NeonArcade 1.8

Looks nice! I'm gonna try it out.
I'm using the Neon Deluxe theme now, it also has an arcade feel to it.
I'm gonna see how this compares to that.
Thanks for making this.☺️

i like it easy to manage at the top where system name is when you have longer named system you lose the sort arrange column.

1 hour ago, rexryan said:

i like it easy to manage at the top where system name is when you have longer named system you lose the sort arrange column.

Sorry about that I've been making it on a 1440p monitor it's been a long time since I made a theme and forgot to test it on 1080p,  thanks for the heads up.

*I have just put out a fix for this 

Edited September 20 by Rincewind

After using it for a short while, overall very nice looking theme!!!

One point I'd like to mention:

I think I'm missing some information buttons in the games detail view.
I can't seem to locate the link to the gamesDB button, the wiki button, the youtube,....
for instance, GALAGA for Atari had a youtube and ofcourse always a gamesDB link

Can u add those?

Else, maybe they are in your theme, but I can't find it so quickly.
If it's hidden in some of the menu's, then the same...it should be visible in the games details view.

I added them back in myself

Edited September 20 by launchretrogirl2562

7 hours ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

I think I'm missing some information buttons in the games detail view.
I can't seem to locate the link to the gamesDB button, the wiki button, the youtube,....
for instance, GALAGA for Atari had a youtube and ofcourse always a gamesDB link

 

Can u add those?

Else, maybe they are in your theme, but I can't find it so quickly.
If it's hidden in some of the menu's, then the same...it should be visible in the games details view.
 

Thank you, your right I totally forgot to add them back in. I will do this later and put an update out but I might try a slightly different location. Thanks again for letting me know I missed it.

Just put out a new update. v1.2

*Added - I have now added a links bar for the GamesDB, Wiki and Youtube, and if there is no Youtube link then the button will search for the game name instead.

The addition of a button to adjust the theme’s hue and saturation would render this a perfect new theme; the current color scheme appears overly intense to me.

9 hours ago, MQ2000 said:

The addition of a button to adjust the theme’s hue and saturation would render this a perfect new theme; the current color scheme appears overly intense to me.

😁That's what I liked about it, you can always adjust your monitor settings HAHA. Stay tuned for my next theme, I've gone a bit less saturated more 80s than 90s 🤣. I will look into adding something like that but i'm really not sure it's possible, maybe with a plugin.

Edited September 22 by Rincewind

It looks really cool. After installation, it was lagging severely—I could barely even close the program. Is there any way to fix this?

2 hours ago, Alex04 said:

It looks really cool. After installation, it was lagging severely—I could barely even close the program. Is there any way to fix this?

I think it is possibly the animation on the selected game. It definitely runs well on a beefy pc. What are your pc specs? 

On 9/22/2026 at 8:57 AM, MQ2000 said:

The addition of a button to adjust the theme’s hue and saturation would render this a perfect new theme; the current color scheme appears overly intense to me.

@MQ2000 It's in there now. 

@Zayd47 

[YOURDRIVE]:\Launchbox\LBThemes\NeonArcade

u can read the readme there, but it is just a matter of running the .bat file and u are good to go!

Yep got it, Sorry i missed that.

updated and getting the dll unblock error. Which i did unblock.

@rexryan Did you try updating it from the manage themes inside LB?

Edited Friday at 01:42 PM by Rincewind

41 minutes ago, Rincewind said:

@rexryan Did you try updating it from the manage themes inside LB?

I have done it manually and manage themes.

 

And is LB up to date?

absolutely.. I had a file that said Neon Arcade Live was working perfect.I assumed this was the update i deleted the colors plugin and the theme started fresh.I no longer got the error all fonts are black the pop up categories are no longer in boxes etc..I want this theme so all your help is appreciated.

 

manual update to 1.7 and borders are gone. Dll is unblocked and no log file is created. Plugin is not loading. reverted back to 1.5 and all is fine. Only way to get 1.7 to work is copy the plugins folder from 1.5 back into 1.7. 

Yes sorry about this, I have built the 1.7 plugin version from the LB v14.1.0.1 beta so that means it only works on the latest beta or newer. Which is not ideal if users are not using the betas. So I will re-build the plugin using v14 official. Sorry again. I am also going to make sure that the theme will still work even if the plugin fails with a fallback-palette.

Edited Friday at 10:23 PM by Rincewind

*New version 1.8 with the fix. LaunchBox version 14 or higher will now have the Theme Colour Sliders.