SNES mini theme

ruckage

After a bit of a break and good nights sleep I came up with an idea. I'm sticking with option 3 as it still seems to currently be the best option but I'm going to automate the process of generating the needed images by encoding the colour information in all my gamemlist art (basically adding a few pixels in the top corner of each image that relate to colours/transparency). I can then adapt the program I made to read this info and generate all the assets in the chosen colours and sorted into folders ready to transfer over to the theme.

ruckage

I've updated the theme to a version that now incorporates the full nes-mini theme. I have noticed a minor bug since uploading which I'll fix in the next few days (the background art always shows the European variant regardless of whether a USA style is used).

Additions:

nes_mini backgrounds: All the backgrounds from the nes-mini theme reworked slightly to fit this theme. Can also be used in snes modes.

nes_rich_europe and nes_rich_usa: mimics the original nes-mini theme including the system icons, borders, and system specific game lists. Works best with the nes_mini backgrounds

nes_simple_europe and nes_simple_usa: same as above except the gamelist is the same for all systems. Works well with any background.

New no_meta_g layout: New layout that show only the game list and nothing else (as requested by @hhromic )

'nes_rich_europe' using default layout.

'nes_simple_europe' with 'neon_green' background

The nes styles also support all layout options. ('no_meta_c' layout)

0_1538346986495_nes_simple 2.jpg

New 'no_meta_g' layout

0_1538347002311_snes no_meta_g.jpg

Carcayu

I don't know if it something related to the snes mini theme or the system, but I have found 2 problems /suggestions :

If in meta the description is short, I mean, like a phrase, then in the theme the description is cut in one line with a "..." at the end.

If in meta it specified multiple player options, like "1-2 players" then it don't show any icon, when It could show, for example, the 2 players icon

ruckage

@carcayu said in SNES mini theme:

I don't know if it something related to the snes mini theme or the system, but I have found 2 problems /suggestions :

Hi @Cacryu, thanks for the feedback. These aren't actually problems with the theme.

If in meta the description is short, I mean, like a phrase, then in the theme the description is cut in one line with a "..." at the end.

This is just the way EmulationStation deals with long text, if it doesn't fit then it has to be truncated. It's not often a problem though in my experience and not something I can do anything about unfortunately.

If in meta it specified multiple player options, like "1-2 players" then it don't show any icon, when It could show, for example, the 2 players icon

This is explained in the '## CUSTOMISATION GUIDE ##' and is caused by your scraped data and not the theme. The icon system relies on the number of players being defined as single digit eg 1,2,3,4 etc.
However sometimes the scraped data for number of player is in the format '1-2' or '1-3' or '1-4' (this format is redundant in most cases). If you want to use the icons then you will need to edit your 'gamelist.xml' file to replace '1-2' with just '2' and '1-3 'with '3' etc. etc. You can use search and replace to do this.
Alternatively if you don't want to edit your gamelist.xml file you can display text instead of the icons for number of player which is one of the options you can set in the config.xml file

hhromic

New no_meta_g layout: New layout that show only the game list and nothing else (as requested by @hhromic )

Thanks a million @ruckage! much appreciated :) And the new improvements are looking really nice!
I will check it out later at night after work. Kudos!

Carcayu

@ruckage Thanks a lot. Anyway, this is not that EmulationStation cuts long words, which is something I understand, but It delete the last words in short description, let say description with 10 words, for example replacing not one long word, but last 5 words with a "...". Anyway, it is clear is something related to the system, not your theme. Thanks a lot!

skj

@ruckage

Is this the new gridview Verizon?

ruckage

@carcayu said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage Thanks a lot. Anyway, this is not that EmulationStation cuts long words, which is something I understand, but It delete the last words in short description, let say description with 10 words, for example replacing not one long word, but last 5 words with a "...". Anyway, it is clear is something related to the system, not your theme. Thanks a lot!

Ah I see. Regardless it would be down to EmulationStation itself though I've never personally witnessed that happen. If it can be replicated you could report it as a bug on the retropie/emulationstation github.

@skj said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage

Is this the new gridview Verizon?

No not yet, this is just to add nes-mini support.
Once this version is up and running perfectly I want to get it ported over to recalbox, then I can work on grid view and also add the missing systems.

A Former User

The last I saw from @A12C4 was that it wasn't expected that grid view was going to be moved to the stable branch any time soon. Not sure if that changes the calculus of porting the theme to grid view.

phobos1981

@ruckage Great theme. Is there a way to change the spacing between the main menu items, so it looks like the old nes mini theme?

ruckage

@livefastcyyoung said in SNES mini theme:

The last I saw from @A12C4 was that it wasn't expected that grid view was going to be moved to the stable branch any time soon. Not sure if that changes the calculus of porting the theme to grid view.

That's not too much of a problem, I'd seen the same post from @A12C4 as well but I'm sure it will move to the main branch eventually and in the meantime I can just have the gridview version of the theme as a separate download probably hosted on mega.nz for those who want to try it - kind of like a beta version.

ruckage

@phobos1981 said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage Great theme. Is there a way to change the spacing between the main menu items, so it looks like the old nes mini theme?

I'm not sure what you mean, could you clarify what you mean by main menu?

phobos1981

@ruckage Where you select the system. In the nes mini theme 5 systems fit on the screen. Now the spacing between those is a bit wider, so the left and right system is a bit cut off.

ruckage

@phobos1981 said in SNES mini theme:

@ruckage Where you select the system. In the nes mini theme 5 systems fit on the screen. Now the spacing between those is a bit wider, so the left and right system is a bit cut off.

I see what you mean, that was a deliberate decision to have the icons slightly off screen but if you want to change it you can but you'll need to manually modify the setup.xml file. You can find it in the layouts folder of the theme.

Find this section in the setup.xml file:

		<carousel name="systemcarousel">
			<pos>-0.05 0.3</pos>
			<size>1.1 0.4</size>
			<logoSize>0.2 0.3851851851851852</logoSize>
			<maxLogoCount>5</maxLogoCount>
			<zIndex>101</zIndex>
		</carousel>

And change it to this (the pos and size lines are the modified parts).

		<carousel name="systemcarousel">
			<pos>0 0.3</pos>
			<size>1 0.4</size>
			<logoSize>0.2 0.3851851851851852</logoSize>
			<maxLogoCount>5</maxLogoCount>
			<zIndex>101</zIndex>
		</carousel>

phobos1981

@ruckage Yes, that's it. Thanks!

enginesol

Is it compatible with Raspberry Pi 3 B +?

lostless

@enginesol yes

wmarcio

Hi @ruckage u plan update this awesome theme, with new system: 3DO, Wii, GameCube and etc???

Carcayu

Hi @ruckage ! I have adding scummvm games to the retropie, and it seems is it not supported by your theme. Is there any way I could clone one of your system (for example dos box, pc games or whatever) and use it as the style of scummvm, creating an icon by my own? How could I do that?

hhromic

+10 to officially adding ScummVM games support to your great theme, @ruckage !
no rush, though ;)