Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

ruckage

@frgn
It's nothing personal and while I appreciate you have put time and effort into making your mod I have made my feelings clear regarding modifications/contributions to my themes both in the readme included with the themes and numerous times in this thread and it gets a bit tiresome repeating the same responses over and over (here's a link to a post @TMNTturtlguy made ;) ).

While I'm flattered that you and so many other people have been inspired by this theme and want to contribute in various ways my position for the time being remains the same, that I wish to work on it alone. I hope you understand.

You are of course free to modify it as you wish for personal use.

Since you're obviously interested in theme making have you considered making your own theme from scratch? It can seem a daunting task but it really isn't all that difficult once you get started (it's easier than ever with some of the recent additions to ES such as default themes and variable support). And if you get stuck you can always ask for help in the forum and there are lots of people, including myself, who can help.

Hex

@ruckage Composite display resolutions are fixed to 720x576 PAL and 720x480 NTSC. So even if the display is 320x240 composite will yield resolution based on the mode PAL/NTSC. A DPI screen showing exact 320x240 will not have a problem but if using the same screen with composite pcb will cause scaling and hence theme will be disrupted.

ruckage

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

@ruckage Composite display resolutions are fixed to 720x576 PAL and 720x480 NTSC. So even if the display is 320x240 composite will yield resolution based on the mode PAL/NTSC. A DPI screen showing exact 320x240 will not have a problem but if using the same screen with composite pcb will cause scaling and hence theme will be disrupted.

Sorry, I'm confused - not sure what you're talking about O.o . Are you having a problem with this theme at 4x3 resolutions?

VanZan

I installed the latest version of this lovely theme on a Pi Zero I purchased pre-configured. However all I got were a white background and black text. I also noticed errors mentioning something about "selectorheight". Anyway I installed an older version (May 21st) and everything shows up fine!

I'm guessing I need to update RetroPie? That selectorheight error makes me think it's not supported on the version of Retropie I have installed. Am I right please? Thank you.

Hex

@ruckage Yes, when running on PAL [720x576] and resolution 320x240 in layout.xml the elements go out of bounds.

Since the theme doesnt support these two resolutions for PAL and NTSC , will you provide support for these resolutions at a later stage?

ruckage

@hex
320x240 isn't intended for pal or ntsc. There is a specific NTSC layout option though:

In the layout file change the resolution line to the following:

<!-- Choose your resolution -->	
	<include>./layouts/ntsc.xml</include>

There is currently no pal option as I assumed most people would use ntsc for 60fps support. I can add a pal option as well though if needed.

ruckage

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

I installed the latest version of this lovely theme on a Pi Zero I purchased pre-configured. However all I got were a white background and black text. I also noticed errors mentioning something about "selectorheight". Anyway I installed an older version (May 21st) and everything shows up fine!

I'm guessing I need to update RetroPie? That selectorheight error makes me think it's not supported on the version of Retropie I have installed. Am I right please? Thank you.

You don't need to update retropie but you do need to update to the latest version of Emulation station in order to use the latest version of these themes.

Hex

@ruckage Thanks for pointing that out. Yes PAL support would be great. Since PAL gives a bigger frame down sampling produces better result. I can live with 50fps as there is not much difference for retro games but that bigger frame produces noticeable difference

ruckage

@hex
I'll add it for the next release. I personally couldn't go back to 50fps for retro games as they feel too slow now (even though it's what I grew up with I was always jealous that NTSC regions ran at 60fps). It's actually quite a big difference as ntsc games would run 20% faster.

ruckage

Here a good video showing the difference.

VanZan

@ruckage OK thank you for replying. I didn't even know there was a difference between the two. I thought updating RetroPie would also update Emulation Station i.e that they were one and the same.

ruckage

@vanzan
Retropie is the entire package - EmulationStation is the frontend. It's unnecessary to update everything as it's only EmulationStation being an older version which is the problem.

Malixx

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

@Stuart2773 said in Cardboard Mini NES:

Here's some run-command splash screens i made based on the nes/famicom disk system boot,

Nice. I hope you don't mind but I made some changes to to them otherwise when scaled up on the pi they will look blurry as I believe bi-linear filtering is applied.

What I did first of all is alter your vertical resolution from 272 down to 270 (this is a multiple of 1080 so will scale up cleanly). Then scaled up the entire image to 1920x1080 using nearest neighbour scaling to get a clean pixel look.

Hello @ruckage ,
I love your work, it's very well done. I saw you made this NES/Famicom splashart months ago, if it's not too much to ask and time consuming could you update this splashart by putting "RetroPie" instead of "Nintendo" with the same font or the one of the RetroPie logo (as you wish). I'd like to make an animated splashart out of it, if you don't mind.
Thank you for your themes, they are awesome!

mattmanforever

Does anyone think RetroPie will ever add a background music option? I know there are ways to do it, but it's convoluted, and I'd rather it be official. Would be great to have the NES/SNES classic style background music with these themes.

adu

Looking forward for your SNES theme version, to match my SNES case and pad : alt text

mattmanforever

@adu That's my setup as well. Love that case.

adu

@mattmanforever Too bad the power and reset buttons are unusable, but the case is terrific :)

mattmanforever

@adu Yeah, just for show unfortunately. I ordered a power supply with a switch so I don't have to unplug it: http://a.co/14aDJf6

ruckage

I've started a new topic for the Snes mini theme and have uploaded some new pictures of the progress.

Here is a link to the topic: SNES mini theme

greedoshotfirst

@mattmanforever check out SoundCloud for some old school video game remixes. Makes for great background music. I've got this one looping on mine: