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      tavobarrientos
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      Hey @ruckage good job!

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        ruckage
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        Thanks for the replies everyone.

        I think I've fixed the issue with the missing logos in the new version of retropie.

        In the theme I was 'hiding' the logos on the gamelist screen by giving them a size of 0. Not sure why it would affect the system select as I wasn't modifying the size in that section of the theme and it clearly worked fine in the old version of retropie. My fix is simply to physically move them off the screen instead of setting the size to 0 which seems to work.

        Give me a little while to update the theme with the fix and I'll upload a new version.

        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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        • ruckageR
          ruckage
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          I've just applied the fix to all systems and it seems to work perfectly. I'm just going to have a look at the fonts now and see if I can fix them so they display the characters that are currently missing.

          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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            jawenforcement @ruckage
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            @ruckage You are a saint.

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            • ruckageR
              ruckage
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              Good news and bad news regarding fonts. Good news is I've added the accent characters. Bad news is they break the game list as they are then taller than the other characters and it seems that ES uses variable line height per entry so any name with these character is taller and it then stops everything else in the list from lining up correctly.

              Characters such as º though are fine so can be added.

              The only thing I can think to do is to replace accent characters in the font such as é with a standard e. Would this be an acceptable compromise?

              Let me know.

              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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                martincrocenzi
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                Awesome! You're an artist! Congrats, captain!

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                • ruckageR
                  ruckage
                  last edited by ruckage

                  I've uploaded new versions to try.

                  • I've fixed the logos not showing for the nes-mini theme on latest Retropie.

                  • I've edited the gamelist fonts so that special characters are included - accented characters are replaced with equivalent standard character as they broke the gamelist.

                  • I've edited the description font so that the missing alternative apostrophe character is now included.

                  famicom-mini es theme v1.21
                  nes-mini es theme v1.21

                  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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                  • FlyingTomahawkF
                    FlyingTomahawk @ruckage
                    last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                    @ruckage

                    Well done @ruckage !
                    Just curious, did you create the font from scratch?
                    There are fonts like Press Start 2P or the Game Over which include those special characters.

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

                      @ruckage

                      Well done @ruckage !
                      Just curious, did you create the font from scratch?
                      There are fonts like Press Start 2P font or the Game Over font which include those special characters.

                      Thanks.

                      No, I didn't create it from scratch but it came from bitfontmaker2 which is an online bitmap font designer. It just happened that the fonts I chose for the description had the apostrophe missing so I added it myself.

                      I found another version of the gamelist font on bitmaker with the missing characters but I still had to edit it to make sure all characters were the same height and also moved below what the normal baseline would be as there seems to be a bug in ES where altering the line spacing makes the selector bar no longer line up with the text so this was the only way I had to correct it.

                      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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                        momaw27
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                        @ruckage IT WORKS!

                        Thanks dude!!!

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                        • FlyingTomahawkF
                          FlyingTomahawk
                          last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                          @ruckage
                          I am sure you have your hands full at the moment with all the requested systems and the Newgen theme ;-)
                          But if I may add one more to the list, Super Famicom would be one I would love to see.
                          Thanks.

                          btw. running your theme on a Pi Zero connected to a 42" Full HD TV and all looks good here.

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                            b0gsnjir0
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                            New to this group, I saw this theme and it is great ! Lot of hard work put in to this. Is there any updated one that will support most system. Or at least FBA, MAME and PSX?

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                            • fellegF
                              felleg @ruckage
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                              @ruckage said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                              The only thing I can think to do is to replace accent characters in the font such as é with a standard e. Would this be an acceptable compromise?

                              Let me know.

                              Just to reply to this, I find this 100% acceptable. Accents are not worth the trouble, especially if all letters are capitalized (in French, at least, accents are optional on capital letters for that very reason!)

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                              • ruckageR
                                ruckage @momaw27
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                                @momaw27 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                @ruckage IT WORKS!

                                Thanks dude!!!

                                You're welcome :)

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

                                @ruckage
                                I am sure you have your hands full at the moment with all the requested systems and the Newgen theme ;-)
                                But if I may add one more to the list, Super Famicom would be one I would love to see.
                                Thanks.

                                btw. running your theme on a Pi Zero connected to a 42" Full HD TV and all looks good here.

                                Nice to hear it's working well on the zero. I'll add Super Famicom to the list - nice and easy as it will be the same as the Super Nintendo with just a slightly different logo.

                                @b0gsnjir0 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                New to this group, I saw this theme and it is great ! Lot of hard work put in to this. Is there any updated one that will support most system. Or at least FBA, MAME and PSX?

                                Hi and welcome. I released a new version only yesterday but the systems you've listed aren't added yet - give me a little time and I will do my best to get all requested systems added.

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

                                Just to reply to this, I find this 100% acceptable. Accents are not worth the trouble, especially if all letters are capitalized (in French, at least, accents are optional on capital letters for that very reason!)

                                Thanks for that - I had no idea accents were optional for capitals, it's good hear my compromise isn't much of an issue.

                                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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                                  b0gsnjir0
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                                  where can I download it?

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                                    FlyingTomahawk @b0gsnjir0
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                                    @b0gsnjir0

                                    https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8391/cardboard-mini-nes-nes-mini-and-famicom-mini-themes/138

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                                    • cellyC
                                      celly @ruckage
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                                      @ruckage hey man, just out of curiousity did you create or document the build on your cardboard mini? I know the thread kinda went towards your theme (which kicks ass by the way) but I really dig your case.

                                      Currently Playing: Tetris (Gameboy)

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                                      • Stuart2773S
                                        Stuart2773 @ruckage
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                                        @ruckage

                                        i finally got round to testing this after a busy week,

                                        ruckage, you have done an amazing job on this theme :)

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                                        • Stuart2773S
                                          Stuart2773
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                                          @ruckage

                                          I've just came across some more accurate NES/Famicom fonts:-
                                          emulogic & press-start-2p

                                          the letter "O" in these new versions is much better.

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                                            b0gsnjir0 @FlyingTomahawk
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                                            @FlyingTomahawk I have that one it still don't have all console that I need. learning to edit it but its to find logo's and headers. how do add the font on my Mac?

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