[Theme] CRT
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OK, So I got sucked into this theme building goodness and like @alphatoanant , I went back to the building themes guides and build some from scratch, but heavily influenced by the CRT theme. I even went back and tweaked the Carbon theme to better support video tags. I have many colors built but here are a few of them in both video and basic mode.
These are first attempts and I'm not 100% sure on the rights on the background images, so I probably wont share them as full themes, but feel free to ask questions.
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@HemiJJ I don't see any space for marquees if somebody have them.... will be displayed on top of video (if video is on left side) or on top of gamelist (if gamelist it's on left side).
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Thanks @Nismo, I appreciate feedback from such a trusted source. With only personal preference in mind, I decided to not design for marquees in these themes. If I decide to spend some time cleaning up the code to a good publishing point, I will probably modify to allow for them.
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@HemiJJ Then if you don't want to have problems, you'll need to place marquees out from the screen, to fix marquees overlays on top of other elements, because even if you don't use marquees code in your theme xml, marquees will be displayed if they exist.
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Thanks @Nismo
So add an image tag for md_marquee and set the pos to something like -.5 -.5?
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@HemiJJ Yes, I think that should work.
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@Nismo Quick question: If you have a gamelist with <marquee> tags, but not <video> tags, which View will be used? Detailed or Video? If Detailed View is used, will "md_marquee" images be displayed?
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@mattrixk It appears to use Detailed view if there is no video tag, and it ignores the marquee tag altogether.
With Video tags:
Another gamelist with no video tag, but has image and marquee tags:
It totally ignored my marquee and moved the image inside the box.
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@HurricaneFan That's good to know. Cheers for that.
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Another question for whoever want to answer:
What does anyone put in the <marquee> tag? Do you scrape logos? Screenshots? Box art? Or a MIX image of any/all of the above?
The way I have my new theme set up, I have screenshots scraped into the <image> tag so the <video> will use them when
<showSnapshotNoVideo>or<showSnapshotDelay>are set to "true", and I have a MIX image with logo, boxart and cartridge scraped into the <marquee> tag to show around the Video.This looks great with my MIX marquee, but if someone has a different marquee, it might not look that good.
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@mattrixk In my setup, marquees are the logo and image is the boxart. I've spent the better part of several weeks collecting logos, boxart and videos for every rom I have. Looks awesome once it is done but took me a really long time.
My understanding was the marquee would be like the wheel image in attract mode which was just the game logo.
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@mattrixk I use them for logos on console and marquees for arcade.
And yes, if no video tags detailed view will be used, but if you have almost only one video tag entry in a gamelist, video view will be used.
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@HurricaneFan Hmm... I may have to have 2 chunks of code: One for anyone using my MIX images and one for people who just use the <marquee> tag for logos.
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Ok, so I'm a little confused on how to add videos to this theme. Do I have to go into the code and change the <video> tag? Or is it different with RetroPie 4.2?
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So I'm having a issue where all my bos art are not the correct size. They are correct in other themes for it this one which I like it is not. Any ideas
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@adon767 Check the xml file to see if its using maxsize on the box art image tag.
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How do I find that. I'm at the xml file for the es-theme-crt-master theme but don't know where to look and what values it should be.
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@adon767 What field in your gamelist.xml file is your box art image?
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@HurricaneFan are you talking about the game list.xml that's in the rom directory?
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