Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

myG0sh

Thank you so so much for this beautiful theme!! I even can download it via the retropie-setup so a bunch of non-tech-friends of mine already managed to install it!
With the first "thank you for the update, dear programming and designing god", it always comes along an annyoing "but..."

so my "but" looks as follows:

i changed the overscan so the black border is the monitor itself. Im using a Naviskauto CH1004S car monitor with a resolution of 1024x600 so its 16:9
I only experience this problem with composite out, hdmi works great. The reason why i ask here is, maybe someone knows what to do in combination with this theme because other themes look the same, no matter composito video out or hdmi out

edit:
i already tried:
• all sdtv_mode, sdtv_aspect and framebuffer_width/height settings in /boot/config.txt
• resizing the system_art.png in theme folder
nothing helps

myG0sh

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

Anyone have any advice? Am I missing something obvious?

you need to download the "official" version called nes-mini. You find it under Retropie-setup -> Configuration/tools -> esthemes -> install nes-mini

A Former User

@myG0sh Yeah I did that. Still nothing.

Attempting to update RetroPie from sources as opposed to binaries and see if it helps. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ruckage

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

I have updated to the newest Retropie but am still not getting the newest carousel. I updated the RetroPie Install Script(v4.2.3) and told it to update all installed packages and nothing.

Anyone have any advice? Am I missing something obvious?

Hi, that should work. Probably a silly question but you did update the theme as well?
Failing that try uninstalling the theme, restart retropie and then install the theme again.

ruckage

@myG0sh said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

i changed the overscan so the black border is the monitor itself. Im using a Naviskauto CH1004S car monitor with a resolution of 1024x600 so its 16:9
I only experience this problem with composite out, hdmi works great. The reason why i ask here is, maybe someone knows what to do in combination with this theme because other themes look the same, no matter composito video out or hdmi out

Hi,

First, the theme is only really designed to work at 1080p so unfortunately it will never look right at other resolutions.

From looking at the picture it looks like that is a 480i 4:3 image that is being displayed, this would make sense as I believe that is the best you can get through composite (no HD resolutions), this would explain why nothing is lining up correctly (you can see the background is hanging of the edge of the screen).

I am planning a 4:3 version but I still can't guaratee that it will display correctly on that screen through composite.

myG0sh

@ruckage
thanks for the quick reply. So would maybe a HDMI-to-Composite Adapter be my solution for this specific problem?

A Former User

@ruckage The theme definitely updated. I have the new, smaller missing box art image.

Still missing the new carousel though.

Also noticed the folder icons for folders starting with # is missing now. Did that change in this version?

ruckage

@myG0sh said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage
thanks for the quick reply. So would maybe a HDMI-to-Composite Adapter be my solution for this specific problem?

Honestly I'm not sure as I don't know anything about how these adapters work.
If they work by taking a 1080p signal and downscaling it to sd resolution then it should work but I would imagine that would also introduce extra lag which would be unwanted.

ruckage

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

@ruckage The theme definitely updated. I have the new, smaller missing box art image.

Still missing the new carousel though.

Also noticed the folder icons for folders starting with # is missing now. Did that change in this version?

Something is obviously not right with your setup for some reason. I tested on my pi by updating retropie and installing the theme using the built in theme installer and It works as expected. Folders haven't changed so as long as you have the # symbol they should work (also tested on my machine to be sure).

Try connecting to the pi with winscp and go to etc/emulationstation/themes and delete the nes-mini theme manually. Restart retropie and then install the theme again.

herb_fargus

i just installed emulationstation from source and installed the theme from the installer and it works as intended for me with the new carousel etc.

ruckage

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

i just installed emulationstation from source and installed the theme from the installer and it works as intended for me with the new carousel etc.

Thanks for verifying that for me. Is the folder icon working as well?

A Former User

Turns out I am getting an error when installing from source.

Taking this to another thread. Thanks!

herb_fargus

@ruckage yes adding a # to a folder name adds the folder icon.

beamquaker

Hi I couldn't get it to work until I read what you said about updating the pi. I followed the instructions and I updated my pi I deleted the theme manually restarted my pi copied the theme over again and it works perfect. It looks amazing thanks for all your hard work.

SystemLogoffSA

Thank you for this theme, it works great.

I had to apply the fix for a smaller tv to get the postions correct for text (someone asked in the thread).

I now have the NES-Mini's music in the background with this too. It's nice. :D

BBGUN

Out of curiosity, if we want to downgrade the theme back to the original carousel, or download the older versions of this theme, how could we go about doing that? Thank you for this amazing theme, btw. My family and I absolutely love it!

eatwasabi

The latest update of the theme looks great but I can't use it use since it's missing icons for these 4 systems: pc, 32x, dreamcast, msx. So they show up as blank spaces when I scroll around. Other than that this is probably the best theme for emulationstation so far. Great job.

CodeDrawer

How do I install the theme?

A Former User

@CodeDrawer It's in the EmulationStation Themes tab.

CodeDrawer

Great!