Arcade Planet

EDIT : 19/02/2022 : je vous partage enfin la première mouture de mon thème.

Prière de bien lire le readme (surtout pour les scraps)
https://github.com/EvilDindon/ES-THEME-ARCADEPLANET

Salut les retros.

Après 6 mois de développement (pas tous les jours, hein !), je suis fier de vous présenter mon thème Arcade Planet.
Il n'est pas encore téléchargeable, j'ai encore un peu de boulot, mais je viens teaser un peu !

Principales caractéristiques :
- 2 system views (vertical et horizontal), avec quelques animations,
-10 gamelist views !,

Voici les aperçus de chaque vue :

System View Horizontal :



System View Vertical :



Vue "Grid"



Vue "Detailed" :



Vue "Mini Logos + Details" :



Vue "Small Boxes + Details" :



Vue "Cover Flow" :



Vue Logo Flow :



Vue "Logos on top" :



Vue "Long List + Preview " :



Vue "Vertical Logos" :



Vue "Retro Tiles" :



Aperçu Vidéo :



Voilà.

Je pense poster ici une première beta début septembre.

A bientôt !

Aperçu vidéo :

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Very nice job Evil !!

Supererb theme - look forward to see it support for 78+ system . If you need testers and additional artwork let me know.

Here is the first release of my theme. Please read the Readm, it's important (for the scraps)
https://github.com/EvilDindon/ES-THEME-ARCADEPLANET
Direct link to zip : https://github.com/EvilDindon/ES-THEME-ARCADEPLANET/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

@evildindon it's missing a ton of systems - I can finish it but where did you get all those pixel style artstyle characters (I will finish it with all other systems / collection I have currently). Find me on discord VirtualMan#3334 (i have other ideals how to leverage assets) in a more effecient way the structure current it's going to take forever to complete this theme.
Please share your source files (gimp) , like Michel does it helps so we can all help. I would be happy to complete this for you as long I get all the source files form you , I can figure out the rest on my own.

ARCADEPLANET Systems and Collections I would like to see completed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**Systems Missing Artwork**
apple2
c20
channelf
fpinball
ngp
famicom
sfc
snescd
pspminis
vpinball

**Collections Support**
btmups
castlevania
doubledragon
*lightgun
mario
megaman
mortalkombat
oldschool
pinball
racing
shmups
sonic
streetfighter
trackball
zelda

Sincerely,
VMAN

Virtualman wrote:@evildindon it's missing a ton of systems - I can finish it but where did you get all those pixel style artstyle characters (I will finish it with all other systems / collection I have currently). Find me on discord VirtualMan#3334 (i have other ideals how to leverage assets) in a more effecient way the structure current it's going to take forever to complete this theme.
Please share your source files (gimp) , like Michel does it helps so we can all help. I would be happy to complete this for you as long I get all the source files form you , I can figure out the rest on my own.

ARCADEPLANET Systems and Collections I would like to see completed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**Systems Missing Artwork**
apple2
c20
channelf
fpinball
msx2
ngp
famicom
sfc
snescd
genesis
pspminis
ti99
vpinball

**Collections Support**
btmups
castlevania
doubledragon
*lightgun
mario
megaman
mortalkombat
oldschool
pinball
racing
shmups
sonic
streetfighter
trackball
zelda

Sincerely,
VMAN

Hey Man,

I work almost daily on the theme, so don't forget to update frequently.
There has been a huge update this weekend (added subsets for colorsets, scrolling direction, animation style for random artworks, etc.)
You may check batocera's discord or Retrobat Forum for daily WIP.

I'm filling as I can the missing systems but I know some are still missing. The essential is here though (88 systems and all 11 auto collections)

It's been almost 2 years I'm work on this project, alone, and yeah I would appreciate some help for creating the artworks. You know, developing and debugging the theme takes a lot of time.

The sprites artwork comes - the easy way - from spriters resource, or, if it doesn't exist, I cut it out - pixel perfect - from a native resolution screenshot. It's the longest part in creating a system.
And also, some controllers are missing, for example I recently traced out the Super Cassette Vision controller, as I couldn't find anything on the net yet (I know it looks like a washing machine, but it's the actual look of the controller lol)

Oh, btw :
- Genesis artwork already exist as long as you chose "US" for Region in the theme menu,
- MSX2 can be grouped with MSX, so no big deal. Same for Amiga 500 and 1200.
- Lightgun games (automatic collection) already exist !

And also I don't use gimp, I use Corel Paint shop Pro X2, these are .pspimage files. But I can export my templates to another format maybe.
The most important is to use only clean artworks and to respect some protocols (size and opacity of the shadows, dimensions of the png's, etc)

@evildindon then if you don't want to share all source files i'm ok but please complete request (just for the **Systems** only) - I will donate now for you time send me your paypal link - try to be open minded to share your source files - others are capabable to help and have similar skills and thensome . Lecim/Michel has that mentality to share his source files to empower others to continue the legacy work.  Love this theme and I want to help but sounds you can probably finish my request above and I will donate for your time.

Be very greatfull to have these systems please (Retrobat) supports these systems :-)

**Systems Missing Artwork**
apple2
c20
channelf
fpinball
ngp
famicom
sfc
snescd
pspminis
vpinball

Cheers,
VMAN

@evildindon - can I also maybe entice you to a feature request? I have this in other themes as logo style options menu and I have all the logo sets pre-populated (simple clean, simple frost, simple shadow would be good candidates). As stated find me on discord I can help plenty and have some time as I'm not working for a wile.



Sincerely,
VMAN

@evildidon - I really want to help finish missing systems please share your source files please.

I manage to do apple2 but as you can see I need your help when it comes to sprites - i have some desired assets but really need your base template to match your criterias.  Take advantage of free time I have, not working and I'm board.


All I wish to complete are the following for now.

**Systems Missing Artwork**
apple2
c20
channelf
fpinball
ngp
famicom
sfc
snescd
pspminis
vpinball

Sincerely,
VMAN

I'm going to complete rest of the system logos/console for missing systems. I just need your sprites template at this point it would be really appreciated.

**Systems Missing Artwork**
apple2
c20
channelf
fpinball
famicom
sfc
snescd
pspminis
vpinball

Sincerely,
VMAN

Getting there...

Future Pinball - getting there...

Visual Pinball - getting there...

famicom - getting there...

Super Famicom sfc - getting there

snescd - getting there...

pspminis - getting there ...

@evildindon - I'm all done for additional systems I wanted - I just need your source file for the your sprite1/2/3 or share your technique/layers for shadow is retain etc... (I could try to clone method but might be tough) - I will do my best to find assets for those systems and give it same look and feel.  Anyhelp is appreciated and love this theme and did extra qa vertical/horizontal and fix several logos .  Just need sprite source files see if you can export in xcf (gimp format). You best to find me on discord

Apple2 with added sprites - getting there - I will most likely finish this on my own @evildindon - reach me on discord if you wish to add to your git

vpinball and fpinball done -

Man I appreciate you want to help but what I see is not good.

You seem very impatient but all of these systems are on my to do list, and I Try to add at least one system a day.
Don't forget I develop new views and I also debug the theme every day, which takes even more time than creating new systems/artworks.

- The controller Icon must not be a 3D or side view but only a top view.
- Some of your controllers are ok but you didnt apply the correct shadow (or not shadow at all as I can see)
- Pinball icon is very ugly I won't use this
- Vic 20 and Apple II are not good, they aren't reprsentative of the actual computers.
- Same for channel F (side view, not good)
- The sprites or artwork you use are not good : they aren't reprsentative enough of the system, and their size/disposition isn't good enough for the standard I made.
- The sprites shadows are not well sized.
- Size of the white logos aren't optimized. (528 pix wide)


Please, If you want to help, join the batocera discord  I post every day on here, and I can give you tips if you want to help properly

Thanks,

I also can see that your scraps doesn't match the recomandations of the theme. Please Read Carefully the README regarding the scraping instructions.

MIX IMAGES ARE UGLY on my theme, it's not design to display mix images.

Each artwork must be at its place : 2D box, logo wheel, screenshot.

Virtualman wrote:@evildindon - can I also maybe entice you to a feature request? I have this in other themes as logo style options menu and I have all the logo sets pre-populated (simple clean, simple frost, simple shadow would be good candidates). As stated find me on discord I can help plenty and have some time as I'm not working for a wile.

Sincerely,
VMAN

I won't include this in my theme, sorry.

@Vman please follow the batocera discord.
Just made this one :