Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

[A Former User]

Speaking of which, can you make a no-metadata version of this theme?

[SonPluck]

@LiveFastCyYoung sorry but what should I exactly put in the command line? i'm confused.

[A Former User]

@SonPluck If you just want to edit the layout.xml file, do this...

Quit Emulation Station. This should take you to the prompt.

Type...
sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/nes-mini/layout.xml

Make whatever changes you are trying to make to the file.

When you are finished push Ctrl+X, then push Y to confirm your save and then press enter.

Then type exit and you'll boot back to Emulation Station.

[ruckage]

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

Speaking of which, can you make a no-metadata version of this theme?

I don't really have any desire to make a metadata free version, I already have plenty enough to work on as it is. On top of that I don't really see the need, the whole theme was designed with the metadata boxes in mind and it would look pretty empty without them.
I would need some very convincing reasons why a metadata free version is a good idea to even consider it.

[sergioad]

@ruckage I see

[A Former User]

I personally love the metadata. The only reason I could see a metadata-less version is because of how incorrect the metadata is most of the time, which is obviously not the themes fault whatsoever. Ratings are pointless(who is rating, most of them are missing ratings) and the number of players is almost never correct.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@LiveFastCyYoung true story, but that info is easily corrected and you can do it right from the rom selection menu. Select on the rom selection screen and choose to edit meta data. Simple easy and fast!

[ruckage]

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

I personally love the metadata. The only reason I could see a metadata-less version is because of how incorrect the metadata is most of the time, which is obviously not the themes fault whatsoever. Ratings are pointless(who is rating, most of them are missing ratings) and the number of players is almost never correct.

It probably depends on the system/scraping source but I found the metadata to be accurate more than not. I personally quite like the ratings, I don't necessarily agree with the rating that is scraped but it's a great way to rate the games yourself. You could actually edit the gamelist.xml to begin with so all ratings are set to zero and then just rate the games as you play them.

[A Former User]

@TMNTturtlguy For sure. But even just talking about the NES that's what, 700 US games? Not taking into account all of the systems this theme supports.

This belongs in another thread but we often have people asking how they can help the project if they don't know how to code. Maybe we should be pointing them to cleaning some of the bad metadata on some of these sites? Just a thought.

[ruckage]

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

@TMNTturtlguy For sure. But even just talking about the NES that's what, 700 US games? Not taking into account all of the systems this theme supports.

This belongs in another thread but we often have people asking how they can help the project if they don't know how to code. Maybe we should be pointing them to cleaning some of the bad metadata on some of these sites? Just a thought.

That would be a great idea, there was thread I saw a few days asking how people could help.

[Oen]

@ruckage do you have any plans to add DOSBox? Anyway I can help with that, if so?

Thanks for all the hard work on theme so far!

[A Former User]

@Oen DosBox is in the todo list and he's stated before he is handling all of the work for this theme on his own. He'll get to it.

[Syhles]

@Oen
Check the bottom of the first post, system to-do list is there.

He wants to do the whole theme himself, all we can really do is point out errors if any, and request systems that have been overlooked, but seems like all the main bases are covered.

[Oen]

@Syhles @LiveFastCyYoung thanks for the replies. I missed that list. I saw the list of completed/working systems. Was just curious. :)

[Aqualime]

I figured I should mention if you update retropie to the latest emulationstation it breaks your theme. Version 2.3.0RP. I can get a picture if you're unable to replicate it. I just updated, then restarted. Everything went bonkers with the game selection lines. Seems to be the same on 1080 and 720 unfortunately.

[Aqualime]

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[ruckage]

@Aqualime
It's known, it's due to gamelist fixes and improvements in the latest version of ES. I did post a warning stating not to update to the latest version of ES twice in the past week if using this theme. I will be issuing a fix soon, unfortunately there isn't anything you can do now apart from wait for the update.

[Aqualime]

Lol I don't know how I missed that. Either way, good. I'm glad it's been caught. I'll be looking forward to the update. Sorry for being redundant.

[mattmanforever]

Love this theme, but after the latest update (I updated all packages, including this theme), I'm getting a spacing issue on the games list, on all systems. See pic.

[A Former User]

@mattmanforever You might want to scroll up, the same exact issue has been posted.