SNES mini theme

RedBatman

So will the update be available to download through ES themes or do we have to do it manually again?

PokeEngineer

So will the update be available to download through ES themes or do we have to do it manually again?

Yeah, it will be. You don't need to worry about that stuff, as updates to a theme doesn't affect the availability of the theme on the ES theme downloader. (Wow, I used the word "theme" a lot in this post.)

Stuart2773

@ruckage said in SNES mini theme:

@flyingtomahawk said in SNES mini theme:

That new minimal layout should also take care of the long name issue. There is plenty of space.

I recently moved my setup to a 15 inch 1024x768 monitor and I like all the 4x3 layouts for your themes. The carousel icons are larger and the game list shows what is necessary and it matches the retro feeling.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing regarding long names. I think it should please a few people, @nj180grados being one of them I suspect.

looks really neat as im not a big fan of metadata in themes, personally id reduce the selector bar by about 4 letters/characters just so it does not overwhelm the theme, as for the long file names you do have the option to choose between large or small gamelist fonts.

ruckage

I've now added a choice of 6 different no-meta layouts which gives the choice of 3 different gamelist widths as well as the choice of having the list on the left or right side of the screen.
Hopefully there should be something to suit everyone now :)

GIF preview of the layouts below:

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Stuart2773

@ruckage

thats really cool having a choice of 6 different no-meta layouts,

i was wandering seen as there is no meta data now, would we be able to customise the box art so that no "published" or "played" meta data is displayed too?

Nico

Please make a 4:3-compatible of this beautiful theme. It's fantastic.

ruckage

@stuart2773 said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage

thats really cool having a choice of 6 different no-meta layouts,

i was wandering seen as there is no meta data now, would we be able to customise the box art so that no "published" or "played" meta data is displayed too?

So much for me thinking that there would be something to suit everyone now :D ......

For now the layouts posted will be the ones available. I'm assuming everyone using retropie scrapes their roms so it's not like the published etc. will be blank. I think I have to draw the line somewhere as I've learned that I'll never be able to 100% suit everyone's preference. I may change my mind at a later date but for now you'll have to settle for what I've provided.

ruckage

@nico said in SNES mini theme:

Please make a 4:3-compatible of this beautiful theme. It's fantastic.

Already being worked on, see this post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12583/snes-mini-theme/331

RedBatman

So is this available for Es theme download? Since I went to ES Themes to update the snes mini theme and it says already up to date.

Nico

@ruckage thanks. There are any ETA? Thanks again for your work. :)

PokeEngineer

@redbatman

It has not been released yet.

RedBatman

@pokeengineer Darn, Well thanks for the update.

ruckage

@redbatman said in SNES mini theme:

So is this available for Es theme download? Since I went to ES Themes to update the snes mini theme and it says already up to date.

No, not yet, I'm still working on the update. Be patient, as soon as I've finished it will be uploaded and available to download through the theme manager.

PokeEngineer

@redbatman

Sure, no problem.

Stuart2773

@ruckage said in SNES mini theme:

@stuart2773 said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage

thats really cool having a choice of 6 different no-meta layouts,

i was wandering seen as there is no meta data now, would we be able to customise the box art so that no "published" or "played" meta data is displayed too?

So much for me thinking that there would be something to suit everyone now :D ......

lol it was just something i was thinking about , im sure im sure i should be able to hide it via the base.xml

greedoshotfirst

@ruckage this might've already been addressed but I believe there's an issue with the display of number of players.

e.g. "1" and "2" work fine but "1-2" and "4+" throw a couple small white boxes with what looks like an "f" inside on the screen. It's the special characters "-" and "+" that cause.

ruckage

@greedoshotfirst said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage this might've already been addressed but I believe there's an issue with the display of number of players.

e.g. "1" and "2" work fine but "1-2" and "4+" throw a couple small white boxes with what looks like an "f" inside on the screen. It's the special characters "-" and "+" that cause.

It's not issue with the theme, it's an issue with the scraped info in the gamelist due to it having 1-4 instead of simply 4, the theme relies on it being a single digit for the player icons to work as it's achieved by using a special font (if you go back to the begining of the thread I explain how it was achieved https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12583/snes-mini-theme/41).

If you check the documentation I included with the theme you'll see I've made allowances for this, you can change an option in the config.xml to display the player count as text instead of icons if you wish.

Another alternative is to edit your gamelist.xml. Use notepad++ or similar and search and replace all occurrences of 1-4 and replace with 4 (do the same for any other number of players affected).

Super Retropie

@ruckage this theme is AMAZING!

any chance at ZMachine or Apple II being supported later on?

greedoshotfirst

@ruckage got it. Thanks for the detailed reply. Keep up the great work!

ruckage

@kal-el-1981 said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage this theme is AMAZING!

any chance at ZMachine or Apple II being supported later on?

I should be able to add those at some point. I want to get a default system added as well (will require the latest version of ES) so that even unsupported systems will still display correctly.