absolutely love this. However, I'm finding there's a lot of stuttering and freezing with all of the versions of the video.

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        • mat03111984
          mat03111984 last edited by

          love it! dreamcast is my favorite console however sometimes it is choppy and other times is perfect. probably just the pi's fault.

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          • Hex
            Hex last edited by

            Requesting Videos with aspect ratio 4:3

            Sent from 20,000 leagues under the sea.

            Powersaver Emulation station : https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
            ES dev script : https://github.com/hex007/es-dev/blob/master/es-tests.sh

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            • ward614
              ward614 @wookiees_uncle last edited by

              @wookiees_uncle I have encountered this issue with nearly all video intros that I have tried. Any one have some idea about how to fix this issue?

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              • cafarellidigital
                cafarellidigital @ward614 last edited by

                @ward614 @wookiees_uncle @mat03111984

                Hey guys, I made new encodes of the videos that are much more efficient and lower bitrate (with a near-zero visual quality loss), which is likely the reason for the stuttering and freezing. You can find the new versions at the same link as before (the old encodes are in a folder called "_old").

                If there's still issues with stuttering and freezing after using these new encodes, then the issue might be something else.

                Console Stripe Video Splashscreen | Mushberry Splatter Splashscreen

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                • Hex
                  Hex @cafarellidigital last edited by

                  @cafarellidigital Can you make these for 4:3 aspect ratio? Thanks

                  Sent from 20,000 leagues under the sea.

                  Powersaver Emulation station : https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
                  ES dev script : https://github.com/hex007/es-dev/blob/master/es-tests.sh

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                  • cafarellidigital
                    cafarellidigital @Hex last edited by

                    @Hex I think I can do that, but the width of each stripe will get much smaller, which will lose some of the details in the console images.

                    Console Stripe Video Splashscreen | Mushberry Splatter Splashscreen

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                    • Hex
                      Hex @cafarellidigital last edited by

                      @cafarellidigital Its a compromise. Will search for a good 4:3 image

                      Sent from 20,000 leagues under the sea.

                      Powersaver Emulation station : https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
                      ES dev script : https://github.com/hex007/es-dev/blob/master/es-tests.sh

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                      • cafarellidigital
                        cafarellidigital @Hex last edited by

                        @Hex I made 4x3 versions, you can find them here. Original post has been updated with the new links as well.

                        Console Stripe Video Splashscreen | Mushberry Splatter Splashscreen

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                        • Hex
                          Hex @cafarellidigital last edited by

                          @cafarellidigital 4:3 onces are quite amazing.

                          BTW here is my build featuring your splash screen : http://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2851

                          Sent from 20,000 leagues under the sea.

                          Powersaver Emulation station : https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
                          ES dev script : https://github.com/hex007/es-dev/blob/master/es-tests.sh

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                          • cafarellidigital
                            cafarellidigital @Hex last edited by

                            @Hex thanks! Very cool cardboard Gameboy!

                            Console Stripe Video Splashscreen | Mushberry Splatter Splashscreen

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