Poll: What Systems Do You Use?

[sergioad]

@mattrixk I did not, I will fill it

[sergioad]

Ready

[mattrixk]

Great, thanks @sergioad!

[sergioad]

You are wellcome, wich theme do you use?

[mattrixk]

@sergioad I use MetaPixel. I was enamored with the original Pixel theme, but back then it didn't have it's Pixel-Meta counterpart, so I taught myself how to make themes so I could add metadata to the Pixel theme.

There wasn't really the space in Pixel to just add the data, so I had to create my own borders and backgrounds. That's why MetaPixel looks like Pixel, but is still a bit different. Rook was also kind enough to let me use his original Pixel icons.

I mainly just did it for myself, which is why it didn't support too many systems, but I figured others might like it so I put it up on GitHub.

[sergioad]

I use pixel too but unlike you I gone for the original and added the old Carbom's scrolling sounds aming to give it a nice retro audio feedback.

The old Carbon had a scrolling sound similar to the joystick of an arcade being pushed an released quickly so I wanted to use it on Pixel since day one after I discovered it because both together creates a sense of an 8 bit arcade cabinet wich I wanted since RetroPie is by its own merits a retro gaming console and a glorified RetroArch frontend wich deserves a nostalgic but eye and ear candy theme that looks great and sounds great.

I am a person with low vision so I am more an auditive man and I love have auditive feedback wich is for you visual people like a nice UI, this is why I chosen pixel plus sounds, because I search a nice UI but also a nice auditive feedback and a retro style

[mattrixk]

@sergioad I never thought of it that way. I haven't added sound to any of my themes because it just kind of annoys me. I never thought about the fact that sounds could be helpful to some. I'll have to look into adding sounds to my next theme, and then going back and adding sound to my others when I fix them up for Video Previews.

(I'll probably have the sound option de-activated by default, but it's easy enough to activate if someone wants it.)

[sergioad]

@mattrixk I think it is a great idea, many themes are not adding that option and I think it is a great form to make it more inmersive; if the sound anoys you you can try a non invasive sound like the ome on the new Carbon theme or im simplebigart (I love this theme too but has many unthemed systems like Amstrad CPC and ZX spectrum) and then give the user the choise to enable or disable them

[PetroRie]

PSX, MAME/NEO-GEO, SNES, Genesis and Kodi.

[mattrixk]

The poll has had 80 responses so I thought I'd sort them for all to see. You'll notice ones like Megadrive/Genesis have both their combined total and their individual totals. I think this is good info to have.

Unsurprisingly, SNES, NES, PSX and Megadrive/Genesis are at the top of the list.

Here are the results so far:

SNES/Super Famicom - 81
Megadrive/Genesis - 80
NES/Famicom - 70
SNES - Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 66
NES - Nintendo Entertainment System - 60
PC Engine/TurboGraphx-16 - 52
PSX - PlayStation 1 - 48
Game Boy Advance - 42
Sega 32x/Mega 32x - 41
Genesis - 40
Megadrive - 40
Nintendo 64 - 40
SegaCD/MegaCD - 36
Game Boy - 34
Game Boy Color - 33
FinalBurn Alpha - 32
Master System - 30
Neo Geo - 30
Atari 2600 - 29
Sega 32X - 28
Kodi - 27
PC Engine - 26
TurboGrafx-16 - 26
Sega CD - 22
PC Engine CD/TurboGraphx CD - 20
Arcade - 19
MAME - 19
Atari 7800 - 18
Dreamcast - 17
MAME - Libretro - 17
Game Gear - 16
Nintendo DS - 16
PSP - Playstation Portable - 16
Atari Lynx - 15
Ports - 15
Super Famicom - 15
Mega CD - 14
Commodore 64 - 13
Mega 32x - 13
Virtual Boy - 13
Family Computer Disk System - 12
Neo Geo Pocket Color - 11
ScummVM - 11
Atari 5200 - 10
Colecovision - 10
Famicom - 10
PC Engine CD - 10
Sega SG-1000 - 10
TurboGrafx CD - 10
ZX Spectrum - 9
Intellivision - 8
Vectrex - 8
Amiga - 7
MAME 4 All - 7
PC - 7
Game & Watch - 6
Capcom Play System - 5
AdvanceMAME - 5
MSX - 5
Neo Geo Pocket - 5
Atari 800 - 4
Atari Jaguar - 4
Desktop - 4
Neo Geo CD - 4
Sega Saturn - 4
Amstrad CPC - 3
Daphne - 3
Odyssey2 - 3
PC-FX - 3
WonderSwan Color - 3
3do - 2
Atari ST - 2
GameCube - 2
Commodore Vic 20 - 2
WonderSwan - 2
Apple II - 1
Coco - Tandy Color Computer - 1
Macintosh - 1
PS2 - PlayStation 2 - 1
Steam - 1
Stratagus - 1
Videopac - 1
Nintendo Wii - 1
Zmachine - 1
Adventure Game Studio - 0
BBC Micro - 0
Dragon 32 - 0
Love - 0
MESS - 0
Oric - 0
Pipplware - 0
ResidualVM - 0
SAM Coupé - 0
TI-99 - 0
TRS-80 - 0

Edit: I just realised SNES/Super Famicom has 81 points, even though there have only been 80 entries. I guess a few someones out there have their SNES and Super Famicom Roms separate.