New Comic Book Theme!

Zenjiro

If anyone has any recommendations for systems or themes, that are not currently added feel free to open a ticket on
Github: https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook/issues

Also feel free to request:

Games, or Screenshots, of what you would like to see in the comic background for said system/collection
Color scheme of the system/collection image
Launch Sound for when you start a game

If you can provide the images (with source) and/or the audio file(s) it will also help out.

If you find any issues while running the theme such as graphical glitches or clipping of the drop shadow let me know.

Zenjiro

Wanted to share this cool bit of inspiration that hit me. While I was creating the custom theme for the .Hack series I decided to change it up a bit and use a cyber/circuit board pattern for the system image:

And while I was finishing it I thought it would be cool to add a "glitch" effect to it:

I think it came out nicely.

mikeydoom

@Zenjiro

I love the glitch version!

Zenjiro

Sometimes I forget to take a step back and get some R&R, and actually use the theme I am working on. So for the last couple of months I have been catching up on some old N64 games, RA Profile.

And with Doom and Animal Crossing recently releasing I figured I should make themes for them. Here are the previews:

Mr. Berlin

@Zenjiro glitch effect turn out so nice , and theme over all so sweet , but is there any planes to add missing systems like neogeo cd , pc-88 and pc-98

Zenjiro

@Mr-Berlin Neogeo CD is planned, PC-88 and PC-98 are now planned.

Mr. Berlin

@Zenjiro man you are amazing :D

Mr. Berlin

@Zenjiro if you plane to add more systems there is sharp x1 , sharp x68000 , satellaview, sufami, and atomiswave

Zenjiro

@Mr-Berlin Satellaview, and Atomiswave are already done, just not uploaded yet.

Mr. Berlin

@Zenjiro man i know my English is bad but i wanna you to know that you make amazing work and keep one of the most awesome theme alive and that deserve appreciation

MakPro

Hello! Anyone tell me please, where i can download the latest version of this wonderfull theme ?

mitu

@MakPro You can install it from the RetroPie's themes menu - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Themes/.

MakPro

@mitu thank you very much!

dusty048

I love this theme. I know its not being officially developed for now but I've noticed some people are continuing development is other ways.

I can't find a banner/logo for Naomi? Can anyone link me to the best tutorial post? ( I found one but I followed the instructions and it didn't come out well) or can I be cheeky and some one knock one out for me?

Now the RPi4 is out and able to run more taxing systems like atomiswave and Naomi I want to add them to my bartop arcade and need some art to make them fit with this theme.

Thanks in advance.

Zenjiro

@dusty048 You are in luck I already made one.

I'll go ahead and post them here for you and anyone else who wants to use them.

Striderx99

Any possibility of producing a comic.png, bannerlogo.png, and comic_rip.png for the Atomiswave set?

Thanks :-).

Zenjiro

@Striderx99 Yup already made one.

Zenjiro

Since it seems some people are starting to request certain themes now, instead of me posting them individually when asked, I have went ahead and uploaded my current 3.2-Beta of this theme. Which can be found here: https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook/tree/3.2-Beta

!!!PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A BETA!!!
To my knowledge it should work fine, most people might say it is in a "good enough" state to at least be usable.
But I assure you there are still several tiny issues here and there. Of which you are free to open a ticket on or mention here and I will address it when I find the time.

28 New System Themes
34 New Custom Themes

Current Change Log:

Upscaled older system image files by a factor of 2 using Waifu2x.
Removed Tutorial archive
Removed Unused assets
Optimized all PNG images to 128-bit color using PNGquant
Moved launch WAV files to corresponding "hacks" systems
Replaced all SVG files with PNG files
Removed all "controller" images

Fixed the Following:
- Renamed chrashbandicoot to crashbandicoot

Changed the Following:
- PC is now MSDOS

Added Systems:
- Atomiswave
- Auto-at2players
- Auto-at4players
- Auto-neverplayed
- C64-Classic
- Capcom-Classic
- Famicom-Classic
- Famicom-Shonen
- Mega CD
- Mega Drive-Japan
- Naomi
- Neo-Geo CD
- NES-Classic
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo 64DD
- PC
- PC-88
- PC-98
- PlayStation-Classic
- Pokemon Mini
- Satellaview
- SFC-Classic
- SNES-Classic-US
- SNES-Classic-EU
- Sufami Turbo
- Nintendo Switch
- Sharp X1
- Sharp X68000

Added Themes:
- Advance Wars
- Animal Crossing
- Ape Escape
- Blizzard
- Custom Robo
- Darkstalkers
- Diablo
- Doom
- Dot Hack
- Dragon Quest
- Earthbound
- Golden Sun
- Halo
- Humongous Entertainment
- JRPG
- Kingdom Hearts
- Konami
- Metal Gear
- Mother
- Pac-man
- Phantasy Star
- Pheonix Wright
- Ratchet & Clank
- Rayman
- Shining Force
- Starcraft
- Starfox
- Star Ocean
- Star Trek
- Street Fighter
- Warcraft
- Wario
- Witcher
- Yoshi

Striderx99

Thank you. Now I'm only missing Sega Model 2 (AM2) and Sega Model 3. If you ever complete those, I'll look for them here again. You have done a great job at including more systems. In my opinion, this is a nice theme and is just as impressive as the SNES-Mini, but unfortunately my TV uses a 1024x768 resolution. Because of that, it doesn't show the title of each game centered with box art on the left and the description/information about developer, publisher, the genre, and game rating on the right.

dusty048

Thnak you @Zenjiro this work is amazing and thank you for updating the collection as a whole on github, my Rpi4 setup will now be complete.