Guidope
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@eatkinola If I were to convert all platform png's to the correct ratio, with the cutouts for the video's at exactly the right position, would it still be a lot of hassle to modify the theme code-wise? ?
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On 8/11/2019 at 11:51 AM, dragon57 said:
If you have an android phone, use Google translate to look at the Chinese text in real time via your phones camera. This works surprisingly well for me.
I Tried this, but the camera didn't pick up the text. Eventually, I bought a new, different model encoder board and now the colors are quite a bit more vibrant. The default UI text is English so that makes it easier, plus it came with a TV remote. Colors are not quite the same as the original, but I'm happy with it right now. Thanks for the tips though!
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Not sure if this is the version you're looking for, I installed it and it's working great!
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7 minutes ago, eatkinola said:
Glad you like the theme, @Guidope. It's designed for 16:9 screens and won't look as intended at 4:3. However, you could allow it to stretch and fill a 4:3 screen. Look in the ThemeSettings.xml in the root of the theme's folder. There should be a tag called Force16x9... set to true -- set this instead to false, and it should then allow stretching to 4:3.
<Force16X9AspectRatio>true</Force16X9AspectRatio> ...change to false
The "inception" look will always happen if you use viking's videos, as I used his videos to make the backgrounds with screen cutouts. While Nostalgia is one of my favorite themes, not that I'm biased :), you might want to look into a 4x3 theme for your cabinet. There are a few out there. Another theme I created called Refaktor should work well for either 4x3 or 16x9.
This already helps out a bunch! To me this is the perfect theme, so I guess I'll have to live with the squeezed background image for now.
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On 8/4/2019 at 3:08 PM, eatkinola said:
UPDATED to v1.9 -- see changelog on download page for details
First off, I love this theme! I love the minimal look and the old devices an peripherals.
But right now, I'm ready to start pulling out my hair ?I've been using the Nostalgia theme on my emulation PC for quite a while without any problems. The platform select screen loads in PNG's with cutouts for the platform's monitor and there random game video's are loaded in the way it's supposed to.
Recently I've moved my complete emulation PC into an Arcade1Up cabinet with a 4:3 ratio screen. At first the theme filled out the screen fine, but the images were squeezed to fit the new ratio. Then I tried to update the theme with the 4:3 video's but that didn't work out. I got the 'inception' thingy going on (I've seen more people having this problem).
So I updated the theme to the newly released 1.9 version and now it won't fill out the 4:3 screen anymore, it's fixed to 16:9 so now it looks kind of tiny with the black bars top and bottom. Updating the vids with the 4:3 set still gives the 'inception' view.
So basically my questions are:
Is it even possible to force the 1.9 theme to 4:3 ratio?
Is it possible for the theme to prioritize the Nostalgia 4:3 video's for platform views, instead of the default png's?I really hope someone can point me in the right direction since these are literally the last things to completely finishing my build and I've lost so many hours fiddling around with it already.
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Wow very nice!
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On 8/10/2019 at 10:34 AM, dragon57 said:
This isn't specific to your hardware, but I'm curious if you have tried changing/choosing the settings in the Control Panel/Color Management area? You should also have the option to calibrate your display from there.
Thanks for the tip. I've tried fiddling around with this but haven't had any luck. The frustrating thing is, the controller board came with a smalle button board for opening the monitor's menu, but it's all in Chinese so I can't make anything out of it.
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I own a MKII and a Street Fighter Arcade1Up. The latter I just finished modding. It's running a PC (Intel NUC), Windows 10. When I set my 2 cabinets side by side, the modded one is a LOT dimmer than the original A1Up. I've tried fiddling in the Windows Brightness settings, but it's seem to be at max already. If I up the brightness through the graphics card software, the image will get very ugly.
Since the displays are the exactly same I can assume it's the controller board I added to get HDMI to modded cab's display. I was wondering if other people ran into the same problem and if they were able to fix this.
In the attached picture the display looks better on the right but IRL the left cabinet is WAY more clear/vibrant.
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It's a bit late but I went on vacation and was offline for a good three weeks. Thanks everyone for chipping in. I ended up just installing the regular PC version for MK4 wich works perfect. Most 3D roms i donwloaded from other locations seem to work OK, but I will probably use console/PC versions for those (i.e. Soul Calibur).
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In short, i'm building a bartop arcade so I want to get a nice library of arcade games using MAME.
I've been doing a lot of research and testing and i'm getting most stuff to work fine. There's some things I just cannot understand. Let me explain;
I'm mainly using MAME 0.139b because i've found a good source of ROM's with matching CHD's.
I'm also fiddling around with MAME 0.201 because I have downloaded a matching romset, but no CHD's. And I don't know how to find these.Stuff i'm running into:
MK4 - in 0.139b the life bars are always empty, some weird visual glitches like black smoke coming off Sub Zero.
MK4 - in 0.201 i'm getting a missing CHD error, and I have no idea how to find a CHD for this version.It feels like witchever version I try there's issues to be found. I'ts mainly the 3D games that are giving issues. I've downloaded Soul Calibur versions (and CHD's) nearly hundreds of times but I always get an error.
Could someome guide me in the right direction to:- A reliable/recent version of MAME with corresponding ROM's and CHD's?
- Maybe some tips and tricks on how more veteran MAME-users solve these issues.
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks! I Will check it out asap!
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16 hours ago, RULLUR said:
I got my Fiancee a Wired Retro-Link GameCube USB Controller a few Christmases ago for Dolphin, and I think I have things set for it to play Wii. I may be able to try upload the settings if needed or interested
That would be awesome, i still haven’t got any luck trying to get it to work!
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3 minutes ago, neil9000 said:
It should save the image added, but if you dont delete the image its currently using as well then it will likely continue to use the image it was already using.
Ah that's great! I thought It just didn't save the image. This will make changing the thumbs a lot easier. Thanks!
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1 minute ago, neil9000 said:
Its probably just the case that we do not have European box art in our database. The priorities will prioritise a region, but if that art is not available it will pull the US art if available. Hence "priorities" and not a outright "choose region for art". If you want to replace images then yes you need to drop them in the correct folder, or use the edit on a game and navigate to the image location, so dropping images into the folder is the easiest way.
Yeah I thought that was the case. With replacing the images, I thought there would be an easier way. When you select a game and choose edit, you can actually drag and drop an image in the preview box, it just doesn't save the addition. Other than that, I absolutely love launchbox
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When I saw Launchbox had added the feature to prioritize images for certain regions upon import, I decided to re-import some consoles, but sadly most of the images are still NTSC (even with Europe prioritized).
Is there an easy way to manually change the thumbnails? I used to just open the images folder and replace the current image with one I found online, but it's quite a hastle.
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As the topic's title states; is there anyone who has been able to do it? Gamecube games work fine. All tutorial suggest using official Gamecube controllers and the adapter. I don't have the adapter however. I've been fiddling around with the settings for ages now, hope someone is willing to point me in the right direction.
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Just wanted to let you Guys know my theme got completely messed up when installing the newest version of LB. Screen starts up on ‘general’ With no games or platforms shown. Can’t change views either. Other themes seem to still work fine