SNES mini theme

Koji Kenshiro

I recently found out about this excellent theme a few days ago from ETA Prime and I plan on using it for a Raspberry Pi 3 build I'm thinking of doing. Thank you Ruckage for making this great theme for us! :)

jdrassa

@ruckage fyi, since you are using theme variables, you shouldn't have to wrap the carousel theming with <feature supported="carousel">.

Hyruleslink

@triquick Thanks for the tip! I just followed this guide and it works great!

chinjw

I not sure this is bug or something else...
I have a set of snes game(with chinese name) and i found that when i apply this theme it will get "segmentation fault" easily while i browse around the game list (with chinese name).

Initially i suspect that it might be related with my roms...
but it seem not the reason as i found that it work perfectly on other theme...
thus ... i believe that might be something that not compatible with this theme.
Anyone can advise on this..?
sorry for my bad english...

PokeEngineer

@chinjw

Probably something to do with the font of this theme. By the looks of it, I don't think the font supports Chinese characters.

jmv

@ruckage just want to say awesome work I love this theme and I was wondering if you have any plan to make a sega genesis 2 carousel_logo and a launching icon too. Thank you!

ruckage

@jdrassa said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage fyi, since you are using theme variables, you shouldn't have to wrap the carousel theming with <feature supported="carousel">.

Thanks, that will just be bit of left over that I forgot to delete from when it was needed in the past, I'll remove it in the next update.

ruckage

@chinjw said in SNES mini theme:

I not sure this is bug or something else...
I have a set of snes game(with chinese name) and i found that when i apply this theme it will get "segmentation fault" easily while i browse around the game list (with chinese name).

Initially i suspect that it might be related with my roms...
but it seem not the reason as i found that it work perfectly on other theme...
thus ... i believe that might be something that not compatible with this theme.
Anyone can advise on this..?
sorry for my bad english...

As @PokeEngineer said the fonts don't support Chinese characters so that would probably be the problem.

ruckage

@jmv said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage just want to say awesome work I love this theme and I was wondering if you have any plan to make a sega genesis 2 carousel_logo and a launching icon too. Thank you!

I could maybe make an alternative icon but the only real difference with the megadrive/genesis 2 is cosmetic, it's still the same system.

skr1b

@ruckage How come I cannot find this on ESTHEMES? Someone told me it was up... but i only see the nes-theme

vice86

Awesome theme...great job!! I have a NESc and SNESc but rather use my Pi versions! Threw an old Pi2 into a NESPi case, using your NES Mini them, added the theme music to it and a custom bezel/overlay I made and I'm in NES heaven now. Thanks for the hard work and great theme! Now I just need the NESPi guys to make a SNESPi case so I can make a SNES only Pi station :)

Here's the NES overlay I made, now I just have to create one for SNES...will be the same look just different console/colors/images.

HAILtoSTARSCREAM

@skr1b update RetroPie Setup script, then you should see it.

pomme

Sorry if I missed this in all the comments, I did look. Wondering if there's a way for me to theme my custom collections. This theme is awesome, but it's also very different from the themes I've played with before.

I've made icons for the 2 custom collections. In other themes you just create a same-named system folder and ES picks up on it. Wonder where I would go in this theme to tweak a little to theme my custom collections.

They aren't as good as what ruckage would make on his own, but these are the 2 icons I made. I don't know the trick to get that blocky, aliased script like he does.

nes classic snes classic

skr1b

@hailtostarscream cool-thanks man, ill try that

vice86

I tweaked it a little for my personal use just to get it a little closer to the SNESc UI:
Extended the Power and Reset buttons to match original
Swapped nav bar/logo spots and replaced the stock logo with the original SNES logo as used on SNESc
Added the SNESc music to play as you browse games/config
Recreated the original background image as close as I could just by going off videos on youtube of walkthroughs
And I used Pomme's SNESc icon to see what it would look like..thanks :)

While the SNES outline background is closer to the original, i like the SMB background just for the pop it adds.

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Cybermen

@pomme many thanks, the icons look great. Could you perhaps make an icon with a PAL SNES?

chinjw

@ruckage
hmmm..... I'm wondering if i could change the current font type to others...
I damn like this theme....

ruckage

@vice86 said in SNES mini theme:

I tweaked it a little for my personal use just to get it a little closer to the SNESc UI:
Extended the Power and Reset buttons to match original
Swapped nav bar/logo spots and replaced the stock logo with the original SNES logo as used on SNESc
Added the SNESc music to play as you browse games/config
Recreated the original background image as close as I could just by going off videos on youtube of walkthroughs
And I used Pomme's SNESc icon to see what it would look like..thanks :)

While the SNES outline background is closer to the original, i like the SMB background just for the pop it adds.

Glad you're having fun with this. There are reasons for the design choices I made though.

The reason for having the logo at the top instead of the bottom on the USA snes mode is that some of the system logos are quite long. You can force them to fit in the space at the bottom but in doing so they no longer match the same pixel size as the rest of the theme which is a big part of the overall look of the theme.

Moving the help icons to the bottom made more sense because of the logo size issue, however even the help icons wouldn't fit in that space if I kept the buttons as big as they are on the SNES- Classic. So it made more sense to reduce the size of the purple buttons.

Both of these differences will also be essential for when I add the 4:3 aspect ratio support.

It was never a priority to be an exact match anyway, it's not possible to exactly mimic a snes-classic style ui in EmulationStation so the aim was just to create a theme with a similar look and feel and with a consistent look for all systems.

ruckage

@pomme said in SNES mini theme:

Sorry if I missed this in all the comments, I did look. Wondering if there's a way for me to theme my custom collections. This theme is awesome, but it's also very different from the themes I've played with before.

I've made icons for the 2 custom collections. In other themes you just create a same-named system folder and ES picks up on it. Wonder where I would go in this theme to tweak a little to theme my custom collections.

Not quite as easy on my theme as on others due to the structure of the theme, you need an icon for both US/Europe, a logo for both USA/Europe and a background for each of the background types. Adding these 2 collections would make a lot of sense so I will make official versions in an update for both USA and Europe.

I don't know the trick to get that blocky, aliased script like he does.

:D, no trick to getting the 'blocky, aliased script', you get it by drawing it by hand.

ruckage

@chinjw said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage
hmmm..... I'm wondering if i could change the current font type to others...
I damn like this theme....

You can't just swap out the font unfortunately as the gamelist would no longer line up correctly. It may be possible for me to add if a suitable font that supports Chinese characters can be found, then I could maybe add it as an alternative font that could be selected in the options. I'll see what I can do.