Oldroom theme W.I.P. new 1.9 Beta + media packs

Kischa

@Nismo King! 😉

johnny5126

@Nismo Any plans to add the C64 and ColecoVision to the theme?

sergioad

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Hubz

Nismo,

Just wanted to say thank you for this amazing theme. I've been using Launchbox and Hyperspin and never been happy with the stability of either. Loved RetroPie but it naturally wasn't as pretty. This theme makes it on par with them along with the videos and now it doesn't randomly screw up when I enter or exit games!

One quick question, do you have the themes without the generic blank boxes in the background? I only ask as I've tweaked the sizes and positions on some of your themes but that means the blank boxes show up behind it still. I'd love to not have those back there if at all possible.

Keep up the great work!

Hubz

Nismo

@Hubz Where did you place the boxes? I can upload some of them but I need to spend one evening to do that enabling and disabling layers, posters and so... and of course without optimizing filesize...

Hubz

@Nismo Usually not far from the initial spot, mainly moved them around since I wanted to make the boxes a bit bigger on my setup. On some Super Famicom boxes I had they are vertical as opposed to horizontal, so the blank horizontal box sticks out.

Nismo

@Hubz That's because you need to wait for SNES media to be uploaded...

donkeykong

@Hubz Try downloading super famicom or snes boxart from https://screenscraper.fr/ these should fit like a charm. I think this is also the media source Nismo is using for his media collection. But keep in mind, that screenscraper does not have a complete boxart collection for most systems. This is why Nismo is creating new arwork for many many games, to achieve a complete media collection.

A Former User

@donkeykong Its kinda confusing to use because it's in french, so any alternatives?

robertybob

Will this theme be on GitHub in the future?

Nismo

@itsnitro The alternative it's to wait for my next upload.

@robertybob I hope so.

robertybob

@Nismo Great! I'm planning to finally get around to giving my theme Video support; is there somewhere with an easy guide to make a theme Video-compatible? It seems that https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme hasn't been updated with this information yet.

Nismo

@robertybob Most of the info it's here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi

And remember, any "extra" tagged images will be displayed on top of the video so get ride of background "extra" tag.

If you need help simply point me to your github project so I can download it and test, or upload your theme to some downloading server.

robertybob

@Nismo Thank you very much :) Is there a Windows build available which has the video stuff built-in?

Nismo

@robertybob Here it is: https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.7

But this build doesn't have support for subfolders inside roms folder, and maxSize on videos, so keep that in mind.

Regards.

deathr0w

Hope this is added to the Pi ES theme section soon because I'm not sure how to install it lol

robertybob

@Nismo

I've made a start on it:
https://github.com/robertybob/es-theme-space-video

Would you mind having a quick look through it to see if I've made any mistakes?

Note:
I personally don't use marquees so I've tried to hide them off the screen, but I don't know if I've done that successfully.

Nismo

@robertybob I'll take a look as soon as possible, maybe tomorrow.

herb_fargus

@robertybob btw you shouldn't have to create an entirely new theme for just adding video view to your space theme

robertybob

@herb_fargus
Yeah I know, I just wanted to make sure I didn't mess anything up in the original (for example I haven't included backwards compatibility yet). When it's complete I'll just overwrite everything in the original repo and delete the new one :)