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  1. 13 hours ago, crisemmm said:

    Hey man , love this theme!

    Quick question , i have Viking's platform vids on my setup so is there anyway to have the platform wheel aligned to the left??:)

    I hear you, but the thing is that I already got a lot of custom requests for this theme like a vertical wheel, bigger videos, no clock/weather, ... and of course this one now.

    Unfortunately I have to say no to all custom requests for now. Sorry for that.

    Maybe in the future when I’ve added all the Views that I’ve planned and I consider this theme complete. It’s just too much unnecessary work for me to support various versions of it while it’s still in development.

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  2. 16 hours ago, Kondorito said:

    Hey @CriticalCid/guys!
    I have a problem running this awesome theme, and I hope you are able to help me; it runs butter smooth while I am in the platforms section scrolling the wheel, or inside each platform scrolling the games, but every time I move from one section to another, BB freezes, I can hear the video sound playing in the background (from the selection of the new section) , and after a solid minute or two, then it switches to the section I accessed and smooths back without problem.
    It currently happens when going back and forth from the platforms section and enter any platform, and when going from the game details menu back to the game list.
    Do you know what could be going on? Thank you in advance!

    EDIT: I did a force cache of all the images, and started working awesomely, but then restarting Big Box made the problem appear again. Maybe it is something with the clear logos?

    I do not know what to do. Any help will be highly appreciated! 

     

    Hm…that‘s a hard one. I never heard that being an issue before.

    There’s a custom fade animation when a View gets newly loaded, maybe something doesn’t trigger it right. I have absolutely no idea why that would be the case but it’s the only thing that could explain a black screen with an apparently working video.

    Can you try this View and tell if that is fixing it for you? I’ve removed the fade animation and eager to know if it’s indeed the reason.

    WheelGamesView.xaml

  3. 4 hours ago, ea4492 said:

    I hope that the curved wheel will be added to the original version, because i like it since it looks more like a wheel. Great job @Jason Carr and @CriticalCid for your amazing work :)

    That's coming for the normal Unified theme as well. Jason literally just added the option to do this 3 days ago, so it wasn't possible for me to do that until now.

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  4. I have the feeling that you still have the TextList View selected. Is that the case? Because when you look at the featured Views list you'll see that this one isn’t themed at the moment. You’ll have to switch the View to one of the Vertical Wheel Views. Check the tips section in the download description, it's explained there how to do that.

  5. You say you dumped them somewhere? Have you created custom ones because you're not supposed to move anything around in the theme if you’re not exactly sure what you’re doing. Everything should work right out of the box and moving stuff around will just break it.

    The folder with the ReadMe file inside it is also defintiely the wrong folder. Please go back to the download description and follow the “How to Install”, “Tips” and “Individual platform artwork not showing up?” sections very closely.

    And if you have indeed moved things around it’s probably the best if you just delete the whole theme and re-download it again.

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  6. Oh I could make the videos stretching across all Views, but the thing is that I simply don’t want that for the other 3 Views with the video border as that would mean to also stretch 16:9 videos to 4:3.

    I don’t have anything against stretching 4:3 content to 16:9 but the other way around just looks plainly horrible in my eyes. So if Jason adds an option for that I would only enable that for the fullscreen view regardless.

  7. 10 hours ago, twasjesto said:

    Hi @CriticalCid,

    PS3 Unified - Video Intro

    I made a video intro for ps3, not sure if you made one already. Hope it gets added with your other video intros. I will be trying to remake the nintendo64 because it seemed laggy in my end and also the nintendo DS. cheers!

    Yes, like I said I did videos for all platforms that are currently covered in this theme. If it isn't already available through the LaunchBox downloader then they will be shortly but if you don't wanna wait than you can always grab them manually from the EmuMovies FTP under

    /Official/Platform Videos

    But thanks for creating a new one anyway, I appreciate it. It’s always better to have more choices :)

    9 hours ago, guyverjay said:

    Hi Cid

     

    With regard to the full screen video view, is there any way to shift the video to the left (not beneath the wheel) with the wheel visable like in the other view?, the 4x3 ratio videos look weird in the middle with the borders either side...just my two cents. Great work either way

    Unfortunately, I can’t do that without breaking fullscreen support for 16:9 videos.

    This View is still not finished as I rather want to have the 4:3 videos stretched to fullscreen at the end of the day, to get a more HyperSpin feeling when playing recorded HyperSpin themes. Unfortunately is the video element very limited in that regard which doesn’t allow me to do that. I really, really hope that @Jason Carr will add support for that anytime soon as I’m asking for this since a long time.

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  8. 12 hours ago, Klopjero said:

    @CriticalCid you awesome maniac you! 

    *edit* I had forgotten the time and effort I've spend on those themes... it's super awesome to see them back again :) Thank you Cid..thank you very much. 

    And I have to thank you for creating these wonderful themes in the first place. I couldn’t have done it without all the amazing work that you and all the other original creators did :)

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  9. Haha perfect timing guys. As some of you might have noticed I've finished the Unified platform video set. All platforms that are covered in this theme have a matching Unified platform video now!

    I just talked to @circo and the vast majority of the new videos are now available through the platform/playlist video downloader if you have an EmuMovie premium account. You can now all go ahead and download them just as easy as @Charco has explained it. The few videos that are still missing should follow very soon.

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  10. 15 hours ago, Styphelus said:

    Holly! Nice job. Can't believe you converted all those themes. Fun memories of the old Hyperspin days. Never found out what happened to Gibawho. He just disappeared.

    Yeah, it was quite a ton of work to convert all of it, especially when I ran out of .psd files and had to extract everything out of the actual HS themes.

     

    1 hour ago, Crylen said:

    Hey! Nice to see people are still making use out of those wheel arts I made ages ago! 

    Awesome work on the theme too, loved the original in Hyperspin!

    Thanks, I'm loving the design of your wheels and they are still my favorites across all of the other available wheel styles that I've came across.

  11. 13 minutes ago, zetec-s-joe said:

    Wow, I have been waiting for something like this to make it look like HS forever! is this friendly for 150% resolution Win 10?

    Yes, DPI fix is already included.

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  12. Happy easter everybody. I just released my new Big Box theme, it's a port of the well beloved HyperSpin Unfied Widescreen Megatheme Project. And yes, it also features the spinning discs. I assure you it's no April fools joke :)

     

    Also sorry to everybody who rather wanted to see me working more on AeonMQ7. I promise I'll come back to it soon enough!

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  13. Happy Easter everybody! I hope you like my little surprise here (this is not an April fools joke!).
    I love the Unified Megatheme Project and therefore it was the last piece that I was missing in LaunchBox when I gave up on HyperSpin.

    While I was working on this theme I’ve also made over 50 new Unified Platform Videos. They are not available yet on the EmuMovies website or through the LaunchBox platform video downloader but it’ll be just a matter of time when they will be uploaded there.

    In the meantime you can get them already on the EmuMovies FTP server in my upload folder in case you are an EmuMovies premium member: /Upload Here/_Video Snap Submissions/CriticalCid/Platform Videos
    There are still 13 platform videos missing to complete the set of this theme. I’ll do them in the next few days, so keep an eye out on my FTP folder.

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  14. Unified

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    This theme is a port of the HyperSpin Unified Widescreen Megatheme project, which was originally started by gibbawho and continued by many other talented artists over the years. It’s supposed to bring a unified look (hence the name) across all platforms while giving every platform it’s own individual touch.

    I’ve tried to stay very close to the original look and feel but also took some creative freedom, especially when it comes to the new fading info panel at the bottom of the screen.
    This theme was designed for 16:9 screens and display resolutions only. Big Box will automatically scale itself to a 16:9 aspect ratio when you use a different aspect ratio on your machine.

     

    Features:

    • Individual Artwork for a lot of different platforms and playlists + some alternatives you can choose from
    • Matches with the Unified platform video set from EmuMovies
    • Fully animated wheel pointer
    • Spinning discs for disc-based platforms
    • Various other custom animations
    • Templates to build your own platform artwork are included as .psd files
    • Brings a small taste of the HyperSpin feeling to your Big Box setup

     

    Currently featured Views:

    • Games Text List View: 3D Box
    • Games Vertical Wheel View 1: 3D Box
    • Games Vertical Wheel View 2: 3D Box + static cart/disc
    • Games Vertical Wheel View 3: 3D Box + rotating disc
    • Games Vertical Wheel View 4: Fullscreen video

     

    • Platform Vertical Wheel View 1: Fullscreen video + scrolling text
    • Platform Vertical Wheel View 2: Fullscreen video without scrolling text

    More Views are planned, so stay tuned.

     

    The theme includes artwork for the following 498 Platforms/Playlists:

    Spoiler

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    19XX Collection
    2-Player Games
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    AAE
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    Ace Combat Collection
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    Acorn Electron
    Action & Adventure Games
    Addams Family Collection
    After Burner Collection
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    Alex Kidd Collection
    Alien Breed Collection
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    Alone in The Dark Collection
    American Laser Games
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    Android
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    APF Imagination Machine
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    Atari Lynx
    Atari ST
    Atari XEGS
    Atelier Collection
    Avengers Collection
    Back To The Future Collection
    Backyard Sports Collection
    Ball & Paddle Games
    Bally Astrocade
    Bandai Sufami Turbo
    Bandai WonderSwan Color
    Bandai WonderSwan
    Barbie Collection
    Bases Loaded Collection
    Batman Collection
    Battle Arena Toshinden Collection
    Battle Chess Collection
    Battletoads Collection
    Beat Em Ups
    Beauty and The Beast Collection
    Ben 10 Collection
    Big Fish Games
    Bleach Collection
    Board & Card Games
    Bomb Jack Collection
    Bomberman Collection
    Bonk Collection
    Breath of Fire Collection
    Bubble Bobble Collection
    Bubsy Collection
    Buck Rogers Collection
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    Burnout Collection
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    Carmen Sandiego Collection
    Cars Collection
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    Seta Aleck 64
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    Shoot Em Ups
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    Silent Hill Collection
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    Starfox Collection
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    Strider Collection
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    Syphon Filter Collection
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    Tekken Collection
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    Tetris Collection
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    Tomb Raider Collection
    Tomy Tutor
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    Top 100 Collection
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    Touhou Project
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    Twisted Metal Collection
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    Wario Collection
    Warriors Collection
    Watara Supervision
    WCW Collection
    Wheel of Fortune Collection
    Williams Classics
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    Wolfenstein Collection
    Wolverine Collection
    Wonder Boy Collection
    Worms Collection
    WoW Action Max
    WWF Collection
    X-Men Collection
    Yoshi Collection
    Ys Collection
    Yu Yu Hakusho Collection
    Yu-Gi-Oh! Collection
    Zelda Collection
    Zinc
    Zork Collection

     

    The theme will also display a default artwork for Platforms/Playlists which are not yet covered or wrongly named.

     

    How to install:

    This theme only works on LaunchBox version 9.4 or higher!

    1. Just download the archive and extract it to:  “..\LaunchBox\Themes\”
    2. Go to the “Plugins” folder inside of the extracted folder and right-click on the .dll file. Choose Properties -> Click on “Unblock” at the bottom of the window. Close the window. If the "Unblock" button isn't there than you are already good to go.
    3. Open the Options menu in Big Box -> go to “Views” and change the Theme to "Unified".
    4. Change the “Games List View” and “Platforms List View” to one of the currently featured Views that are listed above.
    5. Make sure that in the Big Box Options -> Views –> “Show Games List Title” is enabled.

    Info: Never rename the theme folder! The theme folder has to be named exactly "Unified" or the theme won't work properly! (that's btw. an universal tip for all other themes as well)

     

    Known issues:

    The logo of the Platform/Playlist and the individual video border don't show up in the Game Details screen and the theme displays the generic Big Box logo and metallic video border instead when it gets opened through any other Games View than the Text List View.

     

    Tips for tweaking your LaunchBox setup for this theme:

    • In LaunchBox: Tools -> Options -> Cart Front Priorities -> Select all Cart and Disc related entries, deselect everything else.
    • In Big Box: Options ->Transitions -> Change "Game Image/Video Transition” to “Fade”
    • In Big Box: To avoid spinning cart art go to: Options -> Views -> Make sure that „Remember separate View for each platform” is checked. Than go either to the Keyboard Mappings or the Controller Buttons settings and set up a key/button for “Switch View”. Now you can go back to your platforms and switch the games Views for each platform individually on the fly.
    • Use the Unified Platform videos from EmuMovies for an overall uniform look. You can either download them as free user from the EmuMovies website or if you are an EmuMovies premium user you can get them directly through LaunchBox under: Tools -> "Download Platform/Playlist Theme Videos".

     

    Individual platform artwork not showing up?:

    The media files that are inside the “..\LaunchBox\Themes\Unified\Images\Theme\..” folder have to be named exactly like your platforms inside LaunchBox. I've went with the HyperList/RocketLauncher naming conventions for the filenames in this package.

    If Big Box doesn’t show any individual artwork for a system that is listed above you may need to manually rename the relevant files for that platform in all four sub-folders.

    Also make sure that in the Big Box Options -> Views –> “Show Games List Title” is enabled!

     

    Discs are not spinning / showing up?:

    Make sure you have the right Games List View selected and Disc images in your Cart Image Priorities enabled (see the tips section of this download description).


    Thanks and Credits:

     


     

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