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Colorful Game View Remix 1.0.3

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I absolutely love Viking's amazing colorful theme but I wanted a game view which showcases more art and also places the game videos within the incredible hardware images of the colorful theme. I usually play on a large tv screen so it's really suited for that.
This really benefits from having a well curated build of good artwork, especially background images which are very prominent here. There are a couple of folders to place generic fallback images for background and cart art to help avoid large empty space when those are missing from games. I've added a handful in there but far from complete.

I've never made/edited a theme before or done anything remotely similar so it's quite possible I've done some dumb stuff somewhere.

I've included 4 game views. Views 1-3 use an arcade cab layout which require theme videos and marquee images.

- 3d boxes
- 2d box front
- no cart view. more ideal for platforms like steam and arcade
- no cart and alternate arcade cab for non-themed videos and no custom marquee image

I also included the original colorful theme platform wheel view and only increased the wheel scale.

A couple of unresolved things..

Among the included badges is one for completed games but I can't figure out how to get that to show. It shows for games which were marked as completed before the newer progress system was added but not for newly marked games. I don't know if this is an issue of the theme creator, bigbox or just my stupidity.
Also I wasn't quite sure what to do about the 3ds game videos. I couldn't get the dual screen videos to scale properly so I ended up just blanking out the bottom screen and just using the top. Obviously only useful for single screen video snaps.

Platforms done so far

 

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Arcade
3DO
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
Bally Astrocade
ColecoVision
Commodore Amiga
Commodore Amiga CD32
Daphne
GCE Vectrex
Magnavox Odyssey 2
Mattel Intellivision
Xbox
Xbox 360
NEC PC Engine
NEC TurboGrafx-16
3DS
DS
N64
GameCube
NES
SNES
Game Boy
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
Famicom
Super Famicom
Famicom Disk System
Switch
Wii
Wii U
ScummVM
Dreamcast
Mega Drive
Genesis
Master System
Game Gear
Sega 32X
Sega CD
Saturn
SG-1000
Neo Geo AES
Neo Geo CD
Neo Geo Pocket Color
PS1
PS2
PS3
PS4
PS5
Vita
PSP
Steam
Windows
WonderSwan
WonderSwan Color


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Vikings videos obviously and then I set gameplay screenshots as a secondary priority for backgrounds in launchbox. I also try to avoid fanart backgrounds which just mimic the box art so I'm not just getting duplicated images on screen. Not always an option but I find often the screenshots will work just fine in place.

I've not posted anything before so it's all a bit new to me and I don't want to overstep any boundries in terms of posting themes with other peoples work. I'm not claiming any sort of credit for Vikings amazing work on the colorful theme. I've only made an alternative game view here using the existing assets.
 

What's New in Version 1.0.3   See changelog

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Amstrad CPC
Atari Jaguar CD
Fujitsu FM Towns Marty
NEC PC Engine CD
NEC PC-FX
NEC TurboGrafx-CD
 

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camboico

camboico 24

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Looks cool... I hope you keep adding more systems.😅

neolegend

neolegend 0

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Hi, the video doesn't fit properly on the screen for the NEC PC Engine version. Otherwise, great work—I hope you add some of the other missing platforms.
sw1fty808

sw1fty808 12

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1 hour ago, neolegend said: 
Hi, the video doesn't fit properly on the screen for the NEC PC Engine version. Otherwise, great work—I hope you add some of the other missing platforms.

hmm it's displaying fine on this end. What exactly are you seeing? too small? totally out of place?

neolegend

neolegend 0

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Hello, here is the image for the PC Engine; the video is offset from the TV frame.

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sw1fty808

sw1fty808 12

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1 hour ago, neolegend said: 
Hello, here is the image for the PC Engine; the video is offset from the TV frame.

41d2b771-1669-409f-ae6a-3db697bd6892.png

This is quite confusing. I can't seem to replicate this issue on my end but I have a feeling it might have something to do with how the platform and folders are setup for pc engine and grafx-16. It looks like possibly the video is aligning with the grafx16 platform even though the pcengine hardware image is loaded. Did you edit/rename any of the image files in the theme folder?

neolegend

neolegend 0

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Yes, I just figured it out; I renamed "Grafx-16" to "PC Engine," so I should instead rename my platform within LaunchBox to "PC-Engine."

 

neolegend

neolegend 0

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Alright, so if you could also add the following platforms:
- NEC PC Engine CD
- NEC TurboGrafx-16 CD
- Commodore CDTV
- Atari ST
- Amstrad CPC
- PCFX
- FM TOWNS
- PC-98
- Super A’Can
- Atari Jaguar CD

There you go—thanks again for your awesome work!
Edited by neolegend

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