Mini Consoles Theme - RetroSai Nostalgia - Form over Function 2.2.5

Very good theme, a couple recommendations:

1 - ability to turn the music off. I couldn't find how to in the options, even if I turned every slider down to 0%

2 - The additional game menu options are hidden. Like 'view achievements, open the emulator, etc'. These options are important to me for some systems, specifically any game with multiple disks as I merge the additional disks onto the first disk, or some games I might launch on an alternate install of a emulator because it might run better on a different version. 

I get that might alter the look you are going for with the theme, but if it had that, I'll would give it 5 star easy.

 

Updated to 5 stars, as you can reply the music by going into the files, and the game menus option was fixed in latest release

Good thing I stumbled upon this. It's the best theme available now and needs to be added to the app downloader. Great work!

BEAUTIFUL, thought-out, and well-designed theme that gives nostalgic vibes PLUS the "authenticity" that other similar themes lack. True the source material for each console! If you want your game lists to match the feel of using the original consoles/handhelds then this is the theme you've been looking for. If you choose to use this theme mixed with others, be sure everything matches up in your XML files and you'll be good to go. Fantastic work!

You can tell this was made with an extreme amount of attention to detail by someone who actually played a lot these consoles and did their research. The amount of effort and creativity in this is such that you may discover something new each time you look through library. I feel like this is the height of retro aesthetic for emulation as it gets, this is the prettiest UI to me and it stands above the rest in so many ways while still being functional rather than having to choose between functionality or retro aesthetic. This is far above the rest in many ways, it does not info dump you with retro stock images, but it rather illustrate a retro environment in a minimalistic but aesthetically pleasing way. You can see the cartridge before it goes into the GameBoy Color from behind, a feeling that is etched in my memory, you can see the GameCube cartridge, the small  GameCube disc spinning,  surrounded by an environment reminding you of the purple GameCube, one of the most if not the most iconic one in the west when we didn't get the orange or other colors like in Japan. The small lights, the custom accurate button placement that are also serve a function, the details such as cartridges, CDs and images are not to the left, to the right or in a corner, nor is relative information such as player numbers, it is all placed in a very digestible and to the point way, unlike some other UIs in which you search for text on one side, see the art on another, and may see an animation with stock images for a background like some info dump cluster of "retro things" trying to be retro, rather than being the retro environment that is this UI. The environment that is themed after the console you select is also non invasive, functional and absolutely beautiful, all music included in the UI is also chill and extremely nostalgic, the Sega Dreamcast one alone had vibes that awakened core memories from my childhood. Basically I can tell this was made with alot of love and effort, looking forward to seeing more of this.

Absolutely incredible. This is going to be a part of my setup for platforms for a long time. Thank you for creating and sharing this!

This is amazing. Fantastic work. I haven't been blown away by a custom theme in years. 

For me this theme is what emulations frontends are all about. Pure fun to look at, scroll threw and feel nostalgic. The attention to detail and creativity in this theme is just great and improves with every release. Thank you so much!

I love everything I've seen with this theme. A lot of time and care went into it.

Loving this theme. I saw a friend using it so I decided to try it out. The styles look great and I love that it goes a step further with the aesthetics.

It does more than emulate the games and provide an interface for them but tries to emulate the experience of truly having the systems themselves. It emulates the hardware experience for older systems and then the console OS experience in later consoles as digital delivery became more common. Plus how many different ways can you showcase "put disc in to tray?" Showing styles that approximate unique system menus is way better.

This theme I like. I thought your submarineish type view was pretty cool. I reminded me of that nice xbox theme called devise on the og xbox or the game criticom. I like your use of something outside the box. If you have not seen abeezy's new snes carts they look amazing in this. Thank you very much for sharing all your hard work.

Is very good.

Amazing, nicely designed and well thought out. There's something here for everyone to enjoy. This guy knows his stuff, easy 5 stars!

This just gave me a reason to go back to my Big Box build and finally update it with a theme I actually like 100%.  The love, detail and time that went into building this out for the community is amazing.  I love the support you continue to provide.  

I Love this view quite a lot! I have a bit of a Frankenstein set up for Platforms. I was using a combo of Coverbox and other themes that have console specific views  such as; YET, Retrotastic, and of course exdous_cl's mini theme and I must say this is a great one stop shop for a more compact  authitneitc nostalgic feel. It has an air of officialness that I love. I hope this theme continues to get updates and support because it  an amazing theme and has such much more potential. I'm going to make my platform collection in Bigbox a tad more compact to use this more uniformly. If it had Coverboxes Platform title cards it would be perfect. Amazing job!! 

Excellent theme, excellent support. Easy 5 stars.

A masterpiece of a theme right here. Detailed and polished to levels only a true fan would be able to achieve, and yet manages to avoid being garish or overly flashy and in-your-face. This is the endgame BigBox theme really, I'm not sure how you could really improve it. Thank you very very much for making it!

By far my favourite way to display and select my games on the big screen, amazing!

keep up the good work!

Love this so much, and just the amount of imagination involved to really make this whole thing seem like a single piece, it's really awesome work. And the creator is awesome as well, takes suggestions, and in my case implemented them, and I love the new CD-I update.

Great theme, great author

Honestly I made my own custom theme that is simple and clean, spent around 2 weeks on it, just for this theme to come out and be so well done I forgot mine existed. My buddy and I both switched to this theme and have not looked back!

This is the best Big Box theme out there. My new Favorite. We need Intellivision added though. Hopefully in future update.

The Xbox boxart is not showing up for me. Does it need to be a certain size to populate. It is there in the coverflow but not horizontal view.

Needs game options and the ability to lower menu music volume. Other than that it's great 

All my major issues have been addressed. Upgrading this review to five stars.

Hey Man!!Such a cool Theme ! I really love your theme and would like to localizated it to Chinese version. Is there any chance that you could provide me a community theme creator version of the theme. Thank you very much!

You could add a theme for the PC platform and you could also enable the option to see achievements and the hours played for a specific game