Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

[mediamogul]

@Stuart2773

You can turn off cropping in the core options menu.

[momaw27]

Also, changing the emulator fixes this problem.

[mediamogul]

@momaw27
That's true. However, I believe lr-quicknes is the only NES emulator that doesn't crop by default. While lr-nestopia's cropping is only done horizontally by default, it still presents the same problem in some other games. All in all there aren't to many games affected by this to begin with, due to most being designed for over-scan originally.

[Stuart2773]

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

@Stuart2773

You can turn off cropping in the core options menu.

ahh thats it, i couldnt find the where i had seen it before,

thanks so much problem now fixed.

[ruckage]

Slowly making progress. The famicom-mini theme is now fully updated to 1080p and I'm now working on the Nes-mini theme. I've also finished off a few more logos ready for the next batch of systems so thought I'd show those now. These were all drawn by myself with the exception of the 'Famicom' logo which was copied from the real Famicom mini menu, I did however draw the Katakana that is displayed beneath (hopefully without any mistakes).

[Stuart2773]

@ruckage

WOW !!!! they look amazing, great work

[momaw27]

Yeah dude, that Genesis logo is amazing!!!!

[justdubya]

Found this on Reddit and just came here to say this theme is looking amazing!! Can't wait to see the finished version. Keep up the good work!!

[DigitalMonkey]

Love this theme :)

I'm going to go with a Pi Zero/NES only set-up so this will go perfect with it.

Hopefully see a new version #soon

:)

[edmaul69]

@ruckage awesome! I love these themes. Just curious though, why didnt you put the logos on bottom and the button info up top?

[ruckage]

@edmaul69 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage awesome! I love these themes. Just curious though, why didnt you put the logos on bottom and the button info up top?

Hi @edmaul69,

Honestly, I hadn't even considered putting the logos at the bottom. For me personally it seems far more natural to have them at the top as they are essentially a title.

[DigitalMonkey]

Not sure if its been asked already but any chance of adding a PS1 section?

[ruckage]

New versions are finally ready for you to try (it's been hard work.) Downloads are available at mega (links below).

Famicom-mini ES Theme v1.2
Nes-mini ES Theme v1.2

These have both been almost completely remade to target 1080p (they won't work correctly at other resolutions). I've also added 7 new systems to each. They now support the following:

NES
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Commodore 64
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Intellivision
Sega Game Gear
Sega Master System
PC Engine
TurboGrafx 16
ZX Spectrum
Retropie setup menu
Famicom
Gameboy Advance
Super Nintendo
Neo Geo
Megadrive
Genesis
Colecovision

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

Not sure if its been asked already but any chance of adding a PS1 section?

I'll put it on the todo list, if anyone has requests for other systems let me know here.

[DigitalMonkey]

Awesome work! :)

[momaw27]

Thank you for all your hard work @ruckage !!!!

[momaw27]

@ruckage Finally had a chance to test out the theme. First off it's MUCH faster than the previous versions.

But, I am running into a problem with not being able to see the menu art (system selector art)... everything else works great.

Anyone else having this issue?

Thanks again for my one of my top 3 favorite themes!

[jawenforcement]

@ruckage Absolutely amazing. This is my favorite Emulation Station theme ever. YOU KILLED IT!

Two things though:

• System logos on the main screen aren't working for me (I'm using a Pi Zero)
• Game names with accents and some other symbols don't display correctly. (i.e. Pokémon or 720º)

Otherwise, this is perfect.

I also added the NES Classic music using the tutorial you linked and runcommand splash screens to my build so it feels even more complete.

[DigitalMonkey]

Installed the theme on the PI3 I use for testing/messing around on & all was good.

Until i updated RetroPie to the latest version then all (apart from Gameboy for some reason) the system logos on the main menu vanished.

[lostless]

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

I'll put it on the todo list, if anyone has requests for other systems let me know here.

Keep it up, but a small request as it seems many themes forget this but Kodi. I like kodi in its own menu. If that, ps1 and arcade are done, that pretty much covers everything I do with retropie. Maybe one day I'll look into how to to make a theme and add them myself as I'm quite handy with photoshop.

[ruckage]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

• System logos on the main screen aren't working for me

I honestly can't understand why the logos wouldn't display, it works correctly on my Pi 3 with Retropie 4.1.
For those having this problem can you tell me what version of Retropie you are using. Also have you tried restarting the pi after changing the theme?

• Game names with accents and some other symbols don't display correctly. (i.e. Pokémon or 720º)

This is a known issue and is due to the font only supporting ascii character set. To be honest, I don't know how I can fix this as I had a great deal of trouble getting the gamelist to display how I wanted it to due to a bug in ES textlist spacing and had to resort in the end to manually editing a font to make it work.

It may be that some of the characters are just missing completely in which case as long as they are part of the standard ascii set I can add those characters to the font.