Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

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:

Thore

Hello Ruckage, I'm new here in the forum. I find your theme super, I hope that you still do your To Do list? Amiga, ScummVM, DosBox. Thank you

nestor1924

Hey ruckage great job as always on the theme specially on snes theme is looking great! I have a question, will you turn the icons that are in the options menu to fit more like the menu theme? Cause the option icons are a bit off compared to what the whole theme is about, it be cool if the icons were pixelated as well, just wondering other than not a big deal i couls look alot nicer tho

ruckage

@nestor1924 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

Hey ruckage great job as always on the theme specially on snes theme is looking great! I have a question, will you turn the icons that are in the options menu to fit more like the menu theme? Cause the option icons are a bit off compared to what the whole theme is about, it be cool if the icons were pixelated as well, just wondering other than not a big deal i couls look alot nicer tho

Not sure what you mean - post a screenshot of what you're talking about.