A simple theme for Emulation Station and RetroPie with support for the video view added by fieldofcows. Originally based on the awesome Carbon theme by Eric Hettervik; and then rebuilt from scratch so I could learn the theming system for ES
4/30/2017
- Fixed box art scaling issue on video view
- Added 4x3 layout option
- Added backward compatibility check for older versions of retropie without video support
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_elwCV5hxeA
Video View
Detailed View
Basic View
For more images view the album on Imgur
- Has support for system, basic, detailed and video views
- Does not display metadata
- Matching splashscreens are included in the _inc/images folder
- 16x9 layout Tested on 720p and 1080p resolutions
- 4x3 layout tested on 480p/480i resolutions
- Requires a Pi2/3 (videos are very choppy on a Pi0/1)
- Install latest version of retropie through the setup script (I know versions after 4.1.8 work)
- Add
- Support for marquee tag
- System specific backgrounds that match historical poster designs for a given system (I built an NES example to check out here: http://i.imgur.com/XCx3Tko.png)
- Inspired by old console poster designs (see: http://imgur.com/J4eeTun and http://imgur.com/Ut0SWfJ for examples)
- All Logo graphics are from the default Carbom theme made by Eric Hettervik (see: https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon/)
- Static.mp4 default video from OldRoom theme by Nismo (see: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5823/looking-for-testers-for-es-video-preview-on-raspberry-pi/20)
- Video support possible because of work done by fieldofcows (see: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4820/video-preview-in-emulationstation)
- Theme tutorial written by mattrixk was a huge help in learning how to build this (see: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme)