About This File
WoodPanels has the old school retro feel of playing games on an old TV in a room with bad, green carpeting, but golden wooden paneled walls. The video game console or platform appears above or beside the television to match that look and feel. It is paired with a set of 8-bit fonts to complete the experience.
- Supports Ultrawide 21:9, Widescreen 16:9, and Fullscreen 4:3 aspect ratios.
- Playlist support! Watch the video frame and video size dynamically change to match the selected platform and game.
- Unique views for 53 platforms with game videos, game 3D/2D box art, and game cart images.
- Consoles are paired with a TV from the same decade they were released. PCs likewise are paired with a monitor or setup from the same era.
- "Wall View" for looking at game boxes on shelves is accompanied by the platform logo and image of the original console packaging.
Trailer:
Installation and Setup Instructions:
Unzip in LaunchBox/Themes/WoodPanels. In BigBox under Options>Views>Theme> choose "WoodPanels"
1. To ensure you're viewing the image of the console and TV alongside the game list, go into the BigBox Menu (hit Esc on your keyboard or back on your controller) and select "View Platforms".
2. To view the carousel of devices in your platform view, go into Options>Views>Platform List View> and select "Platform Wheel 1".
3. Lastly, to make sure you keep this view the next time you start BigBox, go into Options>Views>Default Startup View> and select "Platforms".
4. For N64, SNES, Jaguar, Genesis, Sega 32X, Atari 5200, and NeoGeo, you need to download the game cart images AND you need to set your LaunchBox settings so your fallback images are disabled for this, otherwise when you have a missing game cart image it will pull something else and look...bad. LaunchBox Options>Media>Cart Front Priorities>Uncheck all but "Cart - Front"
5. To enable a the "Wall View", change BigBox Options>Views>Games List View>Wall View. Switch it back to "Text List with Details" if you decide to go back.
To replace the background image (in case you don't literally want wood panels), just replace the png with your desired 1080p background image (png file) under the directory:
\LaunchBox\Themes\WoodPanels\Media\Background\
Startup Video:
This is a startup video I created for my theme. It features a logo for "Nescade" which is what I call my multi-emulator PC, as it sits inside of an old Nintendo's shell. I commissioned Rushjet1 a while back to compose an original piece of 8-bit music specifically for this video. Hope you all enjoy it!
Instructions for use: Place video file in the LaunchBox folder under /Videos/Startup/
List of Supported Platforms:
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
- Arcade*
- Atari 2600
- Atari 5200
- Atari 7800
- Atari Jaguar (with cart images)
- Atari Lynx
- ColecoVision
- Commodore 64
- Commodore Amiga
- GCE Vectrex
- Magnavox Odyssey 2
- Microsoft MSX
- Microsoft MSX2
- Microsoft Xbox
- Microsoft Xbox 360
- MS-DOS
- NEC TurboGrafx-16
- NeoGeo (with cart images)
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo 64 (with cart images)
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Nintendo Famicom Disk System*
- Nintendo Game Boy
- Nintendo Game Boy Advance
- Nintendo Game Boy Color*
- Nintendo GameCube
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Virtual Boy
- Nintendo Wii
- Nintendo Wii U
- Nokia N-Gage
- OpenBOR*
- Sega 32X (with cart images)
- Sega CD
- Sega Dreamcast
- Sega Game Gear
- Sega Genesis (with cart images)
- Sega Master System
- Sega Saturn
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
- Sony Playstation
- Sony Playstation 2
- Sony Playstation 3
- Sony Playstation 4
- Sony Playstation Vita
- Sony PSP
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System (with cart images)
- Windows
- WonderSwan
- WonderSwan Color
*upscaled/remastered in 4K
Theme was created using the COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru
Edited by BMovieBen
added support for ultrawide and fullscreen aspect ratios and increased number of supported platforms
What's New in Version 4.1.0 alpha See changelog
Released
Remastered/replaced all the handheld system frames to 4K resolution:
- Atari Lynx
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Game Boy
- Nintendo Game Boy Advance
- Nintendo Game Boy Color
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Virtual Boy
- Nokia N-Gage
- Sega Game Gear
- SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
- Sony Playstation Vita
- Sony PSP
- WonderSwan
- WonderSwan Color
Still working on remastering the images of the boxes and the devices in PlatformWheel2.
Got the new metadata area in a good place on TextGamesView.
Made some fixes to 21:9 Openbor and Arcade marquee placement.
Uploaded some new screenshots of the latest progress.
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