SNES mini theme

mitu · 20 Apr 2022, 14:18

@Hadouken We can't modify what we don't have, right ? The theme posted here doesn't have these modifications.

Also, @ruckage's theme has the following

You are free to modify the theme for your personal use only - please do not share modified versions of this theme.

so I tend to see distributed modifications of this theme as against the desire of the original author. You better ask the author of said modifications for advice. Thank you.

Hadouken · 20 Apr 2022, 16:17

@mitu This is something for personal use. I though someone could help me to edit this particular issue as im kinda noob with this. Maybe I asked in the wrong place. I dont wanna bother the autor or anyone. Sorry

mitu · 20 Apr 2022, 16:22

@Hadouken said in SNES mini theme:

Maybe I asked in the wrong place

Indeed, since the theme posted here or available in RetroPie is not the theme you're actually using and asking for help.

Hadouken · 20 Apr 2022, 19:47

@mitu This is a screenshot using the original theme downloaded from this thread. It has the same issue. I havent modified anything on it.

Anyway, as I mentioned I dont wanna bother anyone here. I just thought that asking this on the original theme thread will be ok, maybe i was wrong. I will try to ask somewhere else where someone could help me. Thanks.

mitu · 20 Apr 2022, 19:51

@Hadouken I'm confused. You initially said the theme is modified - is your first screenshot from the modified theme or from the theme posted here ?

EDIT: If the issue appears also with the theme posted here (your 2nd screenshot), then it's probably an EmulationStation issue - since the favourite 'star' it's added by EmulationStation and it's not part of the theme. Which version/variant of EmulationStation are you using ?

Hadouken · 20 Apr 2022, 20:30

@mitu yes, the first screenshot was a modified version of it(i used it because works well on my crt by default) but the second one is the pure original theme (it looks blurry).
And yes, probably is an emulationstation problem. I'm using the theme on emulationstation-de. Wich comes preconfigured for windows. https://es-de.org/
I know this is a RetroPie forum so I understand if you can't help me with q desktop problem.
I tried other themes on it and the star issue was not a problem. So I thought that maybe tweaking some theme parameters or adding some code lines could fix it.

Thanks

mitu · 20 Apr 2022, 20:42

@Hadouken Normally I'd say to resize the image (favourite star) that comes with ES-De - but seems to be a .svg file, so I think it may be scaled by ES based on the text height and resizing it won't help.
You can remove the game label placeholders so that they're not displayed by the theme - these are the images called 'gamelist_background_xyz.png' from the art folder. Try renaming them and see if this will make them disappear.

Hadouken · 20 Apr 2022, 22:01

@mitu actually I want the stars to be present. I want some indicator of favorites on the list. I just want them to not destroy the layout. And if it's possible, to change the star to other icon that matches the theme better (I can design this by myself). I edited some of the theme code and yes, the star size is affected by other parameters. But I can't correct the issue. Other themes I tried the star is smaller and has the same size of the text.

mitu · 21 Apr 2022, 04:00

@Hadouken said in SNES mini theme:

actually I want the stars to be present

The stars would still be present, since they're not part of the theme. What I suggested was to remove the background tiles that are no longer aligned with the gamelist text.

esteban.canales · 21 Apr 2022, 13:42

greetings to all from Chile! sorry for my bad English.

I have a little problem, I did a clean install of RetroPie and downloaded this cool theme, but the lists look like this to me.

Do you know how to solve it?

sleve_mcdichael · 21 Apr 2022, 15:19

@esteban-canales said in SNES mini theme:

Do you know how to solve it?

Yeah. Go back about 40 posts to #930:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/273774

esteban.canales · 21 Apr 2022, 15:41

@sleve_mcdichael
thankful teacher

Hadouken · 21 Apr 2022, 17:56

@mitu After several attempts I found the problem. is the font. Its smaller than it should be. It doesn't fill the full height space but the star does,so it looks bigger.

Imgema · 3 Nov 2022, 17:41

What's the status of this theme? Is there an updated package that's more recent than the github 2018 version?

mitu · 3 Nov 2022, 19:56

@Imgema No, at least not from @ruckage.

FistfulOfDice · 21 Dec 2022, 23:07

@gomisensei Sorry to bug you with what's probably a very basic question, but how can I edit the config file on the pi itself? I don't seem to be able to get to it via my Windows machine and I don't know the folder structure on the pi itself/

sleve_mcdichael · 22 Dec 2022, 00:14

@FistfulOfDice the config file is at /etc/emulationstation/themes/snes-mini/config.xml. There are two (2) problems with this location:

it is not accessible by the network share (\\retropie)
it requires root access to modify

Both of these can be remedied by copying the entire snes-mini folder into your ~/.emulationstation/themes folder. This copy of the theme will be used first, if it exists; also it is on the network share, and it may be freely edited by the regular user without root access. Make sure the themes folder exist at the location first (it doesn't, by default; you have to create it with):

mkdir -p ~/.emulationstation/themes

...then copy the snes-mini folder there with:

cp -r /etc/emulationstation/themes/snes-mini/ ~/.emulationstation/themes/

...then, the config (and the rest of the theme) should be accessible on the network share from your PC, at:

\\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\themes\snes-mini

TPR · 29 Dec 2022, 20:50

Did anyone ever make a "Coleco ADAM" icon for this theme?

han · 13 Jul 2023, 02:42

@TPR said in SNES mini theme:

Did anyone ever make a "Coleco ADAM" icon for this theme?

Blasterbrew · 27 Jul 2023, 21:56

Hello, I am currently doing a few modifications to the snes mini theme for my personal retropie and I am wondering if anyone made a pixelated ScummVM logo that matches the other system logos found on the bottom left of the game list that matches the theme? I added a link to an example of what I am talking about. I already created a custom background and main page icon for ScummVM, but I just need a bottom left logo. I found a basic png one on the web, but its too small and doesn't match the pixelated style as the other consoles. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated :).

https://ibb.co/p1Rcm1Z