[Theme] CRT

MartinS

@pablo said in [New Theme] 'CRT' with support for Video Preview:

Absolutely love this... silly noob question, but how exactly could I install this theme for myself? I'm assuming it will have a slightly different process than the regular channels.

I had the same question yesterday. Hopefully, this explains it...

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7038/how-does-a-novice-install-a-downloaded-theme/7

alphatoanant

@Nismo, awesome thank you. I'll start playing with sizes to see if I can find something that works for both 2d and 3d boxes.

@pablo, if you still need help let me know. One main thing to keep in mind is your retropie version is going to have to be the latest that you can install from the setup script (the version that can be downloaded from the site does not yet have video preview support in it yet). The version I am running is 4.1.8 as an fyi.

nasp2000

Very nice... But this is for RPi2 or 3.

Did this work it an original Raspberry Pi ?

badhorse

looks amazing dude!

one small thing i might change is the console logo looks a bit out of place in the middle. are you able to move the logo to where the stars are and put the stars to the right of the logo?

fuglem

Wow! this was exactly what I was looking for. Hope to see system specific backgrounds in the future, also would be great with backgrounds on the main menu.

great work!

Nismo

@fuglem take a look at my theme here:

alphatoanant

@Nismo your theme is so solid. I continue to be amazed by it - the system specific aspects are really great. Awesome work.

Nismo

@alphatoanant Thank you, it needs a lot of work... it's like to do one theme for each system..

Nismo

Long time without posting anything about the theme so here you have a little preview of amiga system. (I used megadrive system to test it).

I need to change the gb, gbc and gba cartridges for 3d box images.

I also fixed the gameboy with 4 buttons... lol

I need help to find a good quality image about somebody with a gameboy color in his hands, please somebody can help me?

My mistake gba is not in the video but is finished too.

Sorry for the offtopic @alphatoanant.

Capeman

Is the video preview support built into the ES version that is included in retropie 4.1 or do you need to get a forked version of ES to run these? I want to make sure before I try making one myself.

sam85461

Hey can anyone help me, i tried to install this on my computer version of emulation station but it shows as all white and none of the assets show up. thanks

Nismo

@sam85461 For windows you need the compiled version by @fieldofcows.

https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.7

But it doesn't have some fixes like the fix for ES crashing if you use subfolders in roms folder and other things.

And if you manually scrape a game inside ES, it deletes your video and marquees tags in gamelist.xml.

alphatoanant

Updates so far:

Increased the size of boxart displayed on the video view
Replaced genre and release date metadata with last played (genre and release date metadata does not appear to be consistent and last played does look like it will be more helpful overall)
Tightened up spacing for metadata on detail and video views

Quick preview:
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Download latest:
https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt/archive/master.zip

@Nismo - Thank you again for your sample boxart image. I have made updates to the size of its display on the video view. It's not as large as on your oldroom theme but I think I found a good balance for my theme based on the spacing I am working with. Please let me know what you think. Also no worries on offtopic above - I am excited to see more updates to oldroom.

@ebtalk - I played with metadata a lot this week; testing different scrapers and such. I was getting pretty spotty results for genre and release date so I made a change to replace those values with last played. I kept the ratings for now as I am planning on adding child-friendly theme icons on that row. Hoping to hear what you think.

@nasp2000 - Works well on a Pi2/3 on the latest versions of retropie (tested on 4.1.8 or later) I tried testing on my pi-zero earlier this week and video playback is choppy so a few of us are discussing alternatives for pi-zero/1 in the video preview thread.

@badhorse - I will try out a few options. The main reason I went with the logo centered was to have consistency in placement between the different views (moving from a video view to a basic view for example).

@Capeman - It's in the latest version you can update from with the retropie setup script. I know for sure its works on 4.1.8 and the latest from around 3 days ago which is 4.1.10.

ebtalk

@alphatoanant good work! Plan to test this out when I get home tonight.

Nismo

@alphatoanant I don't have too much time right now but i'll try it ASAP. Thanks for the improvements.

ebtalk

Like the changes. Very polished.

Devster

Registered just to comment and say this theme looks great; if/when it works with the "emulationstation-kids" experimental package, I'm switching.

I need those "favorite" and "kids" buttons along the bottom. :) Not sure if it helps, but there's some info on that package's page that migth help....

mattrixk

I can help with the kid friendly icons if needed.

alphatoanant

Updates 1/17:

Added initial child friendly emulation station icons for detail and video views (this may not work yet)
Added placeholder for backwards compatibility discussed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6964/video-view-for-all-themes (commented out for now - I think the commit is pending while fieldofcows is focused on metadata improvements)

Quick Preview:
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Download latest:
https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt/archive/master.zip

@ebtalk, very glad to hear you liked the updates. Thank you for the feedback!

@Devster, I just added initial support for child friendly es icons and added a preview of what it would look like above. I think I have the elements in place but I am not sure if the child friendly version available to download through retropie setup has video view support yet so my theme might not work. I have tested it on my local instance and its looks to be good to go but I would be grateful for your help as well. If it doesn't work yet I can create a version without the video view for the time being until backwards compatibility is added (the status of which can be followed in this thread - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6964/video-view-for-all-themes). I am available to help either way.

@mattrixk, thank you again for your help.
Is it safe to say the 3 elements needed are:

<image name="md_hidden">
   <origin>0 0</origin>
   <pos>0.390625 0.558</pos>
   <path>./_inc/images/hidden.svg</path>
   <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
   <color>bba35880</color>
</image>
<image name="md_kidgame">
   <origin>0 0</origin>
   <pos>0.4171875 0.558</pos>
   <path>./_inc/images/kid.svg</path>
   <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
   <color>bba35880</color>
</image>
<image name="md_favorite">
   <origin>0 0</origin>
   <pos>0.4359375 0.558</pos>
   <path>./_inc/images/favorite.svg</path>
   <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
   <color>bba35880</color>
</image>

If so is there anything else to watch out for?

mattrixk

@alphatoanant: That looks right. I had trouble for ages initially because I had extra="true" for each of them, but they didn't need it. I removed extra="true" and they worked.