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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @ruckage
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      @ruckage awesome! I love these themes. Just curious though, why didnt you put the logos on bottom and the button info up top?

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      • ruckageR
        ruckage @edmaul69
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        @edmaul69 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

        @ruckage awesome! I love these themes. Just curious though, why didnt you put the logos on bottom and the button info up top?

        Hi @edmaul69,

        Honestly, I hadn't even considered putting the logos at the bottom. For me personally it seems far more natural to have them at the top as they are essentially a title.

        SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

        If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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        • DigitalMonkeyD
          DigitalMonkey Banned
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          Not sure if its been asked already but any chance of adding a PS1 section?

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          • ruckageR
            ruckage
            last edited by ruckage

            New versions are finally ready for you to try (it's been hard work.) Downloads are available at mega (links below).

            Famicom-mini ES Theme v1.2
            Nes-mini ES Theme v1.2

            These have both been almost completely remade to target 1080p (they won't work correctly at other resolutions). I've also added 7 new systems to each. They now support the following:

            NES
            Atari 2600
            Atari 5200
            Atari 7800
            Commodore 64
            Gameboy
            Gameboy Color
            Intellivision
            Sega Game Gear
            Sega Master System
            PC Engine
            TurboGrafx 16
            ZX Spectrum
            Retropie setup menu
            Famicom
            Gameboy Advance
            Super Nintendo
            Neo Geo
            Megadrive
            Genesis
            Colecovision

            @DigitalMonkey said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

            Not sure if its been asked already but any chance of adding a PS1 section?

            I'll put it on the todo list, if anyone has requests for other systems let me know here.

            nes-mini preview v1.2
            0_1488499832766_famicom-mini v1.2 preview.jpg

            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

            If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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            • DigitalMonkeyD
              DigitalMonkey Banned
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              Awesome work! :)

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                momaw27
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                Thank you for all your hard work @ruckage !!!!

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                • M
                  momaw27
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                  @ruckage Finally had a chance to test out the theme. First off it's MUCH faster than the previous versions.

                  But, I am running into a problem with not being able to see the menu art (system selector art)... everything else works great.

                  Anyone else having this issue?

                  Thanks again for my one of my top 3 favorite themes!

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                    jawenforcement @ruckage
                    last edited by jawenforcement

                    @ruckage Absolutely amazing. This is my favorite Emulation Station theme ever. YOU KILLED IT!

                    Two things though:

                    • System logos on the main screen aren't working for me (I'm using a Pi Zero)
                    • Game names with accents and some other symbols don't display correctly. (i.e. Pokémon or 720º)

                    Otherwise, this is perfect.

                    I also added the NES Classic music using the tutorial you linked and runcommand splash screens to my build so it feels even more complete.

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                    • DigitalMonkeyD
                      DigitalMonkey Banned
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                      Installed the theme on the PI3 I use for testing/messing around on & all was good.

                      Until i updated RetroPie to the latest version then all (apart from Gameboy for some reason) the system logos on the main menu vanished.

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                      • lostlessL
                        lostless @ruckage
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                        @ruckage said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                        I'll put it on the todo list, if anyone has requests for other systems let me know here.

                        Keep it up, but a small request as it seems many themes forget this but Kodi. I like kodi in its own menu. If that, ps1 and arcade are done, that pretty much covers everything I do with retropie. Maybe one day I'll look into how to to make a theme and add them myself as I'm quite handy with photoshop.

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                        • ruckageR
                          ruckage @jawenforcement
                          last edited by

                          Thanks for the replies everyone.

                          • System logos on the main screen aren't working for me

                          I honestly can't understand why the logos wouldn't display, it works correctly on my Pi 3 with Retropie 4.1.
                          For those having this problem can you tell me what version of Retropie you are using. Also have you tried restarting the pi after changing the theme?

                          • Game names with accents and some other symbols don't display correctly. (i.e. Pokémon or 720º)

                          This is a known issue and is due to the font only supporting ascii character set. To be honest, I don't know how I can fix this as I had a great deal of trouble getting the gamelist to display how I wanted it to due to a bug in ES textlist spacing and had to resort in the end to manually editing a font to make it work.

                          It may be that some of the characters are just missing completely in which case as long as they are part of the standard ascii set I can add those characters to the font.

                          SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                          If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                          • DigitalMonkeyD
                            DigitalMonkey Banned
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                            Missing system logos: I installed the theme on a fresh install of Retropie (4.1). All was fine. After I updated to the latest version (4.1.17?) is when they vanished.

                            Tried restarting RetroPie , rebooting the Pi3 & deleting the theme & adding it again but still the same.

                            Think I might try a fresh install of RetroPie, update it to the latest THEN install the theme.

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                            • ruckageR
                              ruckage @DigitalMonkey
                              last edited by

                              @DigitalMonkey
                              Thanks for the reply. I have another pi3 so I will put the latest retropie onto it and test myself as well though it sounds like something may have changed with ES in the latest version which has broken the theme :(

                              SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                              If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                              • DigitalMonkeyD
                                DigitalMonkey Banned
                                last edited by

                                Just tried installing RetroPie, updating to latest version & then installing the theme.

                                Still the same problem.

                                Best not update my other Pi just yet!

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                                • RionR
                                  Rion @ruckage
                                  last edited by Rion

                                  @ruckage Loving the theme!

                                  Small request for.. Well not so small hehe

                                  Mame
                                  Arcade
                                  Neo Geo Arcade
                                  Oddesy 2
                                  DosBox
                                  ScummVM
                                  Neo Geo Pocket
                                  Neo Geo Pocket Color
                                  Wonderswan
                                  Game & watch

                                  FBNeo rom filtering
                                  Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                                  Fba Arcade Bezels
                                  Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                                  • ruckageR
                                    ruckage @DigitalMonkey
                                    last edited by

                                    @DigitalMonkey said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                    Just tried installing RetroPie, updating to latest version & then installing the theme.

                                    Still the same problem.

                                    Best not update my other Pi just yet!

                                    I've setup a test machine and testing myself as well. Everything works perfectly on 4.1 so I'm updating to the latest now and will be able see what happens myself though it's looking more and more like something has changed in the latest ES version.

                                    @Rion said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                    @ruckage Loving the theme!

                                    Small request for.. Well not so small hehe

                                    Mame
                                    Arcade
                                    Neo Geo Arcade
                                    Oddesy 2
                                    DosBox
                                    ScummVM
                                    Neo Geo Pocket
                                    Neo Geo Pocket Color
                                    Wonderswan
                                    Game & watch

                                    Lol - small request ;)
                                    I'll add them to the list - regarding 'Neo Geo Arcade' doesn't the Neo geo I've already added cover it as it doesn't specify AES or MVS?

                                    SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                    If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                    • RionR
                                      Rion @ruckage
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                                      @ruckage Yea you are right. It was kind of a long shot. Wantet to configure fba to select Arcade Mode using uni-bios on a MVS Arcade Machine. Then use the other one you already made with uni-bios selecting NeoGeo Console mode.

                                      FBNeo rom filtering
                                      Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                                      Fba Arcade Bezels
                                      Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                                      • ruckageR
                                        ruckage @Rion
                                        last edited by

                                        @Rion said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                        @ruckage Yea you are right. It was kind of a long shot. Wantet to configure fba to select Arcade Mode using uni-bios on a MVS Arcade Machine. Then use the other one you already made with uni-bios selecting NeoGeo Console mode.

                                        Ah right. The background on the one I made is based on the arcade cabinets so probably suits arcade more anyway. I tend to associate Neo Geo with arcade more than home console as they were pretty much out of reach price wise for most people (though I really wanted one as a teenager).

                                        SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                        If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                        • RionR
                                          Rion @ruckage
                                          last edited by

                                          @ruckage Me to. But the price was astronomical.

                                          FBNeo rom filtering
                                          Mame2003 Arcade Bezels
                                          Fba Arcade Bezels
                                          Fba NeoGeo Bezels

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                                          • ruckageR
                                            ruckage @Rion
                                            last edited by ruckage

                                            @Rion said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                            @ruckage Me to. But the price was astronomical.

                                            I know, £200+ for each game from what I remember (not sure what that would be today with inflation).

                                            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                            If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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