SNES mini theme

ruckage

@ruckage

hey, love what you've done with the theme, been using it for months and really appreciate the work.

I'm having some trouble with the 1280x720 support in the theme though. I was waiting on the update because when I displayed the theme in 720p on my tv, the # of player icons will only display if the # is 1. Anything more than that appears to disappear, but if you look closely it's almost like it's another section down. It was this way before the update, and it's the same after the update. I don't mind just changing it to numbers if there's no way to fix it, but I figured you might want to know.

Thanks once again for all your work!

Do you have a picture because I'm not sure I understand. I can make a guess though, I imagine its due to the way the number of players are listed in your gamelist.xml. The player icons will only work if number of players is a single digit number eg. 1, 2,3,4, etc. However some rom scraping sites seem to have players in the form '1-2' '1-3' '1-4'. If you want the icons then you'll need to edit your gamelist.xml and change the number of players entries to a single digit. You can use notepad++ and do a search and replace, for example replace '1-2' with '2'.

ruckage

@esteban64 said in SNES mini theme:

Hello @ruckage .
I'm trying to set this theme in a TV with 4x3 aspect ratio (the manual of the TV is here: http://www.lg.com/pe/soporte/soporte-producto/lg-29FS2RK ), but i can't get the image fit correctly in the screen as you can see in the attached picture. Could you please help me to solve this problem? Which settings i need to change? Thanks

Edit: I'm use an HDMI to RCA adapter and I set NTSC as the resolution in the config.txt

Edit 2: I solved the problemas by adding the following lines in /boot/config.text

hdmi_mode=1
hdmi_group=1

😀😀

I'm glad you got it working but I have to ask - why are you using that hdmi-composite adapter? Did you know the 3.5mm socket on the rpi3 (looks like a headphone socket) is for audio and composite video, you just need a cable like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/kenable-3-5mm-Composite-Stereo-Audio/dp/B00BG088FM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513986494&sr=8-1&keywords=raspberry+pi+composite

And if you're using the RPI Zero then you can add an rca socket to the board, see here: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-zero/video-outputs

Earendr

Hi @ruckage ,

I really love the look of this theme, however I am having problems with how the borders and text line up when using any of the layouts with metadata. Here are pictures to show what I mean. I tried different themes with metadata, different text alignments, and different resolutions with no luck. This problem happened with the nes-mini and famicom-mini themes as well. I also had the same problem as @UncleSpooky where if my game had any more players than 1 no icon would appear even if the number was single digit. I unfortunately didn't take a picture of that but the player space would remain blank.

Still a really great theme thanks for your work on it!

ruckage

@earendr

I need more information in order to help.

What's the resolution of the monitor - if you aren't sure then tell me the make and model of the monitor?

How are you connecting the raspberry pi to the monitor?

What resolution did you choose in the config.xml

Earendr

@ruckage,

Monitor resolution is 1920x1080 connected by an HDMI to DVI-D (dual-link) cable. I tried 1920x1080 and 1280x720 and both had the same issue. When I tried NTSC resolution in the config.xml that looked correct but would only use a no-metadata format.

I'm guessing it's my cable because I connected the pi to a 1280x720 TV with a straight HDMI cable (and changed the config.xml resolution to match) and everything lined up correctly there.

Here are more pictures that show that the TV displays correctly but also shows that the # of player icons does not. BC Racers is 2 players and it's metadata is 2 (not 1-2 or anything). Using text.xml displays the players correctly.

Thanks for looking into this.

ruckage

@earendr
Sounds like it's the converter causing the issue, my guess is that the pi is only outputting a low resolution when connecting via it. You may be able to force it to output at 1080p but you'd need to check online how to do that.

Regarding the players, you're correct that is a bug I hadn't noticed, it's fixed now and will be in the next update.

If you'd rather not wait for the update you can open the snes mini theme folder, open the layouts folder, then open the setup.xml file.

Find the section labeled <text name="md_players"> and change the <size> line to the following:

		<text name="md_players">
			<alignment>left</alignment>
			<size>0.05 0.0555555555555556</size>
		</text>

UncleSpooky

@ruckage

Hey, thanks for replying. I know the holidays have to be busy.

I made sure to change everything from 1-4 etc to numbers originally to make sure it worked, and it works on 1080p but not 720p. Here's what it looks like on 720p for anything above 1 player.

Pic is here because apparently I can't into this board stuff

It seems like the icon may be too large for the margins somehow? I'm not sure though.

ruckage

@unclespooky
See the post I made directly above yours.

UncleSpooky

@ruckage
Perfect, I'll test it when I'm home. Thanks so much man! Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Earendr

@ruckage

I was only using that at the time while I was setting up my brother's Christmas gift, so once I found out it worked with a normal HDMI cable it sort of became a moot issue. But thanks all the same for taking some time to puzzle it out. If I'm forced to use the cable again I'll see if I can figure out what the pi is doing in terms of resolution.

When I visit my brother next to finish adding the final setup touches I'll be sure to apply your player fix. Thanks for all the work on the theme as a long time snes fan I feel like it was really the icing on the cake and the thing my build was missing.

Hope your holidays are going well!

b0ardw4rp

First off, this theme is fantastic :D

I'm setting up ES on a Windows based PC so I've got a few emulators that are missing from Retropie: PS2, GC, Wii, WiiU, 3DS, Sega Saturn. Any chance of these being added in an update? Alternately, if there's a template image I could try doing my own.

Virtualman

Anyone have Scummvm for snesmini theme? I added personal collection with artwork and looks awesome! Force to use another theme do so it looks good :)

Super Retropie

I decided to play around a little with @ruckage 's theme.

Went for more of an arcade look instead of game systems. What do you guys think?

S3Nseii

@kal-el-1981 looks good u doing on any system or only on arcade?

Hyruleslink

@kal-el-1981 Looks too busy and doesn't really fit the retro, old school theme.

danielmewhouse

@hyruleslink said in SNES mini theme:

@kal-el-1981 Looks too busy and doesn't really fit the retro, old school theme.

Think out of the box for a minute: if he make new icons for systems, this could be the born of a new theme for arcade Bartops!!! For me, the concept looks awesome!!!

One fate: @ruckage made a so good work on this system select screen, that anyone wanna do something similar!!! It's simple, it's beauty, it's great!!! If someone make an update on carbon theme to use this structure but with icons that could be used in any project (kind of GPL licence), could be the new standard theme for Retropie!!!

danielmewhouse

@earendr said in SNES mini theme:

...however I am having problems with how the borders and text line up when using any of the layouts with metadata.

Happy New Year man!!! Sometime ago I've got this exactly problem, with the same DVI to HDMI cable, but for squared resolutions. I've solved this looking on Retropie config menu for a config that changes Raspberry pi video resolution. On my issue, I've found that Retropie thinks the aspect ratio is 5:4 instead of 4:3. Your issue could be an 16:10 aspect ratio instead of 16:9 accepted on the themes. Another solution is change the cable for a HDMI to VGA adapter. This solved my problem 100%

Beaps

Any chance of a Supergrafx icon and the current

cps2 one in Blue & Orange please

platimus

I love this theme. However, I can't get it to work properly. At first, nothing showed up. After looking around and trying different versions of ES, I got @jdrassa latest continuous build for Windows. I'm on Windows, btw. Now, it seems to mostly work but there are still problems. It looks like the problems stem from the '${region]' type of variables defined in the skin. My system doesn't seem to be handling those variables.

Is there another version of ES I should be using? What can I do to get this great skin working? Thanks in advance.

elranzer

EmulationStation v2.7.4RP for Windows (latest continuous build) seems to break this theme. The old nesmini theme still works for this version of ES.

Also, still missing theme graphics for Sega Saturn (this emu doesn't exist for Raspberry Pi, but exists for Windows, maybe Linux).