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Neon Deluxe Arcade - 16:9 (Big Box Theme) 2.6.1

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NEON DELUXE ARCADE - 16:9

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CREDITS

Huge thanks goes out to @y2guru for his Community Theme Creator Software and his endless personal help, also he created the animated wheels for this theme! @Hexxxer for the original inspiration of his FutureState theme. @Rincewind for the inspiration on his use of the icons. @faeranfor explaining the new marquee options in v12. Thanks guys!

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INSTALLATION

1. Download the theme here and place the folder in Launchbox/Themes/

2. You might need to unblock the zip file or all the .DLL's in the plugin folder. Right click the zip or DLL files, choose properties and at the bottom you click "Unblock".

3. I recommend doing the following to speed up Big Box greatly: 

 - Uncheck all Background Images in Launchbox > Tools > Options > Media > Background Priorities
 - Set all transitions to "None" in BigBox settings
 - Use the Clean Up media tool in launchbox/tools/Clean Up Media... (this can really speed up lists with thousands of games and duplicate media)
 - Defrag the drive that holds your media files


Hope you like and enjoy! ?

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LINKS

Neon Deluxe Arcade is a series of themes and elements, if you like you can download these to accompany the complete theme, visit this page to see all my other work:
https://forums.launchbox-app.com/profile/88501-mr-retrolust/content/?type=downloads_file

Arcade stick and buttons sound pack, sounds really good with this theme:

Edited by Mr. RetroLust

What's New in Version 2.2   See changelog

Released

v2.2

- Former "Alt views" version with static wheels is now the main continuing theme called: "Neon Deluxe Arcade" again.

- Partly rebuild using the latest Community Theme Creator of which; less and more efficient code which in turn loads faster, thanks to legend @y2guru for his hard work and dedication. 

- Platform view texts (in view 1 and 2) are now lined out correctly and collapse when no input.

- Icons: ESRB rating, Broken, Completed, Favorite & Portable lined out correctly and collapse when no input, gone are the transparent fallback icons.

- Arcade PCB image shows if available instead of cart. (If you like to use PCB images with a transparent background check:

- Named all items in Community Theme Creator more logical to understand the elements in coding and the future release of the CTC file.

- Game Notes starts scrolling and is scrolling a bit faster, text layout is now set to justified instead of default left align.

- Wallgamesview background is blurred now to accentuate front covers, more covers shown at one screen.

- Changed some views around in a more logical order.

- Added new Platform view (view 3) with room for platform details text.

- Added new Platform view (view 4) with room for platform details text and background image of platform banner.

- Added 12hr and 24hr clock next to each other so both clocks are there for people around the globe, no need to make a separate version per clock now.

- Added fallback value "-" for missing game details in most views.

- Changed screenshots in this post to reflect current version clearly

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Hvitson

Hvitson 18

   7 of 7 members found this review helpful 7 / 7 members

Best theme out there in my opinion, looks fantastic and displays a lot of informations at the same time while keeping big videos, love it :D

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Klopjero

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   4 of 4 members found this review helpful 4 / 4 members

Thank you!! 

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Response from the author:

Very nice cab you got there man :)

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Whatscheiser

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   3 of 3 members found this review helpful 3 / 3 members

I'm always tinkering with my LaunchBox installation and creating custom categories, mainly for Movies and TV shows to sit alongside my game library. I'm always searching for what I think the end result should look like when I finally have all of this media under one roof. So I'll every so often mess with other themes or play around in the community theme creator to edit and tweak existing works a little bit, but I always come back around to using Neon Deluxe Arcade,

Something about the presentation here just trips all the right "nostalgia" buttons for me. Not to mention its very flexible in terms of presentation. The low light renderings and screen effects applied across period correct televisions displaying game videos, or arcade cabinets and their marquees is just so well done. Or if you'd rather make the game art itself and the videos accompanying that the main focus then there are views to support that as well, letting the platform take a back seat. With LaunchBox's ability to save different views depending on the platform this theme can really let you cater to one aesthetic or another depending on what platform you are trying to feature.

This theme also hands down makes the most use of all of the different artworks that LaunchBox can populate for your games. Which I think is another point that draws me back into it. There just seems to be more here to take in and I think I begin to find others lacking as a result. Of course its all personal preference at the end of the day, but for me (at least so far) this is it. The theme really puts across its atmosphere in a convincing way and I can feel like this is a spot I'd want to squirrel away all of my stuff into. Like the mancave arcade my house doesn't have the room for.

Thanks!

Response from the author:

Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a beautiful review, really appreciate it and I'm glad you like coming back to it :) There are so many beautiful themes to choose from it's hard to choose sometimes, but that is a good thing ;)

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MazJohn [Mr Arcade]

MazJohn [Mr Arcade] 15

   3 of 3 members found this review helpful 3 / 3 members

Hey there Mr. RetroLust…  Mr. Arcade Here is really digging this theme now at v1.7.  Finding the alternate views version to be crazy good with the right artwork. Thanks for this and keep it up!

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ROD3Z

ROD3Z 55

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Flawless and easy to make it your own..

*****5 STARS*****

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tim000x3

tim000x3 2

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Tried a few other themes, always switch back to this immediatly

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Moca

Moca 9

  

one of the best themes, too bad I couldn't make it "smoother" above 60Fps (using a 165hz monitor)
If anyone knows how, please give me a tip,
(in the settings it is already enabled for monitors up to 200Mhz)

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TrexCharles

TrexCharles 9

  

This is a real good theme. One question...I have this installed on my system, but it's constant lag & it's sluggish when I press down on my xbox controller, takes time for things to load like the videos. How do I fix this?

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