Add alternate themes for North American systems

[jaykass]

Add alternative themes for Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Turbografx-16, and Turbografx-16 CD to correspond to North American releases.

[paradadf]

Famicom theme:

The theme was already on the database, I modified, added and corrected some stuff.

[paradadf]

Wii theme:

[paradadf]

Here I only modified the CD a little bit and added the VMU to the game.svg, besides changing the colors of the logos.

Dreamcast US theme:

Dreamcast JP theme:

With this last drawing the alternate consoles are all finished and the switch can be implemented in the way you consider most appropriate. It was a lot of work, but I think the result is pretty good. I'm just waiting for @rockaddicted next week to export one drawing correctly (as I haven't been able to do so), and will upload here all the resources and themes (xml files inclusive).

[paradadf]

Here is the DOWNLOAD LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE to all the files. I edited the custom.xml and theme.xml to adjust the images to the screen. Also changed the colors of the bars accordingly. That's the reason why I think having different xml files (either 1, 2, 3 or _eu, _us, _jp) would be a better idea. You should know if you create new folders or just use the existing ones. Have fun!

[paradadf]

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[mcmasterp]

@paradadf that was me, ty.

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[kiwisoup2016]

OMG, got it working and so happy! if I had any minor gripes it would be that the SNES cart is a little too 3D, the reset button isn't aligned (seems purposeful), and the blue in the genesis cart logo and the stripes. I changed the stripes myself and would kinda like to see the carts that have the red border on them. All in all I'm very impressed and thankful!

[ghost]

@rockaddicted I re-thought the possibility of having a switch in ES to change the regions, but what about having all regions available (more system folders) and then just put the games into the respective folders. E.g.: snes_eu, snes_us, snes_jp, genisis, mastersystem, etc... This way, one could have both systems to be shown. Especially EU users, who are using a lot of US roms, from my experience, would appreciate this function instead of having to decide, which system is shown in the frontend. Right?

[substring]

Just my own opinion : i think this "regions" idea is a total waste of time ...

[paradadf]

@substring why?

[substring]

It all started because of the genesis/megadrive conflict. Doh. :o get a grip guyz. You're not even sure of how es will handle this

[paradadf]

How exactly this could/would be implemented is a decision yet to be made. Nachtgarm just gave one easier alternative for that. But in my opinion you (the dev team) shouldn't forget that with recalbox you are targeting the world, not only france/europe. And for the users outside europe, they value the fact of having graphics which are familiar to them. So, I don't get your point.

[substring]

What if users think then that the rom folder should be megadrive instead of genesis ? I'm not the one who decides the project's direction. I just gave my personnal opinion. If the megadrive had to be called genesis, i wouldn't care at all ! Most of scrapped games have a genesis logo, so what ?. There are really more important matters than a console name. This has nothing to with france/europe short-sightness pal :) i think it's much hassle for almost nothing, wheras you're not even sure how es could handle it (i.e. theming regions)

[paradadf]

Assuming the solution chosen being to have folders like Nachtgarm said, it is way easier to just tell them to change the folder instead of editing the xml file (and that every time after an update). And I'm just trying to understand your opinion, nothing more. Megadrive had the Genesis logo before, yet someone opened an issue about it (https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/issues/652) and it was changed. About the scraped games... of couse you will get mostly genesis boxes, as it has way more games than megadrive. The fact that there are more important things to do, doesn't mean that this shouldn't be done. And again, assuming the solution Nachtgarm proposed is implemented, I know exactly how ES would handle it. The switch was and idea of Digit.

[substring]

Yup, you're right for Nachtgarm's fo'ders idea.

My point is about displaying a genesis or megadrive in the theme (logo in the consoles banner, console shape, pad etc ...) Depending on the region switch :) sorry if i didn't make this clear earlier :) i wonder about the technical side of it, unless digi already has an idea abt it.

[kiwisoup2016]

Just noticed this but the NA version of Atari 7800 came with a different controller than the default as well.

[Dinierto]

I know I'm late to the party but I thought I'd throw in a comment here. I currently own an Nvidia Shield Android TV and use the ARC Browser emulator front end. It, like Recalbox, uses http://thegamesdb.net/ as a source for scraping. However it manages to scrape according to region, so that Megadrive brings up MD art and Genesis brings up Genesis art. I don't know how hard this would be to implement but it looks possible, so it may be a consideration if you do indeed decide to seperate the themes by region.

[paradadf]

@kiwisoup2016 thanks for the tip!

Atari 7800 US Theme:

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