[Recalbox 9] Thème Mukashi

[airdream]

@subvite thank you again.
The BG2 absolutely need to to be in 720 for save VRAM resources, if all BG2 were in 1080 a lot of glitches will appear (RPI3 have not enough VRAM), particularly if you have a lot of system in your recalbox.
We have also logo in black in the first revision of Mukashi. Black Logo is it more suitable in the yellow background, what do you think?
From the beginning we hoped that everyone who is interested to personalize our theme will do it here and share it, so that's why @mrseguin shared all tools and all raw files in first post.
Do you have worked with raw files? (See first post)
So if you can do it until the end and share it with a download link, we much appreciated. A simple BG1&2 here can also help everyone to replace original BG1 &2 from our theme. Do only what you want to do.
However you can chose better console box of your choice to replace the blue one (dual shock version), It will be more easy if you do it from raw file.

[subvite]

@airdream Yes, you can include the logo perfectly, don't worry. I have tried different sources in the yellow top, and they all work well, including pure black and pure white. (that's why I made it little muted)
Regarding bg2, I have converted it to 720 as you indicate. However, I have seen that the bg2 of the other systems are at 1080, like n64.
I have worked with photoshop, I have the file by layers, if you need it you can ask me and I upload it too.
I upload the corrected files (Original box and Bg2 in 720), so you can check them out and download if you wish.

[mrseguin]

@subvite Hi Guys, So as AirDream said I moved recently and I'm still waiting for my shipment , internet at home,....So should be fixed end of this month and I will go back to mukashi theme.To include or not in the "official" build well I'm not against it but everybody has his own preferences...That's why I include all the programs I used like this everybody can customise the theme.
As for me I followed most of the time AirDream artistical point of view because first neither I don't have particular design or artistical skills nor very good technical skill with programs that's why to create this theme was...long...and because we changed so many time our point of view...
I grew up only with intellivision, msx, atarist and amiga...later got saturn and psx but I was still more playing amiga games So to get inspirations you need to be in love with your systems ! But as I said nothing is universal in terms of taste and colours...welll

[airdream]

@subvite thanks again!!

I tried it on my RPI and it looks very good,
This what it look with logo and gamelist, so white logo and gamelist font are matching with the BG

Very authentic design and spirit of the first run ps1 package (before dualshock)

[hardt]

J'ai téléchargé le theme hier, très bon boulot mais pour FBA Libretro ça affiche Capcom (et des jeux CPS)...
Il y a un background FBA?

[airdream]

On était parti du fait qu'on mettait uniquement les jeux CPS1 CPS2 et CPS3 dans Fbalibertro.
Les autres jeux arcades sont dans MAME, et Néo Géo dans son propre dossier et thème.

En effet ça ne convient pas a celui qui utilise FBALIBERTRO pour tous jeux Arcade, faudra dans ce cas éventuellement en faire un.

[hardt]

@airdream
Ok je comprends mieux. Pas très grave, si y'a une maj je la prendrais

[Benny]

@airdream Je suis de retour par ici après 6 mois d'absence (j'avais le theme en version beta) et bien chapeau pour le thème il est magnifique !

Je ne sais pas si daphne sera inclus dans une prochaine MAJ, (c'est le seul système qui me manque dans ma collection ^^ ) mais prenez le temps qu'il faut surtout

[airdream]

@benny merci pour ton avis encourageant sur Mukashi.
Malheureusement @mrseguin n'a toujours pas internet chez lui, son déménagement (international) n'a pas été simple.
L'objectif de rendre Mukashi avec la carousel est toujours présent, soyons juste un peu patient car c'est surtout @mrseguin qui fait le gros du travail.

[Benny]

@airdream Pas de problème,

[DAM]

@airdream and @mrseguin great theme, just i´d like if in a new version you can put a snes US version theme.
Thanks.

[mrseguin]

@dam Hi guys
As Air Dream said i'm still in a not ready state to focus on Mukashi but mid december should be good
Bon mi décembre en théorie on s y remet !

[Benny]

@mrseguin ah super ! hâte de voir le résultat final

[lauderneto]


[lauderneto]

[lauderneto]

Hello, I want to congratulate the creator of this theme. for me one of the best I've ever seen.
as it wanted systems like CPS1, CPS2, CPS3, CHANEL F, TURBO GRAFX16 AND ATARI5200 and unfortunately these did not have. I took the liberty of doing those backgrounds.

I hope you keep working on thema, because it really is one of the best I've ever seen for recalbox.

one thing that would be cool was instead of the information being fixed in BG, could be tags in xml. hence each person would adapt to their language.

thank you very much!

[mrseguin]

@lauderneto Hi Lauderneto
Thks for the compliment Air dream and I appreciate
The thing with recalbox more system you want to include more video memory it will use...Its nice to separate as much as everybody want (like msx,msx2,msx turbo...) and have a nice theme for all but after a while I think we have to shrink in one category what we can that is why we have only FBA for cps 123 games. But this theme we built was a start for an open theme you can edit by yourself with the free programs I included) just for people that like the organisation of the theme (box of some important games (its different for everybody and different depending on the country you are from !), some info of the system (again its subjective and localized...),the picture of the system(many country = many different pics...) and the music we like that goes with one game with the box pic and a screenshot (when it is possible because some system have not really music for game !) and again this is very subjectiv....
Well universal theme doesn't exist because of all these differents facts I listed but anybody can change whatever he wants with some time and a little bit of effort...I agree about having an xml file we can edit its a good idea but how to do it correctly...
I have to say we built this theme because we thought the others ones were good but were lacking some cohesion and a "soul"
The soul was the part AirDream work a lot onto because he was more a console guy and for me I grew up with msx, intelivision (i'm still waiting for a better implementation with analog control of the emulator to play my all time intelivision favorite game Disc of tron ! that is for now not really playable with a game pad or I don't know how to do it...) atari st and amiga
By the way nice theme you made Its lacking the shadows (it give some depths) on the pics (did you use your own program or the one I included with the theme ?) Is atari 5200 and channel F compatible with recalbox ???

[lauderneto]

@mrseguin
everything was done amateurally in a 3D paint. so I did not add shade or anything, but it serves as an idea for you in the future to continue with the project and do for those systems.

I took advantage of its past themes folders: fba_libretro was copied to CPS 1 2 E 3, Atari 7800 to atari 5200. only the chanel F that looked for a different wallpaper,

mrseguin Today the Christmas beta version of the recalbox contains those 5200 and chanel F systems and is normally running.

I just made these backgrounds to fill a shortage that for me from cps 1 2 and 3 that I really like them apart.
as I also have separate roms from pc engine (japan) and eturbo grafx (usa) I added as well.

the most problematic is to find SVG files, I searched a lot and those that I found in png and converted to sites or became monochrome, or the system could not read.

Have you done any specific programs with this theme? the only problem I had was to respect the edges of the carousel because they did not know where they were. in cps 1 2 and 3 the covers of the games were a little below the carousel.
well, thank you

[mrseguin]

@lauderneto everything was done also amateurally in our side too:)
Because we don't want to put too many systems because of the limited vram of the RPI I don't think we will create new theme and so separate CPS1 CPS2 .... Today because I am visiting AirDream in Japan we worked a little together on atari5200 and we have done it(bg bg2 music) (link below) and we will work later on the not yet included system that will come in beta. By the way can you give me link where its precised about the new addons systems?
As for svg I managed to convert them through Inscape(free programs I put in the beginning of the Mukashi Theme post)
I have to say it is a bit hit and miss because I don't master at all the program but I managed not really knowing how ! But this is the program to go with with svg!
Its possible some of our logo are in png in the theme because svg was a bit complicated to find or to convert.
Because we didn't download the beta of course yet we can't test it....

Link to the atari5200 theme WIP (no svg !) --> atari5200

[lauderneto]

@mrseguin said in Thème Mukashi:

@lauderneto everything was done also amateurally in our side too:)
Because we don't want to put too many systems because of the limited vram of the RPI I don't think we will create new theme and so separate CPS1 CPS2 .... Today because I am visiting AirDream in Japan we worked a little together on atari5200 and we have done it(bg bg2 music) (link below) and we will work later on the not yet included system that will come in beta. By the way can you give me link where its precised about the new addons systems?
As for svg I managed to convert them through Inscape(free programs I put in the beginning of the Mukashi Theme post)
I have to say it is a bit hit and miss because I don't master at all the program but I managed not really knowing how ! But this is the program to go with with svg!
Its possible some of our logo are in png in the theme because svg was a bit complicated to find or to convert.
Because we didn't download the beta of course yet we can't test it....

It was very good, congratulations.
when I am at home I will lower and discard what I have done.

the beta system where it contains the new systems can be found at this link. https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/15010/testers-wanted-major-system-upgrade-pi3b-kodi-17-and-much-more
  I'm using it as main and it's working normally.

in my case as I use the raspberry pi3b +, I am limited to using systems like WII, 3DO, PSP and others that do not run. so I do not think I will have problems with VRAM because I do not use those systems.

I'm still thinking of neither using computer games like atari st, atari 800, commodore 64, amistrad cpc.

The only thing I think of using is my friend, because it was part of my life.

I also think about putting the Super Nintendo MSU-1.