GBZ35 & GBZ35-Dark RetroPie Themes for Small Screens

[RxBrad]

Another day, another update. Carousel theming added to both themes. The dark theme is actually dark, and now you can actually read the number of games for each system on both themes. Of course, this all requires a version of RetroPie that supports carousel theming (March 25, 2017 or newer).

[username 123]

I REALLY like this theme and would like to make just a couple of changes for my setup. Currently i have box art and video snaps working on it. However, once the box art shows up on the bottom left, it fades out and 3-4 seconds later it begins to play its video snap.
How do I keep the box art static in its original place and have the video snap play above it??
Ideally, i would like both box art and video snap showing. There is enough space for both.

[RxBrad]

I REALLY like this theme and would like to make just a couple of changes for my setup. Currently i have box art and video snaps working on it. However, once the box art shows up on the bottom left, it fades out and 3-4 seconds later it begins to play its video snap.
How do I keep the box art static in its original place and have the video snap play above it??
Ideally, i would like both box art and video snap showing. There is enough space for both.

The theme is set up to show the marquee art scraped from sselph's scraper above the boxart/video. If you don't want marquee art, and you want the video to replace it, I suppose you could edit gbz35.xml like so (not tested, but I assume this would work):

Type either sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/gbz35/gbz35.xml or sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/gbz35-dark/gbz35.xml, depending on the theme you're using.

Change this...

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	<feature supported="video">
		<view name="video">
			<video name="md_video">
				<origin>0.5 1</origin>
				<pos>0.195 0.89</pos>
				<maxSize>0.325 0.325</maxSize>
				<delay>1</delay>
				<showSnapshotNoVideo>true</showSnapshotNoVideo>
				<showSnapshotDelay>true</showSnapshotDelay>
			</video>

			<image name="md_marquee">
				<maxSize>0.325 0.260</maxSize>
				<pos>0.195 0.55</pos>
				<origin>0.5 1</origin>
			</image>
		</view>
	</feature>

...To this (change a few things under md_video, and delete the md_marquee image section):

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	<feature supported="video">
		<view name="video">
			<video name="md_video">
				<origin>0.5 1</origin>
				<pos>0.195 0.55</pos>
				<maxSize>0.325 0.325</maxSize>
				<delay>0</delay>
				<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>
				<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>
			</video>
		</view>
	</feature>

There's a chance the video might overlap square system logos like FBA. If so, you might want to reduce the second 0.325 under maxSize a bit until it fits.

You may also need to delete this, which is a few lines below the section above:

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			<image name="md_marquee">
				<zIndex>140</zIndex>
				</image>

You'll also need to change this...

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	<view name="detailed">
		<image name="md_image">
		<origin>0.5 1</origin>
		<pos>0.195 0.89</pos>
		<maxSize>0.325 0.6</maxSize>
		</image>
	</view>

...To this (add video to header):

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	<view name="detailed, video">
		<image name="md_image">
		<origin>0.5 1</origin>
		<pos>0.195 0.89</pos>
		<maxSize>0.325 0.6</maxSize>
		</image>
	</view>

[RxBrad]

Just a quick note to anyone who chooses to use the video previews..

I strongly suggest going into "Other Settings" on the Start menu inside RetroPie and turning on OMX Player. I built the theme to take advantage of this, and it works a lot smoother than non-hardware-accelerated movies (and should use less battery power).

Note that OMX Player can cause problems with some other themes with video previews (specifically, any themes that have graphics that overlay the videos).

[username 123]

Worked!! Thanks! Instead of changing the "0.325", I had to adjust the "0.55" to "0.48" to lower the position of the video.
Is there a way to get the video to play instantly? There is a 3-4 second delay.

[RxBrad]

Worked!! Thanks! Instead of changing the "0.325", I had to adjust the "0.55" to "0.48" to lower the position of the video.
Is there a way to get the video to play instantly? There is a 3-4 second delay.

This part handles the video delay. It's possible that there's a bit of delay from loading the video from the SD card. On my Pi3, I have it set to a 1 second delay, and it seems like it only takes about a second.

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<delay>0</delay>
<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>
<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>

The delay number is number of seconds before the video plays.

showSnapshotDelay set to false is the same as setting delay to 0 seconds.

Setting showSnapshotNoVideo to false keeps it from showing 2 box arts if there's no video preview.

[username 123]

Ok. Maybe my sd is a bit slow and since im using the pi zero, both of them combined causes a delay.

[YaYa]

Sticking to this, i'll try your theme when my build finishes ! Thanks for your work !

[144TECH]

Ok. Maybe my sd is a bit slow and since im using the pi zero, both of them combined causes a delay.

Working flawlessly on pi zero 1.2 , 1.3 and W no lag no delays nothing, just smooth.

[username 123]

Thats odd. When i scroll down the list of games, it takes about 3 seconds for the video to load. The box art turns up right away. I even when and shrank down my mp4 videos (save me a ton of space as well), but still takes those 3 seconds to load. I also over clocked my pi zero to 1090mhz with same results.