Pixel Theme

backstander

Okay here's a box with both the PCE and the CD-ROM² bundled together with the stamp above the "RO" with "System" below:

I like this one best!

Rookervik

@backstander I agree! That one looks tight. Great find! I will be doing this one for sure. Should I color the PC Engine red and then make the CDROM2 white outline and black inside? (needs to be visible on both dark and light backgrounds.

Rookervik

Eh, scratch that. It's the pixel theme. That's too much detail to squish into a 196x32 title image. Going to have to go with just CD-ROM2 or maybe put PC-Engine on the side.

backstander

@Rookervik Yeah that is a lot to put into a 196x32 image. As long as you feel like it's good then I'll be okay with it :-)

Rookervik

@backstander Aight, PCE-CD is finished. On to MVS before I zip it all up.
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backstander

Thanks @Rookervik the logo looks great!

Perhaps later on we can buy Buzz some beers and rub elbows and see if we can just get the folders. Or perhaps a script that we could run that would add the folders and the system entries to the es_systems.cfg. Then we can just add our roms to either PC-Engine or TurboGrafx and they would be assigned to that theme without any editing on the command line.

I'm okay with the option to add these manually but having them a single folder by default. Personally I really enjoy editing es_systems.cfg to have the split directories.

backstander

@Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

Turbo Grafx already has a section in Pixel. TGCD as well.

Oh I just figured out why I thought the Pixel theme didn't have TurboGrafx CD, the Carbon theme's directory is "tg-cd" and Pixel's directory is "tgcd".

Rookervik

@backstander That's a really good catch. I need to make sure it's the same as Carbon. Let me make that change before I upload this.

Rookervik

Ok, made the change to Turbo Grafx CD; made the Pixel directory reflect Carbon's "tg-cd" so now you don't need to edit your es_systems.cfg. Thank you very much for bringing that up.

And with that, Pixel goes to v1.92 with SNK NeoGeo MVS and PC Engine CDROM. Download updated on the main post. (up there at the top, or I guess here. Hang on let me get the link again.)

[Pixel v1.92]

backstander

Thanks @Rookervik great work but I found another small issue. Carbon has "pce-cd" and Pixel has "pcecd".

Also I didn't realize you had Pipplware support! That's awesome! I've been wanting to give Pipplware a try!

Rookervik

@backstander Pipplware is, sadly, now obsolete. There hasn't been an update since RetroPie 3.7. And trying to update your Pipplware distro with RetroPie 4.0.3 doesn't work too well.

I'll jump in and change PCE-CD as well. Thanks for this diligent bug checking. I can draw these stupid graphics, but I have terrible organizational skills.

UPDATE: Ok, it's updated. Didn't bother making a new version. Just re-download the same link and it will have the fixed PC Engine folder. Thank you again. :D

Rookervik

Guh. I know I promised this like 6 months ago. Almost done.
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Rookervik

Been a long time coming. I am sorry it took me forever. Pixel theme with metadata... instead of system art and information. I made the screenshot/boxart smaller and brought the bar up to make more room for metadata. All tags are included for all of you lovely OCD people. :P

Pixel-Metadata Edition: Download

herb_fargus

@Rookervik I wish I had a more efficient way of utilising assets for different ES theme varyations. There are a bunch of themes and variations from you that get lost in the weeds perhaps I should set up a few more repos...

Rookervik

@herb_fargus Eh, everyone wants something different from a theme. I don't have too many. Luminous, Luminous Mini, Pixel, Pixel TFT, Pixel with Metadata... isn't that it? Really just 2 themes with a couple variations. And from what I know, only Pixel is available in the downloader isn't it? People can just get them on the forum.

herb_fargus

@Rookervik Perhaps. well I may set up a few of them on github just so I don't lose track of them if that's cool with you.

Rookervik

@herb_fargus yeah, that's fine. I should probably think about setting up a site or something for my various customizations. Different themes, splash screens, movies, runcommand screens, kodi art, stuff like that.

But in case we're too far off topic, Pixel now has a meta data version. Check a couple posts above, or the main post at the top for a download link. Let me know if it's not lined up or something. And "not lined up" I mean really far off. Haha. Metadata is a B to align in ES.

Rion

@Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

Been a long time coming. I am sorry it took me forever. Pixel theme with metadata... instead of system art and information. I made the screenshot/boxart smaller and brought the bar up to make more room for metadata. All tags are included for all of you lovely OCD people. :P

Pixel-Metadata Edition: Download

Any plans to support emulationstation-kids?

Love you work and pixel is the theme i install everytime :)

Rookervik

@Rion Carbon has support for ES-kids but it didn't work from what I was told. The author of that version of ES never got back in touch with me so there's no way I know of to get it working. :(

mattrixk

@Rookervik: Pixel with metadata? Woo! This makes me happy!

@Rion: I created MetaPixel based on Rook's original Pixel theme because I liked it but wanted metadata. I also wanted something that worked with Zigurana's child-friendly ES, so I got that working too.