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A theme video for MSU-1 enhanced games. I use a separate platform category for these, so I made a video for anyone else that does the same. The song is called "Catharsis" by Geoplex. You can download for free at Newgrounds:  http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/724826
   
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MSU-1 Platform Theme Video (16:9)
If you are unfamiliar with MSU-1: MSU-1 (Media Streaming Unit – Revision 1) is a Super Nintendo-only, processing architecture developed by Byuu, author of the bsnes/Higan emulator. This technology brings a realization to “what could have been” had Nintendo not abandoned the deal with Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo. Instead of getting the Sony PlayStation as a standalone console, it would have been the Nintendo Play Station CD-ROM attachment for the Super Nintedo.
This technology allows for an additional 4GBs of storage for Super Nintendo games. It’s primary use, thus far, has been to create CD quality soundtracks for Super Nintendo games. It can also be used to add FMVs (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past) and, in some case, allows for games to be ported to the Super Nintendo (the Sega CD FMV game Road Avenger has been ported to the Super Nintendo using this technology).
In many cases, the CD soundtracks have been provided, royalty-free, but there are some exceptions and you must buy the soundtracks from the composer(s) (Chrono Trigger being one such case).
Currently, Byuu’s own emulator is compatible with this technology (the bsnes cores in RetroArch are also compatible) and SNES9X (as of version 1.54 - thanks for the correction @lordmonkus) as is the Super Nintendo flash cartridge, SD2SNES.
There are currently 10 games that have patches to make use of this technology (all of them featured in the video), but it is technically compatible with all Super Nintendo games, should any one decide to put in the leg work to make a patch.
More info on this is here:
http://helmet.kafuka.org/msu1.htm
 

The second video I ever uploaded was for the MSU1 enhanced games since I had them added as a separate platform. Since I re-did the Hacks & Fan-Made video (which was my first), I decided to re-do this one too. I included an image of the Nintendo/Sony Play Station since that is what the MSU1 architecture was essentially designed to bring to fruition. The gameplay loop only includes games that have known patches/soundtracks/FMVs (according to this site, Donkey Kong Country received a patch recently too: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/09/donkey_kong_country_on_snes_gets_the_msu1_digital_audio_enhancement_treatment).
This next week I will have a playlist video up for Shmups.
Hope you all like it. A clear logo for your playlist/platform is also provided below.
 

Themes for the PC Engine.
Playlist below. Will upload a version of Ninja Ryūkenden tomorrow with game audio-only:
 
1. Ninja Ryūkenden
2. Ninja Ryūkenden (no soundtrack)

This is a Playlist theme intended to compliment @MetalVinnie's Playlist, logo and bezels he made recently. Hope you guys enjoy! Links to the Playlist/logo and Bezels are below:
 
 
 
Pixel art banner. Just put in the Banner folder in your NES Black Box Playlist folder.

Theme for NieR: Automata
 

Themes for Nintendo 3DS.
I have a couple of The Legend of Zelda 3DS themes here:
YouTube playlist:
1. Metroid: Samus Returns

It was requested by @angelobodetti to get some clear logos for the FDS, so I decided to upload the few that I have, plus the box art. I only have seven games for this platform, so the only includes art for those games:
Yume Koujou Doki Doki Panic
Akumajō Dracula
Dracula II - Noroi no Fuuin
Metroid
Moero TwinBee - Cinnamon Hakase wo Sukue!
Super Mario Bros. 2
Zelda no Densetsu - The Hyrule Fantasy

Just a collection of box spines for GameCube that includes 31 games from my library:
Alien Hominid
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
I-Ninja
Killer7
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
Luigi's Mansion
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
P.N.03
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II Plus
Soul Calibur II
Star Fox Adventures
Star Fox Assault
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
Super Mario Sunshine
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
TimeSplitters 2
Viewtiful Joe
Viewtiful Joe 2
Wario World
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!
XIII

Attached is box art and clear logos for the Super Famicom games I have in my collection. Some of this is scrapable, but not all of it is (can't recall which ones are or aren't), so I've packaged up everything I have since I know some of these I had to dig for or make logos for. The archive includes box art and logos for:
Akumajō Dracula
Bahamut Lagoon
Battle Zeque Den
Dragon Quest I.II
Dragon Quest III: Soshite Densetsu e...
Dragon Quest V: Tenkuu no Hanayome
Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi
Final Fantasy V
Front Mission
Front Mission: Gun Hazard
Kishin Douji Zenki: Denei Raibu
Majyūō
Rendering Ranger R2
Return of Double Dragon
Rockman & Forte
Seiken Densetsu 3
Star Ocean
Super Metroid
Tales of Phantasia
Ys IV: Mask of the Sun
Ys V: Ushinawareta Suna no Miyako Kefin
 

Here it is! Took a while, but I think I'm happy with this.
i tried to make this one a little extra special, so I hope you all enjoy it, too. There's a little reference in the video that fans of Nintendo Power will surely remember.
The background song is "TheFatRat - Jackpot". Newgrounds page: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/713137
 

** Added media set for Ikaruga **
 
Just sharing the media I have for the 13 games in my Switch collection. The media available from scraping the LB DB and/or EmuMovies is very limited at the moment, so hopefully this will help someone out with anything they don't already have. There are two downloads; one for images and the other for gameplay snaps.
Some of this I had to just search for and in some cases trim/re-size and in a few cases just improvise and make my own mock up, but I am certainly not responsible for everything here and some of this was scraped from within LB.
This includes media for all games:
Box - front/back/spine (sorry, no 3D)
Cart - an alpha layer was used to add enough negative space for the carts to look proportional to the box (similar to the GameCube discs I re-sized)
Fanart - I tried to get multiple images for each game where I could to add some variety
Banner - in case you use a view in a BB theme that can take advantage
Game Select - where applicable; Super Mario 3D All Stars has one for each game on the game select screen
Gameplay
Game Title - for Ninja Gaiden Master Collection there are multiples for each game in the set
Clear Logo
Gameplay snaps
 
There is a showcase below in case you want to preview the media before downloading:
 
If you need a Platform Video, I have you covered here:
 

Platform video for the Nintendo Switch
** New version ** Revised based on feedback
 

Couldn't find any spines for Virtual Boy boxes so made my own. I only have 6 games in my VB library, but I also included a template that can be used to make your own.
Enjoy!

Platform theme for Origin
 
 

Going to go ahead and start a thread for PC games. I have well over two hundred games, so I'll just be uploading new ones as I feel like doing them. I've already done a number, so I have links below for those. Newer themes will go into the playlist further below (starting with Dead Space) and will be downloadable from this page.
Update: 06/11/2020 - This thread was getting obnoxious so I removed all the other links I had here as I intend to re-visit a number of those older videos at some point since I was still pretty new to AE when I originally made those. I will probably clear out a number of these as well that are not the latest versions I've made. Someone had also asked me a while back if I could bundle these into one big upload, so I will do that once I clean up previous versions and the channel. I will still upload individually too, but after I get 50 or so new ones made I will add them to the overall "bundle" download.
Update 2: 06/11/2020 - So a bundled upload just isn't possible since I can't attach ZIP, RARs, 7z, etc.... so nevermind that idea. Sorry for those hoping for a bulk download from here.
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Full list of videos below:
   

**EDIT**: Forgot to attach thumbnails of the videos, so added them for the current upload. I will remember to add these with future uploads. Sorry for the black bars on the side. I use an ultra-wide monitor on my main PC and the theme I'm using is 16x9.
 
Hey Guys/Gals,

Decided to re-visit video themes for the PC and make this one big mega set. PC titles are the single largest platform I have set up in LaunchBox, so once this set is finished there will be over 400 games represented. My goal is to upload a new set about every 2 to 3 weeks (depending on life stuff) that will include anywhere from 60 to 80 titles and will hopefully have the whole set done in the next couple of months. That said, I wouldn't be able to entertain any special requests until I get this set finished, but can consider any after that.

There are a number of videos that I made and uploaded to a previous thread that you will also see here, but the majority are brand new or are remakes of previous ones. I haven't decided yet on how many of the old ones I will remake, but at the moment, it appears that roughly half of them will get a do-over. After I get this set finished, I will be going back to old threads and either deleting them or cleaning them up to reduce redundancy as I want this thread to be the one-stop-shop for videos I have made for this platform.

As this is a work in progress, this upload covers A - C (79 games) and each video theme runs between 30 secs to 1 minute in length. All have been run through Hand Brake to get the sizes as small as possible (trying to keep each upload below 2GBs). Due to how I sort my games, you may also see games show up out of "order", such as the Tiny Tiny one included here (since its technically part of Borderlands, I have it sorted with the Bs).
I am also using around 40 themes that Suhrvivor made, so if you don't see something I either just don't have it or I'm using one of theirs and a big thanks for the great work they have done.

I will include a link to my old thread below, as well as to Suhrvivor's.

Hope you all enjoy and be sure to follow this thread if you want to be notified when the next set gets added.
 
 
Suhrvivor's thread:
 
My old one:
 
Thumbnails for (A - C):
Thumbnails for (D - E):
Thumbnails for (F - I):
 

I was pretty unhappy with how the first one turned out. Made it in a rush just to have something in my setup since it has been blank for a long time. This is a second attempt and I think I prefer this one much better. All of the themes featured were made by me except for the TMNT one (made by @RetroHumanoid) and are downloadable here in the forums.
 

I recently decided to try out PlayStation Now (since there is a free trial) and added it to my Launchbox/BigBox setup. This video is really just a placeholder for now. I haven't had much time to devote to larger video projects lately with work and looking for a new place/preparing to move, etc (not to mention getting pretty hooked on Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age the last couple of weeks - only a couple Trophies left!). I feel bad since I have started a couple other Playlist Themes for Wrestling and one for a Virtua Fighter Collection, but haven't been able to devote the time I would need to invest to getting them finished. I slapped this together for PlayStation Now (really wish you could add and launch applications from the top level, rather having to have them nested into a category, but alas). There is no gameplay featured or anything, but when I get more time I will flesh it out, so just consider it a hold over for now. I've also included what I am using for the Clear Logo, Box Front/Banner and Fanart - Background. Just click the images beneath the video and Save As.
Box front/Banner
Clear Logo
Fanart - Background

For @BLÜE
 
 

Theme for Rez (PlayStation 2/Dreamcast). I'm a big fan of shooters in general and Rez is easily one of my favorites, so I had to do a theme for it.
 

I decided to start a 'unified' set of themes for ScummVM. However, my collection only consists of 17 games, so the "complete" collection from me is going to be far from it. That said, I have also attached my After Effects project file in this post. It contains all of the assets used to complete this first video and the project file should be plug and play for any other AE users out there that might want to add to whatever I don't get up here myself. I will try and add other things too, but I have lots of other projects I'm working on, as well, so we will have to see on that. Anyway I hope people enjoy these for their own setups.
 
The AE project contains everything to easily add new game footage, clear logos, background wallpaper for behind the game footage and music (or mute and use the game's audio) without needing to make too many adjustments aside from some minor tweaks here and there. There are many pre-comps in the project primarily to try and keep things tidy and easy to dig through. Should be pretty quick to crank additional videos out with this... I hope.
 
I should be able to get all of these up before the weekend, but the full set of what I have from my collection will be:
 
1. The 7th Guest
2. Beneath A Steel Sky
3. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
4. Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
5. The Dig
6. Full Throttle
7. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
8. Maniac Mansion
9. Day of the Tentacle
10. The Secret of Monkey Island
11. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
12. The Curse of Monkey Island
13. Return to Zork
14. Sam & Max Hit the Road
15. Simon the Sorcerer
16. Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
17. Zack McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
scummvm_unified_folder.7z

I did a couple of versions of videos for the SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Collection release on PC via Steam and thought it might also make a good Playlist video for anyone that wanted/has a SEGA Classics Playlist, so uploading a version for that purpose, as well (clear logo above).
Link to the PC Game Themes too for anyone interested in those:
 
 

Platform video for Sega Hikaru plus an extra media pack that includes image media and snaps and video themes for the 5 Hikaru games I have (only one I don't have is Dennou Senki Virtual-On: Force)
 
 

Decided to make a second Mega Drive platform video using the Japanese MD logo.