Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

slipthru · 7 Mar 2017, 12:44

Install the themes to themes folder /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes folder, i had to create it, then you can choose it in the emulationstation themes which is in the main menu when you press start, go to ui settings and you can choose it there.

slipthru · 7 Mar 2017, 12:53

Your case is awesome @ruckage and I love the themes you have created to, Thanks so much for putting all the time and effort into updating and making them available, I'm just embarking on updating three raspberry pi's a 1, 2 and new pi zero w to retropie 4.1 and will use your themes on all of them.

felleg · 7 Mar 2017, 19:40

@ruckage I think "ports" is missing, too. https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Ports
For what it's worth, here's how it looks in the carbon theme:

ruckage · 7 Mar 2017, 20:02

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

@ruckage I think "ports" is missing, too.

Thanks, added to the list.

ruckage · 8 Mar 2017, 00:54

Just a quick progress report. I've added another 3 systems to both themes this evening (super famicom, vectrex, mame). I'll hopefully have time to do some more tomorrow. Once I've added a few more system I'll release the next version.

MapleStory · 3 Aug 2017, 04:31

@ruckage If possible, please add Dreamcast, Famicom Disk System (FDS), MSX, and Virtualboy! Keep up the great work, your theme is truly one of the greatest looking themes available.

atexplosion · 8 Mar 2017, 07:59

@slipthru I tried that and even restarted it through quitting emulationstation and rebooting, but nothing.

atexplosion · 8 Mar 2017, 08:04

@atexplosion Okay, scratch that. I had to unzip it and transfer it over. Looks great, but it's missing Final Burn Alpha.

FlyingTomahawk · 8 Mar 2017, 09:59

@atexplosion

It's on his "to do list". Be patient and use another theme for now until he gets it done.

ruckage · 8 Mar 2017, 12:57

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

@ruckage If possible, please add Dreamcast, Famicom Disk System (FDS), MSX, and Virtualboy! Keep up the great work, your theme is truly one of the greatest looking themes available.

Glad you like the theme, I've added those systems to the list. Is Dreamcast actually worth playing on a pi? I just can't imagine it would be powerful enough to do a good job.

felleg · 3 Aug 2017, 15:21

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

Is Dreamcast actually worth playing on a pi? I just can't imagine it would be powerful enough to do a good job.

From what I can see in the compatibility list, most Dreamcast games have issues running, but it seems some are playable. I'm surprised myself! From the looks of it, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 run smoothly on a RPi3... lol

backstander · 3 Aug 2017, 19:50

@ruckage

Is Dreamcast actually worth playing on a pi?

It's hit or miss and doesn't work as well as the PSX emulator but I play Star Wars Episode I: Racer (Pod Racing) and it runs pretty well. The only issue is the pre-rendered video cut scenes are a little choppy but you can skip them. I originally played the N64 version of this game back in the day and it didn't have these video cut scenes so I'm used to not seeing them anyways lol. I think the Dreamcast version runs better on the RPi then the N64 version.

MapleStory · 9 Mar 2017, 04:17

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

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

@ruckage If possible, please add Dreamcast, Famicom Disk System (FDS), MSX, and Virtualboy! Keep up the great work, your theme is truly one of the greatest looking themes available.

Glad you like the theme, I've added those systems to the list. Is Dreamcast actually worth playing on a pi? I just can't imagine it would be powerful enough to do a good job.

I actually felt the same way you did until I saw a video on youtbe of a guy showing how Capcom vs SNK 2 ran on RetroPie and had to see for myself. Sure enough, it runs surprisingly well for fighting games! Even Marvel vs Capcom 2 runs well enough to enjoy, some framerate dips here and there but not enough to ruin the experience.

The real surprise was seeing Shenmue in action. It actually runs at full speed for the most part! There's some graphical glitches but just the fact that it runs without completely crippling the Pi is the most impressive thing about it.

b0gsnjir0 · 9 Mar 2017, 05:40

@ruckage my bad for sounding like I'm in a rush. I just thought you were already done and I just can't find it on the thread. Hehe. By the way gear job! I really like the theme.

Squilenator · 9 Mar 2017, 21:29

@ruckage Can you add Nintendo DS to the list, if possible? Wonderfull theme by the way, is everything i wanted.

ruckage · 9 Mar 2017, 22:21

Hi everyone, I just uploaded a new version of the themes to MEGA. Quite a big update this time, I've added 12 new systems - this brings the total supported systems to 32 now. It also includes an edited gamelist font to more closely match the font used by Nintendo.

There may need to be some changes to the MAME and FBA systems as currently I have the scraped artwork showing as a portrait image as I wasn't sure what kind of art is available for these as they are arcade systems - if only screenshots are pulled for these it will need modifying as they will be very stretched.

Download Here --> Nes-Famicom mini themes v1.3.zip

The new systems are:

Vectrex
Super Famicom
MAME
NeoGeo Pocket
NeoGeo Pocket Color
Family Computer Disk System
Playstation
Wonderswan
Wonderswan Color
Final Burn Alpha
Nintendo 64
Sega CD

Here's an animated GIF slideshow of the new systems from the Nes-mini theme.

DigitalMonkey · 9 Mar 2017, 22:44

Awesome work as usual! :) Will try that out later.

Just one thing that I thought of looking at those .gifs : would it be possible to 'jazz' up the background pictures for the systems that have a plain background at the moment (Gameboy/Atari 2600, not sure what others have it)?

So, for Gameboy, instead of a plain green background it'd be something like this:

lostless · 9 Mar 2017, 22:45

@ruckage very nice. I think arcade should be a mixture of the mame and fba, as that is pretty much what it is.

ruckage · 9 Mar 2017, 23:02

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

Awesome work as usual! :) Will try that out later.

Just one thing that I thought of looking at those .gifs : would it be possible to 'jazz' up the background pictures for the systems that have a plain background at the moment (Gameboy/Atari 2600, not sure what others have it)?

I am thinking about that but not sure yet. Initially to keep with the look of the NES-mini theme I was keeping things quite minimal, with just a few of the systems with a bit more flair but I've gotten a bit carried away with a lot of the systems and I was a bit concerned that I was adding too much. I do have some basic rules I'm following - any background has to have some connection to the console (e.g. based on box art, boot screens etc.) and also a limited color palette.

Part of me thinks that the older systems should be left as is - they were more basic machines so the more basic themes suits them. And the gameboy theme I quite like as is - it just mimics the look of a gameboy screen with that pallete without being too busy - though if I do decide to add a background it will be based on tetrominos as Tetris was the iconic gameboy game. Hmmm... think I might just try that now to see how it looks - I'll post a picture soon.

DigitalMonkey · 9 Mar 2017, 23:38

I think something minimal but not just a plain color. I really like the background style for the NGP. If you get stuck for ideas for other systems I reckon that background but in the color scheme of the system would do the job (and/or the Wonderswan background but keeping with the systems color scheme)

I think the PS1, SEGA CD & N64 (& to a lesser extent the FBA & NGPC) backgrounds kinda look out of place.

[Dont want to sound negative but all feedback is good feedback etc!]