Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

A Former User

@CodeDrawer It's in the EmulationStation Themes tab.

CodeDrawer

Great!

kbronctjr

@ruckage I fixid by modifying the missing.png image offcentering it a bit to the top:

CodeDrawer

I find it lags the games a lot...

A Former User

@CodeDrawer I'm a little confused, it being what?

CodeDrawer

What do you mean @itsnitro

A Former User

"I find it lags the games a lot..."
"it"
What do you mean by it?

CodeDrawer

@itsnitro When I'm playing a level in super mario bros 3, the one I've been playing for a while. Before it didn't slow down when I got to the boos, now it does even since I installed the theme.

A Former User

@CodeDrawer I'm assuming it might be all of the data that has to be used for this theme. It's pretty heavy, not gonna lie.

I'm gonna try and see if I notice any differences later today.

CodeDrawer

OK. I'm uninstalling tomorrow if I have the chance.

Syhles

@CodeDrawer
I don't see the need to immediately uninstall the theme. First I'd change the theme, then shutdown the RP, then try and see if it's the theme or something else causing the lag.

I'm not saying it isn't the theme causing the lag, I'm just saying it's worth trouble shooting before just blaming something.

Hope you get the lag taken care of though.

CodeDrawer

@Syhles OK I shall.

TMNTturtlguy

@Syhles @CodeDrawer i would not assume it is the theme that is causing the lag. I have been running my comic book theme which is just as heavy or heavier and not had a problem with lag. I also am not sure that the theme and the front end of ES have anything to do with the performance of the emulator once the emulator rom is launched. I could be wrong, but I had asked about this months ago when building my theme and was told that the memory for the theme shouldnt adversly effect game performance especially on systems like nes.

Syhles

@TMNTturtlguy
I personally didn't think that theme was causing an issue which I was why I said he should trouble shoot instead of just deciding that it was theme causing it.

TMNTturtlguy

@Syhles yeah, sorry, on my phone and just hit reply to you post, wasn't intended to be directed at you!

Syhles

@TMNTturtlguy
Lol, you're fine I didn't take any offense by it.

ruckage

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

I find it lags the games a lot...

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

@CodeDrawer I'm assuming it might be all of the data that has to be used for this theme. It's pretty heavy, not gonna lie.

I'm gonna try and see if I notice any differences later today.

I'm very doubtful my theme is the cause. For one there are much 'heavier' themes around. This theme I would consider to be the opposite of 'heavy' as the majority of the graphics are low resolution (the entire theme is only 3.45mb - this obviously doesn't necessarily reflect vram usage but gives you some idea, the highest resolution images used are the backgrounds which are 480x270 ).

Unless there is some solid evidence to the contrary I can see no reason why this theme should adversely affect emulator performance because as far as I know emulator performance is unrelated to ES. There have certainly been no complaints in the past.

fnkngrv

It is just about impossible for the theme to cause lag once emulators are running. This theme as well doesn't even have video enabled which reduces the complexity. Lastly since it is an ES theme there isn't even the overhead of Attract Mode. I have this theme sitting on a fresh install of 4.2.3 on a Pi Zero W with no issues currently so I would lean more toward so other type of issue with your build and possibly how it is using the code elsewhere.

desdinova

First of all, great work! Your theme is amazing! Thank you very much.

However, Im experiencing some missing information like puslished, developed, genre, rating and played. This information is showed normally on other themes. Im using retropie on ubuntu.

Serj Targarien

@desdinova that's what happens when you use the theme in any resolution other than its native 1920x1080. Happens to all themes when they are downscaled in newer versions of EmulationStation. It really a pity, as I use a 4:3 crt for retropie and there are not many themes prepared for that aspect ratio.