Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

Cybermen

your work is great. Continue and do not let go of it.

Hyruleslink

@ruckage Just one bad apple in the bunch. So many of us appreciate all the work you put into your themes. That individual clearly has problems extending past RetroPie and these forums and this is (was) his outlet to lash out. Your work is awesome and I always look forward to what comes next with your NES Mini theme :)

ruckage

@tmntturtlguy @LiveFastCyYoung @mattmanforever @Cybermen @Hyruleslink

Thanks, I appreciate your replies. And you're right, the reactions here have been overwhelmingly positive and that's what I should focus on. I'm happy that I can make something that people enjoy and find useful and intend to continue working on this and other projects for the foreseeable future. I realise work on this has slowed a bit lately but I just sometimes need to work on something different as you get a bit burned out doing the same thing for too long. I will be back to this soon though once my Super Famicom build is finished.

Allanbuzzy

@ruckage That is completely fine. I've noticed a lot of work going on in the NES/SNES themes, so I believe you should probably try to take a break and come up with concepts to make something different.

ruckage

@allanbuzzy

Well I'm not leaving it behind just yet, I have a target of at least getting all of the systems on the to do list finished. I'm working on the SNES theme and my super famicom build so that's given me a bit of a change. I do have some completely new theme concepts though which I'd like to start work on at some point.

greekmanx

I know you are working on this and this and Snes theme so no rush just pointing it out haven't seen it mentioned yet but Nes mini doesn't show press X for Random Game and Y for Add to Favorite in bottom left corner of screen.

ruckage

@greekmanx

I'll get them added in the next version.

meowmoo

Wow, this is some awesome work!! my New favorite Theme, thanks for that. Hope to see MSX anytime soon :D I renamed Arcede for now so i dont have the empty space in the carousel :P

svmariscal

Hi @ruckage , just registered to say thanks for such a superb work. Nesmini is my favourite theme ever, looking forward to see what you have in store with the SNESmini theme.

Now, if I'm allowed to slip a humble request, have you considered supporting the Sega Saturn? lots of oldie classics there, like Sega Rally or the Panzer Dragoon series.

ruckage

@svmariscal
Hi.

I can add Sega Saturn to the list but is Saturn actually playable on the raspberry pi? I know it's supported but I'd expect it to be really slow and the videos I've seen of it running on the pi seem to back that up.

R2dTOO

Hey @ruckage . I've been trying to get this theme running for a while now. I keep getting the white screen that everyone talks about. Well, I finally read (skimmed) through the million posts in here and discovered that I need to update Emulationstation. I just did that, and it works great!

Now, I am updating Kids Mode from source in hopes that it will work as well. My Retropie stays in the play room, so I really like the kiosk mode that is part of Kids Mode Emulationstation.

svmariscal

@ruckage ok, I thought it was a bit strange the absence of the Saturn in the supported list but I understand now :)

I can't really tell sorry, I'm using your theme on a windows 10 PC, and at least there the Mednafen Saturn core works like a charm. I don't really know anything about hardware, but I would expect the requirements being on par with other consoles of its generation like Playstation 1 or N64.

I do have a RPi, but it's the old B+ model and probably wouldn't perform brilliantly. Maybe someone with a RPi3 might chime in?

By the way, I had the same issue as @R2dTOO: I had to use the 1.x versions of nesmini because version v2 wouldn't work with the current official windows version of ES. That was until I updated to the last windows build by jdrassa, it works flawlessly now (many many thanks also to @jdrassa).

R2dTOO

OK. This theme does not work with Kids Mode. It is built on an older version of Emulationstation. Hopefully the developers will update it soon.

ruckage

@r2dtoo said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

OK. This theme does not work with Kids Mode. It is built on an older version of Emulationstation. Hopefully the developers will update it soon.

@Zigurana is working on Kiosk mode for the main branch which I believe also incorporates kids mode. Link: Kiosk Mode, coming back [testers needed!]

@svmariscal said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

I'm using your theme on a windows 10 PC, and at least there the Mednafen Saturn core works like a charm. I don't really know anything about hardware, but I would expect the requirements being on par with other consoles of its generation like Playstation 1 or N64.

From what I remember I think the Saturn requires quite a powerful PC to emulate it. If you search for videos of Saturn playing on a Raspberry Pi 3 it's painfully slow.
However as you're using a PC that won't be an issue for you. I've added it to the list but it will probably be one of the last systems I add support for as emulators that run well on the RPI take priority.

However I will be adding default theme support in the next update so at least then you will get a generic theme for missing systems.

R2dTOO

@ruckage said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@r2dtoo said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

OK. This theme does not work with Kids Mode. It is built on an older version of Emulationstation. Hopefully the developers will update it soon.

@Zigurana is working on Kiosk mode for the main branch which I believe also incorporates kids mode. Link: Kiosk Mode, coming back [testers needed!]

@ruckage This makes me happy! I'll go check it out.

svmariscal

@ruckage That is great, thank you!

A Former User

1120th post.
Also to keep up the positivity, this is the best theme I've ever seen. Ever. This needs to be the official RetroPie Theme.
Or heck, if there's a modified version of EmulationStation that imitate the NES Classic, this should be the theme (maybe with some changes to make it look very similar to the NES Classic).

lilbud

@itsnitro said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

maybe with some changes

If you cut the intro out of this video, you can replicate the 'demo mode'

PokeEngineer

@itsnitro

I was thinking about doing something like that a while ago...

A Former User

edit: Nevermind, solved my issue.