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February 9

Thanks for the newest ones! I've got a few more to add when you get the chance. Really appreciate you providing all of these for us. I know how much of a time-sink this kind of stuff can be.

Call of Cthulhu (2018)

Castle Crashers

Castle in the Darkness

Castlevania Anniversary Collection

Cat Quest

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Chrono Trigger

Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition

CODE VEIN

Contra Anniversary Collection

Crysis Remastered

Cthulhu Saves the World

January 20

I have some more to add if you are up for it:

- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

- Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

- Bastion

- Batman: Arkham Origins

- Battle Chasers: Nightwar

- Battletoads (2020)

- Bayonetta

- Binary Domain

- BIOMUTANT

- Bionic Commando (2009)

- Bionic Commando: Rearmed

- Black Mesa

- Blacksad: Under the Skin

- Blasphemous

- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

- Bleak Faith: Forsaken

- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

- Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition Enhanced

- Borderlands 2

- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

- Borderlands 3

- Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure

- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

- A Boy and His Blob (2016)

- Breath of Death VII: The Beginning

- BRINK

- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

- Brütal Legend

- Bullet Witch

- Bulletstorm Full Clip Edition

Thank you so much!

January 17

These are great! Excellent job on them. I like that they aren't specific to any storefronts too. If you are looking more to add, I have some below (actually, I have lots, but I'll try to not overload you):

- 20 Minutes Till Dawn

- Actraiser: Renaissance

- Advent Rising

- Agarest: Generations of War

- Age of Empires II HD Edition

- Alan Wake (I have the Steam version which is the regular, non-remastered version)

- Alan Wake's American Nightmare

- Alien Breed: Impact

- Alien Breed 2: Assault

- Alien Breed 3: Descent

- Aliens vs. Predator (2010)

- Aliens: Colonial Marines

- Alpha Protocol

- Amnesia: The Dark Descent

- Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition

- Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition

- ArcaniA

- Assassin's Creed

- Assassin's Creed II

- Assassin's Creed III

- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

- Assassin's Creed: Origins

- Assault Suit Leynos

- Axiom Verge

- Azure Striker Gunvolt

Apologies if that is too many at once. Appreciate you sharing what you have so far!

July 21, 2023

This is excellent and very helpful! Thanks for providing this. I made a platform video some months ago for anyone setting up a magazines platform:

March 1, 2023

1 hour ago, Zoratsu said:

Super Metroid: Subversion now playing with full media on my system 😁😆😍

thanks!

You are very welcome I still can't decide if Subversion is my favorite hack or not, but it is extremely good. Hyper has been by number one favorite for a long time, but Subversion might edge it out a little bit.

February 26, 2023

5 hours ago, Benjam said:

As far as I remember, pioneer laserdisc is a completely different system. Linking an LD Pioneer player to an MSX computer. And this is a completely different system from the one that was in the arcade. I know I'm nitpicking, but we need to keep an eye on the facts And at the beginning you gave an excerpt from a Pioneer Palcom Laserdisc commercial

Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I mainly included the boot up sequence since from what I could find, Pioneer was the largest producer of the LD media itself; couldn't really find anything regarding the specific arcade systems used. I was a little iffy on including it in the first place, so appreciate the input on it. I have a version ready that doesn't have the boot up sequence, so I will upload that one later this evening.

February 10, 2023

9 minutes ago, Warped Polygon said:

Thanks for doing one that is for the ring series rather than separate platforms. I do the same for the Lindenburgh games

you bet! at one point i had considered doing separate videos for each unique system board, but after looking at the lists for Sega, Namco and Taito (and seeing how many of them only had a few games even released on them), i scrapped the idea. Plus, finding adequate artwork for all of them just didn't seem very feasible and making it from scratch just wouldn't be as genuine.

i clump CPS, Lindbergh, Type X and a few others all into one platform (though CPS systems are pretty easy to find stuff for each one).

February 10, 2023

1 hour ago, djweevil666 said:

TY Very Much my friend.

Great work b safe.

you are very welcome!

February 5, 2023

appreciate you making these.

January 25, 2023

5 hours ago, Suhrvivor said:

Pretty cool theme but the long intro ruins it, having to wait 8 seconds to see the actual theme and gameplay makes the BigBox experience a bit too slow for my taste. Can you make a version without the intro?

@Suhrvivor Added a no intro version

January 24, 2023

3 hours ago, RetroFanZ said:

nice work but the game pad is maybe to present?

I revised the layout a bit to reduce size of console image. Let me know if this works and thanks for the feedback.

January 23, 2023

@PaulyC For views 2 & 4, if there is no box - front option, but they have a 3D box, it will show it but also includes the 3D model (see below). If there is no box - front or 3D box, then there will just be empty space in the spot the box/model would normally be.

January 22, 2023

@PaulyC Everything is working perfectly now, good sir. I'll let you know if I come across or notice anything else, but I think at least for my platforms, this is perfect. Good melding of Refried and 3-Dimensions.

January 20, 2023

@PaulyC awesome! i'll just wait for the update. i'm alright with disc spinning in general; was just the ScummVM where it looked a little odd

January 20, 2023

8 hours ago, PaulyC said:

@CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT You know what i forgot all about adding other platforms to make the discs spin, i need to find out which have discs so i can add them but as i dont have many platforms it may take a while to go though them to find out whats what. I could turn the disk spinning off for specific platforms if that works better? if not i'll find out the option in the XAML to turn them all off for you. As for the 3DS It's my fault the 3DS videos arent working, i forgot to create a condition for it so its using the default placing of it. I'll sort that out and the Amiga/MSX discs not spinning and update the theme when the updated CTC gets released 👍

Edit: For the Spinning disc Its the Amiga CD32 isnt it? and is it both the MSX and MSX2 that need it as well?

@PaulyC No worries! The spinning discs issue is with ScummVM. MSX/Amiga work just fine. For ScummVM though, some games will be on CD while others are on floppies and with the current views available, the discs and floppies will spin since no matter which view you are using they all include the spinning. Might be good for all platforms that are CD-based to have at least one view option where the disc doesn't spin (in case people just don't like that at all).

January 15, 2023

Easy peasy. Edited the video to remove the splash, title and character select at the beginning

January 15, 2023

Love this theme! Great work on it. Retrohumanoid (hopefully he comes back around someday) has done some great work and this is an awesome update to the theme!

I was also wondering if there is anyway to turn OFF the disc spinning? I am using this for ScummVM and some games are on discs while others on floppies so I'd rather just disable the disc spinning altogether for this platform. Also using it for Amiga, MSX and Windows and noticed that Amiga and MSX do not spin. Tried to dig in the XAMLS but wasn't sure what to search for exactly so gave up :D.

Anyway this is some fantastic work and I think Retrohumanoid would be proud.

One other thing I noticed. With 3DS the gameplay snaps don't fill the entire viewport. I attached screenshot. NDS work just fine in the viewport. I tried re-encoding one of the 3DS snaps to match the size of the NDS ones (480x720), but it didn't change anything so figure it must be something in the theme squishing them down.

December 21, 2022

22 hours ago, Thornback said:

Glad to see you being active again @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT

Will you revisit this too at some point?

Thanks man

I plan to at some point. I have some other projects that I'm working on now, so not sure how long it will be before I do re-visit it; wanting to update some older stuff before I go back to make all new stuff.

December 17, 2022

On 12/15/2022 at 3:10 PM, PaulyC said:

Thanks for this, i was looking for a replacement as the other i had (maybe your old one?) the xbox startup logo was a lower resolution so looked a little off but now this is perfect!!

Btw do you take requests? All i am missing in my collection are videos for Pub Fruit machines and Quiz Machines (both UK variants) and have looked far and wide and cant find any so would love to have your style ones of them to match the rest.

Yeah, for sure. I could try to come up with something for you. I have a few other projects I'm working on right now so could be a minute before I can do anything, but can certainly take a stab at making some videos for you. If you have any art assets you would like to see, just DM them over to me.

December 14, 2022

6 hours ago, Retrofrogg said:

Nice. Would be interesting to see what your magazine platform looks like too.

I will be uploading those too, but I need to get permission from faeran first since I am using assets from his retro bedroom theme, but a screenshot is below. For the actual magazines themselves, I just use the default theme using wall view 2 and then in theme-specific settings I turned off Game Details so that way it just opens the magazine when I click on it instead of going to the screen with Play, Additional apps, achievements, etc. I also turned off Startup menu and pause menus for it too.

Only have Nintendo Power and GamePro added for now. I'm using adverts for the videos and just changing the video and clear logo for each "platform" I add. I plan to add EGM and Next Generation later on and TBD after that.

I opted for this particular fanart background sine it fits the main them I'm using for Categories and Platforms - CriticalZoneV2- BlueBox

December 4, 2022

8 minutes ago, zugswang said:

Thanks for share ! 👍

I am no expert, but maybe slow Sonic down a bit, as he can get a bit distracting ?

Also, if you run you video through Handbrake it reduces it to just 53mb without any noticeable loss of quality

https://handbrake.fr/

Thanks again.

Awesome, thanks! I'll see what I can do about Sonic. I see what you mean... he is a little bit of a distraction. And thanks for the tip about handbrake too.

June 17, 2020

2 minutes ago, Thornback said:

Brilliant! Are you planning on adding the Gears of War games eventually?

Yup! Gears 1/2/3, Halo 4, Fable 2 among others

June 10, 2020

On 6/8/2020 at 8:39 PM, Thornback said:

@CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT are you thinking of coming back to these at some point in the future? Says above that you will have over 100 videos once this is finished so I'm seeing a lot of potential

If by chance you already have some of these in your library I would be immensely grateful if you shared:

- Shadow of Rome
- Time Crisis series
- Rainbow Six 3
- Burnout 3
- SSX Tricky and SSX 3
- Black
- Hitman series
- Tenchu Fatal Shadows
- Tekken 4 and Tekken Tag Tournament
- The Suffering series
- Manhunt
- James Bond series
- Killzone

I actually don't have any of those, but I will see what all I can come up with for them

June 5, 2020

These are fantastic! How do I get in on this project? I would love to help out with making these but not exactly sure where to start to ensure they work with the theme.

June 2, 2020

7 hours ago, STAINLESS said:

Thanks heaps for the Far Cry vids.

Is there any chance I could request Far Cry Primal & Far Cry New Dawn?

I'll see what I can come up with ?

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