Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

[A Former User]

I personally love the metadata. The only reason I could see a metadata-less version is because of how incorrect the metadata is most of the time, which is obviously not the themes fault whatsoever. Ratings are pointless(who is rating, most of them are missing ratings) and the number of players is almost never correct.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@LiveFastCyYoung true story, but that info is easily corrected and you can do it right from the rom selection menu. Select on the rom selection screen and choose to edit meta data. Simple easy and fast!

[ruckage]

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

I personally love the metadata. The only reason I could see a metadata-less version is because of how incorrect the metadata is most of the time, which is obviously not the themes fault whatsoever. Ratings are pointless(who is rating, most of them are missing ratings) and the number of players is almost never correct.

It probably depends on the system/scraping source but I found the metadata to be accurate more than not. I personally quite like the ratings, I don't necessarily agree with the rating that is scraped but it's a great way to rate the games yourself. You could actually edit the gamelist.xml to begin with so all ratings are set to zero and then just rate the games as you play them.

[A Former User]

@TMNTturtlguy For sure. But even just talking about the NES that's what, 700 US games? Not taking into account all of the systems this theme supports.

This belongs in another thread but we often have people asking how they can help the project if they don't know how to code. Maybe we should be pointing them to cleaning some of the bad metadata on some of these sites? Just a thought.

[ruckage]

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

@TMNTturtlguy For sure. But even just talking about the NES that's what, 700 US games? Not taking into account all of the systems this theme supports.

This belongs in another thread but we often have people asking how they can help the project if they don't know how to code. Maybe we should be pointing them to cleaning some of the bad metadata on some of these sites? Just a thought.

That would be a great idea, there was thread I saw a few days asking how people could help.

[Oen]

@ruckage do you have any plans to add DOSBox? Anyway I can help with that, if so?

Thanks for all the hard work on theme so far!

[A Former User]

@Oen DosBox is in the todo list and he's stated before he is handling all of the work for this theme on his own. He'll get to it.

[Syhles]

@Oen
Check the bottom of the first post, system to-do list is there.

He wants to do the whole theme himself, all we can really do is point out errors if any, and request systems that have been overlooked, but seems like all the main bases are covered.

[Oen]

@Syhles @LiveFastCyYoung thanks for the replies. I missed that list. I saw the list of completed/working systems. Was just curious. :)

[Aqualime]

I figured I should mention if you update retropie to the latest emulationstation it breaks your theme. Version 2.3.0RP. I can get a picture if you're unable to replicate it. I just updated, then restarted. Everything went bonkers with the game selection lines. Seems to be the same on 1080 and 720 unfortunately.

[Aqualime]

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[ruckage]

@Aqualime
It's known, it's due to gamelist fixes and improvements in the latest version of ES. I did post a warning stating not to update to the latest version of ES twice in the past week if using this theme. I will be issuing a fix soon, unfortunately there isn't anything you can do now apart from wait for the update.

[Aqualime]

Lol I don't know how I missed that. Either way, good. I'm glad it's been caught. I'll be looking forward to the update. Sorry for being redundant.

[mattmanforever]

Love this theme, but after the latest update (I updated all packages, including this theme), I'm getting a spacing issue on the games list, on all systems. See pic.

[A Former User]

@mattmanforever You might want to scroll up, the same exact issue has been posted.

[mattmanforever]

@itsnitro Whoops! Just saw it! Thanks!

[A Former User]

No problem!

Also, @ruckage, do you need any help with the theme? I'd really love to help or something.

[skj]

@ruckage hello ruckage, I just registered to say how amazing this theme is, my question is after viewing other theme threads are you still devloping this or have you moved on to your next theme neo geo? Keep up the good work

[frgn]

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

@Aqualime
It's known, it's due to gamelist fixes and improvements in the latest version of ES. I did post a warning stating not to update to the latest version of ES twice in the past week if using this theme. I will be issuing a fix soon, unfortunately there isn't anything you can do now apart from wait for the update.

Hi! How is the process going?
I was trying to change the fontsize and lineSpacing to align the list of games, but it was not so easy.
If the theme update is delayed, can there be other solutions?
Thank you for your efforts.

[ruckage]

@frgn
Hi. I will be posting an update soon.