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Hiya I just wanted to say a huge thanks to Warped Polygon, your packs and videos are AWESOME, I'll try and Buy You A Coffee, when I get a mo, you've saved me so much time and effort! I also wanted to share my experience, as I've managed to get Warped Polygon's control layout pics in use as Pause Screens, so I thought I'd drop the info on how I managed that here - Caveat - I've not extensively tested this and I'm no Launchbox or theme expert - following what I'm suggesting might break something for you, for which I'll take no blame! Firstly I downloaded and extracted Warped Polygon's Control Layout Pics (attached to the first post), then I downoaded and extracted this (brilliant!) theme - Game Controls FS (Full Screen - Beta) by Retro808 The extracted theme gave me two folders. I moved the first, "Game Controls FS" folder to my "\Launchbox\PauseThemes" folder. Once that was in place I then popped into the "\Launchbox\PauseThemes\Game Controls FS\fonts" folder and installed the font by double clicking prototype.ttf file and selecting install on the window that popped up. I then dragged the second folder, "Images" to my "\Launchbox" folder. Once that was in place, I renamed the folder that I'd extracted Warped Polygon's Control Layout Pics to, to "Sega Model 2" to match my M2 platform in Launchbox, I then dragged this folder over to "\Launchbox\Images\Game Controls\". I then used the instructions in this video: to set up the "Game Controls FS" theme as my Pause Theme and to add a joypad shortcut for 'Pause' on my (Xinput) Xbox Elite 2 pad (dpad-up+button 4 (Y)). It worked, but only mostly. Retro808 has set up this theme to look for a game's layout pic named the same as the Launchbox ID for your game, he explains his good reason for this: 3) All game specific control images must be named exactly as the game is named in your set-up or as the LB Database ID (the LB Database ID is best used for games with symbols in the name as currently the coding has trouble pulling game files since LB will display ":" in the title but Windows will convert it to "_"). e.g. you'd have to change the image for Daytona USA from daytona.jpg to 181808.jpg, however, multiple Daytona games scrape as 181808 and would all display the same control layout, so... I tweaked a line in the Default.xaml for the theme to pick up the file name for the selected game, so that we can use all of Warped Polygon's brilliant images (fingers crossed this doesn't accidentally trigger the apocalypse!). If you wish to do this too, the theme Default.xaml should now be located in your "\Launchbox\PauseThemes\Game Controls FS" folder, right click it and 'edit' (or preferably and if you have it installed 'edit in Notepad++'). Change line 120 from: <Binding Path="SelectedGame.LaunchBoxDbId" /> to: <Binding Path="SelectedGame.ApplicationFileNameWithoutExtension" /> Now assuming a hell-mouth doesn't open, you can bask in the glory of those beautiful pause screens! Now I'm off to try this on Model 3 👍 Well, after watching Warped Polygon's Model 3 vid (and setting it up successfully!), he does cover in that one about using the control layout pics in Launchbox, but I think my comment above still has merit.