SNES mini theme

KillerQ

@dankcushions
Would you mind adding this to the ES themes installer (like you did for my Nes Mini theme) or is that something I can do myself?

Great work.

I gotta say, the thing that I find most appealing about new themes is how they handle unknown systems (without artwork or logos, etc). The trick is to make the default font or icon look like part of the default theme - as opposed to ugly text hat looks out of place.

This keeps me from feeling obligated to always add my custom logos and artwork. Saves me time. Lol.

I noticed that retropie 4.3 has made much improvement in this respect.

sergioad

@ruckage yes

NKO

This is brilliant! This theme should be the default one in Retropie, since it looks so clean you could use it as marketing advantage!

PS: This theme is lacking MSX, otherwise it's perfect :-)

sergioad

@nko Sadly RetroPie could be sued if it had this theme by default, Nintendo is realy protective with all things Nintendo

ruckage

@nko Glad you like the theme.

I think Carbon is the perfect default theme for ES, it supports all the systems and it's a nice clean look. A lot of the fun with retropie comes from customising it to your own tastes though and that's where all the different themes come in and there a lots of amazing themes available to suit any taste.

sergioad

@ruckage That is true :) right now I am using Carbon as my default because I am also using the Carvon video splashscreen and my custom Carbon launch images with SNES mini as secundary theme

lilbud

@ruckage Not sure if this could be of any use to you or not but...
https://i.imgur.com/Z3Dcdsc.png

ruckage

@lilbud Thanks. I've already drawn everything so I technically don't need it but it's cool to see. There are some difference, but it's mostly deliberate. I may use it to adjust a few colours as mine were drawn by hand based on youtube videos so it's possible a few of the colours are way off (not that it really matters).

Where did you find the image - have they dumped the European and Japanese version yet as I'd like to see those too.

lilbud

@ruckage said in SNES mini theme:

@lilbud Thanks. I've already drawn everything so I technically don't need it but it's cool to see. There are some difference, but it's mostly deliberate. I may use it to adjust a few colours as mine were drawn by hand based on youtube videos so it's possible a few of the colours are way off (not that it really matters).

Where did you find the image - have they dumped the European and Japanese version yet as I'd like to see those too.

I found it on the snesminimods subreddit over on Reddit. As the kernel is dug threw, more images may be found.

ruckage

@lilbud
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on that subreddit then.

skj

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skj

@lilbud said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage Not sure if this could be of any use to you or not but...
https://i.imgur.com/Z3Dcdsc.png

Cool, do you have a link to the subreddit post?

lilbud

@skj I think this is it: https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/735r90/snes_mini_sprite_palette/

FatWhiteLump

I'm still fairly new to RetroPie, so there might be a really obvious answer to this.

Is it possible to have an icon and background for "Collections" with this theme?

https://i.imgur.com/G1z9H9S.jpg

Is it possible to put individual icons for an individual collection? I have a SNES Classic Collection here but it just shows a random game.

https://i.imgur.com/AIhBk7C.jpg

ruckage

@fatwhitelump
Hi. In answer to your first question - I'm actually working on custom collections right now.
Regarding picking the preview art for collections, I don't think so.
It's possible to have individual icons/backgrounds for each collection that shows up on the carousel but that would involve me creating individual icons/backgrounds for every possible collection which can quickly get out of hand. I will probably do a few select special collections but not just yet.

greekmanx

@ruckage i myself would be more then happy with a collections menu like some themes do so you go to collections and all collections are listed in a list. The need for individual collections I feel are not necessary as a collections menu works and doesn't hurt the theme look and would be a lot easier on you to make then making each custom collection.

For now I turned off my collections in favor of you theme too good to changed just for collections

FatWhiteLump

@ruckage Oh, cool. Glad to hear collection support is coming.

I wasn't expecting you to make custom collection icons, that would be insane, I was just curious if it was possible to set my own.

ruckage

@greekmanx said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage i myself would be more then happy with a collections menu like some themes do so you go to collections and all collections are listed in a list.

Thanks, that's exactly what I'm working on. I'm just sorting out an Icon, logo and backgrounds.

@fatwhitelump said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage Oh, cool. Glad to hear collection support is coming.

I wasn't expecting you to make custom collection icons, that would be insane, I was just curious if it was possible to set my own.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem so, though @pjft would be able to give you a definitive answer in the collections thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11321/theme-changes-attention-theme-makers-upcoming-game-collections-in-es

n0signal

Sorry to hijack a Retropie theme thread but @ruckage will you be bringing this and the NES theme over to Recalbox also? I'm sure many including myself would donate for your efforts.

Regarding the Retropie theme, looks amazing! I was linked here by ETA Prime who gave you a shout out on YouTube.

ruckage

@n0signal
I'd really like to and have promised to do so in the past, I'll need to look into it more though to see how the version of ES differs for recalbox as the version of ES retropie uses has had lots of changes/addition the past year and my themes rely on a lot of the new additions in order to work correctly.