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    • belmontB
      belmont @ruckage
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      @ruckage Thanks. It's an HDMI screen.

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        rdyott @ruckage
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        @ruckage
        ahh my bad havent updated in a while

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          sobrator
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          Hey man. I fell in love with your theme as soon as i discovered. Great job! It just needs some adjustements to be perfect. These are my suggestions:

          -Game description starts scrolling down too fast (faster you can read), and then stays in the middle way too much. Then when it reaches the end it goes back to top instantly. Can this be improved?

          -Is it possible to reduce the system font? Maybe it would look better (and show more text) with -1 or -2 font size?

          -I dont know if retropie allows this, but is there any way to add a mark, an icon, or change the color of the roms marked as favorites?

          -Scrapping sites label 2 players games as: "1-2 players" instead of "2 players". The theme is only allowing 1 character in that tag. Can you adjust this so it can show up to 3 characters? Anyway, I know this can be fixed editing the gamelist xmls.

          -And I'm suggesting a new system that matches your awesome style: PINBALLS. I have that category for the 4 PSX Pro Pinball games. I made this placeholder that barely reminds your style but i'm not really happy with it

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          I'm sure you will do something a lot better.

          Thank you for your great job.

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          • ruckageR
            ruckage @sobrator
            last edited by ruckage

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

            Hey man. I fell in love with your theme as soon as i discovered. Great job! It just needs some adjustements to be perfect. These are my suggestions:

            -Game description starts scrolling down too fast (faster you can read), and then stays in the middle way too much. Then when it reaches the end it goes back to top instantly. Can this be improved?

            I have no control over that - it's just the way EmulationStation works.

            -Is it possible to reduce the system font? Maybe it would look better (and show more text) with -1 or -2 font size?

            Not sure what you mean by that but the font sizes have been carefully selected so that everything in the theme fits a specific pixel size - changing that would ruin the look of the theme.

            -I dont know if retropie allows this, but is there any way to add a mark, an icon, or change the color of the roms marked as favorites?

            Again that's nothing to do with the theme, that EmulationStation so you would need to ask in the relevant forum but I think the answer is currently no.

            -Scrapping sites label 2 players games as: "1-2 players" instead of "2 players". The theme is only allowing 1 character in that tag. Can you adjust this so it can show up to 3 characters? Anyway, I know this can be fixed editing the gamelist xmls.

            I'm afraid you'll have to just edit your gamelist as changing that would again require modifying the font sizes etc. which would compromise the look of the theme. I've not had that issue, the metadata I've scraped lists 2 player as a number 2

            -And I'm suggesting a new system that matches your awesome style: PINBALLS. I have that category for the 4 PSX Pro Pinball games. I made this placeholder that barely reminds your style but i'm not really happy with it

            That's more of a custom collection - I haven't planned any custom collections yet but may do in the future.

            Thank you for your great job.

            I hope you enjoy the theme.

            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

            If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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            • sergioadS
              sergioad @sobrator
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              @sobrator I think the font size is great, however; while I do not know if the favorites can change the list entry on RetroPie (on Recalbox it can) I think it is a great idea

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              • sergioadS
                sergioad @ruckage
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                @ruckage you made an incredible theme

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                • TMNTturtlguyT
                  TMNTturtlguy
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                  I think the theme is great! No need to change things. I think that those who have these great improvement ideas should go ahead and learn how to customize their setups to suite their own needs, after all that is what 3/4 of the fun is with retropie!

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                  • ruckageR
                    ruckage @TMNTturtlguy
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                    @tmntturtlguy
                    For the majority of us it's definitely the tinkering that gives us the most enjoyment with retropie (otherwise we'd finish our projects and probably never come back :) ).

                    SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                    If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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

                      @tmntturtlguy
                      For the majority of us it's definitely the tinkering that gives us the most enjoyment with retropie (otherwise we'd finish our projects and probably never come back :) ).

                      That's funny, my wife said the other day "you spend all day tinkering with screenshots, and menus and covers. Do yu like playing those games at all?" :D

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                      • HexH
                        Hex @sobrator
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                        @sobrator said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                        -Game description starts scrolling down too fast (faster you can read), and then stays in the middle way too much. Then when it reaches the end it goes back to top instantly. Can this be improved?

                        Yea this can be improved. I shall make changes soon. Thanks for letting me know that.

                        Sent from 20,000 leagues under the sea.

                        Powersaver Emulation station : https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
                        ES dev script : https://github.com/hex007/es-dev/blob/master/es-tests.sh

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                        • SystemLogoffSAS
                          SystemLogoffSA
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                          Hey Ruckage, what windows build are you using for testing your theme? You've inspired me to make one, but I want to make sure what I test on supports all the features available.

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                          • ruckageR
                            ruckage @SystemLogoffSA
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                            @systemlogoffsa

                            Hi,

                            @jdrassa as an automated build that should always up to date https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/tag/continuous

                            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                            If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                            • TobiT
                              Tobi
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                              Hi!

                              I adore your themes, they are gorgeous!

                              I run RetroPie on a 5:4 screen (it's what I had lying around), and your themes breaks a little there. I attached a screenshot showing both problems I found.

                              0_1505931749002_IMG_20170920_201602.jpg

                              I have no idea how much effort it would be to fix this, but I'd be grateful if you tried :)

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                              • ruckageR
                                ruckage @Tobi
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                                @tobi

                                What is the resolution of your screen?

                                SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                • TobiT
                                  Tobi @ruckage
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                                  @ruckage sorry for forgetting that. It's 1280x1024.

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                                  • ruckageR
                                    ruckage @Tobi
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                                    @tobi
                                    I'll see what I can do for a future version, unfortunately it takes a bit of time as lots of element have to be tweaked in order to fit a different aspect ratio.

                                    SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                    If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                    • TobiT
                                      Tobi @ruckage
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                                      @ruckage Cool, thanks!

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

                                        @systemlogoffsa

                                        Hi,

                                        @jdrassa as an automated build that should always up to date https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/tag/continuous

                                        It seems like it's a little behind and missing collections looking at the 51 commits since last release for it.

                                        I'll have to bother @jdrassa about it.

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                                          jdrassa @SystemLogoffSA
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                                          @systemlogoffsa The "51 commits" label is inaccurate. It should have the latest build. The process for updating the release doesn't update the associated tag. I need to look into a way to update that. You are not the first to ask about it.

                                          Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                                          • SystemLogoffSAS
                                            SystemLogoffSA @jdrassa
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                                            @jdrassa said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                            @systemlogoffsa The "51 commits" label is inaccurate. It should have the latest build. The process for updating the release doesn't update the associated tag. I need to look into a way to update that. You are not the first to ask about it.

                                            Ah, thank you. I'm looking forward to using it to make a theme. :)

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