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    • hooperreH
      hooperre @backstander
      last edited by hooperre

      @backstander This (carousel view) is breathtaking, tbh.

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      • ruckageR
        ruckage
        last edited by ruckage

        Sorry for not replying for a few days and thanks to everyone who has commented.

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

        Hello. I'm from Argentina.

        First of all, sorry for my bad English.

        I became a user just to say how much I like this theme.

        I was about to buy a Nintendo Classic for my daughter, but seeing what I can do with a raspberry and this them I am convinced that I will give her this.

        So... thanks.

        Ps: Is there any chance that you make the american super nintendo system and icon (the white and violet one)?

        Thanks. I'm sure your daughter will be really happy with a Raspberry pi. I will be doing a USA snes variant icon which will be included but the standard Snes will be the default icon.

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

        @ruckage Congratulations on the great work, several users recalbox would like to use this your amazing theme, I can help make the proper adjustments if you authorize.

        Cheers,
        Azvarel

        Hi, I've replied on the recalbox forum. I will be happy to port this over to recalbox myself but it will be once the theme is more or less complete.


        Carousel Icons Update.

        I've have been busy making more icons, only a few left to make now to cover all currently supported systems then I will be able to get the carousel images made and finally get the carousel updated. Here's the latest batch.

        0_1494457284430_icons set 4.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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        • lilbudL
          lilbud @ruckage
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          @ruckage How are you configuring the carousel to show the icons correctly? I've tried with a theme I'm working on and can't get the icons to scale correctly.

          Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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          • ruckageR
            ruckage @lilbud
            last edited by

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

            @ruckage How are you configuring the carousel to show the icons correctly? I've tried with a theme I'm working on and can't get the icons to scale correctly.

            You'll need to give more info on the exact problem (if you can provide the theme for me to look at that would be even better). I admittedly haven't tried it on the raspberry pi itself yet but from my tests on the windows version of ES scaling works perfectly.

            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 @ruckage
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              @ruckage Looks awesome! Just had a quick look at your other posts so sorry if I missed it : will there be a Kodi icon too?

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

                @ruckage Looks awesome! Just had a quick look at your other posts so sorry if I missed it : will there be a Kodi icon too?

                There will, but not until there is a Kodi system :D.
                Actually, you can answer a question for me since you use Kodi. What is the benefit of a separate Kodi section in retropie?

                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 @ruckage
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                  @ruckage There's no real benefit apart from (IMO!) it looks nice having it on the main menu.

                  Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up. Which, for me, is handy as I spend bit more time using Kodi than playing games.

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                  • mediamogulM
                    mediamogul Global Moderator @DigitalMonkey
                    last edited by mediamogul

                    @DigitalMonkey

                    Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up.

                    By default, the systems appear alphabetically. Anyone who has any systems before 'K' will still have to scroll to it. I have 39 systems in the carousel with Kodi being one, so it takes me quite a bit to get there.

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                      Syhles
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                      @ruckage
                      Icon scaling is a pain with the carousel when using icons that have largely different sizes from one another, speaking from making carousels for 3-4 different themes on my personal setup.

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                      • ruckageR
                        ruckage @mediamogul
                        last edited by

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

                        @DigitalMonkey

                        Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up.

                        By default, the systems appear alphabetically. Anyone who has any systems before 'K' will still have to scroll to it. I have 39 systems installed with Kodi being one, so it takes me quite a bit to get there.

                        They actually appear in the order they are defined in the es_systems.cfg (which you are correct is ordered alphabetically by default). To have a system appear first you just need to move it to the top in es_systems.cfg.

                        Still don't really get why Kodi needs it's own section personally - wouldn't a general apps folder be better? (I said this originally regarding steam as well but at least with that you can launch games directly which makes some sense for it to have it's own system.)

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

                          @ruckage
                          Icon scaling is a pain with the carousel when using icons that have largely different sizes from one another, speaking from making carousels for 3-4 different themes on my personal setup.

                          Doesn't it just work like maxsize (I'm fairly sure it does). For example you define what is essentially a bounding box and the image is scaled as much as possible to fit the box without stretching?

                          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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                          • lilbudL
                            lilbud @ruckage
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                            @ruckage So my theme shares the carousel idea with your theme, (Big square icons instead of logos.) Like this one,
                            0_1494461558737_upload-88c04e64-4d12-4035-a508-4d7ecd97fd9e

                            So I would use this code,

                            • <carousel name="systemcarousel">
                              <type>horizontal</type>
                              <pos>0 0</pos> <!-- Currently only y value is used -->
                              <size>1 .354 </size> <!-- currently only height value is used -->
                              <color>00000060</color>
                              <logoScale>1</logoScale>
                              <logoSize>0.364 0.354</logoSize>
                              <maxLogoCount>5</maxLogoCount>
                              </carousel>
                              But the logo would appear stretched and squashed

                            Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                            • mediamogulM
                              mediamogul Global Moderator @ruckage
                              last edited by mediamogul

                              @ruckage

                              They actually appear in the order they are defined in the es_systems.cfg (which you are correct is ordered alphabetically by default). To have a system appear first you just need to move it to the top in es_systems.cfg.

                              Yeah, I've toyed with the idea of creating my own order a few times, but I always land on it more trouble than it's worth.

                              Still don't really get why Kodi needs it's own section personally

                              I do it for the same reason @DigitalMonkey does; just because it looks nice. However, there's no great reason other than that and personally, It wouldn't bother me to keep it in the 'Ports' menu.

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                                Syhles @lilbud
                                last edited by

                                @lilbud
                                Are you talking about the black pocket logo? Right now there's three on screen and I'm using a phone.... and the only that seems off is the pocket logo. Are you using svgs or pngs for the logos?

                                Also that theme looks so clean I'm looking forward to a download.

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                                • ruckageR
                                  ruckage @lilbud
                                  last edited by ruckage

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

                                  @ruckage So my theme shares the carousel idea with your theme, (Big square icons instead of logos.) Like this one,

                                  So I would use this code,

                                  • <carousel name="systemcarousel">
                                    <type>horizontal</type>
                                    <pos>0 0</pos> <!-- Currently only y value is used -->
                                    <size>1 .354 </size> <!-- currently only height value is used -->
                                    <color>00000060</color>
                                    <logoScale>1</logoScale>
                                    <logoSize>0.364 0.354</logoSize>
                                    <maxLogoCount>5</maxLogoCount>
                                    </carousel>
                                    But the logo would appear stretched and squashed

                                  First, you only have one value in the <size> tag - that will cause a problem.
                                  Also, you've commented:

                                  <!-- Currently only y value is used -->
                                  <!-- currently only height value is used -->

                                  That isn't true (unless the windows version is totally different but I believe it's based on the same source as retropie.)

                                  Does the same issue occur on both windows ES and retropie ES?
                                  What resolution / aspect ratio are you using?

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

                                    @DigitalMonkey

                                    Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up.

                                    By default, the systems appear alphabetically. Anyone who has any systems before 'K' will still have to scroll to it. I have 39 systems in the carousel with Kodi being one, so it takes me quite a bit to get there.

                                    Strange.

                                    On Mine its the default (first one you see at start up). Didnt do anything special just this - ['Kodi as its own system'] https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/KODI

                                    Have all the console systems installed too.

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

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

                                      @DigitalMonkey

                                      Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up.

                                      By default, the systems appear alphabetically. Anyone who has any systems before 'K' will still have to scroll to it. I have 39 systems in the carousel with Kodi being one, so it takes me quite a bit to get there.

                                      Strange.

                                      On Mine its the default (first one you see at start up). Didnt do anything special just this - ['Kodi as its own system'] https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/KODI

                                      Have all the console systems installed too.

                                      See my post above. When you added the system to the Es-systems.cfg you must have added it to the top. Systems appear in the same order that they are defined in this file.

                                      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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                                      • lilbudL
                                        lilbud @ruckage
                                        last edited by

                                        @ruckage A few things

                                        <size>1 .354 </size>

                                        It is actually x = 1 y =0.354, the formatting looks weird.

                                        This isn't the actual code, just what I remember of it since it didn't save.
                                        16:9 aspect, running on the pi.

                                        @Syhles said

                                        Also that theme looks so clean I'm looking forward to a download

                                        Here's a hint,
                                        This theme is like the flat theme, but i've SWITCHED some things up :)

                                        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                          Syhles @lilbud
                                          last edited by

                                          @lilbud
                                          I'd make your <size> field larger than your <logoSize> field personally.

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                                          • ruckageR
                                            ruckage @lilbud
                                            last edited by ruckage

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

                                            @ruckage A few things

                                            <size>1 .354 </size>

                                            It is actually x = 1 y =0.354, the formatting looks weird.

                                            This isn't the actual code, just what I remember of it since it didn't save.
                                            16:9 aspect, running on the pi.

                                            @Syhles said

                                            Also that theme looks so clean I'm looking forward to a download

                                            Here's a hint,
                                            This theme is like the flat theme, but i've SWITCHED some things up :)

                                            Ah, I see - didn't notice the space (for clarity I would put 0.354). Not sure why they would appear stretched. Test the theme on the windows version of ES to rule out any problems with retropie (es_toolkit v1.1 by @mattrixk).

                                            If you don't mind uploading it somewhere, even temporarily, I would be happy to check it and see if I can fix the problem for you.)

                                            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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