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Hey everyone that create themes,I have a question. I was wanting to start experimenting in creating a theme so I have been trying to open different creators themes in Visual Studio to see how certain things are done. In a lot of the themes when I open the views in Visual Studio it says "Invalid Markup" so I cannot see a visual on how the view is created. Why is this and can this be corrected?

@RetroHumanoid Really like that Big Fish theme...it has actually prompted me into looking at adding some of those games and adding Big Fish to the wheel.

Great job with the updates on the new theme @CriticalCid! I am really liking the new blue scheme as well as the different views.

Yes I can do it the slow manual way as well and it turns out pretty well. I am trying to figure out a way to do it in batch because I have made some small changes to a lot of the HS themes such as cut the delay and speed down in the HS themes to make the whole theme load faster and I know @circo is working on new and improved better MAME videos right now as well that will greatly improve the themes so I will probably just wait until he releases the new videos anyway.

I tried out the new beta last night on my arcade cabinet and coverflow is 100 times better...no stutters at all as with the wheel is super smooth as well and seems to have improved.. As a matter of fact, it is so fast and responsive now I had to slow down my wheel speed some. @Jason Carr I know this might sound crazy but I think since coverflow is so fast and smooth now we might need to add an option to slow it down some like you have with the wheels Awesome job Jason!

@Riffman81 and @CriticalCid If either of you guys have the time or feel like making a tutorial on how to convert those hyperspin themes, I would be interested as well. I have some themes I would like to convert myself and also put some special touches on some existing themes for my setup. Thanks guys.!

There you guys have it...straight from the horses mouth

I do not believe they still support DX12 in the newer versions as they have removed it due to there are not any developers on the Dolphin team currently working on DX12 in the official Dolphin.

@fromlostdays True you do have to run the exodos setup and all that information is given in the RocketLauncher DosBox notes. So if follow those notes exactly you should not have a problem.

@angelobodetti I imported the zip files from the exoDOS/Games folder.I just did the regular import roms within LaunchBox not the import MS-DOS games option.

@angelobodetti I am using the exodos set with LaunchBox and RocketLauncher and it works great. I just followed the module notes instructions for DosBox inside of RL to the letter and it works great. I did however get everything working when I was using HS and then when I started using LaunchBox I just imported the files and chose RocketLauncher as my emulator and everything works perfect.

@oilertitanfan You really would not need to use the Launch With feature if you already use rocketlauncher with BigBox as RL already supports alternate emulators unless you are using it just for testing purposes. In that case, it is like @lordmonkussaid if you have the emulator seperate from rocketlauncher it should work fine.

A video was just posted yesterday on the LaunchBox youtube channel by ETA Prime.

Awesome @RetroHumanoid! Thanks for sharing these.

@UnderwoodNC I tried out the new plugin and I did not get the steam banner error as before. The game I tried to upload with the plugin was a new game and it uploaded the images fine that I had associated with the game to the database but it did not pull any of the information like publisher, developer and stuff like that even though I had that information available. I think the only thing it pulled info wise was (Cooperative- False). I also clicked back on LaunchBox to see what was going on there and I just got the windows blue spinning busy circle. I waited for a while to see if the blue spinning circle ever stopped but I just had to ctrl-alt-delete out of LaunchBox to exit. I guess I can try with another game and see if I get same result.

@UnderwoodNC I just tested out the new update and it does not give me the same problem as before as I can get a little further into the game submission but I did get a error at the end and the game did not submit. I am submitting a new Windows game and the error I got at the end was (Cannot locate element with text:Steam Banner)

@Charco I asked @Jason Carr about the startup videos issues during one of the streams and he said that he still plans to look at the startup video issues soon since it was voted up high on the last poll.

@NJDave71 The theme is coming along very nicely and see you have made many revisions to make it better and better and fixed some thing which is awesome. I would probably recommend when you are satisfied with all the fixes which I think you are pretty much there is to maybe make another annoucement in this thread telling about all the fixes and such. Alot of users might have downloaded the first version and might not have known about all the revisions that you did to make the theme even better

It should not be an issue. Once it goes through the moderation queue the mistake should hopefully be caught and deleted.

I see lots of great improvements listed above and some others I would like to see are in no particular order. 1. Add @Grila's platform clear logo fading in and out code to the default theme as it would really take the fullscreen platform wheel view up a notch. 2. Have an option in the BigBox menu to turn off platform device images. This would really help for the default theme in the fullscreen platform wheel view because the device images do not look good in that view. 3. I am not sure if this is simple or not but being able to to have the ability to have a option to prioritize different music over video sound per platform would be awesome 4. Being able to change rom paths in the bulk edit wizard 5. The option to have a different generic noimage.png per platform that replaces the Launchbox logo image if you have no artwork for that game

@UnderwoodNC I am experiencing this same issue as @letstalkaboutdune mentioned up above as well when I tried to submit a new game to the database a few days ago with your plugin and I am not using ublock as well.

Yes what @lordmonkus said and another way to look at it is basically as soon as you choose a game to play and hit that button within your frontend rather it be BigBox or HS to play that said game is when RL takes over. Then when you exit back out of the game back into your frontend RL is no longer in control.

Just tried out the new beta with no issues so far and I do notice some speed inprovements especially when navigating through the menus. My collection is about 14K games and I am using Windows 10 with all the newest updates including creators update.

I agree as wbfs format is the way to go.