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  1. CriticalCid
    Arcade will probably work just fine with AAE. Also if I remember correctly is AAE using an old MAME ROMset, so you will have to check the "Force using MAME metadata" checkbox in the import wizard as well.
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    BoxesGamesView.xaml
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    Have you tried to delete the documentation file and start BigBox? BigBox always generates the most current one in the folder, so that may could help.
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    It’s possible. But because of the way this particular view works it’s more work to it than just increasing 2 numbers. First of all, if you are using the version of the theme which comes with LB 7.0 than you have to make a copy of the CriticalZone folder first and use the copy for all customizations. You have to do this because all theme files will be set to default when you start BigBox. The new copy should be untouched by that (don't forget to switch to the copied theme in the Big Box options as well). Open the “Wheel2GamesView.xaml” in the “Views” folder of the copied theme. You can change the value of the “FontSize=” tag in the lines 83 and 94 as you like. Keep in mind that a bigger font size may lead to cut off letters. If that’s the case than you have to increase the size of the glass bar as well. You can do this in the lines 51 (the game title) and 53 (the year/publisher). The values are the percentage values of how much space each text line will take on the height. To keep the structure of the theme in tact you have to decrease the value in Line 48 with the values you have used to increase the other 2 lines. For example: If you increase both the title and year/developer line with 1 percent each, you to decrease the value of line 48 by 2. It’s a tedious try and error process until you have found the perfect settings. Good luck
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    I can only agree with what was already said in the thread. HardcoreGaming101, RacketBoy and RetroSanctuary are all very good. Especially HG101, love that site. I also recommend the YouTube Channel of MetalJesusRocks. He has a lot of great buying guides (essential games for each console) and Hidden Gems videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MetalJesusRocks/playlists If you want a great “Best Games of All Time” list, I recommend http://www.pwnrank.com/top-100 They have compiled over 80 different "Best Games of All-Time" lists from all over the web and created with an algorithm the “definitive” Top 100 based on that data. There’s also a nice filter option you can use to create Best Of lists for different platforms, genres or years. Or you can just use it to get you a Top 500 Best Games of All Time list. EDIT: For Arcade/MAME games there's also a great "All killer, No Filler" list out there: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,149708.msg1563036.html#msg1563036
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    That’s odd. I have absolutely no idea why they are working with other themes and not with mine. Can you zip up your “Data” folder of your LaunchBox installation and send it to me please? @keltoigael Sorry for the delay buddy. I had to deal with a lot of Christmas madness and other RL stuff in the last few days and haven't found the time to finish the theme yet.
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    Hey @skainlurmis. Definitely a nice theme that you have in the works! I just tried it out with my own theme and moved it to the desktop. Visual Studio also gives me an invalid markup error. My guess is that this happens because VS needs files from your LaunchBox installation and can’t find them anymore because the paths get messed up when you move your theme folder out of the “Themes” folder from LaunchBox. Moving the folder back should most likely solve that problem. If you have other questions and problems than feel free to hit me up and I'll take a look at it.
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    Regarding @keltoigael's video. It’s coming, but I’m currently still in the process to find the best Font colors for my theme to go with it. When everything is done it will be uploaded as Variant version of my theme
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    There are Unified Platform Videos for these platforms but I’m not sure why you don’t get them through LB. Maybe try to change the “scrape as” platform for these systems in your platform manager. For example: You can scrape Neo Geo as “Arcade”, “SNK Neo Geo AES” or “SNK Neo Geo MVS” so I would try all of these out. As alternative can you also grab them just manually from the EmuMovies website: http://emumovies.com/files/category/2031-video-themes/
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    Hi @SepSev, try to switch your platform view in your BigBox options, that should fix your problem.
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    If you want you can delete the "old" version which you already have because you don't need it anymore. But you won't have any conflicts In BigBox either if you don't remove it. It's completely up to you.
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    Yes, some views were renamed to have a more neutral name. That change was requested by me because the names were only perfectly fitting for the default theme and for custom themes the old names may not have always reflected what the view actually is. Sorry if that caused trouble for you.
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    Thanks for your offer but unfortunately I won’t add it to my theme because I don’t want to mix widescreen and 4:3 views in one theme. And like I wrote in the download description: I won’t make an “official” 4:3 version of my theme either. The theme was never designed for it and it would be too much work to do it. I already have my hands full with other projects for LaunchBox and the FE community, so I rather spend my time on those because the to-do list is really long. Sorry. But feel free to post your edited view here or even upload your own branch of my theme with your 4:3 view in the download section
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    I don’t use Visual Studio anymore so I never noticed that. All these additional Wheel views were just recently added in one of the new betas. So it might be that Jason has forgot to add them properly in VisualStudio project files because the newly added "MusicNotificationView.xaml" is missing as well. But you can definitely edit every xaml file in your theme folder, that’s why they are there. But you also have to activate these additional wheel views in your "ThemeSettings.xml" first before you can use them in Big Box. Regarding the ratings: Yes, this was just the list of my test installation. Apparently I haven’t any adult rated games in there yet. It’s: AO - Adults Only
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    If you set to prioritize Game Theme Videos in your Big Box settings than will Big Box always use the videos in the “Themes” subfolder of the normal Video folder. But if it can’t find any videos for this game in this folder, it will automatically use the standard gameplay video (or screenshot if there doesn’t exist any videos at all) instead. The standard gameplay videos and video themes are completely separated videos. So if you just want to keep the video themes it’s safe to delete your normal gameplay videos. Just keep in mind that may not every arcade game in your collection has a video theme so you may want to keep the normal gameplay videos for those games.
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    That’s awesome! I’m glad that LaunchBox has achieved to bring back again such a talented video creator like you to the FrontEnd scene! Definitely keep those videos coming, I’m really enjoying them. Maybe we could even make some “official” color variants of my theme with your videos
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    I see you like those blue/violet 80's style Have you made these background videos yourself?
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    I would guess so. Changing the angle of the rotated images is something that I've requested as well.
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    That VHS distortion effect annoys the crap out of me after a while but besides that: Great job
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    Awesome @Antropus! Your tool is seriously looking better with every update
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    Yes, they are hardcoded. It should be no issue at all if you download your metadata from the LB database but I know that this isn’t the case for you, so you may have to change yours.
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    ahhh, sorry. Just checked it and it seems you have to also add xmlns:bigBox="clr-namespace:Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf;assembly=Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf" to the UserControl as well. It also only works if you are on the latest Beta because it was just recently added and the final version of 7.0 hasn't come out yet.
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    The reflection is part of the CoverFlow views. The opacity is completely handled through the BigBox options which can be changed by the user, so there aren’t any additional properties for handling them in your XAML files. That’s why you don’t find any references because it doesn’t need any. Like I said, Jason has to add support for it for the normal wheel first. Support for the rating image outside of the "GameDetailsView.xaml" was just recently added by Jason in LB 7.0 Beta-2 or so and he hasn’t come to update the documentation.pdf file as far as I know. But here’s the code you need for it: <Image Name="RatingImage" Source="{Binding Path=SelectedGame.RatingImage, Converter={StaticResource ImageToSourceConverter}}" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" /> You also need to add this code at the top yof your view between UserControl and Canvas: <UserControl.Resources> <bigBox:ImageToSourceConverter x:Key="ImageToSourceConverter" x:Name="ImageToSourceConverter"/> </UserControl.Resources> With keep track I mean to write tickets for all the single theming features you eventually need
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    These are my personal settings:
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    Hey @smiggy100, you are using the platform video as background. But if you want to show it in the small box you have to disable background platform videos in your options because BigBox can only play one platform video at once. You may have to download another platform video as well because this theme wasn’t designed to use platform theme videos like the one which you are currently using.
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