Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

Agoneclone

When I put this on my RPZ with RetroPie 4.2 the theme just has white boxes, the error is to <title> tag in each XML file yet there obviously is. Any help?

ruckage

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

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

Added video support.

OMG. thank you!!

Let me know how you get on with the video support, I was only able to do limited testing on the pi itself but hopefully it should be okay.

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

@ruckage this is easily my favorite theme, the only one that comes close is retrorama.

the pixel theme launch art package goes really well with this too!

I'll have to donate to you beer fund when I get paid, or if you ever come to Melbourne Australia, buy you a pint personally :)

Really well done dude, this is some professional grade theming.

Thanks, glad you like the theme :). The pixel theme launch package really is great but stay tuned as I may have something more specific to this theme that I'll be posting about very soon......

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

When I put this on my RPZ with RetroPie 4.2 the theme just has white boxes, the error is to <title> tag in each XML file yet there obviously is. Any help?

Are you using the latest version of EmulationStation? If not the theme won't work.

ruckage

I've made a set of custom launch images for the nes-mini theme. You can download them from Mega: Download

I'll be honest, I've not actually tested them yet but there shouldn't be any reason why they wouldn't work. The only thing I'm not certain about is how retropie scales these images when displaying them - if it adds any kind of filtering then I'll need to redo them to stop them from looking blurred when displayed.

Below are a few examples of how they look.

Agoneclone

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

u using the latest version of EmulationStation? If

I am on RetroPie 4.2, which from ES's site says it contains the latest, it also says
unknown property type "selectorHeight" in the terminal after killing ES

Agoneclone

@ruckage

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

I've made a set of custom launch images for the nes-mini theme. You can download them from Mega: Download

I'll be honest, I've not actually tested them yet but there shouldn't be any reason why they wouldn't work. The only thing I'm not certain about is how retropie scales these images when displaying them - if it adds any kind of filtering then I'll need to redo them to stop them from looking blurred when displayed.

These are awesome!

ruckage

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

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

u using the latest version of EmulationStation? If

I am on RetroPie 4.2, which from ES's site says it contains the latest, it also says
unknown property type "selectorHeight" in the terminal after killing ES

You're using an old version of EmulationStation. Retropie is the whole package and EmulationStation is just the frontend. You need to update it to the latest version from source.

To do this in Retropie go to the retropie/config menu and select the following:

Retropie Setup
Manage Packages
Manage Core Package
EmulationStation
Update From Source

It will take a little while to compile but once it's finished you will have the latest version of ES.
Restart the system and the theme should work.

Agoneclone

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

ed to update

Thank you so much man! My brother missed out on an NES classic so I'm making him a custom one. This theme is perfect

mattmanforever

@ruckage Working great for me!

mattmanforever

@ruckage I know you prefer to do it yourself, but I made a U.S. version for the SNES launch screen (because OCD). Figured I'd share it and make your life a tad easier.

momaw27

@ruckage

These look great, man!

Just tried the lot out on a 4x3 system but the images don't scale... so I'm left with a smaller image surrounded by a black border.

I know you've been working your tail off with this theme, so don't think of this as a request... but more of an addition to your "when you get around to it" list.

I'd like a set of these scaled to NTSC 4x3.

Again, absolutely NO RUSH... I'm using them anyway because they're just too cool... but a full screen version... at some point in the future... would be the icing on the cake!

Thanks again for ALL your work in making this my GO TO theme!

ruckage

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

@ruckage I know you prefer to do it yourself, but I made a U.S. version for the SNES launch screen (because OCD). Figured I'd share it and make your life a tad easier. )

Well spotted, I completely forgot about the alternative version. Once I'd decided on the layout I wrote a program to generate the images for me from the various elements and I just forgot to add the SNES alternative images.

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

@ruckage

These look great, man!

Just tried the lot out on a 4x3 system but the images don't scale... so I'm left with a smaller image surrounded by a black border.

I know you've been working your tail off with this theme, so don't think of this as a request... but more of an addition to your "when you get around to it" list.

I'd like a set of these scaled to NTSC 4x3.

Again, absolutely NO RUSH... I'm using them anyway because they're just too cool... but a full screen version... at some point in the future... would be the icing on the cake!

Thanks again for ALL your work in making this my GO TO theme!

I had feeling that would be the case, providing a 4x3 version is easy enough so I'll do that next. By smaller image I assume you just mean that it has black borders top bottom - is that right?

Rompe

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

I've been experimenting with the new carousel theming and I'm thinking of going for something like this.

It will require making each of the system logos individually but I should be able to get them all done in a few days (the hardest part is finding good photos of box art). As these would look odd as logos in the old version of ES I think I should be able to use the 'feature' tag so that these are only used on the new version that supports carousel theming.

First I got to say that your theme looks absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for creating it.
I really like the pixel art on the system menu, but is there also an alternative available where the system menu has box art as you depicted above?

jcarhat

@ruckage

DUUUUDE THOSE LAUNCH IMAGES.

ruckage

I've made a separate topic for the launch images so that they don't get lost in this thread. You can find it here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11481/nes-mini-theme-launching-images

I've updated them so that the alternative Snes-usa image is included (it has separate folder so you'll need to copy it across to the snes folder if you want to use it.

There are also 3 different sets of the images for different aspect ratios (16x9, 4x3, and ntsc) so most setups should be covered (I may also need to do a PAL set at a later date - does anyone use a PAL display?).

They are now in a github repository so you can download them here: https://github.com/ruckage/nes-mini-theme-launch-images-for-retropie

ruckage

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

First I got to say that your theme looks absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for creating it.
I really like the pixel art on the system menu, but is there also an alternative available where the system menu has box art as you depicted above?

I would still like to complete that alternate icon set at a later date but it isn't top priority, it will be something that I'll do once everything else is complete (my time is limited so I have to prioritize). I'm quite fussy so these take a while to make as I first have to find decent box art pictures (tricky for some systems) and I then still have to clean them up by hand to make them look as good as possible.

smoothmalik

@Stuart2773 did you happen to make splash screen for multiple systems for this theme or just the 2 for nintendo? Just curious...

ruckage

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

@Stuart2773 did you happen to make splash screen for multiple systems for this theme or just the 2 for nintendo? Just curious...

Is that question directed at me or @Stuart2773 O.o ?

smoothmalik

disregard I see launch images have already been created by @ruckage

A Former User

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

Anyone else getting a git pull error when updating the theme via Retropie Setup Script?

If anyone else gets this error, I figured it out. It's because I had an altered layout.xml file, which git pull did not want to overwrite. I renamed my custom layout.xml file, retried it and it updated.

TMNTturtlguy

@LiveFastCyYoung if you edit a theme you should copy the theme to /.emulationstatation/themes/ and then edit the theme in that location. That way when you update you don't overwrite your edits!