SNES mini theme

ruckage

@earendr
Sounds like it's the converter causing the issue, my guess is that the pi is only outputting a low resolution when connecting via it. You may be able to force it to output at 1080p but you'd need to check online how to do that.

Regarding the players, you're correct that is a bug I hadn't noticed, it's fixed now and will be in the next update.

If you'd rather not wait for the update you can open the snes mini theme folder, open the layouts folder, then open the setup.xml file.

Find the section labeled <text name="md_players"> and change the <size> line to the following:

		<text name="md_players">
			<alignment>left</alignment>
			<size>0.05 0.0555555555555556</size>
		</text>

UncleSpooky

@ruckage

Hey, thanks for replying. I know the holidays have to be busy.

I made sure to change everything from 1-4 etc to numbers originally to make sure it worked, and it works on 1080p but not 720p. Here's what it looks like on 720p for anything above 1 player.

Pic is here because apparently I can't into this board stuff

It seems like the icon may be too large for the margins somehow? I'm not sure though.

ruckage

@unclespooky
See the post I made directly above yours.

UncleSpooky

@ruckage
Perfect, I'll test it when I'm home. Thanks so much man! Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Earendr

@ruckage

I was only using that at the time while I was setting up my brother's Christmas gift, so once I found out it worked with a normal HDMI cable it sort of became a moot issue. But thanks all the same for taking some time to puzzle it out. If I'm forced to use the cable again I'll see if I can figure out what the pi is doing in terms of resolution.

When I visit my brother next to finish adding the final setup touches I'll be sure to apply your player fix. Thanks for all the work on the theme as a long time snes fan I feel like it was really the icing on the cake and the thing my build was missing.

Hope your holidays are going well!

b0ardw4rp

First off, this theme is fantastic :D

I'm setting up ES on a Windows based PC so I've got a few emulators that are missing from Retropie: PS2, GC, Wii, WiiU, 3DS, Sega Saturn. Any chance of these being added in an update? Alternately, if there's a template image I could try doing my own.

Virtualman

Anyone have Scummvm for snesmini theme? I added personal collection with artwork and looks awesome! Force to use another theme do so it looks good :)

Super Retropie

I decided to play around a little with @ruckage 's theme.

Went for more of an arcade look instead of game systems. What do you guys think?

S3Nseii

@kal-el-1981 looks good u doing on any system or only on arcade?

Hyruleslink

@kal-el-1981 Looks too busy and doesn't really fit the retro, old school theme.

danielmewhouse

@hyruleslink said in SNES mini theme:

@kal-el-1981 Looks too busy and doesn't really fit the retro, old school theme.

Think out of the box for a minute: if he make new icons for systems, this could be the born of a new theme for arcade Bartops!!! For me, the concept looks awesome!!!

One fate: @ruckage made a so good work on this system select screen, that anyone wanna do something similar!!! It's simple, it's beauty, it's great!!! If someone make an update on carbon theme to use this structure but with icons that could be used in any project (kind of GPL licence), could be the new standard theme for Retropie!!!

danielmewhouse

@earendr said in SNES mini theme:

...however I am having problems with how the borders and text line up when using any of the layouts with metadata.

Happy New Year man!!! Sometime ago I've got this exactly problem, with the same DVI to HDMI cable, but for squared resolutions. I've solved this looking on Retropie config menu for a config that changes Raspberry pi video resolution. On my issue, I've found that Retropie thinks the aspect ratio is 5:4 instead of 4:3. Your issue could be an 16:10 aspect ratio instead of 16:9 accepted on the themes. Another solution is change the cable for a HDMI to VGA adapter. This solved my problem 100%

Beaps

Any chance of a Supergrafx icon and the current

cps2 one in Blue & Orange please

platimus

I love this theme. However, I can't get it to work properly. At first, nothing showed up. After looking around and trying different versions of ES, I got @jdrassa latest continuous build for Windows. I'm on Windows, btw. Now, it seems to mostly work but there are still problems. It looks like the problems stem from the '${region]' type of variables defined in the skin. My system doesn't seem to be handling those variables.

Is there another version of ES I should be using? What can I do to get this great skin working? Thanks in advance.

elranzer

EmulationStation v2.7.4RP for Windows (latest continuous build) seems to break this theme. The old nesmini theme still works for this version of ES.

Also, still missing theme graphics for Sega Saturn (this emu doesn't exist for Raspberry Pi, but exists for Windows, maybe Linux).

ruckage

@platimus said in SNES mini theme:

I love this theme. However, I can't get it to work properly. At first, nothing showed up. After looking around and trying different versions of ES, I got @jdrassa latest continuous build for Windows. I'm on Windows, btw. Now, it seems to mostly work but there are still problems. It looks like the problems stem from the '${region]' type of variables defined in the skin. My system doesn't seem to be handling those variables.

Is there another version of ES I should be using? What can I do to get this great skin working? Thanks in advance.

You didn't really give me much to go on as you don't even say what problems you are having....
However I've just downloaded the latest continuous build and there does seem to be a problem with the default variables so that the icons and background images aren't displaying. I've left a message for @jdrassa in the variable support forum so hopefully he'll be able to advise on where the problem lies.
If this isn't the problem you're having you're going to need to provide more info/screenshots.

ruckage

@elranzer said in SNES mini theme:

EmulationStation v2.7.4RP for Windows (latest continuous build) seems to break this theme. The old nesmini theme still works for this version of ES.

Also, still missing theme graphics for Sega Saturn (this emu doesn't exist for Raspberry Pi, but exists for Windows, maybe Linux).

I'm aware of the problem with the latest continuous build and I know that Saturn isn't supported, it will be done when I get around to it (it's not a priority as systems supported by retropie/raspberry pi come first).

elranzer

@ruckage Since the other user didn't provide a screenshot, here's a screenshot...

https://i.imgur.com/50TekKZ.png

platimus

@platimus said:
It looks like the problems stem from the '${region]' type of variables defined in the skin. My system doesn't seem to be handling those variables.

@ruckage said:
You didn't really give me much to go on as you don't even say what problems you are having....
However I've just downloaded the latest continuous build and there does seem to be a problem with the default variables

Sounds like I gave you EXACTLY what to go on, mate. You're welcome.

A Former User

@platimus Don’t act like an ass. He is providing this theme and insane amount of work out of kindness.

This theme was designed for RetroPie. Not EmulationStation on Windows. He is trying to provide support as best he can to everyone’s unique set up but there are so many moving variables to people’s set ups that it’s hard.

If you want support, you should provide actual details: platform, resolution, detailed description of your issue, screenshots. Don’t put the burden on the creator to solve your issues when using the theme in a way it wasn’t designed to be used.