Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

backstander

It's definitely one of the strongest themes out there now.

...but we still love you @Rookervik ;-)

mediamogul

Definitely, respect to Rook, to use the parlance of our times.

Syhles

@ruckage
I like the direction your going with the carousel, the only suggestion I can think of at this point for this theme is instead of using the nes system border at the top and bottom for every system, make borders that resembles each system. Also all of the pixel art I've seen for the theme so far has been fantastic.

ruckage

@mediamogul @backstander
Thanks guys, glad you're enjoying the thread and the progress.

I think the pixel icons are more in keeping myself but don't dislike the boxart versions either as it's a nice bit of nostalgia. In an ideal world I'd provide both with the option to choose between them within the xml but it's trickier to do that with the system icons due to the way the theme is setup. I suppose I could provide a separate zip which you could extract and overwrite the icons to replace them. Perhaps I'll give that a shot - but no promises.

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

@backstander

Definitely, respect to Rook, to use the parlance of our times.

Definitely, @Rookervik themes are great and the amount of time and effort he has put into them is amazing.

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

@ruckage
I like the direction your going with the carousel, the only suggestion I can think of at this point for this theme is instead of using the nes system border at the top and bottom for every system, make borders that resembles each system. Also all of the pixel art I've seen for the theme so far has been fantastic.

Thanks :). Regarding borders, that has been discussed a few times and I like the idea of it but it's not something I'm planning to do just yet as it will be a lot of additional work - I can see myself doing it a at a later date though when the theme is more or less complete in every other way.

Syhles

@ruckage
I like the pixel consoles better then the box's personally, they both look nice though.

Rookervik

Dude, I may switch to this theme. :D Lemme know if 86 system icons is too much. I can help out. LOL.

dankcushions

love the pixel art themes! (as someone who prefers screenshots over boxart in the gamelist also!)

nahlakhai

I actually like the box pictures better, they also have a retro feeling to them too. But the pixels look awesome! One suggestion or opinion I have is the text in the descriptions of the games is a bit hard to read. Not sure what font would work better but I find the text too pixelly and I just ignore it.

Serj Targarien

@ruckage I absolutely love the new pixel art icons, and I think they fit the theme much better than the boxes, with the added advantages of fitting every system (even arcade and ports) and not using any proprietary images. Great work in the ones you made so far!

ruckage

Thanks for the replies :)

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

Dude, I may switch to this theme. :D Lemme know if 86 system icons is too much. I can help out. LOL.

Thanks :D - I can't believe you have any time to actually use retropie though with all the theme making you do ;) .
I think I have fair bit of work to do to reach 86 systems, that takes some serious dedication. My theme is at 42 systems at the moment (maybe I should stop now as I'm sure the number 42 is incredibly significant in some way......)

Thanks for the offer of help, it's kind of you. I'm okay at the moment though, luckily I love drawing pixel art and I like a challenge.

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

One suggestion or opinion I have is the text in the descriptions of the games is a bit hard to read. Not sure what font would work better but I find the text too pixelly and I just ignore it.

Thanks for the feedback. I don't really see a problem with the font myself, everything seems perfectly readable to me. I haven't had any other complaints regarding it and it fits the theme perfectly. If you're really not happy with the font you can easily swap it out for another that you prefer.

More icons

I've drawn another 10 icons, 22 left to do to cover all currently supported systems. It's time consuming work but I think it will be worth it.

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Syhles

@ruckage
The new icons look so clean, also do you feel like 42 is the meaning of everything? Lol

A Former User

Late to the party, but what are these icons going to be used for?

backstander

@itsnitro

but what are these icons going to be used for?

a Carousel update:

ruckage

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

@ruckage
.......do you feel like 42 is the meaning of everything? Lol

That could be it, I need to put some 'Deep Thought' into it :D

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

Late to the party, but what are these icons going to be used for?

I'm working on theming the system select carousel so it will look something like this.
0_1494019365201_nes-mini new carousel 2.png

Edit: ooops, @backstander beat me to it.

A Former User

Oh. Like it! If ya need help, let me know. I'm a graphic artist as well and I can try to do this. 42 icons seems a lot.

ruckage

@itsnitro
Thanks for the offer but I'm happy doing it myself at the moment. And it's only 42 that need to be done to start with as the theme only has 42 systems so far (and I've already drawn 21 icons so I'm halfway).

Rookervik

@ruckage GAH these look so amazing! Great job!

Also I know what you mean about working alone. When you put as much sweat and work into a project, it's hard to take on additional help because you want to push it all out yourself. (/me pats your shoulder) I totally get it. :D Keep it up! Looking AMAZING.

herb_fargus

@ruckage to have someone make one complete theme with consistency makes my OCD scream with joy. The pixel consoles are beautiful

DragonCrystal

I must say I love this theme almost more than the pixel theme they have, I cant wait for you to get the other consoles finished, its gonna look awesome!

ruckage

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

@ruckage GAH these look so amazing! Great job!

Also I know what you mean about working alone. When you put as much sweat and work into a project, it's hard to take on additional help because you want to push it all out yourself. (/me pats your shoulder) I totally get it. :D Keep it up! Looking AMAZING.

Thanks :). Yeah, I totally agree. I just find it really satisfying to produce something single-handedly and it's nice to feel proud of something that was all your own work, (I know a few bits of this theme originated from the Nes classic menu but the vast majority of it is now my own work) I'm sure you feel the same way.

At this point sharing the workload on this theme would feel a bit like giving away my baby :D.

Right, back to work! No time for slacking, I have lots more icons to draw.