New Comic Book Theme!

pjft

@meleu Oh, no, no, sorry. Actually, you may be well ahead of me.

As far as I knew, RetroPie doesn't install on Windows, only on Linux as far as PCs go - what @serotonin means is how to update his ES on his Windows machine. It's not as much related to RetroPie at this stage, unless we recently got Windows support :)

I might be wrong there, as usual.

So, @serotonin , to update your ES there are a few unfortunate avenues you may be inclined to follow, to the best of my knowledge:

Compile ES form source yourself: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5202/step-by-step-how-to-build-emulationstation-on-windows
Have someone provide you with the binary. I believe @jdrassa provides some ES builds every now and then. This is his latest, from 15 days ago: https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases . I don't know how up to date it is, but it won't hurt to try it out.

Best.

soulfunkdjx

Hi. I downloaded that theme from retropie menu and is amazingly beautiful!!!! My only problem is that on Virtual Boy system it gives me the artwork inside the small grey space and not inside the big black space as it is for the other systems. See for yourself. I am also full updated.
http://imgur.com/a/iXbo1

TMNTturtlguy

@soulfunkdjx what view mode are you in? Video/Detailed/automatic? In video and automatic view videos will display in the large back box. In detailed view the boxart will show in the large black box.

Are you running videos? If you are not, change to detailed view. If you are, check your gamelist to make sure they are correct. I just checked the code and everything looks like it should be working correctly.

meleu

@TMNTturtlguy hey man, could you create an extra system logo for your arcade/art? Sorry for bothering you, but I think it's just a matter of choosing a font and applying some photoshop filter... Forget it if it requires much work.

Well It can be exactly like the existing one below, but saying "MAME ROW":
arcadelogo

I'm asking that because I use the arcade folder to put the games we got for MAME ROWs.

cyperghost

Yes a MAME ROW section would be usefull. I currently use my fav-launcher to create these and it really makes live easier!

pjft

@TMNTturtlguy Yeah, this is really working as intended.

Thank you!

meleu

@cyperghost My request to @TMNTturtlguy is just to create an extra logo. My intention is to use the arcade folder for MAME ROWs. But, of course, you can create an extra custom ES system specific for this.

cyperghost

@meleu That's just a user habit

TMNTturtlguy

@meleu I will create this for you, but it will be a few days before i can get to it.

VGMonkey

How can I set up so I have snapshot in the big box and box art in the little?

It works with videos but as soon as I replace the video with images I get boxart in both spaces instead

Thanks

TMNTturtlguy

@VGMonkey that is not currently supported by ES, so it is not possible

VGMonkey

@TMNTturtlguy thanks.
It works with videos and box art and I thought, let's save some space and just have snapshot and box art.
How about just snap shot in the big box ?
Sorry I am new to all this and love your theme

TMNTturtlguy

@VGMonkey ES allows us to place 1 video, 1 image, 1 marquee for each rom. We are currently not able to place 2 images for 1 rom. so we cannot have a snapshot and box art. Snapshots and box art are both image files. We have asked for ES to be updated to allow for more images to be placed, until that happens I cannot do what you are asking.

For the time being go to the start menu and ui options. at the bottom change the view to detailed. This will show your image file in the large black box.

VGMonkey

Thanks for letting me know,. I wasn't asking you to do anything, just thought I may have been able to swap the video for an image. 😀

Can't thank you enough for the quick response.
Loving the theme.

TMNTturtlguy

@VGMonkey Great - no problem in asking, this is something I want to be able to do, just waiting for the updates to ES. But i really suggest you switch to detailed view, it looks really nice!

VGMonkey

@TMNTturtlguy I just did and it's beautiful, the controller art in there makes it look natural.

Im One happy fan.

Thanks again for all the info. And sorry to have been a pain.

TMNTturtlguy

@VGMonkey No pain at all! I am glad that it works for you for the time being. It was just part of my new update and I think it is a pretty elegant solution until the update comes around. Take care and enjoy

soulfunkdjx

I changed the preview to detailed and the problem on Virtual Boy system continue to be there.
I have found the solution. There's a wrong inside the xml file. I just found some time and fixed it. First of all update the theme from retropie menu.Go to etc/emulationstation/themes/comicbook/virtual boy and open the theme.xml file with notepad++. Go and delete lines 60,61,62,63,64. After that restart your emulationstation and it will be fixed.
The image will be shown now inside the big black box.

hansolo77

@VGMonkey It will require a bit of work, but you could always make a single frame video of a snapshot. ES repeats the videos, so that would give you a static image. Then you could have your 1 image, and 1 video and it won't "break the rules" (limitations).

TMNTturtlguy

@soulfunkdjx glad it works for you, ~~but I don't recommend others do this~~. I am away for the weekend and will test more next week, but I looked at it the other night and it appeared to work fine. ~~I think this is similar to @VGMonkey request and you gamelist might not be correct for video view. Virtual boys code should match every other systems code.~~ Again, I will test on my pie next week.