Cygnus Blue Flames is a clean theme that displays large preview images, videos, marquees, all title-oriented metadata and some useful user-oriented metadata.
NOTE: Cygnus Blue Flames uses cutting edge features. You will need the latest official emulaionstation for the video, marquee, and carousel features to work correctly. Update from the RetroPie setup menu, manage packages, core, emulationstation. It doesn't work with OMXplayer
Cygnus - Blue Flames is included in the theme installer in retropie-setup so that's probably the easiest way to install it!_ SEE line 59 - DTEAM-1/cygnus-blue-flames
Cygnus_- Blue flames is based on the work of "ChoccyHobNob". Changes:
- More systems for Lr-Mess / MAMEDEV and +.
- I changed a lot of images and logos. I have added system images with controllers/gamepads. Originally we didn't see the joysticks/gamepads.
- Also, I changed the background to blue flames.
- I slightly changed the position of the videos, marquees and the 3D box
- New default theme for uncovered systems (theme.xml)
Note:-
- Don't use OMXplayer.
- To do list: Add "mascots" for systems without one.
There are two files included below by the config.xml file, one is a colorset, the other is a template. Valid changes you can make here are as follows.
- cygnus.xml <--- This is the default blue flames colorscheme. <----- the good one
- mono.xml <--- This is a black and grey colorscheme.
- terminal.xml <--- This is a green colorscheme.
- cygnus.xml <--- All bells & whistles. Lots of metadata, lots of art. <----- the good one
- nometa.xml <--- No metadata, all text except gamelist removed.
- simpleart.xml <--- Large art, no overlayed boxart or marquee images.
- simpleart-nometa.xml <--- Minimal theme with just a gamelist and large art.
Cygnus - Blue flames comes with a large number of defined systems, more than even the default carbon theme. It's probably one of the most completed theme on for RetroPie.
This is useful if you want to override the display of systems to match your region and things like that. For example, by default Cygnus uses a picture of the USA SNES console and logo for the snes system; you can change this behaviour by telling it to use either the 'sfc' theme or the 'snes-pal' theme to get the correct console and logo for you.
Create a file in /opt/retropie/configs/all/platforms.cfg if it doesn't already exist. Edit the file and add lines to it in the format <system>_theme="<themename>" so in our example above I could add
snes_theme="sfc"
or
snes_theme="snes-pal"
other useful ones are:-
megadrive_theme="genesis"
pcengine_theme="tg16"
nes_theme="famicom"
There are lots of these, look at the folder names for a list of all the available systems!
All xml, and some images created by Steve Boswell (ChoccyHobNob).
Based on the "Cygnus" theme by Steve Boswell, "Eudora" theme by AmadhiX, which is in turn based on the "Carbon" theme by Eric Hettervik, which is in turn based on "Simple" by Nils Bonenberger. Some system logos and line art images are borrowed from these themes and from the web.
The following fonts are used under the licenses included with the font files: "Titillium Web", "Adobe Blank"