Custom Background Naming System

[hansolo77]

Ok, I was actually thinking about doing this before Adultery had suggested it. With the recent rise in custom made themes, and the ability to use a custom background for each emulator, I feel it necessary to begin a standardized naming system. We need everybody to conform to this system so that the settings can be shared between different themes.

Here's what I was thinking. For the logos, everything is named lowercase, and for the backgrounds we use lowercase like the logos, but include the word BACK in the name.

Atari 2600:

2600

2600BACK

Atari 5200:

5200

5200BACK

Atari 7800:

7800

7800BACk

Atari Lynx:

lynx

lynxBACK

Atari Jaguar:

jaguar

jaguarBACK

Nintendo:

nes

nesBACK

Super Nintendo:

snes

snesBACK

Gameboy:

gb

gbBACK

Gameboy Advance:

gba

gbaBACK

Nintendo64:

n64

n64BACK

Nintendo GameCube: (we should decide on this one)

gamecube (or gc)

gamecubeBACK (or gcBACK)

Nintendo WII:

wii

wiiBACK

Nintendo DS:

ds

dsBACK

Sega Master System:

sms

smsBACK

Sega Genesis:

genesis

genesisBACK

Sega 32X:

32x

32xBACK

SegaCD:

scd

scdBACK

Sega GameGear:

gg

ggBACK

Sega DreamCast:

dc

dcBACK

Sega Saturn:

saturn

saturnBACK

NeoGeo:

neogeo

neogeoBACK

NeoGeo Pocket:

neopocket

neopocketBACK

MAME:

mame

mameBACK

Daphne:

daphne

daphneBACK

Zinc:

zinc

zincBACK

Model 2:

model2

model2BACK

DOSBox:

dos

dosBACK

PC-Games:

pc

pcBACK

Visual Pinball:

vp

vpBACK

Future Pinball:

fp

fpBACK

Colecovision:

coleco

colecoBACK

Intellivision:

intellivision

intelivisionBACK

and so on and so forth....

[firebrand_X]

Uniformity wouldn't be a bad idea, but I think for the most part everyone is using a similar naming system (usually "[consolename]BAK.png", no 'C')

[hansolo77]

I agree. I just think everybody should work out and agree one a standardized naming system so everything will be cross-compatible between themes. Something else I was thinking about... if everybody uses the same LOGOS, why don't we just get TOM to establish a default LOGOS folder that just stores them. That might save a lot of disk space, rather than having 20 or so different copies of the same image for the Logo. If somebody wants to make a new version, you can still include that, but for the most part, just use the default logo system provided already. Something else along with that, we could have different versions be named accordingly in the default logo folder.. IE; genesis.png, genesis2.png, genesis3.png. Then the user can decide which version they like.

[amos_82]

Its a nice idea, but it might be hard to get right.

If you wanted to select a strange background for an emulator, like 'megadrive.png' instead of 'genesisbak.png' every other theme would show the basic background like 'bak.png' or 'emubak.png' or maybe the 'arrowup.png', because the 'megadrive.png' doesn't exist in the other theme directories.

It only takes a few minutes to add the info to the theme.ini.

Plus im not sure how the custome emu layout will work exactly, but i think that the emulators might need to be added to the theme.ini anyway? The theme editor generates emulator.ini's when the [emulator] info is added.

To use standardised logos is easier, just add them to the 'default-default' theme, and delete all other logos from the themes.

The problem is that alot of themes have framed the icons to suit the specific theme, some sit high/or low on screen, and have been made to a resolution to match the theme.

Just my 2 cents, i just think taking the time to add the info to the ini would be more reliable.

Sorry Han, we might have to agree to disagree

[Adultery]

I agree. I just think everybody should work out and agree one a standardized naming system so everything will be cross-compatible between themes.

This is what the Default-Default folder is for in the Themes folder.

I just think taking the time to add the info to the ini would be more reliable.

Yes, true, but a standard naming system would make it easier to copy/paste emulator data into the theme.ini which would releive us of having to explain the setup process every time...

[hansolo77]

Or we could go back to my original idea of saving the info so when you change themes, it remembers the settings you had set for that theme.