New Comic Book Theme!

TMNTturtlguy · 24 Jul 2017, 03:07

@hansolo77 I have added it to the list of future things to work on! for now though you can update the theme and test it out when you have a chance. As for the custom collections, @pjft released the testing version today Please Test Creating Custom Collections

hansolo77 · 24 Jul 2017, 03:24

^_^ Cool, something to play with when I get home from work tomorrow!

pjft · 24 Jul 2017, 08:04

@TMNTturtlguy Hi! Just updated the theme, and noticed that the custom-collectionsfolder is named custom-collection in the theme, that's why I wasn't finding it.

Thought I'd give you a heads up, as it's missing a "s" :)

Hope you're doing well!

TMNTturtlguy · 25 Jul 2017, 14:28

All versions of the theme have been updated to per @pjft to modify the folder name for custom-collections to match his new features in ES. The update is available through es_themes on the retropie menu.

meleu · 25 Jul 2017, 14:46

@hansolo77 maybe filtering games with cheevos instead of creating a new "ES system" (or collection) would be neater.
Let's see what ES hackers have to say about what I posted here.

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 21:22

Excellent looking theme. I have experienced one issue though that I can't seem to fix.

I'm using the most recent version of this theme and have experienced freezing at random points when scrolling through game lists. RetroPie will either completely freeze and force me to hard reset the Raspberry Pi device, or semi freeze preventing me from continuing to scroll through the game list. Scraped video previews will continue to play until i manually restart the device.

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 device overclocked to (1350) with more than adequate cooling, and have not experienced this problem with other themes.

TMNTturtlguy · 25 Jul 2017, 21:27

@beastmode when did you last update ES? I have not experienced this myself related to the theme and have not yet seen others with the same issue. One thought might be that your image, video and marquee file sizes that you have scraped might be a larger file size, and since this theme places all of those images in each view, ES is having a hard time loading the images as you scroll to each game, thus freezing up your system as you scroll.

Another question is what you are using to play your video? Are you using the OMX player? I know you are not having issues with the video itself, but if you are not using OMX, try that as it uses less resources to run the videos.

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 21:36

@tmntturtlguy I last updated RetroPie and ES about a week ago. I'm using the OMX player as well. I used Sselph’s scraper to scrape all of the image and video files. I was messing around with the ES VRAM settings though, perhaps that has something to do with it?

pjft · 25 Jul 2017, 21:39

@beastmode set VRAM to 80. Restart ES.

If the permanent freezes/crashes happen again do report back.

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 21:41

@pjft Will do. Thanks.

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 21:48

@pjft VRAM set to 80mb but I'm still experiencing freezing. I'm unable to scroll but I am able to ssh into the Pi and reboot the device.

I tried with the 4:3 theme and it seems to crash with this reason:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'char const*'
Abort

TMNTturtlguy · 25 Jul 2017, 22:32

@beastmode when did you download the theme? Can you try to update it? I am not familiar with the error you are getting. Do the problems only exist in the gamelist view? Are there any issues in the system view? Does this happen in all systems? Can you chane your ui settings to detailed and see if you still have the same problems?

The only thing I can think of is that the new default system change I added is causing issues, otherwise I have not made any changes to the theme that should be causing errors.

TMNTturtlguy · 25 Jul 2017, 22:54

@beastmode i did some searches on the error and I think it may be a bad image file? See these posts, can you isolate this to a specific system?

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beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 23:07

@tmntturtlguy I think you may be right, dude. Either a corrupt RetroPie image, corrupt game image, or corrupt gamelist.xml files. I downloaded the theme yesterday morning through Emulation Station's theme menu. I'll start fresh and see if the problem persists. Thanks for your help.

gamelist basic --> works perfectly.
system view --> works perfectly.
detailed view --> crashes.
automatic --> crashes.

TMNTturtlguy · 25 Jul 2017, 23:57

@beastmode keep me posted

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 23:58

@tmntturtlguy Will do.

hansolo77 · 26 Jul 2017, 00:37

I know reducing VRAM to 80 solved my issues with the freezes. I wonder if it would be a prudent idea to maybe have ES just automatically use 80??

TMNTturtlguy · 26 Jul 2017, 01:05

@hansolo77 no, that would not be useful. I am running my setup at 100 with no issues. It all depends on your personal setup. Please also note that @beastmode problem has nothing to do with vram.

gaavoid · 26 Jul 2017, 01:11

@beastmode @hansolo77 I was having this freezing issue on several themes (detailed and video) after updating from 4.2 to 4.2.8, not just comicbook. But after shutting down and rebooting a couple of times (on 4.2.10), the freezing stopped. My VRAM is also set to 80 which stops white screens from occurring due to memory limitations.

beastmode · 26 Jul 2017, 02:28

@tmntturtlguy @gaavoid @pjft I believe I have just found the problem. It wasn't the theme or my .xml files, it was rpie-art on 4.2.10. I used rpie-art to install those awesome launching images of yours which seems to have broken my setup. Installing those same images manually on 4.2.12 seems to work perfectly.