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Themes / Re: (WIP) theme for scrolling Overview game descriptions

« on: November 23, 2019, 11:41:00 AM »

Yea, I need to make the description text a little bigger and probably the listbox text too.  I'm still testing with description text size - versus width size for that text box to get the best experience.

jedione's code works really good.

When you first enter into a display, the initial game you land upon, the overview text will just "be there" and will not scroll.  When you move to the next/previous game though, that's when the scrolling will begin working.  I don't know of a way to force scrolling upon first entering a display...but, I'll take whatever I can get!

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Themes / Smooth theme for scrolling Overview game descriptions

« on: November 23, 2019, 10:36:49 AM »

UPDATE: Theme is released along with repo for Overview files

I've uploaded the theme to Github along with another repo with Overview files for a lot of systems.

Youtube demo of released theme:

https://youtu.be/ZeSM8Kxwtdk

Download from Github

Click on the green Clone/Download button
Download the ZIP file
Extract
Copy the theme folder to Attract Mode’s layouts folder
Assign the theme to the various displays

https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-smooth

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Additional downloads

These theme uses Overview files to show game descriptions..

These files should be placed in a sub-folder within Attract Mode with the following folder structure.

Attract Mode/scraper/(system)/overview

A special scraper/system folder (@) includes overview files to show a synopsis of various systems.

Here's a Github repo with a large amount of Overview files for various systems.

https://github.com/dmmarti/overview

Click on the green Clone/Download button
Download the ZIP file
Extract
Copy the scraper folder's contents to the Attract Mode scraper folder.




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-original post-

Here's a new theme I'm working on (will be given a proper name later) showing the scrolling of the Overview game descriptions.

Special thanks to @jedione for the help!

Getting the Overview files scrolling vertically was one thing I've always struggled with....but now I think I've got it!

https://youtu.be/td4E3xPnhLs

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Themes / Neon (WIP) horizontal theme

« on: November 22, 2019, 05:12:54 AM »

Here's a work-in-progress horizontal scrolling theme I've been working on.

There's still a few things I'd like to work on, but I think it's in a usable version now.

The neon_menu theme uses the menu-art/flyer images when scrolling while the neon_systems theme includes them within the theme itself.

There are two themes:

neon_menu - used for the main Displays Menu / Nested Menu displays
neon_systems - used for the individual system displays

The download link is located here:

https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-neon_menu
https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-neon_systems

Here is a short video demo of it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7w-dG4Xktc

In my build of Attract Mode, I've set the LEFT and RIGHT arrows to be previous game/next game for a more normal scrolling feel.  I also set the UP/DOWN arrows the same way .. makes it easier to use themes of both styles (horizontal and vertical) and have a more normal scrolling feel on the gamepad.

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Here is the download link for system flyers.

There are two versions.  A standard version and a bordered version.

https://github.com/dmmarti/unified_flyers

https://github.com/dmmarti/unified_flyers_bordered

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Scripting / Re: scrolling text to off screen surface...

« on: November 22, 2019, 05:01:46 AM »

@jedione,

Thank ya sir.....I appreciate all of the help and work you've done with AM and themes.

This vertical scrolling is one thing that I've always struggled with to get working. Using the scrolling text module almost works right, but if the Overview file is large, it doesn't quite work all the time.

Changing to a surface I hope does better.  I've messed with a surface version before but never figured out how to loop it.

So thanks for the help!

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Scripting / Re: scrolling text to off screen surface...

« on: November 21, 2019, 08:27:03 AM »

Sorry for bringing up an old topic...

@jedione,

Looking at your youtube example, I'm trying to mimic it as well. Are you using the scrolling text module? or do you have other code that you used?

I'd be very interested in seeing how you managed to finally get vertical multi-line overview scrolling working.

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 5.9 [Release] Updated 5 November 2019

« on: November 19, 2019, 07:31:06 AM »

For loading times of large romlist files, I did a quick test on my Windows PC build.

I took all of my current romlist files for all systems (which alot were Hyperspin XML imported conversions) and merged them into a single large romlist file.

I don't have all of the games within the romlist (it ended up being around 90,000 or so games listed) - i only have around 33,000 games available.

I made a new display called All to use it and set it up to use the Basic theme/layout and setup a Filter to show only games available.

It took several seconds before the switch from the main display into the newly created All display I made.  I do have video video snaps for them all also (not sure that matters or not).

I think with that many games, having to parse the romlist and cache which games are available, having a large romlist for a single display just takes some processing by the computer to do it.  So I'd say it's not really Attract Mode (nor theme) related, but more computer related.

Just my quick test though ..... so others may do better tests than I did.

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Themes / Re: BigCade - arcade oriented theme

« on: November 16, 2019, 02:59:16 PM »

Hmm....I've never looked at it from that perspective, but now that you said it, I definitely see that now.

I found the cabinet image along time ago, and always thought it'd make an interesting looking theme.  I finally got around to making one with it.

It's simple for sure .. but could always use improvements.  I'll keep it on my to-do list and keep playing with it some more, add a different cabinet image to get a better perspective, etc.

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Themes / BigCade - arcade oriented theme

« on: November 16, 2019, 02:27:28 PM »

Here’s a simple theme for arcade related displays.

Its setup to use MAME marquees.  It’ll display a default MAME system marquee (matching the DisplayName) if a game specific one doesn’t exist.  It includes around 35 or so MAME system marquees.  There is a layout option to toggle game marquees on/off.

There are four color choices for the cabinet image (blue, red, green, and yellow).

The download link is located here:

https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-bigcade

Here is a short video demo of it in action.

https://youtu.be/M-JYeCt9nTY

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MAME marquees

Here’s a download link for optimized MAME marquees (flyers are also included in the download).

Place them into the appropriate folder and make sure to have your Attract Mode's emulator config file setup with the correct path for "marquee".

https://1fichier.com/?1co81j2egyaozm0vgvk7

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Themes / MVSOps (CoinOps style theme with MVS cabinet)

« on: November 11, 2019, 03:58:49 AM »

Here’s an MVS oriented version of a theme based upon the CoinOps theme.

Its setup to use MAME marquees and flyers.  It’ll display a default MAME marquee/flyer if a game specific one doesn’t exist.

There are three color choices for the background image (blue, red, and green).

The download link is located here:

https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-mvsops

Here is a short video demo of it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZazUe6lBV_s

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MAME flyers and marquees

Here’s a download link for optimized MAME flyers and marquees.  I found using too high of resolution PNG files caused the wheel navigation to lag a little bit.  I’ve resized the PNG media so now it’s more responsive when scrolling.

Place them into the appropriate folder and make sure to have your Attract Mode's emulator config file setup with the correct path for "flyer" and "marquee".

https://1fichier.com/?1co81j2egyaozm0vgvk7

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Themes / ArcadeOps Theme (based on CoinOps)

« on: November 01, 2019, 02:41:41 PM »

Here’s my version of a theme based upon the CoinOps theme.

Its setup to use MAME marquees and flyers.  It’ll display a default MAME marquee/flyer if a game specific one doesn’t exist.

There are three color choices for the background image (blue, red, and green).

The download link is located here:

https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-arcadeops

Here is a short video demo of it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMqkynOWcSA

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MAME flyers and marquees

Here’s a download link for optimized MAME flyers and marquees.  I found using too high of resolution PNG files caused the wheel navigation to lag a little bit.  I’ve resized the PNG media so now it’s more responsive when scrolling.

Place them into the appropriate folder and make sure to have your Attract Mode's emulator config file setup with the correct path for "flyer" and "marquee".

https://1fichier.com/?vldcaordeeuqrucjxgyw

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Themes / Re: Cosmic Rise - Emulation Station theme conversion

« on: October 25, 2019, 01:40:32 PM »

Thanks.

I’m not this best theme programmer ... so I’m sure it could use some more polish and a few tweaks. Hopefully though I got most of it all working good.

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Themes / Re: Hyperflash - Hyperspin theme conversion

« on: October 25, 2019, 01:31:44 PM »

That’s the one I mentioned in my initial post (I just couldn’t remember what it was called).

I thought someone was working on one, but I never saw it was released.

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Themes / Hyperflash - Hyperspin theme conversion

« on: October 25, 2019, 05:55:23 AM »

This is a conversion of an older Hyperspin theme called Hyperflash.  It was originally a 4x3 theme created by Sem Cranio.

I think someone here on the forum was working on a port a little bit ago, but I never saw it released.

I've re-created a similar looking background image in 3 different colors (red, blue, green) since the source PSD file could not be obtained.

The download link is located here:

https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-hyperflash

Here is a short video demo of it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0oDVCD6R4

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Themes / Cosmic Rise - Emulation Station theme conversion

« on: October 23, 2019, 12:46:55 PM »

Over the past few years, I've worked a lot with Dwayne Hurst (the Emulation Station theme maker), and have ported a few of his themes to Attract Mode.

This is a conversion based on his Cosmic Rise theme.

There are two themes:

cosmicrise_menu - used for the main Displays Menu / Nested Menu displays
cosmicrise_systems - used for the individual system displays

They are for 16:9 formatted screens.

The download links are located here:

https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-cosmicrise_menu
https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-cosmicrise_systems

Here is a short video demo of it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bvHCJ1R8xA

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Themes / Hyper Themes - Emulation Station conversion

« on: October 21, 2019, 05:50:24 AM »

Over the past few years, I've worked a lot with Dwayne Hurst (the Emulation Station theme maker), and have ported a few of his themes to Attract Mode.

This is a conversion based on his Hyper themes.

There are over 175 backgrounds, but only 20 are able to be chosen via layout options to be permanently shown.

However, you can choose "random" in layout options and Attract Mode will randomly show any of the available 175 backgrounds each time you go into a display.

There are two themes:

hyper_menu - used for the main Displays Menu / Nested Menu displays
hyper_systems - used for the individual system displays

They are for 16:9 formatted screens.

The download links are located here:

https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-hyper_menu
https://github.com/dmmarti/am-theme-hyper_systems

Here is a short video demo of it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPjVknCqkw