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Themes / Re: New Theme - Game Station HD v2.1

« on: January 10, 2016, 12:46:22 PM »

Updated and merged. Loving it (and so are my guests).

I tried messing with dofile() to see if you can load expert settings from separate file, but I had no luck. The file being processed has to have all methods loaded. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to insert a block of code in Squirrel. Honestly though AttractMode needs per-display layout options, there's no reason anyone should be editing your theme.

While I don't exactly disagree, I think that for newer users, just setting things one way for all will work. When they get to the point of customizing they can explore.

If there are too many knobs, it can be overwhelming.

The way to do this is enable expert mode, then more options appear.

@Kent79 - Any thoughts about putting this on github so its easier to manage, update, and some of us can contribute?

I've had to add some entries into the genre list to match categories I had been using ('role-playing' vs 'role playing')

Yeah, +1, when you feel it's stable throw it up on github, I want to contribute some of my changes as configurable options.

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Themes / Re: New Theme - Game Station HD v2.1

« on: January 08, 2016, 10:19:26 PM »

Updated and merged. Loving it (and so are my guests).

I tried messing with dofile() to see if you can load expert settings from separate file, but I had no luck. The file being processed has to have all methods loaded. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to insert a block of code in Squirrel. Honestly though AttractMode needs per-display layout options, there's no reason anyone should be editing your theme.

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General / Re: mulit disc games and rom list

« on: January 07, 2016, 02:45:23 PM »

The best strategy I've seen so far is to create an .m3u playlist for the isos, and then point the emulator to the .m3u (and also, changing the game extension to just .m3u in AttractMode)

This is possible with mednafen and probably others.

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Themes / Re: New Theme - Game Station HD v2.0

« on: January 06, 2016, 10:01:28 PM »

+1 to Restoring the Snap-Only option.
+10 If you add a snap+title option, where it shows the snap and the title in plain text over the snap.

So I fiddled with your theme a bit and made this turd, I call it gameulation station.





It was mostly for educational purposes, but I can already tell AttractMode is going to need a per-display layout option. Editing the layout to add systems was pretty painful.

Some of the things I modified I'd like to ask as features for Game Station (see attached theme file for details)
- Option to put wheel art above the Snap preview area, instead of straddling the Snap area.
- Ability to disable animation for wheel/logo art (the popping effect in the upper left)
- Ability to disable animation for marquee.
- Ability to disable marquee.
- Remove copyright and comma if there is no copyright and year information (or just strip it out like i did)

Other stuff:
- Ability to modify the time it takes for the listbox to go away, and the length of the listbox animation.

Keep up the good work, this theme is going to be the centrepiece of my emulation rig for a long time.

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Themes / Re: [WIP] New Theme - Game Station HD

« on: January 02, 2016, 07:03:11 PM »

I just updated the description on post #1. The new theme will be released on next few days. The new scrolling Text does not include on this version. 

New version preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sv_NAZLxXI

Looking amazing

Requests for current theme:
- Preserve aspect ratio of Flyer/Boxart (Snes boxes in the Flyer display section get squished)
- Display some sort of transparent Platform art in the upper right hand corner, next to the video scroll area, above the Flyer section. ( example: https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-simple/blob/master/mame/art/mame.svg, https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-simple/blob/master/nes/art/nes2.svg https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-simple/blob/master/genesis/art/gen.svg)

Requests based on video:
- Ability to disable Pop/Slide animations on Wheel and Marquee

Keep it up!

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Themes / Re: New Theme - Game Station Theme [Phase 2 WIP]

« on: January 01, 2016, 06:38:39 PM »

Looking slick!

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Themes / Re: New Theme - Game Station Theme [Phase 2 WIP]

« on: December 30, 2015, 02:21:20 AM »

So i tried out the v1 and it looks good, but the text that would appear in the lower part of the screen is just blank.

I have the included font installed (Ubuntu 14.04) and I even tried changing the font to a know good (working on other layouts.)

Ideas?

Same, also on Ubuntu 14.04