Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

[lilbud]

@ruckage Glad to you see back with Retropie, I really looked forward to the Newgen theme. But I'm afraid someone beat you to the punch. @FlyingTomahawk took the dead Newgen theme and made the Futura Theme in your absence.

[Stuart2773]

@ruckage

cool, no i dont mind, i just used the templates provided in the original thread (unaware of the upscaling)

thanks for the update

stuart.

[ruckage]

@mattrixk said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage I use this version of ES for Windows to test all my themes for Video Previews. You can also use UXS to scrape some videos for each rom. I have 5 games in 5 systems so it doesn't take long to scrape and it gives you enough to test with.

Thanks, very helpful. What's UXS?

@Rion said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage It's officially supported if you update your RetroPie-Setup to the latest version.

The work was first started by @fieldofcows in this thread. Video Preview in EmulationStation

Here is also @Nismo 's Oldroom theme that's a great example of what you can do with it.

I'll look into it.

@lilbud said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage Glad to you see back with Retropie, I really looked forward to the Newgen theme. But I'm afraid someone beat you to the punch. @FlyingTomahawk took the dead Newgen theme and made the Futura Theme in your absence.

So someone has just copied it exactly - I don't even get a mention . :( I still feel it's my theme.
edit: I take it back, he does mention me in the readme. However I still feel my original version is worth releasing - if only for the wide colour choice I have available.

[mattrixk]

@ruckage UXS is the Universal XML Scraper. It scrapes the metadata from screenscraper.fr. One of the best things about it is you can create your own scrape profiles so you can scrape whatever images you want (box art, fan art, game logos, screenshots, etc) and mix them into a single image. There are also pre-made profiles that mix images for you, if you don't want to make your own.

eg:

RetroPie Forum thread here.
UXS GitHub here.

[ruckage]

@mattrixk said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage UXS is the Universal XML Scraper. It scrapes the metadata from screenscraper.fr. One of the best things about it is you can create your own scrape profiles so you can scrape whatever images you want (box art, fan art, game logos, screenshots, etc) and mix them into a single image. There are also pre-made profiles that mix images for you, if you don't want to make your own.

eg:

RetroPie Forum thread here.
UXS GitHub here.

Thanks, looks a really useful tool. It's a shame ES doesn't have support for multiple screenshots etc. by default but at least there are always people to find workarounds.

[mattrixk]

@ruckage Yup. I'd love to have access to <screenshot>, <boxart>, <fanart>, <logo>, etc tags to use when making themes.

[ruckage]

@mattrixk said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage Yup. I'd love to have access to <screenshot>, <boxart>, <fanart>, <logo>, etc tags to use when making themes.

Yeah - I really thought that would have been added by now as it seems like it would be an easy addition compared to some of the other changes already made but perhaps I'm wrong. (I do appreciate it's volunteers making the changes and additions so I'm not critcizing.)

[Rion]

@ruckage

I actually made a post when I first registered on this new forum to any news update of your lmage Preview Project

Looks like Universal XML Scraper have alot of options when it comes to something similar what your where doing lmage Preview Project.

Sad to hear you was ill for most of last year.
I know exactly how it feels. Been under the knife now for the second time in 5 months but I'm soon back to work again.

I don't think @FlyingTomahawk ment any disrespect by doing a version based on your theme.

[ruckage]

@Rion said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage

I actually made a post when I first registered on this new forum to any news update of your lmage Preview Project

Looks like Universal XML Scraper have alot of options when it comes to something similar what your where doing lmage Preview Project.

Sad to hear you was ill for most of last year.
I know exactly how it feels. Been under the knife now for the second time in 5 months but I'm soon back to work again.

I don't think @FlyingTomahawk ment any disrespect by doing a version based on your theme.

UXS looks far more advanced than the program I wrote to make the previews (it certainly would have been almost impossible for anyone else to use as it required lots of user intervention to work so wasn't worth sharing).

Yeah it sucks being ill, I hope you feel better soon. I've had some health problems for quite a few years but it was under control until the past year or so when things got bad again. I'm feeling well at the moment though so I'm making the most of it (just as well really as the hospital sure knows how to keep me waiting).

No ill feelings toward @FlyingTomahawk, I was just initially miffed as It didn't seem that Newgen was acknowledged as the inspiration for his theme.

[lilbud]

@ruckage what caused you to be ill? if you don't mind me asking

[FlyingTomahawk]

@ruckage

Glad to see that you're back again.

I would like to say a few words since we have a situation here that I would like to clear and add a few missing pieces.

When I first joined this forum (3 months ago) I was looking for a different theme than what was available at that time so during my search I stumbled across this old petrockblock.com thread with the NewGen theme screenshots.
As many others I was VERY amazed by its looks, design and layout so I looked you up and saw that you haven't been online for quite a while. Your last post didn't indicate that the NewGen theme will be released anytime soon.
So I thought I use this opportunity and create a theme that is based on that NewGen layout and at the same time learn about this whole RetroPie and ES stuff as I go.

However, do to lack of skills I was not able to recreate it near as good as the original but it was good enough for me to use personally and since others had admired your theme I thought why not share mine as some sort of replacement until the real NewGen theme will be released one day....or not.
No one knew if you ever come back and it would have been a shame to not be able to use such a cool design. So great Job SEGA for creating the design in the first place and bravo to you for converting it to a very nice looking ES theme.

As you could read in the readme file I did give credit to you and I did mention "your" theme by name.
I tell you what, you release that NewGen theme of yours and I will remove all the Futura theme files from github and this forum. I don't really care if my Futura theme is available to others or not the initial goal was to use it only for myself anyways.

took the dead Newgen theme and made the Futura Theme in your absence.

There was nothing to "take" per se, except inspiration.

edit: I take it back, he does mention me in the readme. However I still feel my original version is worth releasing - if only for the wide colour choice I have available.

Absolutely, couldn't agree more. Release it, please.

[ruckage]

@FlyingTomahawk said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage

Glad to see that you're back again.

I would like to say a few words since we have a situation here that I would like to clear and add a few missing pieces.
...........
I tell you what, you release that NewGen theme of yours and I will remove all the Futura theme files from github and this forum. I don't really care if my Futura theme is available to others or not the initial goal was to use it only for myself anyways.

Hi @FlyingTomahawk, as I said I was initially just a bit annoyed as it looked like an exact copy and it didn't seem like I was even mentioned but I did see you mentioned me in the readme so I edited my post and it's all fine. There is no need to remove anything, we all build upon what others have made and choice is good for everyone. Newgen itself was inspired by the menus used on the PS2 genesis collection so I borrowed ideas myself to begin with.

@lilbud said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage what caused you to be ill? if you don't mind me asking

Good question - I'd like to know that myself ;)
It's basically a whole host of gastric problems. itstarted with really severe acid reflux years ago, I was given medication which suppresses acid production and that helped for a while. Then one out of the blue I found it difficult to swallow food and any food I ate seemed to remain in my stomach much longer than it should so I felt sick all the time so they game me another drug which again helped for about 3 years.

Fast forward to about 1 1/2 years ago and all my symptoms and more came back with a vengeance- nothing helped, couldn't sleep could only eat small amounts and felt sick all the time. I've had loads of tests but no conclusive cause for all the symptoms - the only major finds so far are confirmed acid reflux and hiatal hernia (knew I had those anyway) and that my esophagus doesn't work so when eating and drinking food isn't pushed down as it should be - it pretty much drops down by gravity alone.
Luckily I seem to get periods where I feel normal again, like now, fingers crossed I won't feel ill again for quite a while.

Sorry for the wall of text, that was probably more info than you wanted :P

[lilbud]

@ruckage Damn dude, hope you get better.

[ruckage]

@lilbud said in Cardboard Mini NES:

@ruckage Damn dude, hope you get better.

Thanks.

I've been busy this afternoon. I've drawn logos and made backgrounds for the following systems:

Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Intellivision
C64
ZX Spectrum
Sega Master system

I'd like to do a few more and then I'll update the nesmini theme.

[momaw27]

@ruckage Holy cow dude! You're an animal!

Thank you SO much!!!

[ruckage]

Just a quick post to show the logos I've drawn today so far.

[momaw27]

@ruckage Brilliant!

[backstander]

@ruckage
Great use of color! To me everything looks authentic!

[ruckage]

I've uploaded a new version to mega :) . You can find it Here: Nesmini theme v1.1
Give it a try and let me know how it works.

This version supports the following system:

NES
Gameboy
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

Below is an animated gif slideshow showing all the systems:

[momaw27]

@ruckage WOO HOO!!!! Thank you!!!