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General / Second screen - Dynamic Marquee - RPi4

« on: April 01, 2022, 12:36:27 PM »

Hi,

Anyone knows if it is possible to setup a second display to show dynamic marquee through attractmode on the RPi4?

I have found this one: https://github.com/losernator/PieMarquee2

It is specific for EmulationStation and the marquee is static until you run the game (then the game marquee is shown)

I want that the marquee changes when a new game is selected, not only when you run the game.

I was thinking if a different approach is possible in RPi4 + attractmode: through a plugin or in the layout using the magic token that sends the marquee directly to the second monitor.

I will be glad if anyone could help me with this.

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Themes / ArcadeFlix - Theme

« on: October 20, 2021, 05:06:45 PM »

I want to share a theme that i made after i saw one member here post a picture of an attempt to make a theme like Artflix from Alekfull for batocera, but this theme never came to be.

I have struggled a little to find a base theme. I used ioflat theme from iOtero as base, a lot of code from Yaron19 and the visual and some art from Alekfull theme.

The thumbs up is used for favorites. In the right upper side you can change the avatar picture (20 options) and in the right middle there a esrb flag. If there is no esrb information will show "L". The thumbs and background can be changed.


The theme is simple as is my knowledge of coding, but i think it turns out beautiful, anyway, if anyone want to improve or make any suggestions, please, i will be grateful.

There are two themes:


a) For Systems:
https://youtu.be/XjpJElrt6tw
https://mega.nz/file/Go1kCSTQ#ehYl1CZbmgAu3B63AhyYQ1CFuLQMOypQuQFgIEgpK5w

b) For Games:

https://youtu.be/fxZzXP4VDQM
https://mega.nz/file/Po8EFIiB#fGSNUr1lMmPuH5QqHkq1FonNlOdD79GRAIG1XPtYcE4

The themes relies on creating a "flyer" artwork in the emulators config.

The menu theme need to copy some art from /objs/arts/ to /attract/menu-art/flyer for the visual effects.

Thats it

Hope you like.

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Themes / New Modified hyperspin.nut

« on: November 08, 2020, 12:53:42 PM »

I am releasing my modified version of the hyperspin.nut loader.
Although  PCCA matrix made the definitive “Hyperspin” layout, his layout only work in PCs, leaving the RPi users behind (at least for now)
So i decided to continue to work in my mod for the hyperspin.nut.

Video: https://youtu.be/-QIpLDyDjGk

What i did:
1) Add “flyer” artwork (with the modification of the background image is possible to make “coinops”style themes). The flyer occupy 50%, right of the screen, under the background. So you can only edit  the background to make a part of it transparent
You can edit the an existing theme or just make  a new one using Hypertheme ( a part of the Hyperspin pack).

2) Add Bezel (the bezel was added “per game” or “system”).To use the per game bezel you will need to create an artwork named “bezel” in the configuration for each system and place the games bezels in that folder.

You can get the games bezels in this link:

https://github.com/thebezelproject?tab=repositories

I have resized the bezels to 1365x768, lower resolutions are better for the RPi

3)  Added Special art for games and main menu

4) Added scrolling text, with game information;

5)  Added more Hyperspin animations (merging similar animations with the existing animations and adapting some).

Obviously is a heavy layout but i hope you enjoy.

 - Installation of the hyperspin.nut (make a backup of the original one first):

 1) You can copy using WinSCP or other similar software to the following folder:
/usr/local/share/attract/loader/

In windows version just copy to the loader folder.

2) You can also copy,using putty, just do the following:
sudo mv /usr/local/share/attract/loader/hyperspin.nut usr/local/share/attract/loader/hyperspin.nut.bkp

sudo nano /usr/local/share/attract/loader/hyperspin.nut
When it opens copy all the contents of the hyperspin.nut (you can open with the notepad) to this putty window pressing the right button in the mouse over the putty screen

The following link is to the folder of the necessary files:

https://mega.nz/folder/r4lE2BLI#J6tQzjkLa2oNrjcZ6T43dA

-attract.zip
 a)hyperspin layouts and files needed for hyperspin.nut with the mod to make coinops style
 b)romlists (the snes has the esrb and number of players) - careful to not replace your romlists if you dont want to.
 c) scraper - with game info
-emulator.zip – emulators configuration (for RPi  only) dont work with Windows
-hyperspin.nut – the modified file
- snes (flyer and game bezel top place inside roms\snes folder)

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Themes / Super Nintendo Theme CoinOps Style[MOD from Yaron2019 theme]

« on: September 29, 2020, 04:40:49 AM »

Note:  i updated the download link, because i have changed the background to make the transparency bigger.


Hi

I am modifying some of the Yaron2019 themes (really a great collection) to add some features that I saw in other themes.

Here is the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93O5NPQB1Y

Needless to say that the i did just a few things so all the credits is for Yaron and the other coders that i might get some of the code to put in the theme.

Said that, my goal was to make the theme look like CoinOps, so my real work was to make a collection of images that change for each game. In total was more than 1200 images, that i renamed manually only for this theme.

Since my goal is to make the theme work in the Rpi, i have changed the original resolution to 1024x768.
 
I added some other features like:
- scrolling game information;
- font selector
- number of players
- game genre (only an icon to represent)
- ESRB
- system bezel and per game bezel (if you have a game bezel)
- HyperSpin special art - like next, previous, game start and player 1 and 2

I created a huge romlist and fill most of the information (nº of players, genre,etc)

So below the link for the theme contains: the theme itself, the game information and the romlist. CAREFUL because this theme contains a new romlist and will replace the original. If you dont want the romlist  replaced, just extract the layouts and scraper folder.
 
The second link is for the art, that must be placed in the roms\snes folder

I must remind you that this system relies on the art having the same name of the rom, so if your rom is named diferently, you must let all the files with the same name (renaming the rom is easier) 

You  also must add the “flyer” artwork in the emulator configuration, if this configuration did not exists.

Hope you enjoy
Layout Theme: (extract in the main attract folder)
https://mega.nz/file/W5sE0IzI#2c1WYb1Es79b4P3M--6dDPDQ7TlGJ1p8t-pP_hunDe8

Flyer artwork: (extract in roms\snes folder
https://mega.nz/file/q4EjnA7I#FD89AMgaWYHgoQsHBjw1M5kVcpAGbAWhX2vNKRb_Yb8

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Themes / Using native Hyperspin in attract-mode

« on: April 13, 2020, 02:12:03 PM »

Hi guys, i created an image that uses hyperspin themes in the attractmode using the hyperspin.nut. I modified the hyperspin.nut and the art to make more similar to the real hyperspin. My image uses some hyperpie v.1 themes for consoles, and other themes that i made using the hyperpie themes as model. If anyone wants i can share that base.
You can check my image in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJy3-Rz-yQ4