damageinc86

Only like 15 days or so late lol. Gimme a break! There's a lot in my community theme creator folders in terms of images and templates. You might want to give that download a try and look around in there. I'll also be sharing my genre templates once I'm done with them. Still working my way through my systems. It takes forever, but I have to do it in photoshop since I am using crylen's bordered "clear" logos, and I already made it halfway through before the update to the community theme creator was done that allowed it to look in the genre folders. Plus, I have to do a lot of image tweaking and cleanup.

I just happen to have made a template of the bartop styles. Here ya go --> https://mega.nz/file/qYRUTaaQ#VFNBym4jdLAx-JcF4LoM7m1BYCilL4Lrzh3eiBqkks8 The overall banner template that I made is here --> https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2406-bannerbox-bordered-clear-logo-banners/

I've been getting confused about the Shooter genre lately, since I've been going through all my genres to make bannerbox theme banners. I've noticed that launchbox's default genre for a lot of Shoot 'Em Up games, is Shooter. Which then of course puts them in with actual shooters like FPS games, or run 'n gun shooter games. It's funny because I'll click on one obvious top-down shoot 'em up game and it even says in the Notes/game description "This shoot 'em up is loaded with action, bla bla bla". So does this mean that the launchbox DB has never been gone through to separate Shoot 'em up games sub-genre from the Shooter genre? This will need to be a manual task then?

No. But someone made a photoshop template with font that is very similar. I replaced on of mine with it.

I would say having a region release date list would be better. Just list all the main regions it was released in just like that wikipedia page has it.

Why would only downloading fresh metadata (unchecking everything artwork-wise) delete some of my boxart for the system?

I think the launchbox pause menu only lets you save to one slot currently.

Yes it's a game mode in that particular example, I'm just calling it a genre, as they show up together in bigbox. I thought that launchbox db is where all the metadata came from, so I was surprised that the database only picked out two for that. Then the further I got into this, the more I realized that sometimes metadata isn't 100% on some systems' games, and I had to check box some additional genres that the game really should be in so that it would show in the right playlist. I also noticed that when I scraped one of my systems to try to get fresh metadata only, it ended up deleting a bunch of box art. I did not have any artwork checked, it was for metadata only (in an attempt to maybe find some new genres applied since I first imported). So that was a bummer to have to go back through and get box art again. Is that a known bug? or just my luck? lol.

That's good. I'll probably just keep going since I'm on a roll, and now finally have everything set up so it's plugging in, moving layers, and saving now. The bulk of the time is finding suitable artwork now.

A few of us are working on making artwork for it. There is a thread going. I uploaded some files and templates already for some platforms and playlists. Now I'm working my way through all of my auto-populated genre playlists. I'm sure most everything will get done soon.

I'm going through my super nintendo auto populated genres, and under coooperative, there are two games. Contra III, and Pocky & Rocky. I've noticed that a lot of the other auto-populated genres seem to not really have all the games that could or should be there. So I'm just curious how reliable the genres are? Are those really the only two co-op games for Super Nintendo?

yeah I figured on that. Just wanted to check. Your eyes sort of don't work after a while lol. Thanks for the input.

Ok, decided to go with some sort of artwork on top. Now just have to figure out, icon, or no icon?

Right. That's why I'm beginning to lean toward the nice background art that is being found, instead of a repetitive box art style.

I like the concept of using boxart up top. But the more I think about it, the more I feel like just having a decent background up there would be much faster since I could just leave it turned on and only have to swap out the icon and clear logo below. Instead of having to make new genre box art for each one.

Well since I am using my bordered clear logos (because my entire setup uses them) mine may not apply very well to everyone else's. I just got finished making the base template for all my systems, and am running through plugging in all the images for SNES right now. You can take a look at it. Banner Genre Playlist Super Nintendo.psd

That's not too bad. I'm really getting bummed that the community theme creator doesn't see the auto populated playlists so that we can batch process them. I've spent like the last 5 days setting everything up in photoshop, and it is taking soooooooooooo long. Mostly just organizing and bringing in all the logos and putting everything in the right spot. But still, it is so tedious.

Thanks!

Yes I'm doing the genres for launchbox, which is a playlist for each platform's genre. So that's why I used the controller from each system as a background inside the bordered logo. Could you point me to those backgrounds that you used for yours? They might be what I need to fill that space up top. Could probably just fade out the bottom of them around where the icon sits. Or put them inside the blank box art instead of repeated text.

Want some input on the auto-population genres. Trying to figure out what to do with all the space on the banner. Put a generic box with another mention of what genre it is on the top? I like having the icon and the logo on the bottom like all my other banners,...but what to put up top?