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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 2.6.1   See changelog

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No changelog available for this version.

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8 hours ago, Holidaze said:

@C-Beats, @Rincewind, @Mr. RetroLust thank you for the help. I have done all of the things that you suggested and I still have the error popping up. I did have to unblock the zip file but that seems not to have solved the issue after uninstalling and updating to Launchbox 11.7 beta. Any other suggestions would be welcome. @Nineball I just saw your post and turns out I am using an external. I will try your suggestion and let everyone know if it works. Thank you.

Huge THANK YOU to @Nineball for the help. Changed from exFAT to NTFS and that fixed it. Thanks to everyone who helped me on this. You guys are great!

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Wonderful theme ! It's on my arcade cabinet.

But i have a question : is it possible to change the number of platforms displayed at the same time  and the size of the clear logo ? (i use Plateform Wheel 3 and vertical wheel 1 views)

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34 minutes ago, Elhora said:

Wonderful theme ! It's on my arcade cabinet.

But i have a question : is it possible to change the number of platforms displayed at the same time  and the size of the clear logo ? (i use Plateform Wheel 3 and vertical wheel 1 views)

Glad you like, thanks :) It's not possible to show more than one platform at a time but you can make playlists that contain multiple platforms or use the "all games" feature in Big Box but I'm not sure if that's what you're asking. What do you mean by the size of the clear logo?

 

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26 minutes ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

Glad you like, thanks :) It's not possible to show more than one platform at a time but you can make playlists that contain multiple platforms or use the "all games" feature in Big Box but I'm not sure if that's what you're asking. What do you mean by the size of the clear logo?

 

i mean, on the plateform wheel, i'd like to show only 5 plateforms at a time (right now i think i have  9 displayed) and have bigger plateform logo.    

I admit i have a little crush in Batocera default wheel  theme which have lesser platform but bigger plateform logo with a fade effect^^ -> screenshot attached ) 

batocera.webp

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25 minutes ago, Elhora said:

i mean, on the plateform wheel, i'd like to show only 5 plateforms at a time (right now i think i have  9 displayed) and have bigger plateform logo.    

I admit i have a little crush in Batocera default wheel  theme which have lesser platform but bigger plateform logo with a fade effect^^ -> screenshot attached ) 

batocera.webp 28.72 kB · 3 downloads

I'll see what I can do upcoming week, which version of the theme do you use, the regular one or alt views?

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10 minutes ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

I'll see what I can do upcoming week, which version of the theme do you use, the regular one or alt views?

i use the regular one with Vertical Wheel 1.

i tried to open it with Community  Theme Créator, just in case i could modify this by myself, but nothing showed up in the software :/

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29 minutes ago, Elhora said:

 

i use the regular one with Vertical Wheel 1.

i tried to open it with Community  Theme Créator, just in case i could modify this by myself, but nothing showed up in the software :/

The Community Theme Creator generates xaml files but it does not open them it uses it's own template files. You can open xaml files with a notepad editor, notepad++ is great. I'm not at the pc atm but maybe you can figure it out for yourself in the mean time, if not i'll help out upcoming days.

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59 minutes ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

The Community Theme Creator generates xaml files but it does not open them it uses it's own template files. You can open xaml files with a notepad editor, notepad++ is great. I'm not at the pc atm but maybe you can figure it out for yourself in the mean time, if not i'll help out upcoming days.

haaaaa... i thought it was just a GUI  that could handle any theme...

Well i have to admit i suck at coding. My knowledge are limited to the Microsoft MSX Basic and Amiga AMOS :D That doesn't make me any good at Xaml ^^

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18 minutes ago, Elhora said:

haaaaa... i thought it was just a GUI  that could handle any theme...

Well i have to admit i suck at coding. My knowledge are limited to the Microsoft MSX Basic and Amiga AMOS :D That doesn't make me any good at Xaml ^^

Well then you know more about coding than me man lol xaml is pretty easy to understand, that is the parameters for the wheels are quite straight forward.

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@Elhora Go to Launchbox\Themes\Neon Deluxe Arcade Final\Views > Open the xaml file you want to edit in a notepad editor and search for "FlowControl" and then change the parameter "VisibleCount="16" to a lower number. Sadly it's not possible to change the size of the logo's with these parameters it requires me to change the theme which is too much work.

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This is a great looking theme.  I found an issue, though.  When using platform view "Text list with details", it displays a section for Favorites and a section for Recently played.  I noticed the two sections are swapped, meaning that my favorite games are shown in Recent and the recent games are shown in Favorites.  How can I fix this?

Also a side question, is it possible to use the other platform wheel list without the list fading out?

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1 hour ago, vertigoelectric said:

This is a great looking theme.  I found an issue, though.  When using platform view "Text list with details", it displays a section for Favorites and a section for Recently played.  I noticed the two sections are swapped, meaning that my favorite games are shown in Recent and the recent games are shown in Favorites.  How can I fix this?

Also a side question, is it possible to use the other platform wheel list without the list fading out?

Thanks :)Oh thats weird, I'll look into it when I've got some time.

There's two versions of the theme, the regular one has fading wheels and the alt views version has fixed wheels.

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32 minutes ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

There's two versions of the theme, the regular one has fading wheels and the alt views version has fixed wheels.

Oh, awesome.  I wondered what the difference was. Thanks!!

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On 11/17/2020 at 11:09 PM, vertigoelectric said:

This is a great looking theme.  I found an issue, though.  When using platform view "Text list with details", it displays a section for Favorites and a section for Recently played.  I noticed the two sections are swapped, meaning that my favorite games are shown in Recent and the recent games are shown in Favorites.  How can I fix this?

Also a side question, is it possible to use the other platform wheel list without the list fading out?

I have tested out your issue but I can't replicate it, it shows up as it should over here. Also in the code it is correct so something is wrong at your end i'm afraid, maybe reinstall the theme?

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I see mention of a 12 hour version, but I'm not able to find any setting or file for this, unless I'm blind as hell.  How do I switch it to 12 hour time?

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10 hours ago, myric227 said:

I see mention of a 12 hour version, but I'm not able to find any setting or file for this, unless I'm blind as hell.  How do I switch it to 12 hour time?

I stopped making this version as it was too much work to keep maintaining it as well.

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12 hours ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

I stopped making this version as it was too much work to keep maintaining it as well.

Ah ok.  Well now I don't have to go crazy trying to find the file/setting.  Amazing theme by the way!  I use this plus the Hyperspin soundpack and Nostalgia 4:3 videos.  It looks so good.

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39 minutes ago, myric227 said:

Ah ok.  Well now I don't have to go crazy trying to find the file/setting.  Amazing theme by the way!  I use this plus the Hyperspin soundpack and Nostalgia 4:3 videos.  It looks so good.

Thanks glad you like, have fun! ?

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It´s my favorite Theme, but i have on Questions.

Is there a Way in the Platform Wheel -> not hide the Platforms Logo after one Second ?

 

CU

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1 hour ago, Impact_Thomas said:

It´s my favorite Theme, but i have on Questions.

Is there a Way in the Platform Wheel -> not hide the Platforms Logo after one Second ?

 

CU

Glad you like :) Try the "alt views" version, this theme keeps the wheels static.

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56 minutes ago, Impact_Thomas said:

Perfect :),

Now i have a Problem with Platform View 2

The only show me the Platforms and a Full Screen Video not the Machines !?

 

CU

Edit: be sure you have device images in their correct image folders. Platform view 2 should display them.

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