Aberto2k

Hello everyone, So after successfully getting my games, videos, laserdisc and v-pinball to run through Launchbox/Bigbox on my test bed, I'm ready to start tweaking the GUI to better work with my cabinet. I basically want to recreate my cabinet friendly front end (a modified version/combination of the RetroGUI and Nanocade themes from MalaFE) - but for a higher 4:3 resolution, the example screenshot below is 640x480 - and I know I can go higher and get more real-estate; possibly even go responsive. Now, I'm currently slogging through the Theme Building videos on YouTube (and slowly losing my mind) - this isn't like any FE I've worked with before (AtomicFE and MalaFE), but I certainly can appreciate the power and very grateful someone has built the Community Theme Editor (yay Dave). I also have a few questions before I go too deep into the videos I hope you all can answer for me. I've noticed there's no meta-data field for controls.dat (or other meta data files) to display the controls used on a given game (yes, I'm strictly talking about MAME here - I don't emulate home consoles on my cabinet) - is there a way to pull that information into a theme so that I can have the virtual control panel show people which buttons, number of players and joysticks to use? (see screen shot below - the exit and coin buttons are static) The bottom of the screen shot shows a marquee of navigation commands that scrolls across the screen (and loops) - does the theme editor have this function? I didn't see anything to that effect on any existing theme. Finally I have a technical question - in order to work on this new theme I've decided to move my LaunchBox build to an external drive so that I can work more easily than in my cold garage - will this be an issue when working on a theme? This will be a learning experience for me, I hope to complete something and share it here. Regards, Aberto2k

Niel9000, That's to be expected, and luckily I already have those from my MalaFE and AtomicFE installations so it's just a matter of setting it all up. Unfortunately - this might end up me making my own theme... again. Hopefully creating or modifying an existing theme in Launchbox won't be as painstaking as it was for those older frontends - going to look into that once I've got everything set up and tested. Be seeing you, Aberto2k

Ah! Thank you JoeViking245. Seems like it works just like AtomicFE does; or rather did. Looks like I'll be setting up a test bed using Launchbox in the near future. Be seeing you, Aberto2k

Hi there, I'm in the process of updating my arcade cabinets that are currently running MalaFE or AtomicFE front ends (yes, they are very old - built them all between 2006 and 2012). LaunchBox seems to be a good fit (especially with an android version), but there's one feature I can't seem to find/confirm in the feature list : the ability to simply select and play videos. All my cabinets have a nostalgia section where I've stored Video Game inspired commercials, music videos, and movie trailers that are very popular for those for whom I've built these machines. No - they are not YouTube links. If someone can confirm that this is possible, I'd greatly appreciate it. Be seeing you, Aberto2k