CriticalCid

@Maddoc1007 Like I said, you can’t see it with my background video as the video fades to black at the end of the video. Here’s the unedited version of the video without the fading for you to try: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_6XLOBnGwlULXY3SmppNDJwWkU @djwar No they aren’t included. The videos similar to the MAME and N64 ones will hopefully be available soon (can’t tell you when though, as other people are involved in that process as well) NES, Mega Drive and PSP are from @BakerMan. If you are using the latest LB beta than you can get them directly through LaunchBox itself. (Tools -> Download Platform Theme Videos) SNES and PC are from @nyny77. You have to download them manually and replace them with your current platform videos in “..\LaunchBox\Videos\Platforms”. You can find them here:

Thank you all for your kind words. I'm really happy that you guys like it that much @shadowblind Platform views and games views are completely separated, so no. But I’ve created an alternative version of the theme for you which has the games wheel view replaced with the simple one form the platforms. It was just a simple copy and paste task to accomplish this, so no biggie. Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_6XLOBnGwlUU3NXa2Q5UTkyUnc @Maddoc1007 Sure, go ahead. I wouldn’t even have come that far with this theme without copying and learning stuff from other themes Just be aware that this method has an ugly bug (which is known by Microsoft since years, but they don’t seem to care to fix it…). When the background video starts again from the beginning than you will see some kind of a black border around your other video. I solved that by simply fading out my background video to hide that effect. Just test it yourself and you will see what I mean.

Some of you folks may have seen the little sneak peak of the theme in yesterday’s LB development livestream. Now it’s finally here for everyone! Hope you guys like it.

CriticalZone / CriticalZone - BlueBox View File Here you can download alternative versions of the CriticalZoneV2 theme that comes bundled with every LaunchBox installation. CriticalZone is a BigBox theme designed for the usage of widescreen platform videos and utilizes videos as backgrounds. This theme was designed for widescreen displays with 16:9 aspect ratios and optimized for a display resolution of 1920x1080. It will also work with other widescreen resolutions and 16:10 aspect ratios but it may not look as polished. Available Versions: - CritcalZoneV2 - BlueBox: A blue color variant of CriticalZoneV2. It features blue texts instead of green and has a different Default background created by @SentaiBrad - BackgroundVideoOnly: All Views, except the TextList Views, will only use video loops as backgrounds. Also available as BlueBox version. - BackgroundFanartOnly: All Views will only use Fanart images as backgrounds. Also available as BlueBox version. -> Use this version if you have performance problems! - 1.8: The original and now old version of CriticalZone. It's officially EOL and won't get supported by me in any way. It's just still here for archiving reasons. There’s also a red 80’s/Cyberpunk themed version of CriticalZone called “CityHunter”. It’s maintained by @keltoigael and can be found here: How to install: Just download the version of choice and extract the archive into: “..\LaunchBox\Themes\” Open the Options menu in BigBox -> go to “Views” and change the Theme to the version you just have installed. IMPORTANT: CriticalZone V2 requires LaunchBox v7.11 or higher! Known issues: - The description texts in all Platform Views and CoverFlowWithDetails Games View won’t fill the whole space of the descriptions box when you use CriticalZone with a higher DPI setting than 100% or a lower display resolution than 1902x1080. It gets progressively worse the higher the DPI settings and/or lower the resolution is. Thanks & Credits: Thanks to @SentaiBrad for creating the new Default background video for the BlueBox variant. Background video of the standard version: In The Deep - FREE Video Background Loop HD 1080p by NIZ.co (http://niz.co/wp/) Submitter CriticalCid Submitted 11/03/2016 Category Big Box Custom Themes

The videos from EmuMovies will be downloaded and locally stored on your PC. So yes, you can still use them when your paid EmuMovies subscription expires.

Thank you very much Viking

Jason made a few video tutorials about the basics of XAML. I would highly suggest to start with them. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6pTDaHeAz-X8yNgOD3DPxUf1gaB2FLzb Also there’s a documentation file in the Theme folder which features the most important BigBox elements. When you have a feeling for the basics can you also check out the XAML tips & tricks thread and/or look at the XAML files of other themes to see how they have accomplished their look and feel. And the most important thing of all. Have fun http://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/28698-xaml-tips-and-tricks/

CLRmamepro doesn’t create any CHD files, it only fixes the file/folder structure when something is wrong. You will still need to download a CHD set which matches to your MAME version. Just download it and move the CHD folders into your ROM folder. Than you should be good.

Close LaunchBox/BigBox, open the „Data“ folder inside your LaunchBox installation and delete the „BigBoxSettings.xml”. That should do the trick

Quote from the LB newsletter this weekend: Also when you sort the BitBucket page for the most voted tickets you will get a good impression about all the features that will most-likely be added in the (near) future.

FBA runs faster than MAME on weaker hardware because for FBA it’s speed over accuracy. Similar to Snes9x vs. higan/bsnes. So when MAME runs completely fine for you I see no reason to switch at all.

The Gamescom in Germany is actually the largest video game convention in the world. It's basically a gigantic version of the E3 for consumers (with much less big announcements) but it also has a huge retro gaming area as well.

I don’t know anything about setting up DOSBox since I only use the preconfigured eXoDOS sets which just simply work. As those sets don’t feature the various sound enhancements I would very interested in a detailed tutorial about setting these up.

Normally they are .zip archives with a lot of different files in it, just like MAME. Some games also may need the proper CHD files for it to work but most of the games should run quite fine without them.

Just watched the video from start to finish and all I can say is hats off! It turned out to be really detailed, elaborated and very helpful for someone like me who hasn’t touched Amiga emulation since years. Wouldn’t mind to see more of these detailed tutorials

I just saw that EmuMovies has a little write-up about LaunchBox in their news section. Apparently it’s part of an FE overview series written by jackhammersalm. It’s a relatively short article so give it a read when you are interested what the EmuMovies FE Guide has to say about LaunchBox https://emumovies.com/news/rough-guide-to-front-ends-r252/

Sorry to hear that you had all this trouble. It reminds of all the wasted hours and headaches I had when I first started my HyperSpin theme recording project. But I’m glad that you got everything sorted out in the end.

+1 to that idea. It would be very appreciated if you could upload all the stuff from your website in LaunchBox friendly packages here in the forum download section, GoogleDrive, MEGA, Zippyshare, or whatever you want. This would be much more user friendly and could save you a lot of a bandwidth

Apple II Apple IIGS Btw. I’m really happy that you are working on your tool again. It’s really appreciated!

Awesome! The Mobygames API is finally here. It’s been months since I’ve last heard anything new about it. I’m hoping @Jason Carr will take a look at it.

Done

Sounds awesome! I never used FS-UAE myself so your tutorial would be pretty useful for me as well. Looking forward to it

It appears that your ROM version doesn’t match to the version that DEmul expects. The easiest way would probably be if you search for a Naomi ROMset which fits to the version of DEmul that you are using.

No it isn’t wrong, it’s entirely safe to update your set with multiple update packs at once. But just like lordmonkus said you have to make sure that every update pack is in its own seperate folder and you don’t overwrite anything. Clrmamepro will exactly know (based on the CRC values) which files it needs from each update pack.