Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

[Lord-Raziel]

Hi @ruckage any suggestion to the question that I did to you? probably is not possible but at least to know.

[sergioad]

@ruckage could you make a theme based on this nice UI?

https://imgur.com/gallery/KUU7T

[PokeEngineer]

@sergioad

I don't think @ruckage can do that yet, although I can't speak for himself personally, but he would need the assets for the SNES Classic Edition. Since it is not released yet, he doesn't have access to them. You should probably wait until sometime after September 29th.

[ruckage]

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

@ruckage could you make a theme based on this nice UI?

https://imgur.com/gallery/KUU7T

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

@sergioad

I don't think @ruckage can do that yet, although I can't speak for himself personally, but he would need the assets for the SNES Classic Edition. Since it is not released yet, he doesn't have access to them. You should probably wait until sometime after September 29th.

Oh, exciting. I've been waiting to see that. I can can probably make a start (I want it for my own super famicom build :) ), the main selection screen is pretty much the same layout as the nes classic (as I expected) and I actually drew all the assets for the nes theme based on screenshots. I'll probably make a start today - it can always be changed later if needed.

I'm not sure if the parts of the video showcasing the games themselves with a preview video and boxart is also part of the UI though or if it is just for the trailer. If it's for the ui I have to say those screens are a bit dull.

[ruckage]

@ruckage

I also found some nice clear previews shots of the US snes classic so I can do both :D .

[sergioad]

@ruckage i am happy you liked the screenshot :) the moment I saw the trailer the moment I took the screenshot for you

[ruckage]

@sergioad
Yeah, thanks - i wasn't aware that they had shown the UI . It's not clear enough to work from unfortunately as it's pretty blurry but after lots of trawling through various youtube videos I've been able to make a start. I'll post some wip screenshots shortly.

[greekmanx]

so now with you working on both ruckage do you plan to add collection support to your theme at least default custom one if not individual themes? now that it is in official build of retropie.

[ruckage]

@greekmanx
Yes, I think I already said a week or so ago that I would be adding collection support. I need to look into it more though and decide on the best way to do it.

[sergioad]

@ruckage thanks, I am glad I gave you at least one tool for you to work :) sadly right now I am using Recalbox due to its stability and easy access to its settings (that is its selling point for me) easy updates easy screenshots and easy rewind / fast forward easy and intuitive favourites system and its easier access to Kodi ( tho I hate the fact that they swapped the function of the A and B buttons and that they separate Cave story and Doom, games wich should be in ports are separate systems) but even on a rival platform I still love RetroPie and I am watching its progress closely to the point that I still comment on this forum and the first theme maker in wich I inmediatly thought to start working on this theme was you, when I saw the UI in the video I screamed and say "I must be the first person to show ruckage the UI" greetings from México

Ps: to be fair and honest I love both systems, one because of its super nice active and open comunity and its fast updates and the other because of its stability easy and nice UX (user experience) and ease to install thanks to Noobs, but even so, I am not here to debate wich is better, I am here to talk with yoy amazing comunity and help you ruckage to start building that theme

As I said even on another OS (I got there because my gamelists got corrupt because of suden shutdowns and then accidentally I messed up my system even more deleting the gamelist files) I am glad to help RetroPie, keep the good work

[lilbud]

@ruckage Is the UI still 8 bit? or did they bump it up to 16-bit?

[ruckage]

@lilbud

It has more of a 16bit look to it (same resolution but uses more colours) which makes sense as it's for a 16bit system. I nearly have a preview ready to show so you'll be able to see.

[PokeEngineer]

@ruckage

Cool, I just didn't know you drew them yourself. You probably said that somewhere in this thread, and I just didn't pay attention...

[Hex]

@ruckage Today I installed some ports and the backgrounds are truly fabulous.

[ruckage]

This took longer than I thought but after many hours of work I can show some previews of the Super Famicom/Snes Classic theme. It may change before I release it but this gives you an idea of how it will look. I based it on what screenshots I could get from youtube videos, it's not an exact copy but as with the nes mini theme that isn't my intention. I've adapted it to suit a base resolution of 480x270 (this scales evenly to 1080p) and have adjusted the border art to fit the existing logos I've made for the nes mini theme. I'm working on the US SNES border now so will post previews of that next.

I think I'll probably start a new topic for this, I'll post a link to it when I start it.

[PokeEngineer]

@ruckage

Hey, nice job. As always, your drawing skills are on point! You just gained yourself another follower!

[ruckage]

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

@ruckage Today I installed some ports and the backgrounds are truly fabulous.

Thanks, glad you like them :).

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

@ruckage

Hey, nice job. As always, your drawing skills are on point! You just gained yourself another follower!

Thanks, I appreciate it.

@lord-raziel said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

Hi @ruckage any suggestion to the question that I did to you? probably is not possible but at least to know.

Sorry for the late reply. I don't think you can but you're really asking in the wrong thread. Ask in the thread related specifically to custom collections and I'm sure you'll get an answer.

[ruckage]

Here's the US style SNES classic theme. I had to have the system logos at the top in this version as space at the bottom was limited so some logos wouldn't fit. The backdrop is just a placeholder at the moment (it shows the SFC/EU style snes), I'll redraw it so that it features the US style SNES.

[sergioad]

@ruckage I preffer by far the Super Famicom style, I even prefer the Japanese and European SNES :)

Wierdly I also prefer the Famicom classic theme

[greekmanx]

snes mini preview looks awesome only think is if you add favorite/collections button where would you put it on new theme?