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

      @ruckage

      If anyone has any more requests for systems please let me know.

      The only one I see that would be missing for me is a "Steam" system.

      Why is steam needed? Genuinely curious.

      SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

      If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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

        @felleg
        Another thing that is strange on your photo is it's actually cutting off the bottom of the theme - that shouldn't be happening. My first thoughts were overscan but if that were the case I would expect the top of the theme to be cropped as well but it isn't. Out of curiosity are you from the US and using an NTSC TV? If so that may explain it as NTSC has less vertical lines and I'm hazarding a guess that the RPi is outputting a resolution more suited to PAL TVs. That should be correctable for you by adjusting some settings in the the raspberry pi config.

        When I do a 4x3 version I think I will need some testers as by the looks of things for standard TV the raspberry pi doesn't behave exactly as expected - this may or may not be a problem though if I target that resolution directly.

        As I've said, I've messed around a lot with the overscan and resolution settings for when I use my Pi with the CRT. Just like momaw27, I'd be happy to test anything you need, just let me know. :)

        The screen I am using is an NTSC-U Commodore 1702 monitor.

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          Syhles
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          @ruckage
          I'd like to see pc-engine cd.

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            backstander @ruckage
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            @ruckage

            Why is steam needed? Genuinely curious.

            You can stream games from your powerful PC to your Raspberry Pi using Moonlight-embedded. I use it all the time:

            Here's Carbon theme's Steam directory:
            https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon/tree/master/steam

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

              @ruckage

              Why is steam needed? Genuinely curious.

              You can stream games from your powerful PC to your Raspberry Pi using Moonlight-embedded. I use it all the time:

              Cool, didn't realise that.

              I have to ask though - why does it need it's own category? Surely it's a single app you launch which then takes you to steam big picture. So you have an entire category which contains one item - seems a bit redundant. Actually same can be said for KODI as well. Why do these apps need their own section in retropie - wouldn't they be better all together in an 'Apps' folder?

              SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

              If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                backstander @ruckage
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                @ruckage

                I have to ask though - why does it need it's own category?

                It does depend on how you configure it. You can just have one entry that launches Steam in Big Picture Mode and you can have more entries that launch a specific game. An example: I have Big Picture Mode using 720p60fps and a 2nd entry for 1080p30fps and I also have a custom entry for Ghost Recon Wildlands (which isn't even in Steam...it's Uplay) briefly described here:
                https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/63708

                Moonlight is mainly used to play Steam games but there are Nvidia GeForce Experience optimized games that may or may not be on Steam (like Wildlands). Here's a tread talking about making custom launch scripts for Moonlight:
                https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/57654

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                  backstander
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                  So really the system name should say "Nvidia GeForce Experience" or "Moonlight" but I'm okay with the simple "Steam" lol

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                    backstander
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                    Also I didn't mention that people running the Linux x86 build with RetroPie can install Steam locally on the same machine and then they can make scripts to launch games using Steam's built in "steam://rungameid/" function. These scripts can be stored in the ~RetroPie/roms/steam/ folder as well.

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                      Syhles
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                      @ruckage
                      Etaprime made a video showcasing your theme, thought it was cool and wanted to let you know.

                      Here's the link:
                      [removed references to youtube channel that now promotes piracy]

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                          Noam5651 @ruckage
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                          @ruckage
                          I have noticed you didn't put "Steam" and "Ports" in the theme so I did :P
                          https://www.dropbox.com/s/0me4m5idyzl4c6x/Steam%26Ports.rar?dl=0
                          Please if you like it add it to the theme :D

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                            ruckage @Noam5651
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                            @Noam5651 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                            @ruckage
                            I have noticed you didn't put "Steam" and "Ports" in the theme so I did :P
                            https://www.dropbox.com/s/0me4m5idyzl4c6x/Steam%26Ports.rar?dl=0
                            Please if you like it add it to the theme :D

                            These are all being done, there is a post a few posts up showing what I've done so far and what is to be added.

                            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                            If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                              ruckage @Syhles
                              last edited by ruckage

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

                              @ruckage
                              Etaprime made a video showcasing your theme, thought it was cool and wanted to let you know.

                              :D That's awesome, thanks for letting me know. ETAprime is great, really useful youtube channel for anyone starting out with retropie.

                              SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                              If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                Vega
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                                Hello! ETA Prime brought me here I tried installing this theme via his instructions. Which i used winSCP to go inmy retropie backend, I placed the nes mini theme in my emulationstation/themes folder. I went back into my Retropie i saw Nes Mini theme was there i selected it but when I cruise the theme its just blank white background/black text. i scrolled through my emulators and it was like this for all of them while using this theme. Can you provide any help on getting this running?

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

                                  Hello! ETA Prime brought me here I tried installing this theme via his instructions. Which i used winSCP to go inmy retropie backend, I placed the nes mini theme in my emulationstation/themes folder. I went back into my Retropie i saw Nes Mini theme was there i selected it but when I cruise the theme its just blank white background/black text. i scrolled through my emulators and it was like this for all of them while using this theme. Can you provide any help on getting this running?

                                  Have you made sure when you extracted the zip that you only copied over the theme folder itself? It could be when you extracted the theme it extracted to a folder within a folder if that makes sense.

                                  The base folder should be called 'es-theme-nes-mini-master' and inside that should be lots of folders for all the systems.

                                  If you open 'es-theme-nes-mini-master' folder and inside is another 'es-theme-nes-mini-master' folder that's wrong and won't work.

                                  Not sure if I'm being very clear but I hope it helps.

                                  SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                  If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                    backstander @Vega
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                                    @Vega
                                    Sometimes you have to restart EmulationStation before the theme will work.

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                                      shantigilbert @ruckage
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                                      @ruckage as others I was made aware of your theme by ETA prime's youtube video and I really like it!

                                      I wanted to ask if it was OK to include it in my project. I make a compilation of LE+Lakka+ES (and other stuff I add) for Amlogic s905 devices and I would like it to be the default ES theme if its OK with you.

                                      it is of course non-commercial, here is the link to the project https://github.com/shantigilbert/LibreELEC.tv

                                      Thank you!

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                                        caver01 @ruckage
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                                        @ruckage said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

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

                                        @ruckage

                                        YES!!!!! That's it!

                                        WOW... that is a thing of beauty.

                                        When you need testers, count me in!

                                        Beau

                                        Thanks. It's getting to the point where a large chunk of systems are now supported. There are 12 systems left on my todo list and once the todo list is worked through I'll see about sorting out a 4x3 version.

                                        There are 40 supported systems now (some of them not released yet but will be in the next version).

                                        Here is a list of all 40 systems already supported
                                        (* = not released yet):

                                        Arcade
                                        Atari 2600
                                        Atari 5200
                                        Atari 7800
                                        Atari Lynx*
                                        Colecovision
                                        Commodore 64
                                        Famicom
                                        Family Computer Disk System
                                        Final Burn Alpha
                                        Gameboy
                                        Gameboy Advance
                                        Gameboy Color
                                        Genesis
                                        Intellivision
                                        MAME
                                        Megadrive
                                        NES
                                        Neo Geo
                                        NeoGeo Pocket
                                        NeoGeo Pocket Color
                                        Nintendo 64
                                        Nintendo DS
                                        Odyssey 2
                                        PC Engine
                                        Playstation
                                        Ports*
                                        PSP*
                                        Retropie setup menu
                                        Sega Cd
                                        Sega Game Gear
                                        Sega Master System
                                        Sega SG-1000*
                                        Super Famicom
                                        Super Nintendo
                                        TurboGrafx 16
                                        Vectrex
                                        Virtual Boy*
                                        Wonderswan
                                        Wonderswan Color
                                        ZX Spectrum

                                        Below is the current todo list:

                                        Amiga
                                        Atari ST
                                        DosBox
                                        Dreamcast
                                        Game & watch
                                        Kodi
                                        MSX
                                        pc-engine cd
                                        ScummVM
                                        Sega 32x
                                        Steam
                                        Supergrafx

                                        If anyone has any more requests for systems please let me know.

                                        Daphne?

                                        My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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

                                          @ruckage as others I was made aware of your theme by ETA prime's youtube video and I really like it!

                                          I wanted to ask if it was OK to include it in my project. I make a compilation of LE+Lakka+ES (and other stuff I add) for Amlogic s905 devices and I would like it to be the default ES theme if its OK with you.

                                          it is of course non-commercial, here is the link to the project https://github.com/shantigilbert/LibreELEC.tv

                                          Thank you!

                                          As long as it's not for commercial use and I'm credited somewhere and it's not modified in any way then that will be fine. Please make sure the readme which includes my license terms and link to this forum is also included.

                                          Thanks for asking before using the theme, I appreciate it.

                                          SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                          If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                                          • ruckageR
                                            ruckage @caver01
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                                            @caver01 said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

                                            Daphne?

                                            Doh!

                                            That was actually on the list, I must have deleted it by accident. I'll re-add it.

                                            I've actually updated the first post in the topic with useful theme information such as todo lists and downloads so it's easy to find now.

                                            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                                            If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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