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Yes, you need to be an EmuMovies premium member in order to get them. LaunchBox should download them automatically when you import your arcade games for the first time but if you already have imported your arcade games and want to download the theme videos (or upgrade to the 1080 versions) follow these steps: - Open LaunchBox, go to your Arcade Platform(s) and select all your games with CTRL+A. - Than go to Tools -> Download Metadata and Images. - Click through the wizard and deselect all media types except "Video - Theme" on the EmuMovies media dialog. - Choose "Yes, but do not replace any existing fields" and let LB download all available themes for you.

Quick update for you guys: The 1080p versions are coming now directly within the LaunchBox downloader as well, so you don’t have to worry anymore to get them through the EmuMovies FTP. If you are still using the old non-HD version and you want to upgrade, I would recommend to just delete all the Theme videos you already have and re-download them through LaunchBox again.

I just realized that I completely forgot to tell you guys when there was a new update for my theme. As CriticalZone now comes directly with LaunchBox you won’t have to update the theme manually anymore because it gets updated automatically with every new LaunchBox update as well. So if you still use v1.3 I highly advise you to switch to the build-in LaunchBox version (the one without a number in its name). The current version which comes with LaunchBox is 1.6: CriticalZone Changelog: v1.6 - LB v7.4 (12/26/2016) - Fixed: Background videos weren't stretched properly with the new VideoControl method. v1.5 - LB v7.1 (12/21/2016) - Updated: The background videos are now using the newly added VideoControl element. It should boost up the performance when you are using VLC as video playback engine quite a bit. v1.4 - LB v7.0 (12/14/2016) - CriticalZone is now included with every LaunchBox v7.0+ installation. - Removed: The version number in the CriticalZone Theme folder was removed. - Removed: The ReadMe file was removed because it was quite outdated and isn't necessary anymore. - Fixed: Background videos for games are now forced disabled in the theme settings. It caused to not show the game videos in the 2 new recently added views when it was activated. v1.3 (12/02/2016): - Added: 2 new Game Views. Both were designed to take full advantage of the newly added Game Theme Videos. You have to use LB v7.0 Beta-16 or higher in order to use them! - Updated: The ReadMe file now contains information’s for downloading and using Game Theme Videos. v1.2 (11/07/2016): - Fixed: The alphanumeric navigation was invisible in the Games Wheel view. - Updated: Changed the word "Overview" in to "Description" as this term sounds more fitting to me. v1.1 (11/06/2016): - Fixed: New version of the background video as the old one caused to not loop properly on some machines - Fixed: Custom Clear Logos for platforms weren't shown properly - Updated: The ReadMe file was updated once again. Now with more information's on how to improve the performance of Big Box for this theme. - Added: changelog.txt file in the theme folder v1.0.1 (11/04/2016): - Updated: Restructered and updated the ReadMe file. No changes on the theme itself. v1.0 (11/03/2016): - Initial release

Have you tried to change the platforms view? Not every view supports platform videos. Go to your BigBox options -> Views and change the platform view to another one. Hope that helps

I don’t know if you already have the HyperSpin artwork packages for the Famicom made by Ray572 but I will leave the links for it here just in case you haven’t: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forums/topic/13438-nintendo-famicom-box-art-2d/ http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forums/topic/13615-nintendo-famicom-wheel-art/ http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forums/topic/13635-nintendo-famicom-cart-art-2d/ He also uploaded over 800 video snaps on the EmuMovies FTP under: /Upload Here/_Video Snap Submissions/Ray572/Nintendo Famicom/Video

@Sithel @eatkinola That was just recently added with LB v7.0 but I guess @Jason Carr either hasn’t come around to add that to the documentation or has simply forgot it. To enable ESRB icons support you have to add this code over your Canvas first: <UserControl.Resources> <bigBox:ImageToSourceConverter x:Key="ImageToSourceConverter" x:Name="ImageToSourceConverter"/> </UserControl.Resources> And to actually use it you in your theme you need this line: <Image Name="RatingImage" Source="{Binding Path=SelectedGame.RatingImage, Converter={StaticResource ImageToSourceConverter}}" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" />

The names of some Views in BigBox have been changed with the 7.0 update, so most them were set to the standard text ones because BigBox can’t find them anymore under their old name. But that can be fixed really quick. Just go into your BigBox Options -> “Views” and change the platform View from TextList to one of the Wheel ones.

Hey @crack__19, the user @billyc999 is currently building an Aeon Nox theme for BigBox. So you may want to take a look at that

Yes, the view in your screenshot doesn't feature any platform videos. Try the Views "Platform Wheel 2,3 or 4".

Are you sure that LaunchBox has already downloaded them? If you have a complete MAME set you it will need to download over 1900 videos with almost 30GB in size. I doubt that LB has downloaded them all this fast. Be sure to download only “Videos - Theme” and nothing else. You can check if you have them downloaded by going into the Videos folder of your LaunchBox installation. Then navigate to the folder of your Arcade platform and check if there’s a “Theme” sub-folder in it. This sub-folder should contain all the theme videos you have.

I told you that in my last post

There are 2 different kinds of videos. The standard gameplay videos and the Theme videos which contain gameplay + the animations around it. Apparently you only have the normal gameplay videos but you need to download the separate theme videos as well if you want them.

Do you mean the theme videos? You'll need an EmuMovies premium subscription in order to download them. How to download them: Open LaunchBox and go to your Arcade platform. Select all games with Ctrl+A. Click on Tools -> Download Metadata and Videos -> Deselect all media in the importer except “Videos - Theme” in the EmuMovies step -> Click in “Yes, but do not replace any existing fields”

So did I

Which video are you referring to?

7.1 is using a new method for displaying background videos. I specified in the theme code to stretch the video, so I don't know why it doesn't work for you. Maybe @Jason Carr could help?

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.

BoxesGamesView.xaml

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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/