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What's different in 2.0?

*This replaces the old version of Refried entirely. DO NOT merge this new version with the old one.

*All platform addon themes from the first version of Refried have been merged into one single addon called "Queso Fresco" (because it tastes great on top of refried beans...that's why). Therefore all of those older addon themes are no longer needed.

*Requires Launchbox 9.4 or above to function properly

*Revised Install instructions (please read them below if you are just starting out with the theme)

*Added custom controller icons for play modes in the game description on some systems...this will get finished in the future

*More great additions made by Ghostlines to the theme

*Added the fullscreen video view to all platforms (view 4)

*Improved the artwork slightly for the Big Box options menus

Important note**If you install this theme,and the artwork does not display properly for a platform on your system,then more than likely it is a naming conflict between your platform and the files in the theme. To fix this issue,you must locate these files and change the name to your actual platforms name:

1.Images/Theme/Background/(name of your platform that is mislabeled)

2.Images/Theme/VideoBorder/(name of your platform that is mislabeled)

If you install the Queso Fresco addon as well,then you must also rename the custom view xaml files to your platform name.

I set out to make an alternate version to the beautiful Unified theme,with modifications here and there,yet,as I worked on it more and more,I started to go a different direction slightly...and thus Refried was born. This theme is built to focus on artwork,and showcase each system in bright colorful high definition artwork. I have drawn all new original arcade cabinets,and designed custom borders for each platform,which set each system apart from each other,while maintaining a unified appearance across the board.

The main difference between this,and many other themes that are out there...are the video borders. When using the Default theme,all video borders are the same size across the entire theme...but,when using the addons,the video borders will then fit the system properly...so that the video for Game Boy Advance,will fit the GBA Video Border...and the PSP video,will fit the PSP Video Border. In other words,by using the custom view addons,it allows the theme to represent the system perfectly...rather than the same size border for everything.

This theme is more than capable of running without a single addon theme installed,and only using the Default...the addons are merely to extend the experience of each system,with special added artwork,and tweaks.On the other hand,the Addons rely on the Default themes structure,and will not work without the default theme installed.

 

There are multiple views included with the default theme,including -

1.Border with No Box/Cart/Disc Art

2.Border with Box/Cart/Disc Art

3.Border with Box/Spinning Cart/Disc Art

4.Full Screen Video w/Centered enlarged wheel

5.Border Text List View with Box/Cart/Disc Art

The Queso Fresco addon has 5 views -

1.Special Artwork/Special Border with No Box/Cart/Disc Art

2.Special Border with Box/Cart/Disc Art  (With wheel fade)

3.Special Border with Box/Cart/Disc Art  (No wheel fade)

4.Full Screen Video w/Centered enlarged wheel

 5.Special Border Text List View with Box/Cart/Disc Art

**If the system has CD's/Discs,then the Disc will spin in Views 2 and 3...but,if the system has carts or floppies,then they will not spin in views 2 and 3.

The Arcade portion of the Queso Fresco addon has 5 views -

1.Dynamic Marquees with Character Artwork

2.No Dynamic Marquees with Character Artwork

3.Dynamic Marquees with Advert/Flyers

4.Full Screen Video w/Centered enlarged wheel

5.Text List View with Advert/Flyers/Cabinets

With the Queso Fresco addon installed,the arcade platforms are capable of displaying Video Marquees for each game,as well as regular marquees, in the marquee area of the cabinets (Some samples are included,and more are on the way)*

Any Video Marquees must be placed in "LaunchBox/Themes/Unified Refried/Images/Theme/Addons/_Arcade/Video Marquees/" and must be in mp4 format

In order to make this work properly,you must go into LaunchBox options,and change the priority for Cart Back Image to Arcade - Marquee,and uncheck anything else.

Installation:

1.Download the Default theme (Unified Refried) ,and place it in your "Launchbox/Themes" folder

2.If you have not done so,you will need to unblock the Plugins...This does not have to be done for every addon theme,as unblocking them once,in the default,is all that is necessary...excerpt taken from unified description -

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Go to the “Plugins” folder inside of the extracted folder and right-click on of the .dll files. Choose Properties -> Click on “Unblock” at the bottom of the window. Close the window. Repeat that for all .dll files in that folder. If the "Unblock" button isn't there than you are already good to go.

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3.Set the theme to "Unified Refried" in Options/Views/Theme

4.If installing any of the addons,simply unzip the addon,and open the folder that was created. In this case we will use the Queso Fresco addon as an example.

5.Place the two folders (Images and Views) into the Unified Refried default theme folder,merging the folders when prompted.

6.That's it! ....When you load up Big Box,the artwork should be changed to the Queso Fresco alternate art.

Pictures of Installation process for those that need them...If this is your first time using Refried you can skip step 1

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Thanks

@RetroNi for the use of his Logo set.

@CriticalCid for his theme Unified,as I used alot of his coding as a base for the assembly of this theme.

@kyoken @neil9000 @bundangdon @zetec-s-joe @Retro808 @Porl Hendy for their feedback during testing.

@faeran for his help early on in the development stages.

@Jason Carr because I used a bit of code from his Redux version,and took on some of his ideas from the changes he made

@NJDave71 for his HelperControl plugin

@bmonomad @Suhrvivor for their work on the Community Star Ratings,Favorites,and Play Mode code,which formed the base for implementing it into this theme

@Ghostlines for his additions to the theme

Examples:

 

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Current Platform list covered by the theme -

Arcade

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Consoles

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Handhelds

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Computers

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Pinball

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Ghostlines Additions

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Current Playlists covered by the theme -

Collections

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Genres

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Developers

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Favorites

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The Platform/Playlist video set can be found here...

The Platform/Playlist Logo set can be found here...

 

 


What's New in Version .1   See changelog

Released

*Updated to Refried 2.0

Requires Launchbox 9.4 or later to function properly

Please refer to the updated description and installation instructions above.

*Fixed a few Grammatical/Naming issues in the Queso Fresco addon,bringing the naming of some platforms in line with the previous naming convention used in the Refried theme. 

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Dingo

Posted

Best bigbox theme. I'm having problems with the favorites theme. It does not work.

Suhrvivor

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The Nintendo Switch theme has a little problem, the carts spin as if they were discs.

sundogak

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  On 11/9/2018 at 2:20 AM, Suhrvivor said:

The Nintendo Switch theme has a little problem, the carts spin as if they were discs.

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You need to toggle to the other views for carts where you don't want to see it spinning, see below for the view types (i.e, view #1 and #2).

There are multiple views included with the default theme,including -

1.Border with No Box/Cart/Disc Art

2.Border with Box/Cart/Disc Art

3.Border with Box/Spinning Cart/Disc Art

4.Full Screen Video w/Centered enlarged wheel

5.Border Text List View with Box/Cart/Disc Art

 

Edit: Sorry, or are you talking with the addon?  which then would be glitch. 
"In the case of the Addon themes...if the system has CD's/Discs,then the Disc will spin in Views 2 and 3...but,if the system has carts or floppies,then they will not spin in views 2 and 3."

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Suhrvivor

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That's for the default theme, the specific themes don't spin if they are not discs.

RetroHumanoid

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  On 11/9/2018 at 2:20 AM, Suhrvivor said:

The Nintendo Switch theme has a little problem, the carts spin as if they were discs.

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Fixed..please re-download the Console pack and overwrite your current Switch theme with the new one

Suhrvivor

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I deleted the old folder and copied the updated theme but the carts still rotate. I did it twice just to make sure. I fixed by editing line 45 of both of the affected views, changing the rotation to go from 0 to 0.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your work!

RetroHumanoid

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  On 11/9/2018 at 10:52 AM, Suhrvivor said:

I deleted the old folder and copied the updated theme but the carts still rotate. I did it twice just to make sure. I fixed by editing line 45 of both of the affected views, changing the rotation to go from 0 to 0.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your work!

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Strange..seems the zip file didn't update for the switch theme...

Sorry for the run-around there...I uploaded it again after triple checking it...and the current one should be correct..

At least you got it sorted out though

Suhrvivor

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  On 11/9/2018 at 11:16 AM, RetroHumanoid said:

Strange..seems the zip file didn't update for the switch theme...

Sorry for the run-around there...I uploaded it again after triple checking it...and the current one should be correct..

At least you got it sorted out though

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I can confirm it fixed now, thanks for fixing it and doing it quickly!

I think I'll make this theme the main for my HTPC, I just have to download and set everything up, it's gonna take some time.

Thanks again for sharing your amazing work!

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RetroHumanoid

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  On 11/8/2018 at 11:29 PM, Álvaro Maia said:

Best bigbox theme. I'm having problems with the favorites theme. It does not work.

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Thanks.Exactly what problem are you having? ...can you elaborate so maybe I can help you out?

Dingo

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  On 11/9/2018 at 7:53 PM, RetroHumanoid said:

Thanks.Exactly what problem are you having? ...can you elaborate so maybe I can help you out?

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Thank you for your reply

I made a Favorites playlist, later I changed it's name to TOP 100 ir order to match the name of your theme.

This is what I got when I use the Unified Refried default theme:

 

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And this is what it became when I change to the Unified Refried - Favorites

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neil9000

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  On 11/10/2018 at 1:31 AM, Álvaro Maia said:

Thank you for your reply

I made a Favorites playlist, later I changed it's name to TOP 100 ir order to match the name of your theme.

This is what I got when I use the Unified Refried default theme:

 

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And this is what it became when I change to the Unified Refried - Favorites

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You just need to switch the view for that theme, its showing the text list view, not the same view as your first pic.

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RetroHumanoid

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  On 11/10/2018 at 1:31 AM, Álvaro Maia said:

later I changed it's name to TOP 100 ir order to match the name of your theme

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The actual name of the playlist should be "Top 100 Favorites" ...I would change it to that if you haven't already

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Dingo

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  On 11/10/2018 at 9:52 AM, RetroHumanoid said:

The actual name of the playlist should be "Top 100 Favorites" ...I would change it to that if you haven't already

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Thank you. It worked.

I would like to create a global favorites and a recently played. Is possible to do it just renaming the names of the files in the theme?

bundangdon

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@RetroHumanoid This is definitely my favorite theme for use with BigBox now, but I was wondering if you'll add the ability to keep the games list centered (in the textlist view)? I tried to change the code and added the plugin from here (check below) without any success

 

Dingo

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  On 11/10/2018 at 9:52 AM, RetroHumanoid said:

The actual name of the playlist should be "Top 100 Favorites" ...I would change it to that if you haven't already

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Is there a way to remove the outer glow of the clear logos?

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slashguns04

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possible add theme nintendo 64 hd - sega ringedge - taito type x2 

thank you

RetroHumanoid

Posted

  On 11/25/2018 at 9:26 PM, slashguns04 said:

possible add theme nintendo 64 hd - sega ringedge - taito type x2 

thank you

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Sega Ringedge is already in the theme,as well as in the Arcade addon...the other 2 are not...i'll see what I can do after my current project is finished.

lezok

Posted

Hi.Great work as usual from you Mr RetroHumanoid

I  was wondering if there was a way to add some crt effect on the videos like in the FluxCRT theme .

 

Dingo

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The "Unified Refried - Indie Games" it's not showing the red  and black background as the plataform video. Instead it is showing a blue background like the windows plataform theme.

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slashguns04

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  On 11/26/2018 at 1:30 AM, RetroHumanoid said:

Sega Ringedge is already in the theme,as well as in the Arcade addon...the other 2 are not...i'll see what I can do after my current project is finished.

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add also theme banpresto

thank you

Falle84

Posted

Hi! Firstly i love this theme. Only problem i have with it is 3DS video snaps. I would love to look videos in 16:9 format. Is this possible?

guyverjay

Posted

Sorry to be a pain but any chance of a Microsoft MSX2+ and a Amber Pegesus theme?

 

Thanks

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exp1orer

Posted

Sorry to sound dumb, but do I just unzip all 11 files into the Launchbox/Themes folder, or do I need to put some of the addons in other folders?  Also, could someone recommend settings that they think look the best? I like the way it is setup in the pictures.

Thanks!

Owls21

Posted

Yes, that's correct. But you also need to set a theme switch key. Then use that key to switch the theme for each add-on system to the add on theme.

exp1orer

Posted

  On 1/17/2019 at 7:48 PM, Owls21 said:

Yes, that's correct. But you also need to set a theme switch key. Then use that key to switch the theme for each add-on system to the add on theme.

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Thanks for the reply. I did a quick search for "theme switch key" and didn't find anything.  Is this something to toggle between themes? If so, I only need one good theme. I don't intend to switch often.

 


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