Attract-Mode Support Forum
Attract-Mode Support => Themes => Topic started by: Enverex on June 16, 2015, 06:29:05 AM
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I've noticed there are a few elaborate themes on this forum for MAME setups with lots of the artwork, but I was wondering if there was a collection of more basic themes anywhere. Ideally I'm looking more for something that shows either a list of the games on one side, the snap of the game, rating, developer, description, etc.
A good example would be the stock EmulationStation theme (which I'm currently migrating away from due to issues with larger collections):
(http://www.emulationstation.org/assets/featurettes/full/theming_list.png)
Has anyone seen any themes somewhat similar to this anywhere?
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Enverex-
That is a nice clean theme. You could do this easily yourself if you read some basic tutorials on this site . Someone with experience could do something like this in about 20 minute. If I get some time, maybe I'll throw something together for you. But, you could do this very easily.
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I did look at the source for a few themes and it did indeed look relatively easy to make something myself. I'll probably have a hack at it when I get the chance.
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I just put together this walk through:
https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Introduction-to-Squirrel-Programming
It gives a basic intro to Squirrel (the layout scripting language) and how to create a theme with text, images and artwork.
Just simply that style will be easy to recreate - just text (with a specific font), artwork and a bg image. I'm not sure about what all info you can get scraped for console since I haven't scraped mine but worse case you could probably get it migrated over.
I'm actually working on something that could convert EmulationStation themes with the animations, but it will probably be a little while before it's usable.
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Yeah, I saw the guide. Nice work on that.
Getting the info won't be hard, I wrote a database and (3000 or so line) scraper to get info from literally everywhere, write it to the DB and then generate config files for EmulationStation and now also Attract Mode.