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

      @Stuart2773 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

      @ruckage

      Great update @ruckage

      i found a few things that i dont know if your aware of that can be fixed? :-

      1, the folder example '@ Arcade Games' does not appear as the top if the are games that begin with 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

      2, the '&' symbol on the new font looks wrong compared to the rest of the fonts

      Thanks.

      1. Regarding folders appearing after games beginning with a number - there probably isn't anything I can do about that unless you can find an unused character that would appear before numbers in an alphabetically sorted list- if you know of any then let me know and I can change the folder symbol to that character - it must be a symbol that isn't likely to be used in a game name though and preferably one that can by typed easily on a standard keyboard.

      I personally use the ! symbol to put my folders on top. Sadly, the ! symbol appears in many game names. Food for thought I guess

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      • edmaul69E
        edmaul69 @ruckage
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        @ruckage just to throw a monkey wrench in the ampersand "&". here is another ampersand that nintendo used. this is my favorite of the 3 and the one i use

        alt text

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

          I personally use the ! symbol to put my folders on top. Sadly, the ! symbol appears in many game names. Food for thought I guess

          That's a shame it's such a commonly used symbol or it would be ideal - there must be something else that appears before numbers - I think I need to do some research.

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

          @ruckage just to throw a monkey wrench in the ampersand "&". here is another ampersand that nintendo used. this is my favorite of the 3 and the one i use

          alt text

          That is a nice ampersand, and I agree best so far. I also like the exclamation mark, apostrophe etc. Out of interest do you know what games it was used in?

          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
            last edited by ruckage

            Just did a very quick bit of research and it looks like all these characters should appear before numbers:
            ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * , - . /

            We can definitely rule out ! & ( ) , .'

            That leaves " # $ % * - /

            Some of those probably can't be used in folder names so it's probably an even narrower list but what character do you think would be the best to use (and least likely to appear in a game name)

            Edit: Just checked and it seems after excluding characters that are not allowed we have a choice of: # $ % -

            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

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            • edmaul69E
              edmaul69 @ruckage
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              @ruckage the "mario bros" and "press start k" fonts are the identical and this is the font set from them. The caps, numbers and some characters are from super mario bros. the exclamation point is from super mario bros as well. i cant find the complete super mario bros tileset to verify that the ampersand came from that one as well

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              • ruckageR
                ruckage @edmaul69
                last edited by ruckage

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

                @ruckage the "mario bros" and "press start k" fonts are the identical and this is the font set from them. The caps, numbers and some characters are from super mario bros. the exclamation point is from super mario bros as well. i cant find the complete super mario bros tileset to verify that the ampersand came from that one as well

                Thanks, I just found an image of lots of ripped font sheets from nintendo games which will be very useful.
                alt text

                SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

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                • edmaul69E
                  edmaul69 @ruckage
                  last edited by edmaul69

                  @ruckage i found that too. You should download "nintendo nes font" and "classic nes font" both use the same "&" you use but they have other stuff. Both fonts has 3 exclamation points. One of them being the one i posted

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                  • ruckageR
                    ruckage @edmaul69
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                    @edmaul69
                    Wouldn't do any good downloading those fonts as they wouldn't work with the theme but I can easily edit those few characters into the current font using the font rips as a guide.

                    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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                    • edmaul69E
                      edmaul69 @ruckage
                      last edited by edmaul69

                      @ruckage yeah thats what i figured. But at least you have a guide to help your font set. And their are alternate fonts for I, K, O, P, Q and R. Nintendo was weird for changing a couple font characters between some games and even in the same game.

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                      • ruckageR
                        ruckage
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                        Regarding the folder icon would anyone like to give any input into which character to use?

                        We have a choice of:
                        # $ % -

                        I think # may be the best option as I can't think of any game name that would use that symbol and for other themes without an edited font the # symbol would still be quite a good way to distinguish folders.

                        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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                        • SquilenatorS
                          Squilenator @ruckage
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                          @ruckage Definitely "#"

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                          • Stuart2773S
                            Stuart2773 @ruckage
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                            @ruckage

                            choose # :)

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                            • edmaul69E
                              edmaul69 @ruckage
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                              @ruckage #

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                              • ruckageR
                                ruckage @Squilenator
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                                @Squilenator @Stuart2773 @edmaul69

                                Thanks guys, # it is.
                                I'll update the font now and will also edit those few characters which could be improved (! & etc.)

                                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 finished 3 more systems. No new file to download yet though as I should have a github repository working soon and then hopefully you'll be able to download the themes directly through Retropie.

                                  The 3 new systems I've added are:
                                  Nintendo DS, Odyssey 2, and Arcade. You can see previews below.

                                  0_1489358775180_ds-preview-1.png

                                  0_1489358787051_ds-preview-2.png

                                  0_1489358797959_odyssey-preview-1.png

                                  0_1489358809074_odyssey2-preview-2.png

                                  0_1489358819085_arcade-preview-1.png

                                  0_1489358825939_arcade-preview-2.png

                                  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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                                  • Stuart2773S
                                    Stuart2773 @ruckage
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                                    @ruckage

                                    i really like the arcade theme :)

                                    i think you should add the final version on here too, that gives the option then of downloading it via here and directly through retropie.

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                                    • ruckageR
                                      ruckage @Stuart2773
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                                      @Stuart2773 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                      @ruckage

                                      i really like the arcade theme :)

                                      i think you should add the final version on here too, that gives the option then of downloading it via here and directly through retropie.

                                      Thanks - it was fun making the arcade theme.
                                      I can certainly upload them here as well - I have a few more changes to make though as I need to change the way that the scraped artwork is displayed for all the arcade based systems.

                                      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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                                      • AnalogHeroA
                                        AnalogHero
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                                        Just want to say thank you for your awesome work!

                                        Dont know if you plan doing all systems, but i hope you could add Amiga to your to do list. :)

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

                                          @Stuart2773 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                          @ruckage

                                          i really like the arcade theme :)

                                          i think you should add the final version on here too, that gives the option then of downloading it via here and directly through retropie.

                                          Thanks - it was fun making the arcade theme.
                                          I can certainly upload them here as well - I have a few more changes to make though as I need to change the way that the scraped artwork is displayed for all the arcade based systems.

                                          What do you mean by the way that the scraped artwork is displayed? It means you a planning on adding two formats to choose for boxart (Flyer and Screenshot)?

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

                                            Just want to say thank you for your awesome work!

                                            Dont know if you plan doing all systems, but i hope you could add Amiga to your to do list. :)

                                            No problem - don't know how I didn't think of Amiga - will add it to the list. I haven't tried Amiga emulation yet and I should as I had so many years use out of my old faithful Amiga (I still miss deluxe paint - and did actually continue to use it emulated on my PC not so many years back as there was an iff import plugin for photoshop).

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

                                            What do you mean by the way that the scraped artwork is displayed? It means you a planning on adding two formats to choose for boxart (Flyer and Screenshot)?

                                            No, you can only pick what artwork is scraped using the scraper itself (sselph scraper for example has setting for choosing which artwork to scrape).

                                            What I'm actually doing is for the arcade systems (mame,fba arcade etc.) is changing the way the artwork is scaled. The way artwork is displayed at the minute is that it's stretched to fill the boxart area - this is fine for consoles as they tend to have standardized box sizes.

                                            The trouble with arcade systems is the artwork scraped could vary wildly so could look very distorted. So instead I will just scale the art to fill the boxart area as much as possible without changing the aspect ratio. This means artwork wont fill the boxart holder but also won't be distorted which I think is the best option.
                                            This may also be the best option for other systems that don't have standardized boxes.

                                            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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