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A Halloween Fright View File DESCRIPTION: Hello everybody, I want to start by wishing all of you a festive month of October. Ahhhhh....I forgot what to write here. Umm, October is one of my favorite months, the whole family joins in on some good ol scares and such. Spooky movies, hay rides, you name it we do it. Really, this all started when I felt discouraged that I couldn't add more holiday stuff to one of my other themes. Since that one is solely focused on my game collection, it left little room to be truly frightful with the addon. So I thought, I'll just make another theme made just for Halloween. I got the idea from many other theme devs here that have made novelty themes of their own. I figured why not take a stab at a novelty BigBox Halloween theme myself this year, it started off harmless enough but snowballed into something else along the way. I planned to make a simple thing, but alas I cannot. Everything I touch turns into a huge thing, every time, never fails. This theme is no exception, it's a monster. It's packed with all kinds of creepy bits and bobs. 17 Custom edited movie clips with jump scares added! (by me so don't expect anything too spectacular haha, still cool tho) Bonus videos for those that can make it through the entire clip! (for some views) Bonus view with over 100+ old Halloween commercials, movie trailers, creepy tv intros, etc, that play randomly on a old beat up tv in the Crypt. Totally immersive Commercial room, has by the hour day/night cycle and other secrets. Hidden stuff all over. Sometimes watching a whole video deems a reward. It's a mystery. Totally immersive Halloween experience. Designed to give you a fright! a scare! a laugh! and a scream! THIS THEME ONLY WORKS ON HALLOWEEN DAY!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO USE THIS THEME ON A DAY THAT ISN'T HALLOWEEN, REFER TO THE UNLOCK METHOD IN THE SPOILER BELOW. THIS IS JUST A NOVELTY GAG THEME, YOU CAN SAFELY DELETE IT ONCE YOUR DONE WITH IT. Do not worry, I didn't add anything too graphic. No people getting torn apart, ripped open, or anything with too much gore. There is cussing, blood, weird stuff, creep, spook, alot of funny humor, nothing that would be deemed highly inappropriate. I know your looking at that movie list and thinking, did he really post clips from silent hill pyramid head? I did, but I heavily modified alot of the clips they are not what your used to watching. I removed things, cut stuff out, all that stuff. Its safe, I promise. Scary, but safe. That being said, it's not for the kiddies. I won't tell you what to let your kids watch, but you have been warned. I added parental advisory logos to anything with cussing, or sometimes because of zombie stuff or blood. THIS THEME CONTAINS JUMP SCARES, AND ALL AROUND CREEPY THINGS. DO NOT USE THIS THEME IF YOU HAVE A HEART CONDITION, OR ANY OTHER HEALTH RELATED ISSUES THAT MAKE IT SO A JUMP SCARE MIGHT HURT YOU!!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!! VIEW DESCRIPTIONS: HOW DO I USE THIS: Install it just like a normal BigBox theme. It's not designed to be functional, it's just a gag theme. Basically, you switch to a view and it plays a clip I edited. Afterwards there are sometimes more videos, funny stuff, etc. Its just a jump scare player with a fancy overlay. If the theme doesn't boot directly into Platform View 1 when started, hit your view hotkey and switch to it. That's the main menu. It should boot to that by default, but it loads whatever view you quit on so it changes. It also sometimes loads another theme if you have "remember separate view for each platform" enabled. When that happens just hit your theme hotkey and switch to this theme. HOW DO I USE THIS THEME WHEN ITS NOT HALLOWEEN? PATREON: KingSlayer420 Patreon CREDITS: y2guru - For making CTC! love this app! The Fam - Thanks guys. I love ya. video credits are all in the theme Submitter KingSlayer420 Submitted 10/05/2025 Category Custom Themes
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DESCRIPTION: Hello everybody, I want to start by wishing all of you a festive month of October. Ahhhhh....I forgot what to write here. Umm, October is one of my favorite months, the whole family joins in on some good ol scares and such. Spooky movies, hay rides, you name it we do it. Really, this all started when I felt discouraged that I couldn't add more holiday stuff to one of my other themes. Since that one is solely focused on my game collection, it left little room to be truly frightful with the addon. So I thought, I'll just make another theme made just for Halloween. I got the idea from many other theme devs here that have made novelty themes of their own. I figured why not take a stab at a novelty BigBox Halloween theme myself this year, it started off harmless enough but snowballed into something else along the way. I planned to make a simple thing, but alas I cannot. Everything I touch turns into a huge thing, every time, never fails. This theme is no exception, it's a monster. It's packed with all kinds of creepy bits and bobs. 17 Custom edited movie clips with jump scares added! (by me so don't expect anything too spectacular haha, still cool tho) Bonus videos for those that can make it through the entire clip! (for some views) Bonus view with over 100+ old Halloween commercials, movie trailers, creepy tv intros, etc, that play randomly on a old beat up tv in the Crypt. Totally immersive Commercial room, has by the hour day/night cycle and other secrets. Hidden stuff all over. Sometimes watching a whole video deems a reward. It's a mystery. Totally immersive Halloween experience. Designed to give you a fright! a scare! a laugh! and a scream! THIS THEME ONLY WORKS ON HALLOWEEN DAY!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO USE THIS THEME ON A DAY THAT ISN'T HALLOWEEN, REFER TO THE UNLOCK METHOD IN THE SPOILER BELOW. THIS IS JUST A NOVELTY GAG THEME, YOU CAN SAFELY DELETE IT ONCE YOUR DONE WITH IT. Do not worry, I didn't add anything too graphic. No people getting torn apart, ripped open, or anything with too much gore. There is cussing, blood, weird stuff, creep, spook, alot of funny humor, nothing that would be deemed highly inappropriate. I know your looking at that movie list and thinking, did he really post clips from silent hill pyramid head? I did, but I heavily modified alot of the clips they are not what your used to watching. I removed things, cut stuff out, all that stuff. Its safe, I promise. Scary, but safe. That being said, it's not for the kiddies. I won't tell you what to let your kids watch, but you have been warned. I added parental advisory logos to anything with cussing, or sometimes because of zombie stuff or blood. THIS THEME CONTAINS JUMP SCARES, AND ALL AROUND CREEPY THINGS. DO NOT USE THIS THEME IF YOU HAVE A HEART CONDITION, OR ANY OTHER HEALTH RELATED ISSUES THAT MAKE IT SO A JUMP SCARE MIGHT HURT YOU!!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!! VIEW DESCRIPTIONS: HOW DO I USE THIS: Install it just like a normal BigBox theme. It's not designed to be functional, it's just a gag theme. Basically, you switch to a view and it plays a clip I edited. Afterwards there are sometimes more videos, funny stuff, etc. Its just a jump scare player with a fancy overlay. If the theme doesn't boot directly into Platform View 1 when started, hit your view hotkey and switch to it. That's the main menu. It should boot to that by default, but it loads whatever view you quit on so it changes. It also sometimes loads another theme if you have "remember separate view for each platform" enabled. When that happens just hit your theme hotkey and switch to this theme. HOW DO I USE THIS THEME WHEN ITS NOT HALLOWEEN? PATREON: KingSlayer420 Patreon CREDITS: y2guru - For making CTC! love this app! The Fam - Thanks guys. I love ya. video credits are all in the theme-
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Your welcome my guy, the Halloween theme you saw above is a separate "novelty" theme. Some of the devs here make themes for some of the bigger holidays every year that arent good for anything aside from looking at them, or in this case a good jump scare and spook. I added holiday stuff to this theme as well, not like above though. If you installed the addon it will kick on automatically on Halloween day. The novelty theme will unlock on halloween only so you can view the custom made spooks I edited. I'm almost done with it now, a day or so and it will be ready for halloween. Wanna see what it looks like now? I can't share too much it has to be a surprise, but I can share these from last night. There is ALOT packed into this, it's very immersive. It has alot of funny stuff, and hidden features, good spooks, and a creepy vibe. Should be worth a download when I upload it a few weeeks before halloween. If you try it on Halloween I bet I get ya at least once! I won't spend too much time on this as its just a gag theme, I feel like I took it way too far already but I like to do that. -
There are a few game lists that have a "gift wrapping" when they are unplayed. SNES, DSi, 3DS to name a few. These are sometimes part of the bios for that platform so I include them when I can, usually Nintendo that does that although I did use the install bubble for ps3 to signify its unplayed. Once you play it, the wrapper, and the "gift wrapping" are removed permanently. I received a request to force the wrapper even if its been played already, and to disable the "gift wrapping" that covers the box art or icons. All that stuff is enabled by default, so you wouldn't need to touch anything unless you don't like the gift stuff. Even if you did, theres a way to disable it now.
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Ah it's fine, was way worse with the fragments. Goes a bit faster having them all in one theme now. Glad it's working as expected, I still may have missed something so if you notice anything let me know.
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OK...that took way longer than a hour, more like 4 hours lol. It's uploaded and ready to go. I added in a new global setting to force the unplayed wrapper even if you have played the game already. Rename the UNPLAYED WRAPPER setting file from: UNPLAYED WRAPPER - ON.png to UNPLAYED WRAPPER - ALWAYS.png That should force the wrapper, for ALL 25 platforms. Was a bit of work For the gift wrapping thats used in a handful of the game list views, I added a custom option to disable those. I modified all the themes that use it, those platforms being: Nintendo DSi, 3DS, All the snes lists pretty much. I assume if you didnt like it on one you don't on the others as well. It's more flexible this way, can't really add it as a global setting since it's only used on a few themes. Also if you like it on one but not the other, a global setting would destroy that option. Hopefully this is what you wanted. I will follow through with this with any future gift stuff. I will admit i did not heavily test the new features. I tested them with one game each platform that was edited, I tested both global and custom options. I may have missed something tho. If something doesnt work,or I forgot something just let me know I'll take care of it. All you need is the updated Custom Options.txt for v2.23.1, it has the info you need to disable the gift wrapping.
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Will take me a long while to fully finish this theme, I have alot of platforms still left to do after early access is finished. I'll keep at it though, every update adds more platforms so even if I take a break at some point its all here waiting for me to return. I can start right where I left off instead of rebuilding all the themes again. I can tell your super hyped about the new setup! I remember the excitement when I first got mine. Im glad you got everything up and running real smooth. Happy for ya brother, game on! The family is all good, sometimes I spend too much time in here playing games, or making themes or what have you. They will drag me outta here if they need me.
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You want the wrapper to stay on huh? I can do that. I will have to go over all the game list views and add some logic, and a new setting. I can make it so you name the setting STAY or something instead of off/on.Take a hour or so, as for the gift wrapping I prolly forgot to add some logic to it. Almost all my games are unplayed so I miss that one occasionally. I'll add the reports, and your request to todays todo list. I got a small list of some small bugs as well I need to do. Thank you wildaces, for the reports, compliments, and suggestions. I'll get that stuff taken care of sometime today hopefully. I have some really cool ideas for Arcade, it won't be forgotten. Have some cool ideas for Windows platforms as well. I'm gonna break them all up, arcade and windows. Arcade will have a cabinet with cropped slots so I can change how it looks based on what arcade platform your browsing. Windows will get their own for each release 3.11, 95, 98, etc. Also making individual steam/gog/epic themes. At some point anyway. I took the day off yesterday and spent the entire day making a novelty Halloween theme for the end of next month. Added some scares and stuff, I started it just to see what I could do and took it way too far like I always do haha. By 9pm I had a full blown spooky thing going on. I had alot of fun working on it, hopefully somebody enjoys it. Might try to finish that up today as well so it's ready for Halloween. *wasn't gonna post any screenshots of this til a week before halloween. Nobody reads the comments but you and a handful of other people so no harm no foul. It locks itself until halloween day. This is a peek at whats underneath. It might change before then I might use a different movie instead of IT.
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Yeah for sure, it's worth it for sure when your setting up your build initially. It makes it ALOT easier. I only cancelled mine because at the time I had all i needed already and rarely used it to get more. Circo is a good dude, I feel he charges too much but I know it prolly took him ages to do all that work he deserves some sort of compensation. I can confidently say you will find it worth every penny. I get mine yearly, plenty of time to get it all downloaded.
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Thanks for this vahn, I was feeling a bit discouraged yesterday about it not working as I wanted for everybody. I will do my best to get everything fixed up at some point. Feels more and more like this is "again" a theme that some users won't be able to enjoy fully due to not having a fast enough rig. I tried my best to counter that this time and still it remains a issue. It is nice to hear it's working as expected for you, and decent enough for others. I can share any videos you make in the thread if you want extra yt views. That goes for anybody that wants to make one btw, Donnell usually does those but I think he's been busy at work lately. I made a short one last night but had to stop it when my wife finished up dinner. I'm sure I missed a few things, I will do a better check today like I usually do and fix any reported bugs. I spent extra time in those so they may not have as many bugs. Also gonna start some new views later, Patrick wants to see some Atari on the list so I might start researching those. I've never owned or played any of those so I gotta do some research. I assume they have no bios menu so I'll have to get creative again. Thanks for all the positive vibes, always helping out, and motivating me to keep going. I'm glad your happy with it so far
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Yeah, unfortunately Circo charges a monthly fee to access his video snap collection over at emumovies. I have gotten it a few times, its wasteful to just pay for it when I'm not using it so I canceled it last year. I still need to get it at some point I hate the blurry 30fps free videos. Don't feel embarrassed, we all did that lol. I thought you could just grab them here when I first started. Emumovies does have some free snaps you can use, they are a hassle to download and they arent very clear but they work in the meantime.
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Glad you got that working! Your gonna need that enabled for more than just BigBox haha. You should notice a huge difference now with emus and other gpu related tasks. It looks like you may not have a video snap for that game 😁 You can always tell because (for some odd reason) it shows a gameplay snap if (if you have one) instead of the video snap. I never added that in, must be a bigbox setting or something. It always cuts off the bottom and top, if you browse to another game (that you now 100% has a video snap) does it still not play?
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I've never actually owned one of those fancy gaming laptops, although I've repaired quite a few. Usually it's a bios thing, sometimes it's something else. I'll list some threads below to read and hopefully help ya out a bit. If not I can help ya if you provide me some more info about your laptops make and model, etc. SOME (MAYBE) HELPFUL THREADS: Laptop not using GPU reddit Laptop not using GPU windows 11 Laptop not letting me use the dedicated GPU How to make laptop use dedictaed GPU If none of those help, send me more info and i'll look up the manual for your laptop and give it a read, see if I can help. Does it never go above 0%? like ever? Some laptops only let you use the dedicated GPU IF you use hdmi or display port. Others let you reguardless, really depends alot on what laptop you have.
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It looks (from the screenshot) like your not using your GPU? It's at 0% usage. That would def cause that. I took a screenshot of mine with the snes theme running, it uses maybe 30-40%. Before I load the snes theme it uses maybe 10-15%.
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If the other cores have activity then its running on all cores more than likely. I know how that feels man, I feel bad. I wish I could be of more assistance. Without your PC right in front of me I will have a difficult time diagnosing any issues. On the positive side at least she works eh? Theres alot of other really nice themes here that can fill that same gap. I'm here if you need any help in the future. Keep in mind it very well could be this theme, its early access and I plan to clean it up quite a bit once I finish most of the game list views.
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Thank you Zyute. You got that strix 3080? man that one was pretty. You have a nice pc. I did a bit of reading this morning. I didn't find an exact solution, but instead just some things to try. I will list some threads below and you can see if any have any info that sounds helpful. Reddit Post #1 Reddit Post #2 Reddit Post #3 Nvidia Forums Post Windows 11 Forum I also read alot of threads that I didnt post because of redundancy. Most of the threads complained about a faulty gpu driver causing this stutter. I've only seen that in a few instances and yours doesnt compare well to my experiences. I've had several PC's (i used to repair them) do that stutter when the CPU fan was caked with dust and fans clogged. Basically they were overheating, causing the pc to slow to a crawl as the cpu gets dangerously hot. Your problem seems like it is something else. I've seen bad cpu/ram make a pc act real crazy a few times, this one is new. Since we have 2 sides able to test, one that works ok and one that doesnt, we can compare our setups to see what differs? I have all my frontend stuff on its own nvme I have Windows 10 installed on its own 2nd nvme All my emu's/apps (used for gaming) are on ssd all my roms are on a huge mechanical hdd (8TB) all my pc games are on a VERY large mechanical hdd. (16TB) I use windows 10 (for now) Launchbox settings are out of box default WMP video playback BigBox setting on my end are all default. (do this when making themes so i can see what a new user would see on a default install with no extras) I have 3 monitor setup, 2 run at 70mhz the main one in center runs at 144Mhz. I don't have emumovies sub right now, all my videos are of low quality. I use Nvidia App to update my gpu drivers maybe once a month or so. My windows power plan setting is set to "High Performance". I disabled my CPU overclock and only enabled the boost. (B550+) No GPU overclock, just basic settings that Nvidia App optimizes automatically. (msi 3060 12gb) I know all this is just info, but we actually have similar setup and similar parts, you might just have some windows setting wrong. So I'll leave these here so you can look over it. I will say again so you don't get too discouraged, i don't see any red flags. The things that draw my attention to hardware are bsod, freezes, and other bad things. You reported none of those. Your gaming rig is faster than mine and should be able to run this theme, as I do if not faster. UPDATE: Ya know....it sounds more and more like you might not be using all your CPU cores somehow. The pc would indeed react that way if it was only using a single core. Check to make sure with Ryzen Master that your using all cores.
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Task manager looks fine, you never know what people have installed so it's always best to check that first and make sure. If it's running decent when video stops it sounds like that might be some sort of video issue. Might be a dumb question but, you tried setting your video playback to different things in LB settings? I use Windows Media Player. The i/o is just your power draw, when using the GPU it will draw more power that's normal. Your task manager all looks fine from the screenshot. It's gotta be something else, since it works fine with other themes. Bothers me that it only does that with this theme tbh, I'd like to get to the bottom of it. I'm not at my pc right now, but tomorrow when I wake up I'll do some research on why something like that might happen, see if I can find anything useful to try.
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OK, I'm back. I will be transparent and tell you that I did not let lb finish downloading all that media. My adhd got the better of me and I canceled it maybe 20 mins in (it downloaded maybe 4k assets). It was gonna go on for hours. I can let it download but I dont see how it would effect anything too much, i have all elements set to update "on selection" not during. That means it loads those assets and metadata soon as you stop on a game, thats what causes that bit of lag when stopping on a game, I'm loading alot of info in soon as you select it. I made a video of the test, it seems the same to me but i'll post it below. This test has 4k games added. 2025-09-24 18-47-52.mp4 Wanna try something for me? open your task manager (ctrl-alt-delete) then open bigbox, then load my theme. I wanna see if your bottlenecking. If you dont mind posting a screen (with NO private info) of the results? Make sure to sort task manager so it pulls the troublemaker (app using the most resources) to the top so I can make sure everything looks ok.
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total, maybe 500. I play alot of games over at RA and dont download whole sets just what I plan on playing. I separated those as well when I was making the other region list views, so many 100-200 in nes and 150 in famicom. You think that might be what the issue is? the game count. I could download the whole set and add them real fast, my bigbox is a dummy right now I can add whatever it doesnt matter really. Its basically barebones. UPDATE: currently adding 5k to what i have, lb is downloading 27k assets, might take a min. I'll be back with results at some point
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Wow, that's some brutal lag you weren't lying. I def don't experience that with my snaps at all. Which is weird because we have similar specs. Not sure exactly what's going on with that man, I do know this theme runs slower than all the others because almost all the other themes here are designed to run fast an smooth, for cabinets and such. I don't own a cabinet and will never build one, so I dont need it to run super fast, I'd rather have all the details. So I built a theme just for that. I only use BigBox to browse through and look at my games, it's the best fullscreen frontend and it has its own theme creator (CTC). I use Playnite for my main frontend, when I actually want to "play" a game I use that. The OG coverbox works so fast because there aren't as many elements and fine details as this one. Each element I add creates some overhead. I can't do both. It's either fast and responsive, or packed with details. In my opinion I think my "packed with details" theme is making some issue you have worse and more noticeable. Do you update your GPU drivers frequently? Updating the drivers has solved my issues a few times with weird quirky things like this. Wish I had better information to give you....on the bright side I know a bit about troubleshooting pc issues and I will say that laggy videos isn't something that sounds severe. Sounds like a driver issue maybe, or some conflicting app or something. No nahamic right?
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Hey soqueroeu! Haven't talked to ya in a while, looks like your finally setting up LB. If you need help you can DM me. There are a few different folders LB uses for the videos. The three folders inside LaunchBox\Videos\PlatformName I dont personally use, but I believe they show up in a games media. LaunchBox\Videos\'any system - These are where you copy gameplay snap videos, named by game name Platform Videos are the video that play when your in platform view. Hope that helps a bit, I'm sure staff will come by and be more precise with the info. -
Yep, you just overwrite the old version with the new ones. Addons are updated the same way. Just drag and drop and overwrite the old version. Likely wont have to do a clean install until its out of early access. There is a ton of stuff you can add to the theme in the bonus media section, that would be the only stuff you would want to backup if you do a clean install in the future. I appreciate you taking the time to comment and let me know what you think of the theme.
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I'm glad you like it so far, some of the views need a bit more polish with the animations thats what causes most of those 1 sec lags. I'll go through them all once I get most of the views finished, it takes a while to get it right. When you first enter a game list it loads all the assets in, some have more elements than others so they will lag a bit more when entering the list. The fade into gameplay snaps isnt as smooth as I'd like either, I plan to work on that sometime in the future and get all that ironed out. As far as speeding it up a bit you can try turning things on and off with the global settings. Removing or disabling things is the only real way to speed it up aside from waiting for me to polish those animations. Even then, it will only help so much. I have that same problem when making the views, I want it to be as fast as possible but I also want all the cool stuff with it. I hate to remove things, since it all has its place in theme. I have had to remove things a few times now and might again in the future to speed up a few of those game lists....it's painful to delete something i spent half a day on, but it's for the greater good sometimes.
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Yes sir, it sure will. I even added logic for you to check the install status on the settings view. Install the theme, enter bigbox settings, it will display what all you have installed, and the version and such.
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Ah it's no problem, I like to help. Those are easy to install, I have the zips setup so you just drag and drop them just like the theme. It looks like your installing the theme again but its just the missing files for those addons. Also it goes both ways haha, most people just download it and never leave a comment or review. Just the way she goes i guess.
