Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

[SystemLogoffSA]

Donated to your beer fund. Thank you for making such an excellent theme.

It feels professionally done. Wonderful work.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@ruckage

Just installed your latest famicom-mini v2 theme and I love it!
Especially the new carousel design with those console icons is fantastic and matching the theme.
Those are the Japanese icons right?

I would say this theme is complete, ...for now. And it is time to move on to the NeoGeo X theme. :-P

[bjose2345]

Ohh the new NEO-GEO style looks so nice, you should do more for the other systems :P

[smoothmalik]

love this theme. How does one get the date of the system to display in the selection screen, I just have a bunch of question marks ????

[ruckage]

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

Pardon my ignorance, as I haven't kept up with progress on the theme, but does the new update support 32x and/or MSX? I absolutely can't get enough of how great this theme looks, especially when showing it to friends or people who ask what RetroPie is.

No they aren't in yet but I have a todo list in the first post and those systems are on it.

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

@ruckage

Just installed your latest famicom-mini v2 theme and I love it!
Especially the new carousel design with those console icons is fantastic and matching the theme.
Those are the Japanese icons right?

I would say this theme is complete, ...for now. And it is time to move on to the NeoGeo X theme. :-P

Thanks. Yes, the sytem icon borders in this version are based on the Famicom Mini menus so that they match with the theme (though the pixel art consoles and logos are the same ones that I drew for the nes-mini theme) here's a comparison between the 2 different styles - both similar but famicom is rounder and has a shadow.

@bjose2345 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

Ohh the new NEO-GEO style looks so nice, you should do more for the other systems :P

Glad you like it. I probably will do more, it was also a bit of a test to see how console specific borders may look for the Nes mini theme.

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

love this theme. How does one get the date of the system to display in the selection screen, I just have a bunch of question marks ????

The date is part of the icon (not something ES adds) and shows the release date of the console/computer. It shows ???? for systems that have no specific release date such as 'arcade systems' and 'ports' as they cover various systems so a release date makes no sense for those.

[ruckage]

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

Donated to your beer fund. Thank you for making such an excellent theme.

It feels professionally done. Wonderful work.

Glad you like the theme and thank you very much for your contribution to my beer fund :) , it's very kind of you.

[momaw27]

Hey @ruckage !

Been following your development since your first post!

Thank you for making so many great changes to your amazing theme!

I am having an issue with the newest iteration though.

I have waited until 4x3 was officially supported and was anxious to try the newest version on my SD circa 1980 retro TV.

I am hooked up through an HDMI to RCA converter.

I compiled the new version of EmulationStation, changed the layout.xml to 640x480, 320x240, and 1024x768 but end up with the following each time...

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

[ruckage]

@momaw27
Hi. This may tricky to figure out as I don't have any of the equipment you mention for me to test. The best I can guess is that the actual resolution that you pi is outputting is not actually 4x3 as this would cause everything to be stretched like that.

You can force the pi to output to a specific resolution but before doing that do you have any details on the HDMI to RCA converter you are using so I can find out what signals it accepts and then I can advise on how to fix it.

[ruckage]

I think I know the cause - are you in the USA by any chance and using an NTSC screen? I've managed to replicate exactly what you have by displaying at a resolution of 720x486 which is NTSC resolution, this resolution though designed to be diplayed at 4x3 isn't 4x3 when going by the pixels themselves.

I'll work on adding a separate NTSC resolution, it will take a little while as I will have to rework a lot of elements (the 4x3 changes I've made won't be usable because as I said the pixel aspect ratio isn't technically 4x3). I may also have to do a pal version as well as again the pixel aspect ratio of that is also not 4x3 either but is totally different to NTSC.

[momaw27]

@ruckage r

Yep! I'm in the USA!

Glad I'm not going crazy! I tried everything I know how to do and still couldn't figure it out.

Thanks for putting this on your to-do list... I really appreciate it!

Looking forward to what you come up with!

[lilbud]

@momaw27 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

Yep! I'm in the USA!

[mediamogul]

@lilbud

Exactly who is that in the pic? It looks like a genetic hybrid of Fred Sanford and Archie Bunker.

[A Former User]

@lilbud

i dunno where i found this

[lilbud]

@mediamogul It's from Drake and Josh, I can't find any info on the actor.

[mattmanforever]

@ruckage Working great now, thank you so much. This is VERY nitpicky, but is it possible to get the US Super Nintendo instead of the Super Famicom on the system icons? Sorry if this has already been asked. I might be the only weirdo who preferred the US version.

[ruckage]

@momaw27 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage r

Yep! I'm in the USA!

Glad I'm not going crazy! I tried everything I know how to do and still couldn't figure it out.

Thanks for putting this on your to-do list... I really appreciate it!

Looking forward to what you come up with!

I've made an update to the famicom mini theme that adds NTSC support. Once you've updated you will need to go the the layout.xml file and change the line that says:

<include>./layouts/1920x1080.xml</include>

TO

<include>./layouts/ntsc.xml</include>

If you could let me know how it works I'd appreciate it (a screenshot would be nice). If you could double check for me that the selector bar on the gamelist lines up correctly in all positions a well.

Once I know its working correctly I'll get to work adding the NTSC support to the nes mini theme as well.

[ruckage]

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

@ruckage Working great now, thank you so much. This is VERY nitpicky, but is it possible to get the US Super Nintendo instead of the Super Famicom on the system icons? Sorry if this has already been asked. I might be the only weirdo who preferred the US version.

We're not all 'Murrican you know ;)
I'm from the UK and that is what our Super Nintendo looked like (as well as most of the world in fact). I will however be adding an alternative USA SNES icon but the current icon will remain the default.

p.s - I can confirm that you are a weirdo for preferring the US SNES design ;)

[mattmanforever]

@ruckage Hahaha I know, I know. It's all due to nostalgic reasons. I have the 'Merican 8bitdo controllers too. Glad to hear there will be an alternate I can switch out. You rock.

[Hex]

@ruckage Can you test the NES-mini for Gameboy system. I am getting a bad layout

[ruckage]

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

@ruckage Can you test the NES-mini for Gameboy system. I am getting a bad layout

I can't replicate that at my end (tested on pc and raspberry pi 3). Can you give more info - is it just gameboy that's affected? What layout/resolution settings have you set?