Installing a Comic Book Theme on Retro Pie: A Step-by-Step Guide

As we previously covered a theme by TMNT turtle guy, it's no surprise that he has just released a new comic book-themed splash screen. This is one of my favorite themes at the moment, and I'm excited to share with you how to install it on your retro gaming console.

If you enjoy having a bhoot video when you boot up Retro Pie, this is definitely one for you. TMNT turtle guy has released two versions of the theme: 720p and 1080p. To make a download link, simply click on the link provided in the description, or head to the retro pie forum where you can thank TMNT turtle guy for his hard work.

To begin installing the comic book splash screen, first locate the files on your desktop. You should see two files: "comic book splash 720" and "comic book splash 1080p". We will be focusing on the 1080p version in this tutorial. Once you have identified the file, right-click it and select "extract" to transfer it into a folder.

For reference, the folders where we are extracting the files include iOS configs, roms, and splash screens. Make sure that your Raspberry Pi is connected to the same network as your PC before proceeding with the installation process.

To transfer the files to your Raspberry Pi, open up a new file explorer window from the quick access bar at the top of any file explorer within Windows. Type in "backslash backslash retropie all capital" and press Enter. This will prompt you for a username; simply enter "PI" and proceed with connecting to the same network as your PC.

Once connected, open up the splash screens folder and drag the 1080p version of the comic book splash screen into it. To ensure that both 720p and 1080p versions are transferred, we will also extract the 720p file while we're here. This is done to maintain consistency with other Retro Pie themes.

Now that our files have been successfully transferred to our Raspberry Pi, let's proceed to enable the comic book splash screen on our console. To do this, we need to enter the retro pi menu and navigate to the "splash screens" option.

Upon entering the "splash screens" menu, you will see an array of options at the bottom of the page. Choose "number one own extra splash screens". As you can see, both 1080p and 720p versions of our comic book splash screen are available for selection.

Next, we need to enable the 1080p version of the theme. Simply click on "enable" next to the 1080p option, followed by "OK", then "cancel". This will ensure that the comic book splash screen is successfully activated and can be seen when booting up our retro gaming console.

Finally, let's restart our Raspberry Pi so we can witness the new theme in action. To do this, click on "start quit" followed by a brief pause to allow the system to reboot. During this time, you will hear some music playing; this is simply the sound effects used in the tutorial and should be disregarded.

And that's it! With these simple steps, you have successfully installed the comic book splash screen on your Retro Pie console. I want to thank TMNT turtle guy for creating such a great theme, as well as everyone who has watched my previous tutorials on how to install Retro Pie themes. If you would like to learn more about other Retro Pie themes or how to customize your own, be sure to check out the links provided in the description below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys as you ta Brian back here again last week I covered a theme by TMNT turtle guy it's a comic book theme one of my favorite themes at this moment it's in my top three favorite he just released a new comic book video splash screen really awesome splash screen and if you enjoy having a bhoot video when you boot up retro pie this is one for you here I'll leave a link to the forum this is the retro pie forum so you can thank TMNT turtle guy because this is really cool he released two versions of 720p and a 1080p so make a download link I'll leave a link in the description and if you want to install that comic book theme that he created I'll leave a link to a video down below that shows you how to do that very easily so I've already downloaded the comic book splash comes if it's on my desktop I'm going to right click I'm going to extract it inside of this folder here there's two files comic book splash 720 and the 1080p version I'm going to be dealing with the 1080p version so I'm going to go ahead and transfer this over to my Raspberry Pi my Pi is on right now and it's connected to the same exact network as this PC I'm going to open up a new file explorer snap it over here from the quick access bar up at the top of any file explorer within windows I'm going to type in backslash backslash retropie all capital I'll press Enter it prompts you for a username or something like that just put in PI and you should be able to connect as long as the PI is connected to the same network as the PC you're going to transfer the splash screen from in this folder we have iOS configs roms and splash screens I'm going to open up the splash screens folder and drag my 1080p version right in here I'm just going to do the 720 also while I'm here so it's done transferring we're going to move over to the Raspberry Pi now when I show you how to enable this awesome comic book splash screen so you can have it up and running on your Raspberry Pi okay so I'm back at my Raspberry Pi 3 as you can see this comic book theme is amazing it does support video snaps if you have video snaps and static images so we just transferred the splash screen to our Raspberry Pi we're going to enter the retro PI menu and at the very bottom here you should see splash screens go into this menu from here choose splash screens number one own extra splash screens and as you can see we have both 1080p and 720p I'm going to enable the 1080p version click OK ok cancel we're going to back out of here and now I'm going to restart my Raspberry Pi so we can see that awesome splash screen so I'll click start quit and I want to restart the system so I'll give you a little bit of sound clip I'm not sure if it's copy written music or not but I don't want the full sound going so that's pretty much it guys I really appreciate you watching if you want to install this theme I'll leave a link down below and on-screen now I did a video about a week ago on how to install this it's very simple like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys as you ta Brian back here again last week I covered a theme by TMNT turtle guy it's a comic book theme one of my favorite themes at this moment it's in my top three favorite he just released a new comic book video splash screen really awesome splash screen and if you enjoy having a bhoot video when you boot up retro pie this is one for you here I'll leave a link to the forum this is the retro pie forum so you can thank TMNT turtle guy because this is really cool he released two versions of 720p and a 1080p so make a download link I'll leave a link in the description and if you want to install that comic book theme that he created I'll leave a link to a video down below that shows you how to do that very easily so I've already downloaded the comic book splash comes if it's on my desktop I'm going to right click I'm going to extract it inside of this folder here there's two files comic book splash 720 and the 1080p version I'm going to be dealing with the 1080p version so I'm going to go ahead and transfer this over to my Raspberry Pi my Pi is on right now and it's connected to the same exact network as this PC I'm going to open up a new file explorer snap it over here from the quick access bar up at the top of any file explorer within windows I'm going to type in backslash backslash retropie all capital I'll press Enter it prompts you for a username or something like that just put in PI and you should be able to connect as long as the PI is connected to the same network as the PC you're going to transfer the splash screen from in this folder we have iOS configs roms and splash screens I'm going to open up the splash screens folder and drag my 1080p version right in here I'm just going to do the 720 also while I'm here so it's done transferring we're going to move over to the Raspberry Pi now when I show you how to enable this awesome comic book splash screen so you can have it up and running on your Raspberry Pi okay so I'm back at my Raspberry Pi 3 as you can see this comic book theme is amazing it does support video snaps if you have video snaps and static images so we just transferred the splash screen to our Raspberry Pi we're going to enter the retro PI menu and at the very bottom here you should see splash screens go into this menu from here choose splash screens number one own extra splash screens and as you can see we have both 1080p and 720p I'm going to enable the 1080p version click OK ok cancel we're going to back out of here and now I'm going to restart my Raspberry Pi so we can see that awesome splash screen so I'll click start quit and I want to restart the system so I'll give you a little bit of sound clip I'm not sure if it's copy written music or not but I don't want the full sound going so that's pretty much it guys I really appreciate you watching if you want to install this theme I'll leave a link down below and on-screen now I did a video about a week ago on how to install this it's very simple like always thanks for watching\n"