Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

DigitalMonkey

Just tried installing RetroPie, updating to latest version & then installing the theme.

Still the same problem.

Best not update my other Pi just yet!

Rion

@ruckage Loving the theme!

Small request for.. Well not so small hehe

Mame
Arcade
Neo Geo Arcade
Oddesy 2
DosBox
ScummVM
Neo Geo Pocket
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Wonderswan
Game & watch

ruckage

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

Just tried installing RetroPie, updating to latest version & then installing the theme.

Still the same problem.

Best not update my other Pi just yet!

I've setup a test machine and testing myself as well. Everything works perfectly on 4.1 so I'm updating to the latest now and will be able see what happens myself though it's looking more and more like something has changed in the latest ES version.

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

@ruckage Loving the theme!

Small request for.. Well not so small hehe

Mame
Arcade
Neo Geo Arcade
Oddesy 2
DosBox
ScummVM
Neo Geo Pocket
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Wonderswan
Game & watch

Lol - small request ;)
I'll add them to the list - regarding 'Neo Geo Arcade' doesn't the Neo geo I've already added cover it as it doesn't specify AES or MVS?

Rion

@ruckage Yea you are right. It was kind of a long shot. Wantet to configure fba to select Arcade Mode using uni-bios on a MVS Arcade Machine. Then use the other one you already made with uni-bios selecting NeoGeo Console mode.

ruckage

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

@ruckage Yea you are right. It was kind of a long shot. Wantet to configure fba to select Arcade Mode using uni-bios on a MVS Arcade Machine. Then use the other one you already made with uni-bios selecting NeoGeo Console mode.

Ah right. The background on the one I made is based on the arcade cabinets so probably suits arcade more anyway. I tend to associate Neo Geo with arcade more than home console as they were pretty much out of reach price wise for most people (though I really wanted one as a teenager).

Rion

@ruckage Me to. But the price was astronomical.

ruckage

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

@ruckage Me to. But the price was astronomical.

I know, £200+ for each game from what I remember (not sure what that would be today with inflation).

mediamogul

I always had an image of Wall Street stock brokers snorting cocaine off one while drinking puréed hundred dollar bills.

momaw27

I'm on a Pi0 running 4.1.16 with no Logo Art.

The weird thing is though, the older version of your NesMini theme works like a charm...

I don't know enough about the coding language ES uses to dig into the code... but this may push me over the edge to kickstart my journey :)

ruckage

@momaw27 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

I'm on a Pi0 running 4.1.16 with no Logo Art.

The weird thing is though, the older version of your NesMini theme works like a charm...

I don't know enough about the coding language ES uses to dig into the code... but this may push me over the edge to kickstart my journey :)

I'm looking into it now. I've updated to the latest version retropie and the logos are missing here as well. However they work on the famicom-mini theme. Something must have changed in ES as they both worked in retropie 4.1 but I'm not sure why one works and one doesn't on the new version. I'm going to check through my theme.xml files and will try to narrow down what's different about the famicom-mini theme that allows it to work correctly.

felleg

WHOA I absolutely have to try this out!! Is this theme in the github repository? I feel like it should be, so it's easier to update and keep track of. You did an amazing job, ruckage. I'll closely follow this project!

Edit: small requests :3
Ports
Vectrex
Sega 32x
Sega CD
N64

tavobarrientos

Hey @ruckage good job!

ruckage

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I think I've fixed the issue with the missing logos in the new version of retropie.

In the theme I was 'hiding' the logos on the gamelist screen by giving them a size of 0. Not sure why it would affect the system select as I wasn't modifying the size in that section of the theme and it clearly worked fine in the old version of retropie. My fix is simply to physically move them off the screen instead of setting the size to 0 which seems to work.

Give me a little while to update the theme with the fix and I'll upload a new version.

ruckage

I've just applied the fix to all systems and it seems to work perfectly. I'm just going to have a look at the fonts now and see if I can fix them so they display the characters that are currently missing.

jawenforcement

@ruckage You are a saint.

ruckage

Good news and bad news regarding fonts. Good news is I've added the accent characters. Bad news is they break the game list as they are then taller than the other characters and it seems that ES uses variable line height per entry so any name with these character is taller and it then stops everything else in the list from lining up correctly.

Characters such as º though are fine so can be added.

The only thing I can think to do is to replace accent characters in the font such as é with a standard e. Would this be an acceptable compromise?

Let me know.

martincrocenzi

Awesome! You're an artist! Congrats, captain!

ruckage

I've uploaded new versions to try.

I've fixed the logos not showing for the nes-mini theme on latest Retropie.
I've edited the gamelist fonts so that special characters are included - accented characters are replaced with equivalent standard character as they broke the gamelist.
I've edited the description font so that the missing alternative apostrophe character is now included.

famicom-mini es theme v1.21
nes-mini es theme v1.21

FlyingTomahawk

@ruckage

Well done @ruckage !
Just curious, did you create the font from scratch?
There are fonts like Press Start 2P or the Game Over which include those special characters.

ruckage

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

@ruckage

Well done @ruckage !
Just curious, did you create the font from scratch?
There are fonts like Press Start 2P font or the Game Over font which include those special characters.

Thanks.

No, I didn't create it from scratch but it came from bitfontmaker2 which is an online bitmap font designer. It just happened that the fonts I chose for the description had the apostrophe missing so I added it myself.

I found another version of the gamelist font on bitmaker with the missing characters but I still had to edit it to make sure all characters were the same height and also moved below what the normal baseline would be as there seems to be a bug in ES where altering the line spacing makes the selector bar no longer line up with the text so this was the only way I had to correct it.