Mini Consoles Theme - RetroSai Nostalgia - Form over Function 2.2.5

11 minutes ago, Saieno said:

Hmm. How do you have the platform named, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer or Panasonic 3DO?

I use 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.

1 minute ago, Mr. Skerpentine said:

I use 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.

Gotcha, alrighty just uploaded Version 1.0.5 and that should resolve the issue. Thanks for letting me know about these things, appreciate the bug reports and feedback so I can work to resolve them.

On 6/28/2023 at 12:17 AM, Mr. Skerpentine said:

- The Sega Game Gear, Nintendo DS, SNK Neo Geo Pocket, and SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color platform borders are REALLY low quality and have heavy artifacting.

- The Nintendo Wii's Game Details are way too blurry (I also noticed that one some of the graphics for the PS2 Demo Theme but I assumed that was what the original looked like)

Just wanted to confirm that this was intentional and will be subjective.

On 6/28/2023 at 12:17 AM, Mr. Skerpentine said:

 - The HorizontalWheel1GamesVIew of Sony PlayStation 2 doesn't show the front boxes.

  - The WheelGamesView of Sony PlayStation 3 doesn't show logos or game text

I double checked and this shouldn't be the case. Can you provide a screen shot of the issue you're having? Similar to the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer screenshot provided that shows what you're seeing.

Thanks!

Edited July 1, 2023 by Saieno

On 6/30/2023 at 3:29 AM, Saieno said:

Oh this is great! Lemme see if I can address all of this!

This is great! I never had GameCube Demo Disks so I wasn't aware they had them! (Discs were so small I didn't think they'd make them!) But this looks great! Would be a lot of metadata required for it to work properly, so as long as each game has the appropriate media available I should be able to put something like this together! I won't have an ETA on it or anything but I like it!

• Oh I actually thought the GameCube detail screen fit really well with the menu screens Nintendo made for the NES and SNES mini consoles, that was the general idea to stay with what they had but I made the background grey and added the controler buttons, etc. I'm actually happy with it for what I was going for.
• So I was hoping to have more control over the game details options menu to display it how I want or where or trigger it with a hotkey, but there's no way to currently do that. The menu still technically exists, and you can technically nagivate it, it's just hidden so you'd need to know what the menu options are which isn't ideal.
• I suppose I could make another 3DS view, it would end up like the WiiU view (nearly identical) and was trying to make each feel a little unique when it came to the respective dashboards. I know it may not seem like it, but thats actually how the 3DS game view was when the 3DS first came out; so was trying to replicate that.
• I did try to make a PS2 animated background for the Horizontal view, but I just couldn't get it to look good, even with completely modeling and remaking the PS2 boot animation. But at least I feel like I nailed the PS2 Demo Disk lol.
• Speaking of the PS2 Demo Disk! This particular PS2 Demo Disk example is a little restrictive since it doesn't really show you where you're navigating to or any other games aside from the one you're looking at.

• Thats a fair point on the switch games and box art. I'll look into implementing something like that in a future update for sure.
• Ah yes I thought I forgot one of the regional views! I'll work on that for a future release as well, and will also try to get the CoreGrafx as well.
• And the Super Famicom boxes I intend on fixing for the next release, either today or tomorrow cause I'm having that issue as well. Again usually looks good in the editor, doesn't when I go in BigBox for whatever reason so its difficult to troubleshoot.

Thanks for all the great ideas/feedback!

Awesome Glad to hear you would consider it!

• Oh gotcha, okay then! That's fine I still think the Details screen looks good just though purple would be a nice touch!
• Hopefully, this can be worked out somehow but we may not have the tools to do so as I and seems others would like the best of both worlds as we love the game details screen they are unique and well put together but would like the functionality as well. 
• Oh, I know the 3DS was like that, I was thinking of the New 3DS's ability to have more Icons on screen, I suppose kinda like the Wii U like you said. But if you are happy with it, and don't wish to add another view that is fine!
• Ah interesting, that is unfortunate. You did really nail the PS2 Demo disk view
• Understood, that's fine! I just thought I'd share some other PS2 Demo Disk options
• Awesome!
• Double Awesome
• I see you fixed it works great thanks!

I forgot I had one more idea, perhaps in views where the game video snap is playing the audio (Such as the PS2 demo disk view or Xbox Demo Disk View) should be muted while the background music is active. The video audio can reactivate on the game details screen.

I have had no issues with the 3DO, PS3, or PS2 Mr. Skerpentine. Please double-check that your platforms are named correctly. Can you show us what your Platforms are named? because it seems like the metadata is not being pulled for you correctly or something is off about the file structure.

Edited July 1, 2023 by vahn65

5 hours ago, vahn65 said:

forgot I had one more idea, perhaps in views where the game video snap is playing the audio (Such as the PS2 demo disk view or Xbox Demo Disk View) should be muted while the background music is active. The video audio can reactivate on the game details screen.

Unfortunately this is part of the audio issue I mentioned that required creating the Game Details screen or the audio wouldn’t stop playing. In the CTC there are toggles for things like mute audio or setting triggers for audio muting on videos, but it doesn’t function. And when I reached out to the author he didn’t have any ideas how to resolve it so I did my best to work around the limitations. Apparently it is possible but I’m not personally familiar with XAML, but if a fix is found in the future I’ll absolutely get it fixed and updated.

4 hours ago, vahn65 said:

I have had no issues with the 3DO, PS3, or PS2

Thank you very much for confirming you aren’t seeing issues with those platforms, didn’t know if something bigger was broken I needed to look into.

Edited July 1, 2023 by Saieno

thanks for this job amazing bro!! Loveit

Hey there love the theme, but I am having an issue, several of the supported themes are not showing up like wonder swan and virtual boy and  I was wondering if you may know why?

8 hours ago, tkmcneal15 said:

Hey there love the theme, but I am having an issue, several of the supported themes are not showing up like wonder swan and virtual boy and  I was wondering if you may know why?

Heya! It may be an issue with how the Platform is named versus how the icon is named. I will look into getting other naming variations within the assets for the platform sprites. Does the theme work for you when you go into the platform? Or is it just the platform sprite not showing up?

Thanks!

Hey  Saieno, I just had an Idea would it be possible to have a Mega Drive that Represents the Japanese Mega Drive as well? 

3 hours ago, vahn65 said:

Hey  Saieno, I just had an Idea would it be possible to have a Mega Drive that Represents the Japanese Mega Drive as well? 

Absolutely! Work has been busy so its been a bit slow for the next update, but I'm working on PC Engine, CORE, JP Master System, JP Mega Drive, etc. Just taking some time but I am working on it.

2 hours ago, Saieno said:

Absolutely! Work has been busy so its been a bit slow for the next update, but I'm working on PC Engine, CORE, JP Master System, JP Mega Drive, etc. Just taking some time but I am working on it.

Awesome! Thanks for all your hard work!! Can't wait!

On 7/19/2023 at 4:37 AM, tkmcneal15 said:

Hey there love the theme, but I am having an issue, several of the supported themes are not showing up like wonder swan and virtual boy and  I was wondering if you may know why?

This should be resolved in Version 1.0.7 which was just released. Let me know if that resolved it for you!

Great theme, really enjoying it!  The only thing I wanted to mention, on the 3DO game details screen, the video is cut off on the left and right side ,and there are black bar gaps on both sides of the screen.   The Icon shows up fine in the platform list, as does the Game Select Screen.  I don't know if it matters, my platform is named Panasonic 3DO. 

Here's the Game Select screen.     

And the Game Details Screen.     

 

All other Game Details screens are full width, like the NES one here.  

 

Thanks again!!

 

 

2 hours ago, denmiclaw said:

Great theme, really enjoying it!  The only thing I wanted to mention, on the 3DO game details screen, the video is cut off on the left and right side ,and there are black bar gaps on both sides of the screen.   The Icon shows up fine in the platform list, as does the Game Select Screen.  I don't know if it matters, my platform is named Panasonic 3DO. 

Here's the Game Select screen.     

And the Game Details Screen.     

 

All other Game Details screens are full width, like the NES one here.  

 

Thanks again!!

 

 

Hello Denmiclaw, the Game Select screen is not actually the correct screen for the 3DO Platform. In BigBox, when you're in the Panasonic 3DO view, hit V on a keyboard and select Horizontal View. Should look like this:


The Game Details screen is correct, as its based on the 3DO system menus and is not a wide screen console:

All of the Nintendo Game Detail Screens are different so they all have a similar vibe, Sega also all have a different layout so they feel like 'Sega' specific. Hope that helps!

Edited August 1, 2023 by Saieno

Great Update Saieno! Just finished testing and the only issue I ran into is the Game Details for the 3DO did not seem to work but everything else is fully functional! Really adds to an already amazing theme with just that much more functionality. 

@Saieno would it make sense to use the "NES font"

for the Nintendo devices pre 16 bit era? GB, GBC, NES, Famicom, Famicom Disk System, etc.? Its just that I find too "modern" the font in the game details screen and such. 

Maybe for the Nintendo 16bit era systems like SNES, GBA, etc. something like this? 

Don't know, just thinking out loud XD

Edited August 2, 2023 by Kondorito

46 minutes ago, vahn65 said:

Great Update Saieno! Just finished testing and the only issue I ran into is the Game Details for the 3DO did not seem to work but everything else is fully functional! Really adds to an already amazing theme with just that much more functionality. 

Ah you’re right! I forgot I made multiple views to cover the naming of Panasonic 3DO and 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. Should be an easy fix and I’ll get that updated tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up!

 

20 minutes ago, Kondorito said:

@Saieno would it make sense to use the "NES font"

for the Nintendo devices pre 16 bit era? GB, GBC, NES, Famicom, Famicom Disk System, etc.? Its just that I find too "modern" the font in the game details screen and such. 

Maybe for the Nintendo 16bit era systems like SNES, GBA, etc. something like this? 

Don't know, just thinking out loud XD

 Heya Kondorito! So the font for the Nintendo game details screens is from the official Nintendo Mini Consoles, that’s why the layout and everything is the same for Nintendo platforms. (I tried to also have all the Atari ones have their own style, same for Sega, etc). I agree it’s a little weird with the font they chose but it’s Nintendo lol.

6 hours ago, vahn65 said:

Great Update Saieno! Just finished testing and the only issue I ran into is the Game Details for the 3DO did not seem to work but everything else is fully functional! Really adds to an already amazing theme with just that much more functionality. 

This should now be resolved in 1.0.8, let me know if that works for you!

On 8/1/2023 at 3:55 PM, denmiclaw said:

Great theme, really enjoying it!  The only thing I wanted to mention, on the 3DO game details screen, the video is cut off on the left and right side ,and there are black bar gaps on both sides of the screen.   The Icon shows up fine in the platform list, as does the Game Select Screen.  I don't know if it matters, my platform is named Panasonic 3DO. Thanks again!!

 

 

OH! I see what you're referring to now! The actual gameplay video is cropped incorrectly in the 3DO Game Details View! I'll get that resolved in a future update when I have additional changes as well to avoid having so many releases and needing for people to redownload etc. Thanks for pointing this out!

Incredible Work! exactly what I've been looking for. 
My default Launchbox Virtual Boy Plattform has space between the words. Just noticed that it conflicted with your themes logic and fixed it by editing the space between 'Virtual' and 'Boy' to present its intended design. Keep up the great work!!! 

Edited August 5, 2023 by Jackdefjam

12 hours ago, Jackdefjam said:

Incredible Work! exactly what I've been looking for. 
My default Launchbox Virtual Boy Plattform has space between the words. Just noticed that it conflicted with your themes logic and fixed it by editing the space between 'Virtual' and 'Boy' to present its intended design. Keep up the great work!!! 

Thanks for pointing this out JackDefJam! I’ll add that to the list to resolve in the next release. Really am thankful for all the issues being reported, and glad everyone is enjoying the theme! If you come across any other odd issues feel free to let me know, and thanks again!

On 8/1/2023 at 3:55 PM, denmiclaw said:

Great theme, really enjoying it!  The only thing I wanted to mention, on the 3DO game details screen, the video is cut off on the left and right side ,and there are black bar gaps on both sides of the screen.   The Icon shows up fine in the platform list, as does the Game Select Screen.  I don't know if it matters, my platform is named Panasonic 3DO.

Hey @denmiclaw this should be resolved in the newest release, 1.0.9

 

23 hours ago, Jackdefjam said:

Incredible Work! exactly what I've been looking for. 
My default Launchbox Virtual Boy Plattform has space between the words. Just noticed that it conflicted with your themes logic and fixed it by editing the space between 'Virtual' and 'Boy' to present its intended design. Keep up the great work!!! 

Hey @Jackdefjam I know you've adjusted it manually already but I have resolved this issue in the newest release, 1.0.9

 

On 7/21/2023 at 1:54 PM, vahn65 said:

Hey  Saieno, I just had an Idea would it be possible to have a Mega Drive that Represents the Japanese Mega Drive as well? 

Heya @vahn65 I'm still working on the Mega Drive and other variations, but I did add the NEC PC Engine and NEC PC Engine CD platforms you had requested previously. Please let me know how it works for you and if you have any issues!

11 hours ago, Saieno said:

Hey @denmiclaw this should be resolved in the newest release, 1.0.9

 

Hey @Jackdefjam I know you've adjusted it manually already but I have resolved this issue in the newest release, 1.0.9

 

Heya @vahn65 I'm still working on the Mega Drive and other variations, but I did add the NEC PC Engine and NEC PC Engine CD platforms you had requested previously. Please let me know how it works for you and if you have any issues!

Hey, @Saieno Updates keep getting better and better! Loving the NE PC Engine and NEC Engine CD turned out amazing! No issues observe thus far I appreciate the hard work! I did have a question though! Any plans for more platforms like Intellivision or SG -100? If not that's fine just curious!

Hi All

I'm not able to apply the theme, something special to do ?