New Comic Book Theme!

pootis spencer

Will you be doing system loading screens any time soon? They would just finish this theme off perfectly.

TMNTturtlguy

@pootis-spencer yes, per posts above that is the next thing I will be working on.

hansolo77

Your Luigi rip image needs mirror'd.. his hat's on backwards lol.

TMNTturtlguy

@hansolo77 I mirrored him on purpose, missed fixing the hat, we will see if I fix it! Minor details, but good eye, I have never noticed.

hansolo77

Yeah I noticed when I was looking through the rips to see if there was a good one to use for my PSX theme. :)

TMNTturtlguy

@hansolo77 crash and spyro for sure work, batman and yoda could also work I suppose.

TMNTturtlguy

Thanks to @ruckage for helping to modify my font once again, i have updated all versions of the ComicBook theme to correct the gamelist alignment, the text is once again centered in the selector bar. Thanks @ruckage !

MrJordaaany

Hey just wanted to drop a comment to say your theme rocks! It's awesome and looks so great. Thanks for putting in the time and creating it!

TMNTturtlguy

@MrJordaaany Thanks for the note!

felleg

@TMNTturtlguy
Is there a way to remove the SEGA scream when playing a Sega console? The novelty wears off quickly! :P

TMNTturtlguy

@felleg yes, there are instructions in the theme folder. There are 2 ways, go into the theme.xml for sega and delete the line items for sound, or go into the art folder and delete the sega.wav file. If you delete the sega.wav file you may get an error message flash when loading a rom, you can ignore it, it just will say that the .wav file is missing.

meleu

@TMNTturtlguy In another thread we were talking about changing that "rip image" for megadrive detailed view. I would like to suggest these Sonic images instead of the current Battletoads one:

sonic1

sonic2

sonic3

TMNTturtlguy

@meleu sure, do you have a favorite? Do you think I should change it in the main code or just throw this in the art folder so users can adjust as they want to? I don't use mega drive, I use sega genesis so it doesn't affect me.

ruckage

@meleu Not that it really matters but I believe these are the sonic designs used in the GBA games. To be authentic to Megadrive the Sonic designs from that era should be used instead.
(Sonic is definately more fitting though as he is the sega mascot)

ruckage

These are Megadrive era sonic designs for comparison.
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TMNTturtlguy

@ruckage correct, here is the rip image used for sega genesis.

meleu

@ruckage said in New Comic Book Theme!:

Not that it really matters but I believe these are the sonic designs used in the GBA games.

What really matters is that the character needs to be leaning forward or coming out of the screen. Like this image for Mega Man:
megaman

@TMNTturtlguy said in New Comic Book Theme!:

do you have a favorite?

I think the first one gives a good impression that he is ripping the page and coming out of the screen:
sonic1

meleu

@TMNTturtlguy hey dude!! I didn't know about that image for genesis!!! Just use the same for megadrive and it's done!! :D

TMNTturtlguy

@meleu already done - not sure it is my favorite, but i will throw it in the folder.

0_1498780184224_sonic 2.png

meleu

@TMNTturtlguy OK, it can be an option. But I would suggest to use for megadrive the same image you're using for genesis as default.

What really bothers me is seeing a Battletoads character in MegaDrive detailed view. I think Battletoads leads our minds to NES (at least for most people).