CriticalCid
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Sure go ahead, new inspirations can’t harm.
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@andyco47 added 2 alternatives for MAME without the cab
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I have a lot on my plate right now, but I will see what I can do for you.
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36 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
@CriticalCid The music does support navigation using the new key and controller bindings for Next Track and Previous Track. However, there is no pause, currently.
Just to make sure, I meant LaunchBox and not Big Box.
I also checked my theme in Visual Studio and can confirm the issue that @Maddoc1007 has. I noticed that it doesn’t occur for me when I load up the xaml file in VS the first time but when I switch to another tab/file within VS and go back to it is the error suddenly there. That problem is reproducible for me because everything is fine when I close the xaml file and open it again until I switch tabs again.
For the categories in Big Box I would probably like a 2 layer platform system. At the first layer you have all categories listed and if you choose one you come to the second layer with all the associated platforms. The categories would need to be treated similar like platforms though as they would need all the media like clear logos and videos as well.
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There's already an alternative version of the MAME one with an Arcade Classics marquee. Or do you want something different?
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As far as I know is @Jason Carr already working on this as it was one of my major points in the platform categories/submenus ticket. He said on stream that he will probably add sort titltes for the platforms but I don't know if it will be already included in the next beta.
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Thanks for pointing that out. Should be fixed now
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I don't know as I've mostly used the original .psd files which were huge. But I would assume that the HS themes are taking much less space as they are just a bunch of compressed images and not 1080p@60fps full length videos in almost lossless quality
But my videos are surely more smaller in size compared to other cinematic platform videos as there's not much moving around except for the gameplay.
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Welcome to the Unified Widescreen Platform Video Theme Project!
This video project is based on the Unified Megatheme project which was originally created for HyperSpin by Gibbawho and eventually continued and expanded by various other users as well. The themes of this project are designed for widescreen displays and share all the same basic structure to give all themes a simple and unified look.My goal is to recreate all Unified Megathemes as video files so that they can be used within other Front End’s like LaunchBox as well.
I’m using Adobe After Effects to create the videos with their original source files (when they were available) and try to stay as accurate as possible to the HyperSpin originals.So far I’ve done 124 platforms (including some region variants and compilations) + 84 alternative versions!
Preview:
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List of all videos (206 videos; 6GB in size total):
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American Laser Games
American Laser Games (Alt - NoCab)
Amstrad CPC
Amstrad GX4000
Amstrad GX4000 (Alt - 2D RoboCop)
Apple II
Apple IIGS
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari 8-Bit
Atari Classics
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
Atari Lynx (Alt)
Atari ST
Bally Astrocade
Bandai WonderSwan
Bandai WonderSwan Color
Bandai WonderSwan Color (Alt - 2D Chocobo)
Capcom Classics
Capcom Play System
Capcom Play System II
Capcom Play System III
Casio PV-1000
Cave
ColecoVision
ColecoVision (Alt 1 - 2D Penguin)
ColecoVision (Alt 2)
ColecoVision (Alt 3)
Commodore 64
Commodore 64 (Alt)
Commodore Amiga
Commodore Amiga (Alt - 3D Lemming)
Commodore Amiga CD32
Daphne
Data East Classics
DICE
Emerson Arcadia 2001
Entex Adventure Vision
Fairchild Channel F
Flash Games
Fujitsu FM Towns
Future Pinball
Game & Watch
GCE Vectrex
Irem Classics
Konami Classics
Magnavox Odyssey 2
MAME
MAME (Alt - Arcade Classics Marquee)
MAME (Alt 2 - NoCab)
MAME (Alt 3 - NoCab - Arcade Classics)
Mattel Intellivision
Microsoft - Xbox
Microsoft MS-DOS
Microsoft MS-DOS (Alt - 3D Duke Nukem)
Microsoft MSX
Microsoft MSX2
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows (Alt - Steam Logo)
Midway Classics
Mugen
Namco Classics
NEC PC Engine
NEC PC Engine-CD
NEC PC Engine-CD (Alt)
NEC PC-FX
NEC PC-FX (Alt 1)
NEC PC-FX (Alt 2)
NEC SuperGrafx
NEC SuperGrafx (Alt - White Background)
NEC TurboDuo
NEC TurboGrafx-16
NEC TurboGrafx-16 (Alt - 3D Splatterhouse)
NEC TurboGrafx-CD
NEC TurboGrafx-CD (Alt - 3D Bomberman)
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64 (Alt 1 - 3D Mario Kart)
Nintendo 64 (Alt 2 - 2D Link)
Nintendo 64 (Alt 3 - 3D Conker)
Nintendo Classics
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Entertainment System (Alt 1 - 2D Mario)
Nintendo Entertainment System (Alt 2 - 2D Link)
Nintendo Entertainment System (Alt 3 - 2D Zitz)
Nintendo Famicom
Nintendo Famicom (Alt 1 - 2D Mario)
Nintendo Famicom (Alt 2 - 2D Mega Man)
Nintendo Famicom Disk System
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (Alt - 3D MegaMan)
Nintendo Game Boy Color
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo GameCube (Alt 1 - 3D Pikmin)
Nintendo GameCube (Alt 2 - 3D AiAi)
Nintendo Satellaview
Nintendo Satellaview (Alt - 2D Yoshi)
Nintendo Super Famicom
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii U
Nintendo Wii U (Alt - 3D Luigi-Yoshi)
Nintendo WiiWare
Nintendo WiiWare (Alt - Various Characters)
OpenBOR
OpenBOR (Alt - 2D Street Fighter)
Panasonic 3DO
Panasonic 3DO (Alt - 2D Brain Dead 13)
Philips CD-i
Philips CD-i (Alt Controller)
Philips VG 5000
Pinball FX2
PopCap
RCA studio II
Sammy Atomiswave
Sammy Atomiswave (Alt 1 - NoUnifiedCab)
Sammy Atomiswave (Alt 2 - NoCab)
ScummVM
ScummVM (Alt 1 - 2D Day of the Tentacle)
ScummVM (Alt 2 - 3D Sam-Max-FullThrottle)
Sega 32X
Sega 32X (Alt)
Sega CD
Sega CD (Alt 1 - 3D Sonic)
Sega CD (Alt 2 - 3D Sonic-DarkBackground)
Sega CD (Alt 3 - 2D Earthworm Jim-DarkBackground)
Sega Classics
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Dreamcast (Alt 1 - 3D Shadow)
Sega Dreamcast (Alt 2 - 2D Sophitia)
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis
Sega Genesis (Alt 1 - 2D Sonic)
Sega Genesis (Alt 2 - 2D Sparkster)
Sega Genesis (Alt 3 - 3D Ristar)
Sega Hikaru
Sega Master System
Sega Master System (Alt 1)
Sega Master System (Alt 2)
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Mega Drive (Alt - 2D Sonic)
Sega Mega Drive (Alt 2 - 2D Sparkster)
Sega Mega Drive (Alt 3 - 3D Ristar)
Sega Mega-CD
Sega Mega-CD (Alt 1 - 3D Sonic)
Sega Mega-CD (Alt 2 - 3D Sonic-DarkBackground)
Sega Mega-CD (Alt 3 - 2D Earthworm Jim-DarkBackground)
Sega Model 2
Sega Model 2 (Alt 1 - NoCab)
Sega Model 2 (Alt 2 - NoCab)
Sega Model 3
Sega Model 3 (Alt 1 - NoCab)
Sega Model 3 (Alt 2 - NoCab)
Sega Naomi
Sega Naomi (Alt 1 - NoCab)
Sega Naomi (Alt 2 - NoCab)
Sega Saturn
Sega Saturn (Alt - 2D Guardian Heroes)
Sega SC-3000
Sega SG-1000
Sega SG-1000 (Alt - 2D Flicky)
Sega ST-V
Sega ST-V (Alt 1 - NoCab)
Sega ST-V (Alt 2 - NoCab)
Sega Triforce
Sharp X68000
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Alt - 2D Bombjack)
SNK Classics
SNK Neo Geo AES
SNK Neo Geo AES (Alt - 2D Marco Rossi)
SNK Neo Geo CD
SNK Neo Geo CD (Alt - 2D Terry Bogard)
SNK Neo Geo MVS
SNK Neo Geo Pocket
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color (Alt - 3D Marco Rossi)
Sony PlayStation
Sony PlayStation (Alt)
Sony PlayStation 2
Sony PlayStation Portable
Sony PlayStation Portable (Alt - 3D Sackboy-Kratos)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Alt 1 - Mario-Yoshi)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Alt 2 - 2D Secret of Mana)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Alt 3 - 2D Link)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Alt 4 - 2D Samus)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (PAL)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (PAL) (Alt 1 - 2D Mario-Yoshi)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (PAL) (Alt 2 - 2D Secret of Mana)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (PAL) (Alt 3 - 2D Link)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (PAL) (Alt 4 - 2D Samus)
Taito Classics
Taito Type X
Taito Type X (Alt Video)
Tiger game.com
Touhou Project
Touhou Project (Alt)
VTech CreatiVision
Watara Supervision
Williams Classics
WoW Action Max
ZincYou can download these videos only on EmuMovies as I’m using their gameplay videos for most of them and don’t want to rip off the guys over there in any way.
I won't upload these videos anywhere else and neither should you!Download:
If you need a nice theme which is optimized for using these kind of videos than I would suggest to check out my BigBox theme CriticalZone:
To everyone who has a request:
The structure of the unified themes is pretty simple, so with the right images I could create some new ones for you. I will do all your requests BUT you have to provide me all of the following source files:
- Neutral Background image (no characters, consoles or controller). If possible in 1920x1080.
- Gameplay video (NO trailer / features at least 3 or more games)
- Clear Logo (transparent background / high resolution)
- Picture of the system (transparent background / high resolution) [I don't need that for arcade systems]
- Picture of a gamepad for this system (transparent background / high resolution) [I don't need that for arcade, handheld and computer systems]
- Character of a popular game which can be played on this system (transparent background / high resolution)
I have zero Photoshop skills, so all images already have to be properly edited to fit the requirements or I have to refuse your request
Also be aware that most of the themes were just recreated and slightly modified by me. Similar goes for the platform videos which I mostly just took from EmuMovies. So full credits go to their original creators. Thanks guys!Credits:
Circo and the whole EmuMovies team
Gibbawho
CriticalCid
Styphelus
Unknown50862
Klopjero
Knewlife
Creloce
Viking
Rkh
Rondar
Neonrage
Scooter1974
Zinger19
aloner187
guyverjay
MetalThrix
SophT
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The new music feature is awesome! I’m really diggin’ it.
Nonetheless I have a few suggestions for improving it:
- Navigation elements for the music in LaunchBox would be great as well. Right now it’s impossible to skip to the next song in the game soundtrack playlists or simply pause the music. I think of a small navigation bar at the bottom which also features info's about the currently playing song.
- A button/key for showing/hiding the Music On-Screen Display while the music is playing would be useful as well in case you have missed the display at the beginning of the song and want to know how it's called.
- It would be great if the background music folder would support subfolders
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7.0 is currently in beta. Just follow this tutorial if you want to update to a beta release:
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Yes, I already have something similar in my mind. The current problem with that is that 4:3 videos will always be off-centered and I don’t like the idea to stretch videos to a wrong aspect ratio at all. So unfortunately this won’t come until @Jason Carr has solved that alignment bug of the VLC Playback Engine.
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I’m not quite sure what you mean, but a view for game video themes is indeed planned for v2.0. But I can’t give you any ETA when this is coming.
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Great to hear that it is working now for you
EDIT: Just added a red warning text at the top of the download description. Hopefully that will help that nobody else will run into the same problem as @audunv
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Oh wow. You are slowly turning your importer into a Front End of its own
Looking really great Kris! Can’t wait to get my hands on this.
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That’s weird. The error indicates that you are trying to run a theme which was updated to 7.0 on a 6.x installation. But the theme files that I provide are still 6.x compatible. Just tried it myself and it’s working on 6.12 and the latest 7.0 beta as well…
Try to delete all versions of my theme in your themes folder and download the current version again.
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CriticalZone v1.2 released!
Changelog:
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. -
In the themes folder of your LaunchBox installation
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Increase "CameraZPosition" value of your "<coverFlow:FlowControl" element to zoom out/shrink the boxes.
For more information about that look up the paragraph about FlowControl in the documentation pdf file (page 10).
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Unfortunately not. This is a rather new feature and I agree that it’s still needing some extra work. It would be the best to go with that question/suggestion directly to the LaunchBox beta thread so that Jason can keep better track on that.
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Check all xaml files which start with "platform" in the "Views" folder, as it may occur in multiple files.
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I already fixed that. Just download version 1.1
EDIT: The typo was in the line which starts with <coverFlow:FlowControl x:Name="FlowControl"
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I've used the same settings as I suggest to use in Point IV and V of the download description/ReadMe file. See point VII for the platfom videos I have used.
And in case you also want to know my other transitions settings:
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Hi cormegaman, welcome to the forums!
1. I know that @niglurion has uploaded them a while ago, but I couldn’t find them after a quick search. So maybe somebody else or niglurion himself can help you out with that.
2. You can edit any info field for your paltforms. Go to Tools –> Manage Platforms and edit any platform you want.
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Awesome work! I really like it.
Have you considered to upload them to the LaunchBox games database as well? On this way everybody could get them directly through the LaunchBox import process