Project discontinued! Now use : https://github.com/Darknior/RVGM-BT-Theme

RVGM : Retro/Retropie Video Game Museum

• XVGM was an old project i've started in 2014 on the first XBOX. It was a video theme for UnleashX to launch Madmab and other emulators. The Xbox Video Game Museum was abandoned because i have so many memory problems/crash and the xbox is now too old ... with old gamepad, no HDMI support, no real 1080p support, not enough power for some new systems like Nintendo DS, and so on. Forum url : EmuXtra

• RVGM : Retro/Retropie Video Game Museum is the new project name, designed to work on PI with Retropie that use EmulationStation. It use a recent ES version, minimum 2.7.4 to use theme variable, video support, caroussel support, thumbnail support and so on. The recent ES version also correct the old memory problems, now all is really better than on the old Xbox. Forum url : Retropie

General informations

This theme is designed to display most important information about systems and games, and support HD rendering up to 1080p. For each game it display a big front cover with 720 pixel height, a video preview in 640 x 480 pixel, a game title with 400 pixel width and all the most important game text informations possible. The theme is build with percent size to auto fit your screen resolution. But it will be better if it use a 16/9 format.

The theme is also multi language, and you can switch from US to FR with only a variable to modify on the theme.xml. I will also share the description and informations PSD files for people who want to help with other language like ES, DE, IT, and so on. We can add them to the main project.

• 1080p / 720p native resolution
• Adaptive percent object position
• Multi languages
• Separate Background image, big Sprite, Logo, machine Photo and information text for each system
• Front cover, logo, video preview and information text support for each game
• Vectorial logo for player number and multi-player game style

Not supported systems by Retropie (10/03/2018)

• Apple 2e
• Apple 2gs
• Supervision, Watara
• Creativision : Maybe trying with lr-mess driver crvision : 80-100% speed
• Interton VC4000 : Maybe trying with lr-mess driver scv
• Amstrad GX4000 : Maybe trying with lr-mess driver gx4000 : 65% speed, some games still feel very playable

I include a readme file in these systems to explain how to use with MESS.

Prerequisites

You must use it on a PI with the Retropie system installed on you MicroSD.

You can find the es_systems.cfg used by EmulationStation to show system list here :

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

And you can find the gamelist.xml used to show games informations here :

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/ SYSTEM NAME / gamelist.xml

If you want to modifiy the systems order, or the games informations, you must modify these files on your PI.

Installing

• Download the theme here
• Unpack it to your computer
• Upload it to your pi by SSH with for exemple WinSCP here :

/etc/emulationstation/themes/RVGM

• Restart your EmulationStation
• And choose it on the theme selection menu

Customising

You can customise some options on this theme.

• Change the language on the master theme.xml file by switching one variable.

  <variables>
    <langue>us</langue>    <!-- fr / us    ${langue}    Translate ES -->
  </variables>

• Display or not the help information bar in the game selection screen, to have a biger description size and 2 more games display on the game list.

    <include>./_art/nohelp.xml</include>    <!-- help / nohelp    Bottom help bar on game selection screen -->

• Display the Player number and the game Multiplayer style. For this special RVGM feature i designed a special font to replace letters and numbers by better icons i've created for. You can use normal numbers and text by replacing the font like this :

  <text name="md_players">
    ...
    <fontPath>./_art/Players.ttf</fontPath>    <!-- Replace by Roboto-Bold.ttf -->
    <fontSize>0.09</fontSize>
    ...
  </text>

But if you want to use them, you must respect these two rules. Only one number on the players tag. No 1-2 players and other text. Only :

<players>1</players>
<players>2</players>
<players>4</players>

And for the multiplayer style, 3 words are available: Alt, Coop, Versus with the Upercase first letter. You will see them when you will use the ES player filter option. On game selection screen letters l t o p s will be hide. First upercase letter will be replace by the icon and if you use lowercase letter i have also include an alternative logo for Vs and Coop.

<players>2 Alt</players>   <!-- Alternative player game, for scorring battle -->
<players>2 Coop</players>  <!-- Real 2 player game in cooperative mode like Sonic 3 -->
<players>5 Vs</players>    <!-- Versus game in battle mode, like Street Fighter 2 or here Bomberman -->

Built With

• Photoshop - Use to create images
• Notepad++ - Use to write XML code
• Webtropie - Used to generate XML informations

Webtropie is a fantastic EmulationStation editor designed for Retropie. You can use it to manage all your games and media. I try to help the developer Gazpan to improve it. And now he include a theme editor that help me to release mine. To place my images and test my code with my Webroser on PC and save me many time...

Contributors

• Gazpan with Webtropie

Authors

• Darknior - Initial work - Release the theme

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE - see the LICENSE file for details