Vertigo - A Vertical BigBox Theme 1.01

Very cool to see more vertical themes for BigBox, there is definitely a lack of them.

Great thanks a lot, it's looks awesome on my screen in portrait mode.

This is by far the best solution for a vertical theme on Big Box.  Looks fantastic.  Thank you for releasing this!

Question about the theme -- I just noticed my marquee monitor is not displaying marquee's for platforms, platform categories and playlists.  But it works for individual games.  Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks!

I love this theme so much.  Thank you! 

Please continue to update it.  I would gladly support this theme.

thanks for this, I hope it makes bigbox usable on my vertical screen arcade

Thanks.  This will work with the Cocktail Cabinet  that I'm working on.

 

On 9/29/2018 at 2:29 PM, Lordmonkus said:

Very cool to see more vertical themes for BigBox, there is definitely a lack of them.

What are the other ones?

Is it possible to get a playlist view working in this. I love the theme, but not being able to utilize playlists is a bummer.

Thank you for making this theme!  Finally allowed me to switch to BigBox.   Matches my cabinet fairly well too.

Is there a way to turn off the scanline effect?

 

34 minutes ago, Temjin said:

Is there a way to turn off the scanline effect?

 

should be easy enough, as it's just an image file.

Just delete or rename the following file:

Launchbox\Themes\Vertigo\Images\Theme\scanlines.png

Love the theme ! Especially a vertical one. 

Ah thank you! I'll chime in to say, please keep updating this theme (or make more! ) It's wonderful!

Currently using it in my 32" vertical cab ?

Can someone please tell me whether individual arcade games show the actual marquee? From the youtube video and all screenshots I've seen, no games are selected, and therefore I don't know how arcade games are displayed once launched. I'm not interested in a vertical theme where launched games appear as it is when picking a game. Thanks!

I love this theme so much. Have you considered making a matching pause screen theme?

 Thanks for this theme! First time doing a vertical setup and this themes seems to fix it all setup vise. 

Did run in to some problem with mame games not booting but i have got help and will try the fix later today.

 

 

I haven't had a chance to setup Launchbox yet, but I'm curious how this theme handles actual vertical orientation games. Every game in the video seems to be 4:3. What happens when you play a vertical orientation game (e.g. 3:4 or similar)?

Just now, Alumriel said:

I haven't had a chance to setup Launchbox yet, but I'm curious how this theme handles actual vertical orientation games. Every game in the video seems to be 4:3. What happens when you play a vertical orientation game (e.g. 3:4 or similar)?

Themes have no interaction with the actual games at all. That is handled by the actual emulator, if it even has those sort of options.

 

4 minutes ago, Alumriel said:

I haven't had a chance to setup Launchbox yet, but I'm curious how this theme handles actual vertical orientation games. Every game in the video seems to be 4:3. What happens when you play a vertical orientation game (e.g. 3:4 or similar)?

What @Inquisitor said is true. This is just a Big Box theme for selecting your game, and not an actual bezel for your emulators.

6 minutes ago, Inquisitor said:

Themes have no interaction with the actual games at all. That is handled by the actual emulator, if it even has those sort of options.

I'm not sure I understand. When I play a game with just an emulator and set it to output at the native game resolution (or 1x, 2x etc), different games will take up different amounts of the screen and have black bars on either the top/bottom or sides of the monitor, depending on the orientation, and the bars can be varying size, depending on the output. I would assume the theme has some "window" for the emulated game, or it assumes the game occupies a specific amount of space in the center, then adjusts the top and bottom accordingly. So are the top/bottom sections hard coded to specific resolutions, or do they adjust automatically based on the emulation output and the physical screen resolution? e.g. Does the theme just look for any open space at the top and bottom and use whatever it finds?

Edited August 4, 2021 by Alumriel

Just now, Alumriel said:

I'm not sure I understand. When I play a game with just an emulator and set it to output at the native game resolution (or 1x, 2x etc), different games will take up different amounts of the screen and have black bars on either the top/bottom or sides of the monitor, depending on the orientation, and the bars can be varying size, depending on the output. I would assume the theme has some "window" for the emulated game, or it assumes the game occupies a specific amount of space in the center, then adjusts the top and bottom accordingly. So are the top/bottom sections hard coded to specific resolutions, or do they adjust automatically based on the emulation output and the physical screen resolution?

I think you are a little confused i'm afraid. What you see in the video/screenshots of this theme is a video of the gameplay of a game, not the actual game running in a emulator, its just a video preview of the game you are about to load.

2 minutes ago, Inquisitor said:

I think you are a little confused i'm afraid. What you see in the video/screenshots of this theme is a video of the gameplay of a game, not the actual game running in a emulator, its just a video preview of the game you are about to load.

Oh interesting. So the entire theme vanishes when you play the game?
Sorry for the confusion. I'm used to RetroPie / Emulation Station. I guess those themes work differently.

Edited August 4, 2021 by Alumriel

Just now, Alumriel said:

Oh interesting. So the entire theme vanishes when you play the game?

Correct.

So now I'm curious how the theme changes (if at all) when the video preview isn't 4:3.

Edited August 4, 2021 by Alumriel