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To be honest with you, I’m not a huge fan of HS themes for Consoles, Computer and Handhelds because I like it more when these platforms look tidy and clean. But you’re not the only person who’s asking for this, so I’ll probably do them as well. But don’t expect anything in that regard before 2017.

Currently there are only HyperSpin Theme Videos for Arcade and Touhou Project games. I did over 2200 videos for them, so almost all HS themes that are available for these platforms should be covered. To be honest with you, I’m not a huge fan of HS themes for Consoles, Computer and Handhelds because I like it more when these platforms look tidy and clean. But you’re not the only person who’s asking for this, so I’ll probably do them as well. But don’t expect anything in that regard before 2017.

In LaunchBox: Views - > Auto-Play Music (you can find it in the last third of the dropdown list) - Alternative: Ctrl + U In BigBox: Options -> Sound -> Here you can find all kind of different options which deal with Background music

UPDATE (04/16/2017): The 1080p versions are now available everywhere! All information's in this thread, except the part about the bonus videos on the FTP, are outdated! Bonus videos on the FTP: There’s even more on the FTP than just the 1080p versions of the videos! I have made a couple of Alternative Themes for MAME games which are basically leftovers when I’ve found better looking themes. I didn’t just want to delete the old ones that I already did so I just put them into a different folder. Maybe you can find one or two themes which you think are looking better than my final choices for the main set. Also there’s a folder which features video themes for Mature MAME games or some 'sexy' alternatives for games which are already covered in the main MAME set. Both of these video sets will always stay exclusive to the FTP for obvious reasons. The following part is outdated: With this thread I want to inform you guys that there are existing 2 different versions of my newly added Game Theme Videos (recorded HyperSpin themes) and tell you about the differences. Differences: Version 1 is currently only available on the EmuMovies FTP. They are my “Master” videos which were encoded in almost lossless quality out of my original recording files. They are in 1080p (1440x1080) resolution and are less blurry compared to Version 2. You’ll mostly notice the difference on text or sharp edges. Version 2 is directly available through LaunchBox and on the EmuMovies website for free users as well. These videos were scaled down to the native HyperSpin resolution (1024x768). They are around 40% smaller in size compared to Version 1, fitting so better to most internet bandwidths and don’t take away too much disc space. Why is Version1 only available on the EmuMovies FTP? There are bunch of reasons why we did this. For one we have decided that the smaller file size is for the most users more important than the slightly better quality and some users won’t notice any quality differences for the most themes at all. The main reason is that LaunchBox has currently some technical limits in its download manager. It doesn’t support multi-threaded downloads which will cause that the download process for over 2200 videos in 1080p could take up to 24 hours. But that’s something that will be fixed by @Jason Carr in the near future. So when multi-threaded downloads in LaunchBox are coming we will add downloads for the 1080p versions directly in LB as well. How to get the Version 1 videos: You can find all the videos that I did in their original 1080p version on the EmuMovies FTP under: /Upload Here/CriticalCid To get access to the FTP you have to be a premium member over at EmuMovies. Details for the login are here: http://emumovies.com/ftpdetails/

Do you mean this video? Categories for platforms are already added to LaunchBox in the latest 7.0 betas and will coming soon for Big Box as well. Nested filters are coming as well but that will take quite a little until it's added. But I know that it's a high priority for future features.

Yes, when you want to download them comfortable and simple through LaunchBox you'll need an EmuMovies premium membership. But the video themes are also coming for free users to the EmuMovies website next week. But as free user you’ll have a daily 1.5GB download limit so you’ll probably need 1 or 2 weeks until you have everything downloaded.

I would guess so. Not sure if HyperSpin will like the video codec that I'm using but otherwise I can't think of anything why it shouldnt' work.

Hey guys, sorry for the late response but I got finally around to do your requests. I will wait until I have a couple of new videos done before I upload them as an Update Pack on EmuMovies though. Sorry for this inconvenience but on that way it's easier for me and you guys to keep track of the newly added stuff. I've also updated the main post with the stuff you'll need to provide me for doing requests.

It’s possible but you would need to add it yourself. This view is intended to be used with the Game Video Themes and cover wouldn’t fit to it very well, I couldn't even find a good place to add the platform logo to it. So unfortunately I won’t add any cover to it, sorry. EDIT: I’m in good mood today so I quickly did an alternative version of this view just for you. It’s just a quick and dirty solution without any optimizations but I hope it will do the job just fine for you Just put this file in the “Views” folder of my theme and replace it with the original one. HorizontalWheel1GamesView.xaml

Great to hear

Google Translate may be great for single words or phrases but for whole texts it’s just really awful and a grammatical nightmare. I’m not sure if it would be worth the effort to implement an API for it into the database.

Do you mean the Video Themes or Big Box themes? If you are referring to the videos than you should find theme videos for almost all arcade systems with this method. There are no videos for consoles, computers, handhelds, etc at the moment, just arcade. If you mean Big Box themes. Yes, all Video Themes will work with all Big Box themes. But depending on the theme/view they won't look right or be too small. You may want to use themes which have a view that features huge gameplay videos without stretching them. Btw. I have just updated my own theme with 2 additional views which were designed for these Video Themes

First of all you'll need an EmuMovies premium account and the latest LB beta. - 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 for "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.

CriticalZone v1.3 is out with 2 completely new Views for the newly added Game Theme Videos (recorded HyperSpin themes)! CriticalZone Changelog: 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.

The alignment properties are buggy for WMP and VLC but each has its own problems with that. I encountered that problem for my own theme as well and it appears that it depends on the video. Some videos aren’t affected at all while others always have the same issue to be not properly on the position they should be.

Sure, feel always free to ask. I’m not Jason so that’s just the way I see it, so you never know The issue with the hardline that you see could probably be fixed with some color gradients. It never really bothered me so I haven’t played around that much to find a solution.

Well, what you describe is exactly that: a workaround for HyperSpin. I'm not saying it's a bad idea but recreating that workaround to work similar in Big Box would be way too limited to work just for this specific scenario, so I don’t see a native support for it coming any time soon. If a build-in solution for this will come than it will most likely work/look very similiar to my current workaround which only uses one wheel logo per game. Here’s a video of my theme and my workaround. You could “gray out” the other wheels even more if it isn’t dark enough for you

Something similar is possible with a little trick in Big Box as well. You have to split the wheel in 3 sections were the section in the middle only contains the currently selected game. Then you add a fade over the upper and lower sections and it looks like the wheel in the middle section is highlighted. I use that exact same method in my own theme as well.

If you are using the latest beta version of 7.0 than you can try to reduce the “Wheel Minimum Speed” in your Views options. I experienced small lags in the CoverFlow views as well but after I've set the speed to 200 Milliseconds it’s almost completely gone for me.

Great job as usual

The View in your screenshot doesn’t support any platform videos. You have to switch to a View which does. You can either switch the View in your Big Box options in “Views -> Platform List view” or you can set up a key/button to switch the views on the fly (Keyboard Mappings or Controller Buttons in your options)

I think what he means is that LaunchBox doesn’t save your settings for this. You can move and resize all the columns but when you exit LB and reopen it, everything is set back to standard. Same thing happens when you switch between the Images and List view. I don't know if this is bug or by design @Jason Carr ?

There's a workaround for Amiga. @Zombeaver made a great and detailed tutorial for it. I hope that helps you

I hopefully have fixed that by reducing the file size of the whole archive. At least it works perfectly fine for me on my end now. Can you try it again?