Chicuelo EmulationStation Theme
Designed in Argentina by Chicuelo: \
http://www.chicuelo.com.ar \
Official RetroPie forum topic: \ https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15830/
Contents
License and Terms \ Thanks and Credits \ Features \ Installation and Updating \ Compatibility \ Theme Notes \ Screenshots \ Supported Systems \ Using an Alternative System
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. \
This means you are free to:
Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format \ Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material
Under the following terms:
Attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. \ ShareAlike - If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. \ NonCommercial - You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
Please note:
This is a theme created for use in RetroPie via the EmulationStation frontend. By downloading and installing this theme it will be assumed that you own and possess the rights for all ROMs you intend to use. This is a free theme so you can install it and share it with others - but you are not allowed to sell or generate any kind of monetary profit from this theme. Please see the 'License' section above for more details.
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Thanks and Credits
Thanks to EctoOne, Keygan, Cosmo0 and Movisman for giving me a huge help with the implementation of the theme. I'm very thankful for having the chance to work with you guys!
Some controllers used in this theme are created by great artists who kindly agreed to include their art within the theme - here you can find their artwork:
Ricky Romero - https://dribbble.com/RickyRomero \ David McLeod - https://dribbble.com/Mucx \ Craig Erskine - https://dribbble.com/craigerskine \ Memory Noise - https://dribbble.com/memorynoise
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Features
- Unique custom artwork for every system
- Custom collections pre-designed / created for various genres (such as Shoot 'em Up, etc)
- Collections for 'All Games', 'Favorites', 'Last Played' and 'Custom Collections' fully supported
- Support for various 'alternative' systems (such as TG-16, Famicom, etc)
- Power menu 'system' included (for users that require one)
- Video capable
- Support for screenshots/boxart and/or video. Marquees are not utilised in this theme.
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Installation and Updating
To install the theme, use the theme installer built into RetroPie-Setup. You can follow this guide: \ https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/themes
You can also update the theme within RetroPie-Setup: \ RetroPie Setup Script >> Configuration / Tools >> esthemes
Default theme options - for an improved user experience, once the theme is active, adjust the following options within EmulationStation:
- UI SETTINGS > CAROUSEL TRANSITIONS: NONE
- UI SETTINGS > TRANSITION STYLE: INSTANT
- UI SETTINGS > ON-SCREEN HELP: OFF
However, if you wish to enable the on-screen help change the following option:
- UI SETTINGS > ON-SCREEN HELP: ON
If you wish to enable a 'slide' effect for the logo when transitioning between systems, change the following option:
- UI SETTINGS > CAROUSEL TRANSITIONS: ON
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Compatibility
This theme is designed for a 16:9 aspect ratio. Currently the theme is not fully compatible with a 4:3 aspect ratio. It has been tested with both 1080p (1920x1080) and 720p (1280x720) resolutions. Other 16:9 resolutions will likely work with no issue due to the scaling that EmulationStation performs.
Tested on Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu based x86 PCs.
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Theme Notes
This theme supports video. You can also use a scraped image in conjunction with the video. If you scrape both, when a game is selected, it will show the screenshot for a couple of seconds before fading and playing the video.
The dot indicator is not included in the theme - it is just a fake indicator made for my personal use, so it will not work correctly on your setup.
Game screenshots are not included within the theme. You can scrape your own - you should use game boxart/screenshots and/or videos.
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Screenshots
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Supported Systems
3DO \ Amstrad CPC \ Apple II \ Arcade \ Atari 2600 \ Atari 800 \ Atari 5200 \ Atari 7800 \ Atari Jaguar \ Atari Lynx \ Atari ST \ Colecovision \ Commodore 64 \ Commodore Amiga \ Daphne \ Family Computer Disk System \ Final Burn Alpha \ Game and Watch \ Game Boy \ Game Boy Advance \ Game Boy Color \ Gamecube \ Intellivision \ MAME \ MSX \ MSX2 \ Neo Geo \ Neo Geo Pocket \ Neo Geo Pocket Color \ Nintendo DS \ Nintendo DS \ Nintendo Wii \ Nintendo Wii-U \ Nintendo 64 \ Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) \ Nintendo Super Entertainment System (SNES) \ PC / MSDOS \ PC Engine \ Ports \ ResidualVM \ ScummVM \ Sharp x68000 \ Sony Playstation \ Sony Playstation 2 \ Sony PSP \ Steam \ SEGA SG-1000 \ SEGA 32x \ SEGA CD \ SEGA Dreamcast \ SEGA Game Gear \ SEGA Master System \ SEGA Megadrive \ SEGA Saturn \ Vectrex \ Virtual Boy \ WonderSwan \ WonderSwan Color \ ZX Spectrum
System Variations: \ Famicom / Family Computer \ Super Famicom \ PC Engine CD-ROM² \ SuperGrafx \ TurboGrafx-16 \ TurboGrafx-CD \ SEGA Genesis \ SEGA MEGA-32X \ SEGA MEGA-CD
Other: \ Kodi \ RetroPie Setup \ Power Menu (in case you have one, name it 'power' or rename the folder)
Collections: \ Auto All Games \ Auto Favorites \ Auto Last Played
Custom Collections: \ Action, Adventure, Beat 'em Up, Fighting, Fixed Screen, Kids, Platformers, Puzzle, Racing, RPG, Shoot 'em Up, Sports, Strategy
Partially Supported Systems
(logo and description complete, however no character background or controller/machine image is present at this time):
VideoPac \ NEC PC-FX \ Apple Macintosh \ Dragon 32/64 \ Tandy Colour Computer (coco) \ Oric Home Computer \ PC 8800 Computer Series \ Sam Coupe \ TI-99/4A Home Computer \ Tandy TRS-80 \ MESS \ Z-Machine
Collections: \ Custom Collections (for when a user creates their own collection within ES)
System Variations: \ Odyssey 2
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Using an Alternative System
There are various ways of using an alternative system instead of the primary system (TurboGrafx-16 instead of PC-Engine for example), but here is one example:
RetroPie uses a file called platforms.cfg to generate the system configurations for es_systems.cfg. You can create a custom platforms.cfg and this will override the default system for regional variants such as the Sega Genesis instead of Megadrive, TurboGrafx instead of PC-Engine, Magnavox Odyssey instead of the Videopac, etc.
To do this, create a platforms.cfg in: \ /opt/retropie/configs/all/platforms.cfg
name, extensions, platform (used by es for scraping), and the theme can be overridden, see HERE for the default platforms.cfg
However, the below is an example of changing the theme elements only. Here is a valid platforms.cfg:
megadrive_theme="genesis"
nes_theme="famicom"
pcengine_theme="tg16"
sega32x_theme="mega32x"
segacd_theme="megacd"
snes_theme="sfc"
videopac_theme="odyssey2"
Note that with any custom platforms.cfg you create, you'll need to update at least one emulator for every system you changed in order to generate a new es_systems.cfg with the changes from platforms.cfg.