[Help Finding a Complete Dummy File Set for a "Museum" Build]

Hey everyone,

I'm working on a "video game museum" project in LaunchBox. My goal is to have a complete library for as many systems as possible, purely for Browse the themes, art, and video previews in Big Box without needing the actual game ROMs.

I've spent a very long and frustrating evening trying to create a complete dummy file set myself, but I've hit nothing but roadblocks. I've tried:

• Using the Community Theme Creator, but it seems the feature to generate dummy files has been removed from the latest evaluation versions.
• Finding pre-made packs on the Internet Archive, but the main links I found were either for broken multi-part archives or have since been taken down.

I'm hoping someone in the community can point me in the right direction. Does anyone have a current, working link to a complete (or near-complete) dummy file set that they would be willing to share? Or, if there's a better tool or method than the ones I've tried, I would be very grateful for any advice.

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

[COLORFUL bigbox theme]

On 2/8/2025 at 6:48 PM, supermandrew said:

Apologies if I've missed it, but has anybody found a way to set it up so that the game view is similar to the platform view? 

Essentially, the idea is that you hover/highlight a console and it shows the console boot up and preview video as normal, but selecting the console would keep a similar view in the sense that the console would still remain visible, and all gameplay videos would be transformed to fit onto the screen of the console.  Basically: previewing a specific game on the console's screen (even better if the CRT filter is applied to it).  And even better would be applying the game's box art or cartridge art to the corresponding cartridge if visible on the console.

Has anyone tried something like this?

 

EDIT: found the raw console Photoshop files, working a bit on this myself in CTC.

I had the exact same thought and then came across the theme you're working on it's like you read my mind! Would love to see Sega CD, Megadrive etc as well as OG Game Boy. Basically the perfect theme in my opinion, building off the colorful console view and extended to game preview videos. Awesome.