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    • mYSt
      mYSt Theme moderator @Glascoyote 0 last edited by

      @glascoyote-0 Hello, check this part of documentation https://github.com/SamYStudiO/es-theme-next-pixel#scraping--next-pixel-mix and espcially the last phrase if you don't want to use next pixel mix

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      • Bkg2k
        Bkg2k Staff @lhari84 last edited by

        @lhari84 ES issues regarding picture resolutions are related to the GPU memory which is limited to less than 512Mb whether you have 1, 2, 4 or even 8Gb on the board. That's why we say that running Recalbox on more than 2Gb is useless.

        Nevertheless, we're already working on the FrontEnd to rewrite all the picture management code, but it's a long and hard task, don't expect changes in the next weeks.

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        • lhari84
          lhari84 @Bkg2k last edited by lhari84

          @bkg2k @mYSt
          Thanks for info, great to read that there is a chance for future optimization! 👍
          In the meanwhile I realized the issue regarding graphics memory vs. general memory. Tried to increase graphics memory to more then 512 MB in boot.txt and the system did not boot anymore 😳 So I have set it to 512 MB now. Too bad that the Pis are limited in this way.

          Pi 4:
          Sony DualShock 4 (2nd gen), 8BitDo Pro 2, 8BitDo SF30 PRO, Retroflag SUPERPi 4 Case, Recalbox 9.0

          Pi Zero 2W:
          GPi Case 2W, Recalbox 9.0

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          • Eternity57
            Eternity57 @lhari84 last edited by

            @mYSt I confirm I've currently setting up an arcade cabinet based on Pi 4 8Go & NVMe high speed 480go disk (on argon one v2 case) with Recalbox and Next Pixel theme in 1080 and I've got :

            • Screen loading issue with white blinking page during few seconds before loading screen on each gaming console with 512 gpu memory
            • Having more than 512 on gpu memory and the system didn't load anything

            Side intels, I have render all jpeg image of the theme with jpegmini pro tool to get image with same quality but even lighter (gain 33% in this particular case which means they are already well coded) to ease memory consumption or even loading time but it didn't change anything.

            Waiting on all further improvements from Recalbox or Next Pixel team to get this awesome theme working well on Pi4 🙂

            Keep up your impressive work ! I will looking forward to it 🙂

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            • mYSt
              mYSt Theme moderator @Eternity57 last edited by mYSt

              @eternity57 Thx for your feedback

              Indeed changing image weight has no impact, if you want to have an impact you need to change image size/resolution, GPU doesn't care about weight but about pixels count
              That's why i have different resolutions available for the theme, PI user should use 720p or 480p as mentionned from the documentation

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              • Eternity57
                Eternity57 @mYSt last edited by

                @myst Make sens !

                By the way when blinking, I see the background image loaded 3 to 6 times but always blinking to white in the first seconds then after 3-5 seconds of white page then it comes to the image...

                Would it be possible, it is a script loop issue ? because from a user point of view the image load immediatly on the first second... blink to the white then redo this 3 to 6 times fade to white and after 3 to 5 seconds load and stay at screen.

                To investigate, hoping it could help you 🙂

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                • mYSt
                  mYSt Theme moderator @Eternity57 last edited by

                  @eternity57 I can do nothing from theme side unfortunately, recalbox team is working on it but will take time

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                  • Eternity57
                    Eternity57 @mYSt last edited by

                    @myst No problem it work perfectly on 720p and we almost even notice any difference from 1080. Your theme is really a game changer on an arcade cabinet ! Thank again.

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                    • lhari84
                      lhari84 @mYSt last edited by

                      @myst @Bkg2k
                      It seems with the update to 8.0.1, switching whole system to 720p will not work anymore.
                      As usual, I use following parameters:

                      hdmi_group=1
                      hdmi_mode=4

                      in /boot/config.txt

                      But Recalbox boots up in 2160p at 30Hz since the update to 8.0.1, no matter if parameters in config.txt exist, or not.

                      That's strange in a second way, I thought default configuration for Pi(4) should make it boot up with 1080p, but never ever with 2160p - even when the connected display supports it.

                      My current screen configuration is nothing special, a 27'' 2160p LCD monitor, connected by HDMI.

                      Pi 4:
                      Sony DualShock 4 (2nd gen), 8BitDo Pro 2, 8BitDo SF30 PRO, Retroflag SUPERPi 4 Case, Recalbox 9.0

                      Pi Zero 2W:
                      GPi Case 2W, Recalbox 9.0

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                      • Bkg2k
                        Bkg2k Staff @lhari84 last edited by

                        @lhari84 Could you please send us the result of the following command in an SSH console? :
                        cat /proc/cmdline

                        Thank you.

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                        • lhari84
                          lhari84 @Bkg2k last edited by

                          @bkg2k Of course:

                          coherent_pool=1M 8250.nr_uarts=0 snd_bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=0 snd_bcm2835.enable_hdmi=1 video=HDMI-A-1:1280x720M@60 smsc95xx.macaddr=E4:5F:01:75:FE:29 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3eb00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x3ff00000 dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable=1 sdhci-bcm2708.sync_after_dma=0 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty3 consoleblank=0 loglevel=3 elevator=deadline vt.global_cursor_default=0 logo.nologo splash label=RECALBOX rootwait fastboot noswap video=HDMI-A-1:D video=HDMI-A-2:D

                          Pi 4:
                          Sony DualShock 4 (2nd gen), 8BitDo Pro 2, 8BitDo SF30 PRO, Retroflag SUPERPi 4 Case, Recalbox 9.0

                          Pi Zero 2W:
                          GPi Case 2W, Recalbox 9.0

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                          • Bkg2k
                            Bkg2k Staff @lhari84 last edited by Bkg2k

                            @lhari84 Ok, could you now test the following:

                            • mount -o remount,rw /boot
                            • nano /boot/cmdline.txt
                            • Remove the latest options: video=HDMI-A-1:D video=HDMI-A-2:D
                            • Save & exit (CTRL+S, CTRL+X)
                            • reboot
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                            • lhari84
                              lhari84 @Bkg2k last edited by

                              @bkg2k Great, this works, thank you very much!

                              Pi 4:
                              Sony DualShock 4 (2nd gen), 8BitDo Pro 2, 8BitDo SF30 PRO, Retroflag SUPERPi 4 Case, Recalbox 9.0

                              Pi Zero 2W:
                              GPi Case 2W, Recalbox 9.0

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                              • Bkg2k
                                Bkg2k Staff @lhari84 last edited by

                                @lhari84 Great ^^'

                                Anyway the video=HDMI-A-1:D video=HDMI-A-2:D has been suggested by the Raspberry foundation developpers to address an issue with their latest firmware 😞
                                Seems like it just changed the issue...

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                                • lhari84
                                  lhari84 @Bkg2k last edited by

                                  @bkg2k That's too bad, hope you will not have to many issues because of that... 😞

                                  May I ask about another thing in this occasion, I'm still having issue with safe shutdown, please see my latest message in following topic:
                                  https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/25776/safe-shutdown-not-working-nespi-4-case/7

                                  Pi 4:
                                  Sony DualShock 4 (2nd gen), 8BitDo Pro 2, 8BitDo SF30 PRO, Retroflag SUPERPi 4 Case, Recalbox 9.0

                                  Pi Zero 2W:
                                  GPi Case 2W, Recalbox 9.0

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                                  • maaamish
                                    maaamish @Bkg2k last edited by

                                    @bkg2k Un grand merci, problème résolu.

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                                    • lhari84
                                      lhari84 last edited by

                                      Hi @mYSt
                                      I'm just fighting with enabling only specific games for each system:
                                      I've changed affected games.sh files and wondered why still other games would be shown up. Afterwards I've checked the readme and found out that I have to run (all) the games.sh files.
                                      If I do that, I receive errors:
                                      2022-02-23_222012.jpg
                                      What am I doing wrong?
                                      Thanks in advance!

                                      P.S.:
                                      To be honest, I really like the artwork of v1.x more. I guess you have replaced a lot in v2.0 to provide more authentic pictures for each game version, that's understandable, though.
                                      No problem at all, fortunately I can replace the background files in new version with old ones 😉

                                      Pi 4:
                                      Sony DualShock 4 (2nd gen), 8BitDo Pro 2, 8BitDo SF30 PRO, Retroflag SUPERPi 4 Case, Recalbox 9.0

                                      Pi Zero 2W:
                                      GPi Case 2W, Recalbox 9.0

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                                      • lhari84
                                        lhari84 last edited by

                                        Add. info regarding my last post:
                                        In my case, executing the games.sh destroys the background in system view:
                                        All 3 systems I've tested show up only a black background after reboot. Backgrounds in gamelist view are ok but still show up game themes I have disabled.

                                        Pi 4:
                                        Sony DualShock 4 (2nd gen), 8BitDo Pro 2, 8BitDo SF30 PRO, Retroflag SUPERPi 4 Case, Recalbox 9.0

                                        Pi Zero 2W:
                                        GPi Case 2W, Recalbox 9.0

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                                        • alonsocr23
                                          alonsocr23 last edited by

                                          Is there any way to use this theme in Emuelec? I've tried it and it has several bugs. Thanks.

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                                          • Anklum
                                            Anklum last edited by

                                            Bonjour,

                                            Lorsque j'utilise le fichier next_pixel_screenshot_title.xml dans Skraper pour obtenir des images mix, tout est OK à l'exception du système naomigd qui utilise l'image par défaut computer_flat.png (le système naomi lui est correctement affiché avec arcade.png.

                                            Ci-dessous le contenu du fichier next_pixel_screenshot_title.xml lignes 85 et 86 :
                                            <!-- ARCADE arcade,atomiswave,daphne,fba,fbneo,mame,model3,naomi -->
                                            <Item IfSystem="IsInTheList:53,49,75,55,56">

                                            Quel numéro faudrait-il ajouter pour que naomigd soit reconnu en tant que système arcade?

                                            Numéro qu'il faudra ensuite ajouter également ici j'imagine (lignes 10 et 11):
                                            <!-- DEFAULT COMPUTERS FLAT SCREEN -->
                                            <Item IfSystem="IsNotInTheList:26,40,41,80,48,106,115,2,3,104,67,109,29,122,130,23,13,87,27,1,14,142,70,31,114,72,58,57,107,22,19,20,4,108,105,59,16,18,64,111,65,43,42,37,93,66,91,113,116,117,118,131,135,213,123,218,205,141,144,73,79,77,76,53,49,75,55,56,17,129,86,217,21,9,12,10,52,28,146,15,25,82,219,221,208,237,211,61,207,102,11,45,46,220">

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