About This File
This theme is my re-take on the excellent Unified-Refried theme and I called it 'Unified Lives!'. The goal is to present more information to the user during game selection as well as using more graphic assets to complement the display experience. I hope you like it!
- An informative game card that shows many details of the currently selected game.
- 6 Game wheel views. 2 vertical, 3 horizontal and 1 text.
- 4 Platform/playlist views
- Single views for game and platform text views (these are necessary views)
- Marquee, box 3d, disc, cd, 3d cart and front flyer images are all used. Visibility rules determine how they appear, depending on platform and also file availability.
- Supports different aspect ratios. If it doesn't look right on yours please let me know!
- Wheel Badges for Favorite, Completed and Broken games.
- Created with Community Theme Creator 2.5
- Dynamically changing theme images based upon current platform/playlist. just like Refried.
** Rename 'background' folder to enable fanart.
** Rename the 'Devices' folder to always show a random game screenshot in platform/playlist views.
** Place your choice of fanart in 'fanart fallback' folder when game or platform fanart does not exist, a random image is chosen
** ESRB icons. If you don't want them, delete or rename the icons. The 'Not Rated' icon is renamed due to the number of titles without rating. Remove the exclamation from the filename to see it.
*** Do not overwrite previous versions of the theme, replace the folder. Folder and file structure can change between versions!
Edited by Rob_G
What's New in Version 4 See changelog
Released
I considered this a major version upgrade (V4) since it was edited and published with CTC 2.5.
Changes:
- Favorite, Completed and Broken Badges are now a part of the wheel icons. So they are now visible even when an item is not selected
- There is a formatted text fallback for wheel items missing clear logos. No more oversized, unreadable fonts!
- Your game rating is not shown if you have not rated the game. The notes scroller then inherits a larger frame layout to use up the extra room.
- Fan art backgrounds for game and platform views is now supported. In the Media folder, rename the "Background" folder to enable this. When fanart is not available, a random image from "Background Fallback" folder is used. Currently there is just a _default.png in there. You can add any images you want there.
- For visibility purposes, a 40% black frame is now used on the Information card and text wheels.
- Game notes scroller has an improved look.
- Game wheels had a complete revamp with CTC 2.5 and this was very time consuming.
- Wall views were eliminated. I did not want the extra work of revamping these as well as maintaining them. It's just too much work now.
- Video borders have been slightly resized so the bottom of the arcade cabinet images is above the status bar, not behind it.
- Status text changed to 'Emulation Status'. This is relevant for mame games only.
- Aspect ratio is not enforced in ThemeSettings.XML
- Vertical wheel arcade game views will only show a Flyer or Box 3D image so there is no overlap on the video border cabinet image.
- Numerous other minor tweaks, to element size, position. Element design continuity is carried over between views as much as possible.
- Requires BigBox Beta V13.2 or greater according to CTC 2.5 docs. I'm not sure what happens if you run this on V13 release.
