New theme! (Work in progress)

[digitaLumberjack]

Hi, nice work @nickdj, i downloaded your last revision to see the result and that cool. We could put that in the 3.3.1, but there are several new emulators in 3.3.0 ...

[nickdj]

Thanks Retroboy.  Means a lot to have your approval. I'm working on the final tweaks to the theme to give a good balance of quality without using too much memory.  I've created a high resolution theme  (1080p images) which looks amazing.  It works with approximately 8 emulators active which is enough for most systems. I'm working on creating the final version of the 720p theme which will allow a lot more to be active and hopefully will have this completed by the end of the week.   Looking forward to seeing the new supported emulators and working on adding these to the theme.

[nickdj]

We are getting very close to the completed product now.  Below is a link to the latest downloads: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ypp92a26q516k/Recalbox There are two main themes and both include the Kodi menu. fanart-720 : With all current 19 emulators active this uses 120 MB of memory.  There is still room for more! fanart-1080 :  This is the original high-res version designed for big screens.  You can have about 8 emulators active before memory starts getting a little tight on the Raspberry Pi 2.  If you run out of memory you'll need to change the theme back manually in the es-settings.cfg file. Updates since last version: New Kodi graphics (works better at lower res) Atari 2600 theme and new music (Pac-Man) Famicom Disk System - New Mario theme with a great tune! MAME : New Ghouls n Ghosts theme with music Gamegear - New artwork Used Photoshop on nearly all images to improve image quality.   Still to do: SG1000 :  Based on Wonderboy but needs music as it's still using the original.

[gzubsc]

Hi nickdj ! Your theme is great , thanks for sharing it ! Just a little problem for scummvm, the backround art is white because it is not configured as a .png but .jpg on your theme.xml. I just changed the configuration for .png and everything is working fine now !   I saw that you have added an "Apps" part on the es_system.cfg for Kodi. I don't have this directory neither the script .sh for launching kodi. Is it something you made yourself or did I miss something during the installation of your theme ?   Thanks again for making even more awesome this awesome little recalbox !   PS - another little issue: the logo for fba is the fba-libretro one. I replaced the file fba.svg from the one present on the simplevgs theme. PS2 - Ok I have the begining of an idea for starting Kodi with a script: HOW-TO start kodi with a script (french)

[nickdj]

Many thanks for your feedback.  I completely forgot about Scumm as I don't have any roms on my system.  (UPDATE:  Just added Monkey Island 2 theme and remixed music - uploading now) I hadn't spotted the different image for the non-libretro so will copy that back.  (UPDATE:  This has been corrected) I forgot to include the read_me in the last zip.  To create the folders and copy the launcher just use the following:  (UPDATE:  New zip file includes a Read_Me.txt file)   cp -r /recalbox/share/system/.emulationstation /root/ && mkdir /recalbox/share/roms/applications && cp -r /recalbox/scripts/kodilauncher.sh /recalbox/share/roms/applications/kodilauncher.sh This will copy the kodilauncher.sh to a new folder called applications in the roms share.  Technically you can add your own *.sh (bash) scripts to that folder and run them.     I am hoping to completely finish this little project (until 3.3.0 comes out that is) by the end of this week.  I'm not happy with the SG-1000 theme/music but it's really difficult to find something for a system that doesn't typically have any music!   I've been working on that today thought    (UPDATE:  New image included - Music I've chosen is nice but may change it) I  also want to change the image used for Sega32x as I'm not entirely happy with it.

[gzubsc]

Thank you for the explanation on the Kodi script. Keep up the good work !   PS: I started my recalbox to test some shaders this afternoon and my girlfriends was so fond of your Supernes theme that she asked me to put it on his phone. Zelda with wubwubwub. SO awesome

[nickdj]

OK, I think I've got to a stage where I'm happy with this theme overall.  Could tweak the SG-1000 image, however, I doubt many are using this emulator.  Everything else I'm happy and will continue work when 3.3.0 is released.   https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ypp92a26q516k/Recalbox   I would like some feedback both positive and negative. - Which artwork you like or dislike - Favorite or worst music (I love the 'Gameboy - Pokemon Red' music personally!) - Anything which doesn't look right - Suggestions I will create a 16:10 version of this theme for those who use computer monitors

[neko]

Thanks for sharing of your theme, it looks nice and working smoothly   however something doesn't look right to me, so here are some of my thoughts, -FBA cannot run SF3, only FBA-libertro does. maybe its better to switch that to SF2 or D&D? -The MSX background you used is Gradius V, which is a PS2 game. -Virtual Box image is missing. -For FDS, I personally don't think the current background can define the system, when I see it I can only think of N64 mainly because of the super mario logo. I suggest to use another games like "Yume koujou doki doki panic", "Palutena no kagami", "Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa" or just "Metroid".   Also, I found some video about the official SEGA themes for the 3DS, I heard that you are looking for music for the SG-1000 so maybe you or other theme developers can take this as a reference? ( Yes.. I am using this emulator if you wonder ) SG-1000  Mark III  Master System  Game Gear Mega Drive  Sega Saturn  Dreamcast Game Center  Space Harrier  Fantasy Zone   Please keep up the good work!

[nickdj]

Thank you for the feedback.  I've taken this on-board and will make a few amendments: FBA (non-libretro) - Will create a Streetfighter 2 image and different music MSX - Found a better image and correct logo FDS - Will create own image similar to the current with original style fonts so it looks better. Virtualboy - Investigating options.

[nickdj]

New version non-FBA now has a Streetfighter II image (same music an FBA-libretro) VirtualBoy now has a Tetris theme and music MSX has new Gradius image Famicom Disk System now has new Mario Image