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    CodeDrawer
    last edited by 23 May 2017, 22:21

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

    N64 emulation is the next step :)

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      Syhles @CodeDrawer
      last edited by 23 May 2017, 22:35

      @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.

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        CodeDrawer
        last edited by 23 May 2017, 22:40

        @Syhles OK I shall.

        N64 emulation is the next step :)

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          TMNTturtlguy @Syhles
          last edited by 23 May 2017, 22:45

          @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.

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            Syhles @TMNTturtlguy
            last edited by 23 May 2017, 22:50

            @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.

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              TMNTturtlguy @Syhles
              last edited by 23 May 2017, 22:53

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

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                Syhles @TMNTturtlguy
                last edited by 23 May 2017, 22:55

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

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                  ruckage @A Former User
                  last edited by 24 May 2017, 01:08

                  @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.

                  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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                    fnkngrv
                    last edited by 24 May 2017, 01:20

                    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.

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                      desdinova
                      last edited by 24 May 2017, 15:19

                      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.

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                        Serj Targarien @desdinova
                        last edited by 24 May 2017, 15:24

                        @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.

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                          jcook84 @fnkngrv
                          last edited by 24 May 2017, 16:23

                          @fnkngrv
                          ditto with my pi zero (I even put ES kids mode on top of it)

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                            desdinova @Serj Targarien
                            last edited by 24 May 2017, 20:23

                            @Serj-Targarien said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                            @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.

                            I tried running with a 1080p monitor on 1920x1080 but the issue still persists. I also tried reinstall retropie and the theme but nothing seems to work. =(

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                              ruckage @desdinova
                              last edited by 24 May 2017, 20:36

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

                              @Serj-Targarien said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                              @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.

                              I tried running with a 1080p monitor on 1920x1080 but the issue still persists. I also tried reinstall retropie and the theme but nothing seems to work. =(

                              Hi. The resolution wouldn't be the cause of this problem - it causes alignment issues , (particularly with the gamelist) if it's not at 1080p but all the information should still be displayed.

                              I'm honestly at a loss for what could cause this, even if the info was missing from the gamelist it would still display 'Unknown'. The only thing I can think is that the version of emulationstation you are using is different in some way to what we're using on the raspberry pi/windows as the theme works correctly on both of those. Did you compile it yourself?

                              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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                                desdinova @ruckage
                                last edited by desdinova 24 May 2017, 20:53

                                @ruckage Hi, On ubuntu I installed everything using the Basic Install command on retropie setup.

                                On windows everything works fine when using the official emulationstation release (except for carousel, because i think it doesnt suport it) but with this updated version (https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/tag/2.1.6-152-win) that supports carousel, I got the same issue as in ubuntu.

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                                  ruckage @desdinova
                                  last edited by 24 May 2017, 21:12

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

                                  @ruckage Hi, On ubuntu I installed everything using the Basic Install command on retropie setup.

                                  On windows everything works fine when using the official emulationstation release (except for carousel, because i think it doesnt suport it) but with this updated version (https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/tag/2.1.6-152-win) that supports carousel, I got the same issue as in ubuntu.

                                  Thanks for the info. That's not an official version as far as I know, it's a fork by @jdrassa that adds support for z-index sorting, this would probably explain the problem as I bet that the missing text is hidden behind some of the other graphics (zindex allows ordering of text/graphics from front to back).

                                  Try the main branch and see if that fixes it: https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation

                                  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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                                    ruckage
                                    last edited by ruckage 24 May 2017, 21:36

                                    I've just noticed the Z-index support has also been added to the main retropie branch (which is good) but it does make me think that this could possibly be a problem if the z order of metadata text is now different (reading the documentation is says the default values should be the same as they always were but maybe not...). Has anyone else installed the very latest version of ES and if so can you tell me if the metadata is visible?

                                    EDIT: I'm currently installing ES to my raspberry pi from source so that I can check myself, not sure how long it takes to compile though. If there is a problem I'm sure I can fix the theme but it's always a bit of a concern as I don't want to cause problems in the older versions of ES (hopefully the <feature> tag will prevent this.)

                                    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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                                      ruckage @desdinova
                                      last edited by 24 May 2017, 22:08

                                      @desdinova
                                      I've just finished installing the very latest version of ES from source and have confirmed the issue. I will look into getting fix made as soon as possible. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

                                      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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                                        fnkngrv @ruckage
                                        last edited by 24 May 2017, 23:06

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

                                        @desdinova
                                        I've just finished installing the very latest version of ES from source and have confirmed the issue. I will look into getting fix made as soon as possible. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

                                        I could check later on this evening.

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                                          desdinova @ruckage
                                          last edited by 24 May 2017, 23:28

                                          @ruckage Happy to help! Thanks again for this amazing theme! =)

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