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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

Update. I went a little nuts with the N64 startup :P. So far I have startups for all CD based games (PS1, PS2, PS3, DC, GC, Xbox, etc.), top loading systems (so far just N64 but will be SNES, Genesis, and more once I find decent front images of the consoles), and a custom jobby for PSP (as seen in the vid below). Still no idea how to get the little guys back in their boxes on game shutdown due to trigger issue. Hopefully someone can help. 2020-05-31 14-29-04.mp4

Honestly @viking I mentioned it in your platform video thread, but truly you are an amazing asset to this community. Making this public is such an incredible gift. Thankyou! We will treat it with the respect it deserves!

@faeran I was not able to resolve the game banners issue, but I don't mind as I wanted to use this theme for the categories and platform views (which is working beautifully), and then inside each platform/playlist different themes. I am in the process of making specific banners for my needs. Sharing them here in case somebody wants to grab them: Categories: Magazines and Pinball. Playlists: Hacks and Fan-Made, IGS PolyGame Master, and Recently Played. Platforms: Future Pinball and Pinball FX3. Missing for my set (that I will be doing next) are Microsoft Windows (from the 90s), 3D Realms (playlist), Openbor, Popcap, Tiger Game.com (platforms).

Happy New Year everyone! latest video showing off the latest progress with Animation (storyboarding)

Overview of changes made in the past 6 weeks plus changes in the upcoming build 1.0.3. The video also covers a new feature added in the past week that should assist new Theme creators.

Just finished uploading and replacing all 3D boxes to the database, added loads missing flyers, artwork and logo's, added color corrected flyers, added missing games to the database, corrected info etc. I think in total an amount of 5500 images added/replaced. So you might want to scrape your mame/arcade collection in 2 days from now (database mods will be finished by then).

Whoops didn't intend to start any drama. Anyway, for clarification, the wall part is based on the default Pegasus theme which isn't made by me, but the other part is based on the original gameOS which is also a theme for Pegasus. The game view has nothing to do with either though.

I'm thinking of creating a video that would showcase how the new code works in this update. It's actually a lot more than just wall view changes.

Excellent, glad the log file helped a little anyway Sorry to have hijacked your thread faeran. Keep up the great work, loving these new themes.

Looks like that was the issue, only needed to change one line of code to get it working again with the new paths. I've fixed the issue using the dev's github source code. compiled plugin and src attached PCSX2 Configurator Next-fixed.zip PCSX2 Configurator Next.dll

So I used to play this weird game when I was a kid that had Star Wars droids, and there was some kind of factory where you had to make sure they were assembled correctly, or something like that. I've been searching for the name of that game for years, and nobody knew what I was talking about; no one had ever heard of a game like that from the early 90s. I started to think that I was going crazy, that I had never played such a game, but I held out hope. We're talking fifteen, twenty years I've been trying to crack this. I download this image set, and there are a lot of images for games here that I don't have in my library; naturally, I start going through it, image by image, deleting the files I don't need. And then I see it. "Night Shift", by LucasArts, 1990. Holy. Shit. I'm not lying when I say that my heart literally skipped a beat. I sat there, slackjawed, staring at this box for this game I've been searching for, for a good ten seconds, without taking a breath. I took it all in - my eyes going over every inch, thinking to myself, "Is this real?" And it is. It really exists. So thank you for this pack, for that image alone.

Guys, this is great. Really ! But I would like to avoid multiple sources (tread) to download the videos. It becomes a mess and it is not clear for new users. For this purpose, I'm preparing a upload of all my sources + a tutorial on the guidlines. The idea is to have only 2 topics on the forum: The current video topic : We will find all mine, but also all yours. With your credit. 1 single place to download everything. Futur sources topic : There will be all my sources, and yours. I'll do a quick tutorial on guidline and my workflow. You will post your work in progress there and I could come and give advice and tips. The choice of color is very important, because for my theme, it should not change for the same platform. There may be several versions of the same video. I really do my best to put it all in place quickly !! I promise! Be patient and all possible help is welcome! ? ?

Thank you ! Yes, the size of BoxArt comes back often in the comments. The "problem" is that it is important in the overall design. I already started working on it for the next beta. I reduced the overall size of the video by using the bands at the top and bottom. It's not much, but we gain a little visibility. I also reduced the size of the BoxArt slightly. A radical solution would be to remove the BoxArt from the main page and put it in the wheel, instead of ClearLogo. But I must also create Dark version. If I have space, I will make this version. I have a lot of work right now. I do my best to work on Colorful.

@reddingmyst Here are the Amstrad systems. Let me know what you think.

One more.

@Retro808 was gracious enough to knock these two 3D boxes up for me, so ill post them here if they are helpful to anyone right now. All credit to @Retro808 for doing the work for me, and @Mr. RetroLust and @bLAZER from the emumovies site for the templates.

@harryoke almost the entire startup folder I have consists of your videos, and I love them! Keep rocking my friend!

Probably a within two weeks (could be sooner or later) for the LMNOP pack, around 3 to 4 weeks for QRST and a week for UVWXYZ. For the update packs to the missing boxes I can't make an estimate yet but perhaps a month in total, all could go much faster maybe but depends on real life/time/health things.

constructive ideas are always welcome, but comments such as …. "im a visualist, i know if things look good or crap or boring, or interesting, and what others will think" is counterproductive, a lot of time, effort and creative energy goes into the creation of Graphics, Videos and Themes and with a comment like that you are just pissing on their creations, so far I have not seen any contributions to this forum by you, so perhaps you should think before you type.

Hey guys! Just saw the new LB 8.0 video in Youtube, and the mention of this logos set. It reminded me that I made the missing ones some time ago for each type of the 6 backgrounds. @garehard, if you don't mind, I'll leave the zip file attached in this post. If you are not ok with it let me know and I'll remove it. The list: Alf TV Game Arcade PC Atari Classics Big Fish Games Capcom Classics Daphne Data East Classics Doujin Soft HBMAME Irem Classics Konami Classics Konami e-AMUSEMENT Konix Multi-System MAME Microsoft Windows 3.x Midway Classics MiSFiT MAME Namco Classics NEC PC Engine-CD Nintendo Classics Nintendo Super Famicom Nintendo Super Gameboy Nintendo Switch Othello Multivision PC Games PopCap Sega Classics Sega RingEdge (black) Sega RingWide (black) SNK Classics SNK Neo Geo AES SNK Neo Geo MVS Sony PSP Minis Stepmania Taito Classics Taito Type X Tecmo Classics Tiger Game.com Tomy Tutor Touhou Project Vector-06C Vtech CreatiVision Vtech Socrates Williams Classics Minimal Logos update.zip

@exodus_cl Hi, I really like your theme, and however, I made some other platform with your theme as well Is it ok if I could get a community version of this theme please? I would like to add more platform based on that. Here is some of my work 1) Nintendo Famicom : ( cause some of japanese version of game's boxart does not fit in NES Mini , so I make one for them)2) Nintendo Gameboy Advance : 3) Nintendo DS:4) Nintendo Virtual Boy: 5) Sega Saturn:

Thanks! Sorry, but I will not add those in there But don't worry, I will publish the Theme Creator Tool Files, so everyone can make the changes they want. I just need to clean the files first, so it's easier to make changes.

Hey, I'm glad that someone picked up the project, ive been really busy and couldnt fix the plugins that Ive made, Thanks @maikeru86. Would be good to post the source-code as well if possible.

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!

I understand running a full time vertical screen is a pretty niche endeavor. I appreciate the ability to use Bigbox along with the theme creator to make it work for me. Keep up the good work guys!

Updated now with a version that works it wasn't really that much of a change tbh (actually didn't need to re-target anything). Credit to @JoeViking245 for helping me find a fix quickly. For anyone confused about the in-development version, it can be downloaded under Artifacts on the linked appveyor page (and that will be updated with new builds, whenever I add new stuff). It is still in development so liable to change, hence a tutorial video may not be a good idea at this point. The basic idea of what's going on is that the program manages PCSX2 versions for you, so you don't ever have to worry about installing it yourself. To install a PCSX2 version you click the cog (in the program) and select version manager and it will give you a drop drown (I'd recommend 1,6.0 for most people). Full Launchbox support for the new standalone version is coming, I've just been busy with other things so not got around to working on it recently.

I've decided to hold off until I have enough for one final big update. I have around 400 more completed, and I would expect it'll take me another 3 or 4 weeks worth of work before I'm ready to release them all.

give me about half an hour i'll upload videos themes, clear logo's backgrounds they whole set up for this system, and yes GRID is f 'ing brilliant, going through all the Teknoparrot stuff, spoke with Trymado on YouTube and he says yes I have permission to use his hyperspin themes just converting them one system at a time ??

Thanks @Bullfrog for your feedback. Much appreciated. Glad you are enjoying the updated theme. At the moment, the version of the theme on both the forum and the theme manager are the same. However, the theme manager will always take priority. So if you download a theme from the forum, the manager will always flag you to update it in the theme manager, even if it is the same copy (or older copy). And delaying the front box is something that can be considered. I know a lot of people have their own opinions on that subject. What's good is that I also released the project files, as part of the Theme Stream series. So you can download the files, load them up in the COMMUNITY Theme Creator and make the edits yourself.

I 100% agree to that cheers

Pack has been updated, see change log for details!

Interesting. We added a million and one logs to the shutdown process, and it's pretty obvious that the Chromium Embedded Framework is refusing to shut down, based on that log. So I'm just going to force kill it if that happens in the future. Should be solved for the next beta.

v1.2 - Language format fixed by @y2guru (thanks so much for your hard work!) now works in all languages - Changed graphic for horizontal wheel bar - Fixed horizontal bar clear logo spacing and amount - Added Screenshot Game Title to vertical wheel views - Selected game logo in wheel adjusted

Just to make sure we are on the same page. Here is the list of game views that are in the theme right now: Horizontal Wheel 1 - The normal banner games view Horizontal Wheel 2 - The normal banner games view with quicker animations Horizontal Wheel 3 - Simple banner view where the banners never fade away Text Games View - Text view with the text menu on the right Here's the list of Platform Views: Platform Wheel 1 - Normal banners view Platform Wheel 2 - Normal banners view that plays music from your videos Platform Wheel 3 - Banners view that fades out and shows platform details

Had a little time tonight, so I knocked these out.

Version 1.4 Added shutdown screen (previous version didn't work) Thanks @neil9000 for testing!

The File has been re-uploaded and now MAME64.exe is half the size.

MAME .210 will be available Monday.

Version 1.9 Added pack "QRS - UPDATE PACK" Enjoy! ? After all update packs are done I'll release the resources and template so people with the skills can make their own or any missink ones. NOTE! : After installing the images you have to select all (or any alphabetical range) arcade games (CTRL+A = select all) go to Tools and click 'Refresh selected images', let it load and the games should now display the right 3D boxes.

Not sure who said that you've "got no talent" but I can guess that it's probably one of the other so-called media creators who lurks around here, or just other grumpy users who have nothing better to do than criticizing and complaining about other people's work. At any rate, keep doing what you're doing and thanks for always contributing some excellent stuff here!

If you knew, all the thinking I take in the mouth, for a stall, or an effect that does not please, but how many of the people who appreciate your work? proportionally much more,those who spit on you represent A tiny part minusucule, I m sure the majority likes what you propose many forget that we do this on our free time that despite all that remains amateurs.Continues to do your great job harry, ignore the rest and take pleasure it's the essential !

Yours sounds good too, thanks. It is a lot of work, but worth it if you wish to have things categorised like that. You should see my SEGA Mega Drive, haha: I have made custom clear logos and even nostalgia-themed background videos for them all. It took weeks of work, but I am happy with it all now. If you want to set up the Mario hacks here let me know and I will PM you.

UPDATE Version 1.3 Added pack "LMNOP" (remember: missing boxes will be updated through update packs in the future)

I'll put together a write up of what I do along with the templates into a zip file and add that in when I upload the next couple files. If there any particular series I can add them to the to do list. Making the final video is pretty easy as it's just replacing some files in the template. Toughest/longest part is finding/prepping the relevant sub videos to put in, so if there are particular games you'd prefer on the the screens I'm always open for the suggestions. That and I debate far to long on which music to add in and what image to use for the center.

Pretty cool work! Not sure about the dancing robot though

Really nice set so far, have not downloaded yet, will wait till the set is complete. I will stick to Robin55 set for now, as I did create an additional 300+ 3D boxes to complete my set at the time. Let me know if you need any help with any Logos as I have created sliver ring logos for my mame set + some (a lot of far east roms that I deleted) Looking really good so far, keep up the good work because I know that it is very time consuming.

I modified the file so that it would insert the XML for the video paths/names. Seems to work, tested it on Atari 7800. I am sure there is a more eloquent way to do it, but like I said it works. If anyone is interested I attached it below. launchbox_retropie_export.py

@faeran i absolutely love this. Excellent work if you need box templates for most systems i get them here, will save a lot of time if you are making them yourself. http://vgboxart.com/browse-resources/ cant wait for more systems to be added

I love these. I was hoping someone would make specific themes for each platform game list ever since bigbox supports different themes for each platform. I hope you make more platform themes.