Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

Jakezilla99

@Syhles
Thats what i thought about doing, I'll wait to hear @ruckage 's take on it though as its his thread and work.

Syhles

@ruckage
I'm fairly positive you and I had this discussion hidden up farther in the thread, lol.

Sorry if I was stepping on your toes.

Jakezilla99

@ruckage
No problem man. I wasn't suggesting you or anyone else implement what I've done (my pixel work is amateur hour compared to the rest of this theme!) but rather that it gives a taste of what could be achieved.

ruckage

@Syhles @Jakezilla99
No toes trodden on :)
I would prefer not to be too influenced by other designs though if possible, I know the attract mode famicom theme was doing custom borders for each system and I've avoided looking there so I don't get influenced by their designs when I come to do the borders. Once they are finished it will be fun to see how my designs differ then (at least for me).

Syhles

@ruckage
This answer makes so much sense to me. As long as you're not deciding to not do something because someonedid something similar.

I'm looking forward to how yours compares.

Jakezilla99

@ruckage
Completely understandable.

When its done we'll compare!

ruckage

@Syhles @Jakezilla99
It was similar case with the icons I made. They were inspired by a user on reddit: See Here
I really liked the concept but wanted to do my own interpretation in pixel art form. I only looked at them briefly and didn't use them as a reference while making mine but there were a few that must have really stuck because some of my icons ended up being very similar (some by coincidence, some by influence).

sergioad

@ruckage Friend could you add the MSX to the supported systems?

ruckage

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

@ruckage Friend could you add the MSX to the supported systems?

Hi. It's already on the to do list.

Syhles

@ruckage
In the first post you were talking about adding variations to famicom mini theme are you meaning alternate layouts like you have in nes mini theme or something else?

ruckage

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

@ruckage
In the first post you were talking about adding variations to famicom mini theme are you meaning alternate layouts like you have in nes mini theme or something else?

No. I want to keep the Famicom theme as a simpler version that has the same look for all systems. The variations I'm taking about are theme wide - you could call them skins I guess. So for example at the moment you can either have the famicom theme in 'Famicom' mode or 'Nes' mode by making a small change in the layout .xml file.

Here's a GIF to illustrate, it shows the Famicom theme in both Famicom mode and Nes mode:

styles

To change the style you just need to open the layout.xml file. And find the following line:

<include>./style/famicom/style.xml</include>

Then simply change the word 'famicom' to 'nes'.

Syhles

@ruckage
Thanks for clearing that up.

AlexMurphy

@ruckage Fucking hell... I thought I had grown out of my epilepsy...

ruckage

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

@ruckage Fucking hell... I thought I had grown out of my epilepsy...

Is this better.......... ;)
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AlexMurphy

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AlexMurphy

@ruckage Can you turn that off? Maybe you could ask it for a date... Ha!

Cybermen

Hello, I noticed that the update to 4.2.4 the metadata is not displayed completely. It lacks: game's release date, developer, times played, etc...
However, since running the "update all packages" script in RetroPie Setup, this meta-data has disappeared.
Can anyone else confirm this issue? Anyone have any solutions to fix this?

ruckage

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

Hello, I noticed that the update to 4.2.4 the metadata is not displayed completely. It lacks: game's release date, developer, times played, etc...
However, since running the "update all packages" script in RetroPie Setup, this meta-data has disappeared.
Can anyone else confirm this issue? Anyone have any solutions to fix this?

Hi, this was fixed a few days ago by @jdrassa , it was bug in ES due to the new z-index support, (everything is still there it just has the wrong zindex so is hidden underneath the background).
If you install the latest version of ES from source (you can do it from within retropie) then the problem should be fixed.

Cybermen

@ruckage Perfect, works again. thanks

Hex

@ruckage Request : PC/DOS art