refried Unified Refried 2.0 .1

Thank you for allowing me to be a tester of this great complete theme So much hard work went into this and by 1 guy is amazing.

Thanks again

I have no idea how you achieved all this so fast! Amazing work, I will be very happy to be running this Theme for a very long time now  @Jason Carr should have this as a built in Theme along side Criticial Cids Default Theme for Big Box

Thanks alot!

  On 10/27/2018 at 10:25 AM, zetec-s-joe said:

I have no idea how you achieved all this so fast! Amazing work, I will be very happy to be running this Theme for a very long time now  @Jason Carr should have this as a built in Theme along side Criticial Cids Default Theme for Big Box

Thanks alot!

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Lol, that would make the Launchbox downloads like a GB in size, so won't happen. The base download needs to be as lightweight as possible.

Didn't even cross my mind lol, be a nice when the built in Theme downloader/updater is done

  On 10/27/2018 at 10:48 AM, zetec-s-joe said:

Didn't even cross my mind lol, be a nice when the built in Theme downloader/updater is done

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Yep, that would be the best and easiest way.

Great work and congratulations on the release!

Awesome job on the theme @RetroHumanoid! Just wanted to let you know there is a problem with the addon theme package download. The folders are all out of order and not in the proper folders such as the views,xaml and such so the addon themes do not work.

  On 10/27/2018 at 2:21 PM, kmoney said:

Awesome job on the theme @RetroHumanoid! Just wanted to let you know there is a problem with the addon theme package download. The folders are all out of order and not in the proper folders such as the views,xaml and such so the addon themes do not work.

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Cool, someone confirming what i also see.  I messaged him on discord about it earlier,but he is likely asleep at the moment. I have the same though, default works, but the add-ons are just loose files in the folders.

  On 10/27/2018 at 2:21 PM, kmoney said:

Awesome job on the theme @RetroHumanoid! Just wanted to let you know there is a problem with the addon theme package download. The folders are all out of order and not in the proper folders such as the views,xaml and such so the addon themes do not work.

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yikes!...thanks for letting me know. It must have been when I batch compressed all the folders. Fixing it now

Awesome job on this theme. But I get this error message when I scroll through to the Text List View of the addons. The main theme works perfectly with all the views. When I click OK I can still scroll through the other views again and they work, just not that one and only appears with the addons.

 

Edited October 27, 2018 by Shinryu

  On 10/27/2018 at 9:23 PM, Shinryu said:

Awesome job on this theme. But I get this error message when I scroll through to the Text List View of the addons. The main theme works perfectly with all the views. When I click OK I can still scroll through the other views again and they work, just not that one and only appears with the addons.

 

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It appears I did not close out some code in the TextGamesList.xaml files when I made a fix earlier. Unfortunately my internet at home picked a great time to shut off,so i cant get a fix out right away. If you want to open that xaml in the views folder,just scroll to the bottom,and you will see Margin="0,0,0,0" ....add a space,and then /> after that and then save the file. It will fix it. When I get my net back,I will reupload them with the fix.

Nice that fixed it. Thanks a million.

Does anyone know if there is a way to use different views for Platforms than for Platform Categories or Playlists in Big Box? For example, with platforms I like to use the view that does not have the silver border, since the video set looks so nice full screen. But, when viewing Platform Categories and Playlists, video sets don't yet exist, so I'm using a lot of RetroHumanoid's other work for Genre and Collection videos. I like using the view with the silver border for these, since it still gives everything a nice themed look. I'm not seeing an option in Big Box to use different views for Platform Categories/Playlists/Platforms. Am I missing something or is this just not possible? Obviously, with this theme you use different themes or views for each platform, so I'm wondering if that's possible on the levels above. Thanks!

Great Theme, beautiful, but I am having a little problem. In some Playlists Views, such as the one in the image attached, the gameplay videos aren't playing with the same size of the video borders. How to solve this problem?

Edited October 28, 2018 by HugoBR

  On 10/28/2018 at 7:20 PM, HugoBR said:

Great Theme, beautiful, but I am having a little problem. In some Playlists Views, such as the one in the image attached, the gameplay videos aren't playing with the same size of the video borders. How to solve this problem?

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My guess,is that you added the artwork files from the Collections addon,to the Default themes folder. The Default theme and the Collections theme are 2 different themes...so in the installation instructions above it tells you:

"4.Make sure to have "Remember seperate view for each Platform" turned on in Options/Views

5.Browse to any platform that you have installed the Platform theme for,and press your "Switch Theme" Key,Then select the appropriate Platform theme from the list. If you have not programmed a "Switch Theme" key,you may do so by going to Options/Keyboard Mappings or Options/Controller Buttons."

You have to enter each Collection playlist,and set the theme to "Unified Refried - Collections"

 

  On 10/28/2018 at 6:44 PM, qzizzleferreal said:

Does anyone know if there is a way to use different views for Platforms than for Platform Categories or Playlists in Big Box? For example, with platforms I like to use the view that does not have the silver border, since the video set looks so nice full screen. But, when viewing Platform Categories and Playlists, video sets don't yet exist, so I'm using a lot of RetroHumanoid's other work for Genre and Collection videos. I like using the view with the silver border for these, since it still gives everything a nice themed look. I'm not seeing an option in Big Box to use different views for Platform Categories/Playlists/Platforms. Am I missing something or is this just not possible? Obviously, with this theme you use different themes or views for each platform, so I'm wondering if that's possible on the levels above. Thanks!

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As far as I know,this is not possible...I would love to know if it is,because I want a similar function,and I would surely add it into the theme.

  On 10/28/2018 at 7:45 PM, RetroHumanoid said:

As far as I know,this is not possible...I would love to know if it is,because I want a similar function,and I would surely add it into the theme.

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Unfortunately correct, they are one and the same. Change the view on one and they all change.

  On 10/28/2018 at 7:45 PM, RetroHumanoid said:

My guess,is that you added the artwork files from the Collections addon,to the Default themes folder. The Default theme and the Collections theme are 2 different themes...so in the installation instructions above it tells you:

"4.Make sure to have "Remember seperate view for each Platform" turned on in Options/Views

5.Browse to any platform that you have installed the Platform theme for,and press your "Switch Theme" Key,Then select the appropriate Platform theme from the list. If you have not programmed a "Switch Theme" key,you may do so by going to Options/Keyboard Mappings or Options/Controller Buttons."

You have to enter each Collection playlist,and set the theme to "Unified Refried - Collections"

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Exactly ! I was configuring it in the wrong way, thank you.

This is awesome! 

FYI,  I did have to rename these 3DO assets to get them to show on my system.

Images\Theme\Background\Panasonic 3DO.png -> 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.png
Images\Theme\VideoBorder\Panasonic 3DO.png -> 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.png

 

  On 11/4/2018 at 12:57 AM, Zanak said:

-In the wonderswan and wonderswan color platforms, they are missing proper backgrounds like the other platforms.

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Look for Bandai Wonderswan in the backgrounds folder and rename them.

  On 11/4/2018 at 12:57 AM, Zanak said:

-I wish there was an option to use the addon themes that didn't have the character art next to the video section.

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Each addon has multiple views,the majority of which do not have the character art...just change views after activating the theme.

  On 11/4/2018 at 12:57 AM, Zanak said:

-The controllers in the addon themes cut off the video a little too much. Perhaps move them down a bit more?

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That would be...alot of work...like starting over

  On 11/4/2018 at 12:57 AM, Zanak said:

Overall, very good theme. It does feel a little crowded though, I'm not sure why. Not complaining of course, you clearly put a lot of work into this, and the inclusion of rom hacks and fan games is a great addition, thank you.

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I like crowded themes ?

No weather info?

  On 11/7/2018 at 4:29 AM, Suhrvivor said:

No weather info?

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I left it off,as I didn't really use it myself,and it does cause a slight delay when loading between wheels

Probably a dumb question, but will there be platform videos coming to compliment all of the updates in theme? Amazing work! Absolutely love this theme. 

  On 11/7/2018 at 8:45 PM, qzizzleferreal said:

Probably a dumb question, but will there be platform videos coming to compliment all of the updates in theme? Amazing work! Absolutely love this theme. 

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Yep...working on them atm...should be a few days

This is by far the best Big Box theme ever!
I wanted to ask though, is there a way to not show the "disc art" if there is no image in that category? Because I don't like having it use the cover (which often is the same as the 3D cover) to fill in the disc.
I don't want to switch view and give up altogether on the 3D box or on the discs of the games that have it.
I am not sure I explained myself right. Basically There are some games that have Disc art available and some that don't. In many of the views in this theme you can have the 3D cover + the disc right next to it.
When there is no disc art the theme just takes the "Front Box" category images to fill for the disc art. I just want it not to. If there is no Disc art to not show up anything and have only the 3D box show up.

  On 11/8/2018 at 11:26 AM, icebox616 said:

This is by far the best Big Box theme ever!
I wanted to ask though, is there a way to not show the "disc art" if there is no image in that category? Because I don't like having it use the cover (which often is the same as the 3D cover) to fill in the disc.
I don't want to switch view and give up altogether on the 3D box or on the discs of the games that have it.
I am not sure I explained myself right. Basically There are some games that have Disc art available and some that don't. In many of the views in this theme you can have the 3D cover + the disc right next to it.
When there is no disc art the theme just takes the "Front Box" category images to fill for the disc art. I just want it not to. If there is no Disc art to not show up anything and have only the 3D box show up.

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Just go to tools/options/ cart front priorities in Launchbox and uncheck Box-Front, these are also used in the order of the list, so you can re arrange the order if you want.