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    LaunchBox Beta Testing - 6.8+

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    @Kriven its not a conflict it just when you have background music ticked and video volume turned up in BigBox settings you can hear both the video sound and the background music sound while scrolling through the platforms in BigBox and i just asked Jason if he could implement a toggle Keyboard/Gamepad button for using one or the other which ever you preferred without having to go into settings.

    LaunchBox Beta Testing - 6.8+

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    7 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:

    Oh, one last thing. There's this as well:

    - Improvement: Big Box now hides the taskbar while running in order to prevent it from showing while switching between the startup video and Big Box, and while running games

    That will come in really handy I think, but it also scares me, because if Big Box crashes, you'll have no task bar. I'm currently not sure what to do about this. I know Rocket Launcher annoys me sometimes because if it crashes you're often left with a completely broken desktop, which I'd like to avoid, but I don't have any quick solutions. I might try and put another EXE next to it to detect if that happens and recover.

    @Jason Carr how about a bat file with this for relaunching explorer?

    taskkill /im explorer.exe /f 
    timeout /t 3
    start explorer.exe

    LaunchBox Beta Testing - 6.8+

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    Posted · Edited by Maddoc1007

    @Jason Carr Was thinking some more on this how about setting a keyboard or controller key to toggle between video sound and background music would that be possible? that would allow the user to choose what they preferred listening to without going into the settings.

    LaunchBox Beta Testing - 6.8+

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    @Jason Carr Just being lazy having to go into options every-time changing settings for the music sound and the video sound when using or not using background music and thought that if video muted when using background music we could leave the video sound set at our personal preferred level but no biggie.

    LaunchBox Beta Testing - 6.8+

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    Posted · Edited by Maddoc1007

    @Jason Carr No issues for me either would it be possible to put in an override command in bigbox that when background music is being used that the video sound is muted instead of having to go to options and turn video volume down to 0%, as when testing i noticed a small speed increase when you turn down the video volume to 0% while listening to music?  

    LaunchBox Beta Testing - 6.8+

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    Posted · Edited by Maddoc1007

    @Jason Carr I just noticed something weird with the Platform Logo's if placed in the Theme/Logo's folder,  I have Arcade platform's split up into different categories CP System Dash, CPSI, CPSII etc.  I downloaded ea4492's Logo's (which are absolutely brilliant) and placed them in my theme folder.  Opened BigBox refreshed the Platform Image Cache, the result was that for all arcade systems that ea4492 hadn't yet done Logo's for it shows Arcade Classics ( which i had renamed to Arcade) here is a list of split systems from arcade that it shows Arcade Classic's logo for instead of defaulting to theses platforms default logo.

    Capcom Cp System Dash, CPS1, Cave, Crystal System, Gaelco,Namco System 22, PGM, Psikyo, Sammy Atomiswave, Sega Hikaru, Sega Model 3, Sega System 16, Sega System 32, Taito Type x. In fact it seems to show the logo for what ever you have the sytem to scrape as, i hope you can follow my explanation, see screenshot for a better visual of what i mean.  This causes considerable lag in the Platform Wheel.

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    VideoGlass

    in Big Box Custom Themes

    Posted · Edited by Maddoc1007

    VideoGlass

    View File

    My New Theme VideoGlass

    Happy New Year

    Zipped with 7Zip.

    Unzip and place in Theme folder.

    5 Platform Views. 
    11 Game Views. 

    Skinned almost fully.


    Platform Views.

    1.    Platform Wheel 1
           Video Background, Vertical Wheel, Banner, Small Platform Video, Full Scrolling Details, Recent and Favourites.

    2.    Platform Wheel 2
           Video Background, Large Platform Video, Banner, Vertical Wheel, Full Scrolling Details.

    3.    Platform Wheel 3
           Video Background, Vertical Wheel, Banner, Small Platform Video, Full Scrolling Details.

    4.    Platform wheel 4
           Video Background, Horizontal Wheel, Banner, Small Platform Video, Full Scrolling Details, Recent and Favourites.

    5.    Platform Text List With Details
        Art Background, Vertical Text List, Banner, Full Scrolling Details, Recent and Favourites.

    Game Views

    1.    Coverflow
           Background Video, Game Title, Platform Logo, Large Boxes, Gif.

    2.    Coverflow With Details
           Background Video, Scrolling Details/Overview, Small Game Video, Medium Boxes, Rating Icons, Platform Logo.

    3.    Horizontal Boxes With Details
           Background Video, Scrolling Details/Overview, Medium Game Video, Medium Boxes, Rating Icons.

    4.    Text List With Details
           Background Video, Games Text List, Scrolling Details/Overview, Small Game Video, Medium Boxes, Rating Icons.

    5.    Vertical wheel 1
           Background Video, Horizontal Wheel, Scrolling Details/Overview, Medium Game Video, Medium Boxes, Rating Icons.

    6.    Vertical Wheel 2
           Background Video, Vertical Wheel, Game Title, Large Game Video, Rating Icons, Year, Producer.

    7.    Vertical Wheel 3
           Background Art, Vertical Wheel, Game Title, Large Game Video, Rating Icons, Year, Producer.

    8.    Vertical wheel 4
           Background Video, Curved Vertical Wheel, Medium Boxes, Medium Game Video, Rating Icons, Scrolling Details/Overview.

    9.    Horizontal Wheel 1
           Background Video, Game Title, Large Game Video, Horizontal Logo Coverflow, Ratings Icons, Platform Logo.

    10.    Horizontal Wheel 2
             Background Video, Game Title, Large Game Video, Horizontal 3D Boxes Coverflow, Ratings Icons, Platform Logo.

    11.    Horizontal Wheel 3
             Background Video, Game Title, Large Game Video, Horizontal Boxes Coverflow, Ratings Icons, Platform Logo.

     


    Enjoy
    MADDOC1007

     

    Thanks to @Jason Carr for testing it out for me.

    Thanks to @BakerMan, @Nyny77, @viking for their wonderful theme videos and a thanks to all the theme creators here.

    VideoGlass.zip

     

    Default Vertical

    in Big Box Custom Themes

    Posted

    @BakerMan Here are screenshots of games on a Vertical monitor,of NES through Retro-arch as you can see it stretches to the full screen and a Screenshot of Genesis Game 3 Ninjas Kick Back using Fusion 3.64 as you can see it doesn't extend to the full screen width because of emulator's resolutions.  Any emulator ie: mame,retroarch etc can stretch games to any screen resolution some emulator cant and have set resolutions like 640x480 and will have bars above and below game.  

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