Thank you for the stuff you do, Mr. Dweeb! You could easily stop at being a reviewer, but all the things you do in addition the reviews is what makes this channel truly special for me. :)
Nice! love the backstory too, I don't want to blow too much smoke, I think you already know you're pretty talented, the fact you put out such high production value content so quickly... but nice work on the themes, really, really like your art style and the way you know how to carry a theme quite literally through your work.
You once told me you'd never take a brand deal as you only want to release things you actually made. Now I see something made by you, for your community. I have to say, I get it now. You just may be the most authentic creator I am aware of. Appreciate you Mr. Dweeb Sir
Thanks buddy. I'm doing this for fun, and I'm lucky that I get to make stuff like this guilt-free and get to share it with a huge audience. That's worth more to me than any brand's ambitions.
I definitely had this added and running on my doodad before the video was over XD TechDweeb is honestly my favorite youtuber and always excited to see new videos posted!
As a former art director, there is no failed career, the experience stays with you. I use things I learned all the time even if I don't work in advertising/UI/freelance anymore.
@prinzexisalowqualityytber I study psychology and work at a clinic, we do a lot of presentations for patients and I usually use art and design to make them connect to whatever issue they're going through, feels good to use art to help someone. Beyond that I have my own projects, right now I'm making posters for my apartment.
This 100%. I used to be a full time game dev. My background in tech has come in handy for my music so much I don’t know if I’d have made music without it.
@prinzexisalowqualityytber sure, I study psychology and work at a clinic, we do a lot of artwork to help patients with their traumas. It's really great, I get to exercise my creative side while helping people.
Well said. I've used my art and design skills in all areas of life (including, obviously, this channel!). I don't consider anything worth doing a 'waste' if it doesn't work out as planned.
Just picked up the x55 and ready to follow the whole rocknix upgrade walkthrough. Techdweeb theme when its all set up for games? Yeah man, I wanna do it.
As always the legend that is "Mr TechDweeb" does it again, love it, just swapped out on the Retrobat setup and it's odd the video's of the roms whilst scrolling actually load much faster using your theme, no idea why, but awesome sauce, well done bud, looks awesome !!!
I just got my first retro emulator handheld (pk rgb10x) and this is the first theme I loaded onto it. I love the design! I havent gone through the process of scraping metadata but the font is perfect for a simple list of games! Keep up the good work man!
Love your art style I may get round to installing it on one of my handhelds or Pi system. so many devices so little time to play. You are a great artist in your own right. Never let anyone tell you any different.
Thanks, Dweeb! Just got my RG40XX H yesterday, copied my ROMs over to the secondary 512GB card, and then installed your theme. I may migrate between it, the original Knulli theme, and the Carbon theme, (An old favorite from my Retropie days), because I like change every now and then, but it's a fun theme! P.S. Love the RG40XX H (We're approaching Xbox naming convention levels of stupidity here, Anbernic), it's comfy and seems to be a great handheld!
Thank you very much, TechDweeb, for this very nice gift. It's nice of you to share your ideas and creations. I will install this new theme on my RGcube XX. Every time I see it, I will think of you and tell myself that retrogaming brings us closer together no matter what part of the world we live in.
not sure if you dip into the world of backpacks and bags but seeing all this black & orange makes me think you would appreciate the Carryology community
I feel you when it comes to programming & what not. I just picked up a Mac Mini M4 to scratch that itch a little. Using it as my backup server & it's giving me a chance to finally play around with Docker for the first time.
It's really, really slick. The detailed view seems to have finally the "correct" ratio of text/image/metadata FINALLY. No other theme seems to balance that info correctly. I'd love for there to be a way to feature the game box art on the detailed view though as well as the game art/video
I am really impressed with your art, especially watching you draw. You have a nice style and I could see you having your own game some day. There used to be these old flash games on the Cartoon Network website with all the CC characters. They were basically fetch quests chaining off of one another. I can imagine a game like that based on you.
OMG Techdweeb I've got the orange and black OneXPlayer Mini Pro running Bazzite, I use ES-DE as my frontend for emulation, you have no idea how perfect this theme is Thank you SO much!!, gonna get this put on PRONTO
I'm sure that pretty cashier from the groceries will be dazzled when we were paying for our shoppings while using some doodad with this fresh baked TechDweeb theme. Thanks for this and keep going, friend; as that line from the 2007 Robert Rodriguez' movie, "Planet Terror": "all your now useless skills will have a purpose at some point".
WTF!!! No Supervision or MEGADUCK system logos!! Your dead to me DWEEB!! hehe.. knowing very well how time consuming these 'little' projects can be, totally awesome work sir..
@@TechDweeb what a scholar and gentleman you are !! Perhaps if there was a GIT for the theme, we could help fill out other missing system logos.. Happy to mimic your style and contribute (yep.. another basement dwelling graphic designer with way to much history in the game and media business) 🖖
If you ever pick up an ICONIC Arcade, it'd be neat to see a video with a custom vinyl wrap. Gamestop Canada has them on sale for half price so it's not the most premium device and the purple/yellow logo design isn't the most atheistically pleasing. Though It is really easy to mod and it's modular so the control panel and bartop are easy to remove from the base. Makes it neat to have a variety of replaceable, dedicated controls rather than trying to cram in too much. Might be fun to have a matryoshka of gaming hardware starting with a portable device with your theme, put that in an arcade panel designed around your ideas and finally in a bartop/full arcade with marquee and side art.
you should totally make your own font for the systems without bespoke images so they fit even better with the rest of the theme. Only thing I would I suggest needs an improvement, and it's also not even really needed. You've got great clean designer chops. It's a fantastic theme, definitely going to try it out one time
Darn it - I was quite happy with the custom OS on my retro doodad, but now I need to switch to Knulli. Following this channel is hard work (but lots of fun 😁).
props, from a FTSE 100 company IT guy that didn't, you did I salute you whole heartedly, only live once truly made it baby, dmg going orange right now. (is that comment enough so you think I am taking the piss or passing a compliment, well I am a nerd working for a gigantic company techdweeb is living it tinkering answering to no-one. I know who is winning and its not me. /salute you doing what you want and happy your getting some sucess.
Love the art style. I did see that sometimes the logos are hard to see clearly on light color backgrounds in your video but I cannot say if that was the devices' screen, or camera angle, etc. I wonder if a dark border/shadow effect might help. I think back to how the characters in Super Smash Bros. on 3DS were given a border to make them easier to see on the smaller and low-res 3DS screen.
I initially had a drop shadow behind the logos but I didn't like the look of it. I think you'll find that if you try it on your device the balance should be right and they stand out. But I'm open to feedback, maybe I can darken the backgrounds a tad to help the foregrounds stand out.
I legit ordered my first RG34XX just a few days ago and I've been wondering what to do about the theme when it finally comes in. Looks like you have that sorted for me. ❤ I can't speak for anyone else (even though I should, given that I'm right about everything nearly as often as you are), but I would very much appreciate a box art view instead of the big game art. Honestly though, I think I'll be happy with most of your details. I regret to inform you that orange isn't the best color, but I won't stop you using it out of consideration of all your hard work.
Thought i was done buying XX devices, now i need to order another flip zizzle in black and do the orange buttons sonit matches the theme. I love my gray old school with the red buttons too much to get rid of it.
So cool… now I gotta find myself a device that will look good with this… 🤔 I’m thinking my Black Odin 2 gets the orange treatment once this is ported to ES-DE on Android. I noticed some other theme colours too.
I really like your art style! But it's probably not quite for me (yet?) - I find I don't like using themes that don't display playtime (I have a whole system for extracting it, too... it's kinda important for me :D). And I find that kind of carousel navigation for game systems a bit cumbersome when there are a lot of systems. If there ever is a theme that shows the system logos e.g. in a grid, and shows playtime, I'll definitely try it, maybe force it onto some friends as well... :D Either way, thanks for sharing this with us!
I love this handheld stuff so much and watch videos all the time. But that makes me sadder because I'm poor and can't afford even the small ones. 😂 What is wrong with me? 😂 But great job TechDweeb I really like that you did it. Looks awesome. +++
If you're on a tight budget I recommend an AliExpress R36S. That's the cheapest handheld that is actually decent and it can do a LOT of great emulation. Best bang for the buck.
@@TechDweeb Yeey, thanks, TechDweeb. 🙂🙂 Ye, I watched videos about that, as I understood there was a new version now and an H version, too. But that is the thing: if your income is about 200-250 euros, that is a lot of money for that. After payment for an apartment I have about that much left, R36S much left. 🤷♂ That's why I'm watching your videos too. To satisfy my itch. 😂
"Most of the stuff that I knew how to do isn't useful anymore."
Oof. Right in the feels, TD. Right in the feels.
I hear you.
Dude - I know how to set type with a phototypesetter. I might as well know how to make buggy whips.
Thank you for the stuff you do, Mr. Dweeb! You could easily stop at being a reviewer, but all the things you do in addition the reviews is what makes this channel truly special for me. :)
It's those extras that keep this job fun every day :D
I know tech dweeb is kinda of a character and all that, but i do believe he is a giga chad irl
Giga Chad is the alter ego. Tech Dweeb is the real persona. Like Bruce Wayne vs Batman.
" WRONG ! "- Arnie character on Commando
Shouldn't that be GiggleChad?
He's a giga dweeb
@@floppy-button I was thinking Chadzizzle.
Nice! love the backstory too, I don't want to blow too much smoke, I think you already know you're pretty talented, the fact you put out such high production value content so quickly... but nice work on the themes, really, really like your art style and the way you know how to carry a theme quite literally through your work.
Skilled is the word. A person is the talent because of the skills they developed. No one is born with these skills
You once told me you'd never take a brand deal as you only want to release things you actually made. Now I see something made by you, for your community. I have to say, I get it now. You just may be the most authentic creator I am aware of. Appreciate you Mr. Dweeb Sir
Thanks buddy. I'm doing this for fun, and I'm lucky that I get to make stuff like this guilt-free and get to share it with a huge audience. That's worth more to me than any brand's ambitions.
I definitely had this added and running on my doodad before the video was over XD TechDweeb is honestly my favorite youtuber and always excited to see new videos posted!
You're so awesome Dweeb! Thanks ❤
That is very generous and MUCH appreciated!
Wow, never thought how beautiful Flipzizzle with painted button.
He’s got a video about doing the painting too
th-cam.com/video/AGE-ge10u2U/w-d-xo.html
I don't think I've ever downloaded a theme so fast! Love it! Thanks again for everything you do!
How nice is this! Thank you for sharing with all of us, Mr. TechDweeb.
Thanks so much for the tip buddy! I'm gonna be drinkin' the fancy root beer today!
It's honestly wonderful man. Always impressed with your infinite set of skills dweeb.
Dweeb Neilson.
Congrats on the launch of an amazing theme, I’m such a big fan of your illustration style and eye for aesthetics so I’m excited to add this
I love the self confidence😂😂😂
As a former art director, there is no failed career, the experience stays with you. I use things I learned all the time even if I don't work in advertising/UI/freelance anymore.
example? (im actually curious)
@prinzexisalowqualityytber I study psychology and work at a clinic, we do a lot of presentations for patients and I usually use art and design to make them connect to whatever issue they're going through, feels good to use art to help someone. Beyond that I have my own projects, right now I'm making posters for my apartment.
This 100%. I used to be a full time game dev. My background in tech has come in handy for my music so much I don’t know if I’d have made music without it.
@prinzexisalowqualityytber sure, I study psychology and work at a clinic, we do a lot of artwork to help patients with their traumas. It's really great, I get to exercise my creative side while helping people.
Well said. I've used my art and design skills in all areas of life (including, obviously, this channel!). I don't consider anything worth doing a 'waste' if it doesn't work out as planned.
Just picked up the x55 and ready to follow the whole rocknix upgrade walkthrough. Techdweeb theme when its all set up for games? Yeah man, I wanna do it.
As always the legend that is "Mr TechDweeb" does it again, love it, just swapped out on the Retrobat setup and it's odd the video's of the roms whilst scrolling actually load much faster using your theme, no idea why, but awesome sauce, well done bud, looks awesome !!!
I just got my first retro emulator handheld (pk rgb10x) and this is the first theme I loaded onto it. I love the design! I havent gone through the process of scraping metadata but the font is perfect for a simple list of games! Keep up the good work man!
Love your art style I may get round to installing it on one of my handhelds or Pi system. so many devices so little time to play. You are a great artist in your own right. Never let anyone tell you any different.
Thanks, Dweeb! Just got my RG40XX H yesterday, copied my ROMs over to the secondary 512GB card, and then installed your theme. I may migrate between it, the original Knulli theme, and the Carbon theme, (An old favorite from my Retropie days), because I like change every now and then, but it's a fun theme! P.S. Love the RG40XX H (We're approaching Xbox naming convention levels of stupidity here, Anbernic), it's comfy and seems to be a great handheld!
Thank you very much, TechDweeb, for this very nice gift. It's nice of you to share your ideas and creations. I will install this new theme on my RGcube XX. Every time I see it, I will think of you and tell myself that retrogaming brings us closer together no matter what part of the world we live in.
YES I loved the DweebDOS so I'm excited for this.
Dweeb, Your art style is so cool. Thanks for making this. (Also thanks for thinking of us old geezers)
I love this aesthetic. It makes me think of my family's first amber monochrome monitor from my childhood, like a warm hug inside my heart.
Orange and Black is all we need.
We need this for Miyoo Flip too!
Great job. Thank you very much. The theme looks really good.
When I saw the fact it doesn't work on ES-DE I threw my phone across the room. You owe me a phone. Also, thank you for the history lesson 😅
Sit tight because I found someone to help me with the ES:DE version!
As someone who owns an ultrawide screen and wanted a nice simple retro styled theme... THIS IS PERFECT!
I just bought the Miyoo and put Onion on it and saw your theme a week ago. Nice, thanks for your contributions to retro gaming.
not sure if you dip into the world of backpacks and bags but seeing all this black & orange makes me think you would appreciate the Carryology community
I feel you when it comes to programming & what not. I just picked up a Mac Mini M4 to scratch that itch a little. Using it as my backup server & it's giving me a chance to finally play around with Docker for the first time.
Ahh bless thank you - love the background story! UI needs you
It's really, really slick. The detailed view seems to have finally the "correct" ratio of text/image/metadata FINALLY. No other theme seems to balance that info correctly. I'd love for there to be a way to feature the game box art on the detailed view though as well as the game art/video
Been loving your Miyoo mini theme. Time to roll up the sleeves on that Flipzizzle! Thanks for all the hard work. 💪
Nice! Your Onion theme was one of the best available, excited to try this one out.
Awesome, Dweeb. Your style is truly unique.
I am really impressed with your art, especially watching you draw. You have a nice style and I could see you having your own game some day. There used to be these old flash games on the Cartoon Network website with all the CC characters. They were basically fetch quests chaining off of one another. I can imagine a game like that based on you.
Thanks for that, looks great🔥
So nice of you to make this for us. ❤
OMG Techdweeb I've got the orange and black OneXPlayer Mini Pro running Bazzite, I use ES-DE as my frontend for emulation, you have no idea how perfect this theme is
Thank you SO much!!, gonna get this put on PRONTO
I'm sure that pretty cashier from the groceries will be dazzled when we were paying for our shoppings while using some doodad with this fresh baked TechDweeb theme.
Thanks for this and keep going, friend; as that line from the 2007 Robert Rodriguez' movie, "Planet Terror": "all your now useless skills will have a purpose at some point".
Old geezers with bad eyesight rejoice! For this theme is here...
You know what never gets outdated? Those badass doodles.
That's a really nice theme. Congratulations! I'll try it on my next setup. Thank you!
I like the color scheme. Black and orange, sometimes with grey or white accents is my favorite.
That black and orange filip drizzle ❤
WTF!!! No Supervision or MEGADUCK system logos!! Your dead to me DWEEB!!
hehe.. knowing very well how time consuming these 'little' projects can be, totally awesome work sir..
Just added them for ya, if you redownload they'll be there 🤓
@@TechDweeb what a scholar and gentleman you are !!
Perhaps if there was a GIT for the theme, we could help fill out other missing system logos.. Happy to mimic your style and contribute (yep.. another basement dwelling graphic designer with way to much history in the game and media business) 🖖
Fantastic work, Dweeb!! Eager to someday see this on the Android front! 👌
Theme looks great! Instant download for my ROG Ally during my lunch break.
And I appreciate you for it, thank you!
Gonna dual card this theme w muos on my flipzizzle, thanks for everything you do man you rock
www.patreon.com/posts/techdweeb-muos-109916270
Love this! Thanks TD!
Tech dweeb is the anime side character you just CANT hate.
This theme is really cool, congratulations!!!
Definitely going to give this a try! Thanks for making it!
If you ever pick up an ICONIC Arcade, it'd be neat to see a video with a custom vinyl wrap. Gamestop Canada has them on sale for half price so it's not the most premium device and the purple/yellow logo design isn't the most atheistically pleasing. Though It is really easy to mod and it's modular so the control panel and bartop are easy to remove from the base. Makes it neat to have a variety of replaceable, dedicated controls rather than trying to cram in too much. Might be fun to have a matryoshka of gaming hardware starting with a portable device with your theme, put that in an arcade panel designed around your ideas and finally in a bartop/full arcade with marquee and side art.
you should totally make your own font for the systems without bespoke images so they fit even better with the rest of the theme. Only thing I would I suggest needs an improvement, and it's also not even really needed. You've got great clean designer chops. It's a fantastic theme, definitely going to try it out one time
Awesome, Tech Dweeb for the win.
That’s exactly how I made my own theme, but getting the ratios to fit certain handhelds as well as your TV is key, as some don’t quite work.
Darn it - I was quite happy with the custom OS on my retro doodad, but now I need to switch to Knulli. Following this channel is hard work (but lots of fun 😁).
Keep going. Never give up Dweeb man.
Yes a hero you are sir. Truly.
props, from a FTSE 100 company IT guy that didn't, you did I salute you whole heartedly, only live once truly made it baby, dmg going orange right now. (is that comment enough so you think I am taking the piss or passing a compliment, well I am a nerd working for a gigantic company techdweeb is living it tinkering answering to no-one. I know who is winning and its not me. /salute you doing what you want and happy your getting some sucess.
Lots of ways to win in this world. As long as you get to be a happy dweeb ain't no one can tell you you're doing it wrong!
The grandma in the pool omg techdweeb, your freaking awesome.
"Then some boring stuff happened, then the TechDweeb emulation station theme" honestly broke me XD
This is pretty freaking awesome
Thanks dude!! Gonna check it out tonight.
You hit me with the bad news right as I was refreshing the es-de themes ha.
…. and this is for you 🧡🖤🧡
Looking forward to getting this installed on my retro dooooooodad
This is amazing! Thanks! I raise my root beer to you, fine sir!
Love the art style. I did see that sometimes the logos are hard to see clearly on light color backgrounds in your video but I cannot say if that was the devices' screen, or camera angle, etc. I wonder if a dark border/shadow effect might help. I think back to how the characters in Super Smash Bros. on 3DS were given a border to make them easier to see on the smaller and low-res 3DS screen.
I initially had a drop shadow behind the logos but I didn't like the look of it. I think you'll find that if you try it on your device the balance should be right and they stand out. But I'm open to feedback, maybe I can darken the backgrounds a tad to help the foregrounds stand out.
Came for advice on how to be cool, handsome and strong as you but stayed for the Emulation Station theme as I don't want to be be killed
This is sooo sick! I cant wait to try this out!
I legit ordered my first RG34XX just a few days ago and I've been wondering what to do about the theme when it finally comes in. Looks like you have that sorted for me. ❤
I can't speak for anyone else (even though I should, given that I'm right about everything nearly as often as you are), but I would very much appreciate a box art view instead of the big game art. Honestly though, I think I'll be happy with most of your details. I regret to inform you that orange isn't the best color, but I won't stop you using it out of consideration of all your hard work.
Thanks buddy!
In my initial tinkering I had a box/gamelogo toggle, but I couldn't make it work with the video mode. I'll revisit that.
Really cool, TD! I'll patiently wait for the android version 🤘
I have someone willing to help, so it might be sooner than you expect!
Thought i was done buying XX devices, now i need to order another flip zizzle in black and do the orange buttons sonit matches the theme. I love my gray old school with the red buttons too much to get rid of it.
Amazing! This has inspired me to make a theme myself. Thanks!
Tech King is back in action
Thanks, TechDweeb. My RGB30 and RGB20sx are much happier now!
Absolutely amazing 💯💯💯
I would buy a poster of the backdrop you drew in a heartbeat.
0:27 I have this same keyboard! It’s my favorite keyboard ever!
So cool… now I gotta find myself a device that will look good with this… 🤔 I’m thinking my Black Odin 2 gets the orange treatment once this is ported to ES-DE on Android. I noticed some other theme colours too.
I really like your art style! But it's probably not quite for me (yet?) - I find I don't like using themes that don't display playtime (I have a whole system for extracting it, too... it's kinda important for me :D). And I find that kind of carousel navigation for game systems a bit cumbersome when there are a lot of systems.
If there ever is a theme that shows the system logos e.g. in a grid, and shows playtime, I'll definitely try it, maybe force it onto some friends as well... :D
Either way, thanks for sharing this with us!
0:23 KITTYYY
my guy is in Isekai world
I'd watch that, sounds like a good show!
I’ll throw it on my RGB30 soon ❤
Wow, that's amazing theme. Works with amberelec, thanks
I came here looking for free coffee and scraps of cat food, instead my Flipzizzle got dweebified. I still need coffee.
☕
Thanks, my dude!🎉
"Its ready its ready to rock." 🧐 school of rock reference.
I love this handheld stuff so much and watch videos all the time. But that makes me sadder because I'm poor and can't afford even the small ones. 😂 What is wrong with me? 😂
But great job TechDweeb I really like that you did it. Looks awesome. +++
If you're on a tight budget I recommend an AliExpress R36S. That's the cheapest handheld that is actually decent and it can do a LOT of great emulation. Best bang for the buck.
@@TechDweeb Yeey, thanks, TechDweeb. 🙂🙂 Ye, I watched videos about that, as I understood there was a new version now and an H version, too. But that is the thing: if your income is about 200-250 euros, that is a lot of money for that. After payment for an apartment I have about that much left, R36S much left. 🤷♂ That's why I'm watching your videos too. To satisfy my itch. 😂
My uncle also had a seed planted... in his brain. He died 6 months later.
I had a good run
My flipzizzle is going to be doused in dweebiness.
You can't buy our love with free ES themes... Ok you can 😁
I can’t wait to install this
"A seed was planted... in my brain."
Aren't brain trees just the best?
Thank you!
Thank you Techdweeb!!