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garlic-onion-skraper-mix

Create great box art for Garlic or Onion

choose your style:

Full Height Mix

GarlicOS_001 GarlicOS_002 GarlicOS_003 MainUI_001 MainUI_002 MainUI_003

About

This was inspired by the following guides:

I loved this template created by AchillesPDXI so I updated it to create a 333 x 480 version which should look good on the miyoo mini as well as the MM+ and RG35XX which have a slightly larger screen.

Instructions

Set-up Skraper and Skrape with custom mix template

  • Download the Garlic-Onion-Mix folder from this project
  • Download and run Skraper
  • You may want to run through the following guide to familiarize yourself with Skraper: Retro Game Corps Skraper Guide
  • Select "All Systems"
  • In the "Media" tab for Skraper set the Media type to "User Provided Mix"
  • Click the "page" icon next to media type and select the Garlic-Onion-Mix.xml file you downloaded from this repo
  • Set the "Output Folder to: %ROMROOTFOLDER%\Imgs and select "Cleanup output folder before generating new medias" checkbox
  • Leave "Resise Width to" "Resize height to" and "Keep image ratio" blank.
  • Your Skraper screen should look like this:

skraper

  • Skrape all of your systems
  • Delete any gamelist.xml files that the skraper created
  • If you are using Onion you are done!

Additional Garlic Steps

  • On your SD1 card, navigate to CFW > skin > settings.json
  • Edit settings.json to use the following:
    "text-alignment": "left",
    "text-margin": 352,
  • Download and install ImageMagick
  • Follow one of the options below:

Modify individual Imgs folders

  • Navigate to each Imgs folder and then hold SHIFT and right-click in that folder
  • Select “Open PowerShell window here”. A command line will open up (for mac you can use terminal)
  • type the following into the command line:

magick mogrify -monitor -resize 340x480 -extent 640x480 -gravity West -background none *

Bulk Modify ALL Imgs Folders (Windows Only)

  • Navigate to the Roms folder and then hold SHIFT and ricght-click in that folder
  • Select "Open PowerShell window here". A command line will open up
  • type the following into the command line:

Get-ChildItem -recurse | where {$_.name -eq "Imgs"} | foreach {cd -LiteralPath $_.FullName; magick mogrify -monitor -resize 340x480 -extent 640x480 -gravity West -background none *;}

3-Images Mix

GarlicOS_3img-000 GarlicOS_3img-001 GarlicOS_3img-002 MainUI_3img-002 MainUI_3img-001 MainUI_3img-000

Instructions

Set-up Skraper and Skrape with custom mix template

  • Download the 3 Image Mix - Onion or 3 Image Mix - Garlic folders from this project
  • Download and run Skraper
  • You may want to run through the following guide to familiarize yourself with Skraper: Retro Game Corps Skraper Guide
  • Select "All Systems"
  • In the "Media" tab for Skraper set the Media type to "User Provided Mix"
  • Click the "page" icon next to media type and select the 3_img_mix_onion.xml.xml or 3_img_mix_garlic.xml.xml file you downloaded from this repo
  • Set the "Output Folder to: %ROMROOTFOLDER%\Imgs and select "Cleanup output folder before generating new medias" checkbox
  • Leave "Resise Width to" "Resize height to" and "Keep image ratio" blank.
  • Your Skraper screen should look like this:

skraper

  • Skrape all of your systems
  • Delete any gamelist.xml files that the skraper created

Additional Garlic Steps

  • On your SD1 card, navigate to CFW > skin > settings.json
  • Edit settings.json to use the following:
    "text-alignment": "left",
    "text-margin": 300,

Full Screen Mix

GarlicOS_001 GarlicOS_002 GarlicOS_003

Instructions

Check out this github project by timault to get these awesome preview images (Garlic Only)