Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

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.

momaw27

@ruckage IT WORKS!

Thanks dude!!!

FlyingTomahawk

@ruckage
I am sure you have your hands full at the moment with all the requested systems and the Newgen theme ;-)
But if I may add one more to the list, Super Famicom would be one I would love to see.
Thanks.

btw. running your theme on a Pi Zero connected to a 42" Full HD TV and all looks good here.

b0gsnjir0

New to this group, I saw this theme and it is great ! Lot of hard work put in to this. Is there any updated one that will support most system. Or at least FBA, MAME and PSX?

felleg

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

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.

Just to reply to this, I find this 100% acceptable. Accents are not worth the trouble, especially if all letters are capitalized (in French, at least, accents are optional on capital letters for that very reason!)

ruckage

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

@ruckage IT WORKS!

Thanks dude!!!

You're welcome :)

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

@ruckage
I am sure you have your hands full at the moment with all the requested systems and the Newgen theme ;-)
But if I may add one more to the list, Super Famicom would be one I would love to see.
Thanks.

btw. running your theme on a Pi Zero connected to a 42" Full HD TV and all looks good here.

Nice to hear it's working well on the zero. I'll add Super Famicom to the list - nice and easy as it will be the same as the Super Nintendo with just a slightly different logo.

@b0gsnjir0 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

New to this group, I saw this theme and it is great ! Lot of hard work put in to this. Is there any updated one that will support most system. Or at least FBA, MAME and PSX?

Hi and welcome. I released a new version only yesterday but the systems you've listed aren't added yet - give me a little time and I will do my best to get all requested systems added.

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

Just to reply to this, I find this 100% acceptable. Accents are not worth the trouble, especially if all letters are capitalized (in French, at least, accents are optional on capital letters for that very reason!)

Thanks for that - I had no idea accents were optional for capitals, it's good hear my compromise isn't much of an issue.

b0gsnjir0

where can I download it?

FlyingTomahawk

@b0gsnjir0

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8391/cardboard-mini-nes-nes-mini-and-famicom-mini-themes/138

celly

@ruckage hey man, just out of curiousity did you create or document the build on your cardboard mini? I know the thread kinda went towards your theme (which kicks ass by the way) but I really dig your case.

Stuart2773

@ruckage

i finally got round to testing this after a busy week,

ruckage, you have done an amazing job on this theme :)

Stuart2773

@ruckage

I've just came across some more accurate NES/Famicom fonts:-
emulogic & press-start-2p

the letter "O" in these new versions is much better.

b0gsnjir0

@FlyingTomahawk I have that one it still don't have all console that I need. learning to edit it but its to find logo's and headers. how do add the font on my Mac?

FlyingTomahawk

@b0gsnjir0

I am sure ruckage is doing his best right now to add the missing or wished systems.
I have no Mac so I don't what works and what not.

ruckage

Hi everyone, sorry for no replies yesterday, I was visiting family.

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

@ruckage hey man, just out of curiousity did you create or document the build on your cardboard mini? I know the thread kinda went towards your theme (which kicks ass by the way) but I really dig your case.

Thanks :) , unfortunately I didn't document everything but did take some photos during construction so I'll in the very least add them to an imgur gallery so you can get an idea of how it was made.

@Stuart2773 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage

i finally got round to testing this after a busy week,

ruckage, you have done an amazing job on this theme :)

I've just came across some more accurate NES/Famicom fonts:-
emulogic & press-start-2p

the letter "O" in these new versions is much better.

Thanks Stuart :). Good catch with the font accuracy (I hadn't noticed - which is bad of me). I can't just directly use those fonts due to the gamelist issues mentioned but what I'll do is edit the existing font to match the NES more closely - I just realised I can use the name entry screen from Zelda to make sure all characters are accurate so that's what I'll do.

@b0gsnjir0 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@FlyingTomahawk I have that one it still don't have all console that I need. learning to edit it but its to find logo's and headers. how do add the font on my Mac?

Please be patient. There is a lot of work involved in making these themes. It's not just a case of 'find logo's and headers' these are all drawn by hand. I've already added 21 systems which has taken countless hours and I will be adding more but you have to remember this isn't my full-time job and I'm using my own free time to make this.

ruckage

I've edited the gamelist font to match the one used in Legend of Zelda so I think it's as accurate as it will ever be now. It will be included in the next update.

The characters changed were:

G I J L M N O P Q S V W Z - , ' " ! & 0 3 5 8