Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

[Squilenator]

@herb_fargus Maybe add a note to this Guide with a list of the most popular and demanding systems so the theme makers can create a "complete" theme, i mean, i don't think there is someone that uses anything near 80 systems, correct me if I'm wrong.

[DigitalMonkey]

@herb_fargus 80!? :O

Valid point.

I just brought it up as I was trying out some themes the other day, and one of them I really liked and.....oh...it doesnt support Arcade. Which i thought would be a given.

I really should take a few hours out & try out this theme creation malarkey! XD

@Squilenator Yes. This. :)

Anyway, back to the topic at hand!

NES theme is awesome. I've set up a Pi Zero W with just Nintendo systems (no N64 because theres nay point!, a cheapy SNES controller (thanks PiHut!) & this theme.

Lovin' it! :)

[herb_fargus]

@Squilenator well 80 different people may download the theme and each may be running a different system so there isn't really a "complete" list short of what retropie installs. Even then there are regional variants, emulators that emulate multiple platforms etc.

Personally I would prefer theme makers make themes for all the systems but I also understand we all do this in our free time as we see fit. At the very least if someone had a GitHub repository if people want to contribute as a community to that theme it's easier, and then when they want it migrated to the retropie installer it's a simple process.

The unfortunate thing is the majority of people are consumers and not contributors. Pretty much just two blokes (mostly one) work on the code with the occasional contribution here and there. And there are a bunch of themes in varying stages of completion often thrown out into the wind and swiftly abandoned.

[jdrassa]

@herb_fargus @Squilenator the theme variables feature I have been working on has a default theme concept.

[ruckage]

@jdrassa
That sounds great, a really sensible way of doing things. So if I'm understanding correctly there would be default xml file that would be used for any system without a specific theme.xml and you could then add system specific theming as/if needed. It would certainly speed up theme creation - especially as many themes don't even need system specific changes.

[Squilenator]

@jdrassa That sounds really awesome. Wish I had a Raspberry, I'm stuck with windows emulationstation that is forgotten in time and space :c

[felleg]

@Squilenator raspberry... the perfect birthday present!

[Squilenator]

@felleg Well my birthday is in june, just saying :D wink wink

[Stuart2773]

any progress update ?

[A Former User]

Alright, alright. This is cool. But how about an SNES?
I'm a big SNES fan, and I'm trying to see if I can find a good SNES Theme and Case.
Know any good ones?

[ruckage]

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

any progress update ?

Nothing new since last update, just having a little break as I was so busy with this theme that haven't even played on my Mini Nes yet so I've been spending my weekend trying to finish setting it up so I can finally play it. I promise to get back to work this week though :D

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

Alright, alright. This is cool. But how about an SNES?
I'm a big SNES fan, and I'm trying to see if I can find a good SNES Theme and Case.
Know any good ones?

Well, this does already support SNES but I don't know of any specific SNES themes.

See this post that shows the SNES support: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8391/cardboard-mini-nes-nes-mini-and-famicom-mini-themes/111

[A Former User]

Just installed this theme this weekend. Can't wait for the new update now! Great work! :)

[goodpi31]

Thanks for sharing your theme, its awesome!

[falusmichal]

Hi. how to add vids snap to your theme?

[Stuart2773]

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

Hi. how to add vids snap to your theme?

Soon :)

[ruckage]

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

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

Hi. how to add vids snap to your theme?

Soon :)

I haven't decided if I'm going to add video snaps yet - I probably will but If I do it will be once I've finished adding the majority of systems to my themes as it will most likely have to be a separate version which will either replace the metadata with the videosnap or divide the boxart area into smaller boxart and video snap beneath (probably the best option I think).

[herb_fargus]

@ruckage the video view is a new view entirely so you don't necessarily have to create a new theme just for video support

[ruckage]

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

@ruckage the video view is a new view entirely so you don't necessarily have to create a new theme just for video support

I didn't realise that, thanks. That will make things easier then so I will definitely look into adding it.

[ruckage]

@herb_fargus
Regarding the video previews, is there a portable windows version of ES with this support so I can look into adding it?

[herb_fargus]

@ruckage I haven't updated my portable build yet. I've been meaning to (hoping I can get automated tests builds with Travis or something)

Here is an example of adding video view:

https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon/pull/20

@jdrassa has a much better idea of video view integration than me