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I have a menu option under the retropie menu as I plan on disabling the pause menu.

a shortened command that can be used is

sudo poweroff

and if you just want to reboot

sudo reboot

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As I was waiting for 48 GB to copy to my raspberry pi I decided to knock out the dreamcast.

http://i.imgur.com/2Jqf9Fe.jpg

Is it even playable on the raspberry pi? I may have to give it a try.

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One of the other themes I have been working on has a limited amount of information displayed. It is pretty much your list minus the publisher. I just have been trying to decide how I want to display the controller maps in one of the corners.

http://i.imgur.com/6sn7791.jpg

The default theme I do agree has a lot of open space not used so I will look into incorporating some additional information.

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Here are the two I did. I think I will stick with the stylized keys.

http://i.imgur.com/swUoulK.png

http://i.imgur.com/oRWH3WT.jpg

Still both I think are better than a doom logo

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I need some ideas for the ports logo. The more I look at it the more I would rather see something else than the doom logo. What does Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem all have in common?

The only idea I have is some sort of fps logo.

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Here is the vectrex

http://i.imgur.com/Qh9F48E.jpg

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Finished the Lynx theme. Here is the preview of the bg.

http://i.imgur.com/e4OMh5f.png

edit

It took a little time but I had to build a library for the lynx. Here it is in es.

http://i.imgur.com/miZpXsw.jpg

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The gc.png is in another layout I have been working on. They are not used in the 3 that was in the initial release.

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I will look into it further. I have a suspicion it is the way I am handling the background images but not sure. If you want you can try resizing the background images to a 4:3 aspect ratio and see if that works. The image I am referring to is the bg.png in each of the system folders under the nbba theme. I will not be able to try this until tonight. If that does end up working I can provide better resolution background images for a 4:3 display in the next update.

ignore that. The issue is the filter being applied. To fix open the main theme.xml and change

	<image name="filter" extra="true">
		<path>./../nbba theme/main/filter.png</path>
		<pos>0 0</pos>
		<origin>0 0</origin>
		<size>0 1</size>
	</image>

to

	<image name="filter" extra="true">
		<path>./../nbba theme/main/filter.png</path>
		<pos>0 0</pos>
		<origin>0 0</origin>
		<size>1 1</size>
	</image>

Changing the size from 0 1 to 1 1 will force it to fit the screen so it will not carry over to the next theme. Another change I will make in the next version is

	<image name="background" extra="true">
		<pos>0 0</pos>
		<origin>0 0</origin>
		<size>0 1</size>
	</image>

to

	<image name="background" extra="true">
		<pos>0.5 0.5</pos>
		<origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
		<size>0 1</size>
	</image>

This will make the background center on the screen instead of cutting off the entire right for 4:3 displays.

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threepwood wrote:

update 2:
gamesliste in 32x is too bright, can hardly see the names
SNES, NES and PSX have on the left where the cover is some kind of shade, that is over the picture… hard to explain, the left side of the picture is darker than the right side of the picture. how can i remove this shade?

I seen the issue with the shade under certain resolutions previously but did not have the time then to look at the issue. I was hoping it would not follow over to the Raspberry Pi as all testing was in Windows.

What resolution are you running at? I will see what maybe causing it.

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I think I figured out that issue. For some reason es does not properly ignore some code I have commented out on the main theme file so it puts the shade in. I will fix this in the next version.

If you want to fix it now just delete the following from the theme.xml in the main theme folder.

	<!--
	<image name="measure" extra="true">
		<pos>0.25 0.5255</pos>
		<origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
		<size>0.49 0.825</size>
		<path>./../nbba theme/main/bg.png</path>
		<color>ff00ff</color>
	</image>
	-->

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[quote=102125]
update 2:
gamesliste in 32x is too bright, can hardly see the names
SNES, NES and PSX have on the left where the cover is some kind of shade, that is over the picture… hard to explain, the left side of the picture is darker than the right side of the picture. how can i remove this shade?

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I seen the issue with the shade under certain resolutions previously but did not have the time then to look at the issue. I was hoping it would not follow over to the Raspberry Pi as all testing was in Windows.

What resolution are you running at? I will see what maybe causing it.

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[quote=102125]very nice! would like to see the atari “lynx” and vectrex in this list!

Btw, I downloaded it, followed your instructions for installation, but some backgrounds just appear white, like there is no artwork.

suggestions?

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reboot ftw, works now :0)
i love this theme, just vectrex and lynx is missing

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EmulationStation does that sometimes so you can just restart EmulationStation to fix it as well. I will look into those two. I had previously thought about doing them but had so many at the time to do.

[quote=102129]It is beautiful!
It is possible to choose to display only the games that have image?
Imagine I choose the option to only show the image of the game. If it has no picture, you will get a blank page. Or use a standard image according to the platform for the game that contains no image.
Consider just a suggestion.
Excellent job!

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I have an idea how I could do it but as far as adding an image where there is not one in the gamelist I do not believe es has that capability. I can always display something behind art. I will look into it.

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If you want to just get rid of the start and select menu then you could just unmap those controls then add a shutdown and restart option under the retropie menu.

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Thanks for the help. That was it.

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Here is a preview of the settings theme. Each option has its own icon.

http://i.imgur.com/zzSDCPh.jpg

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N64 is pretty much useless. It either runs too slow or the menus/gameplay is scrambled.

For MAME I have been filtering my set to be used with MAME4ALL, Final Burn Alpha and Neo Geo. I still have not messed with too many of the games but from the ones I did they seemed to run smooth.

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I have modified the first post with the initial release.

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[quote=101465]love this theme but cant find out how to download it? was going to go with the simplified static theme but really want to use this one instead

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I have not released it yet. I am almost to the point where I feel I can release it. I say it will be either tomorrow night or the next day depending how my days go.

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Another update.

I will be including 3 resolution scales since the Raspberry Pi can be questionable running at higher resolutions.

1080p
720p
576p

Here is the menus and the regular text scroll of each system.

htp://i.imgur.com/Jj2Xgil.jpg

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Yellow is sega32x. Not being able to find a outline of the controller made this one a huge pain but here it is.

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Small update. I finished my work on the controllers to be used in the backgrounds. Here is a sample of what they will look like and the colors.

htp://i.imgur.com/pU6DLvQ.jpg

I was not feeling the clean vector look so I went with something more crude. These will be used in the background on the main selection screen.

If there are any requests for other emulators to be themed it would probably be the time.

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It turned out it was not a corrupt sd card but rather memory issues due to some large files.

Here are some current pictures.

htp://i.imgur.com/MOd4Cmm.jpg

htp://i.imgur.com/m3cXZBA.jpg

htp://i.imgur.com/dE0JTBs.jpg

htp://i.imgur.com/uzXKs27.jpg

htp://i.imgur.com/0qJ113L.jpg

htp://i.imgur.com/p7Ilb1w.jpg

This is the 3rd alternate layout which may end up going away if I run into more memory issues. The plan is to have a controller layout on the bottom left but time will see. For now I will work on completing the other systems and refining the theme. There are still many changes I need to make and parts I have yet to touch.

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I was planning on posting some screens tonight but after running into issues with the Raspberry Pi randomly freezing when loading emulationstation I have decided to reimage the microsd to see if that is the problem.

I have been building the theme in emulationstation for windows it is much easier to work on a layout you can easily refresh by the press of a button. After I moved what I had to the Raspberry Pi that is when I ran into issues.

I will try to get proper screenshots tomorrow. I am still trying to determine if I am doing too much but even if I take the theme down below the specs of the simple theme it still froze.

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I have been working on it as I have had time. There will potentially be 4 layout choices in the theme.

original
boxart + list
boxart + no list
classic es

I am going to see if I can get a hold of Florian Hurtaut somehow as I am basing the theme off of his and I use a few assets from his theme. His theme was for ES 1.x so it was not supported in the latest version. I have reworked the majority of the assets he had and I have made it look better at 16:9 vs his 4:3.

When I release the theme I will be including the asset files used so it can be easily changed by someone else if they so choose.

The emulators being themed are

atari2600
gamegear
gb
gba
gbc
mame
mastersystem
megadrive – genesis
n64 (maybe one day the emulator will not be useless)
nes
pcengine – turbografx
ports – doom
sega32x
snes
retropie

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Thanks. My video splash works great now.

I will make sure to bookmark that page for future reference.

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[quote=97712]This is what I use:

1. sudo vi /etc/rc.local

2. Add the following code at the end, just before the “exit 0″ line:

echo Waiting for controller
while ! ls /dev/js* 1>/dev/null 2>&1
do
sleep 1
done
echo Controller found

3. Save

4. Reboot

What this does is wait indefinitely at bootup until a controller is connected. It works perfectly for my PS3 controller over either bluetooth or USB.

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What do I need to do to get it to stop after 5 seconds of not connection? I got it to work with my RetroPie but if it does not detect I would like it to eventually skip to emulationstation.

To get it to work I had to change /dev/js to /dev/input/js

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