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In LaunchBox, go to Manage Emulators and be sure the following Auto-Hotkey script is under the tab designated for it (copy and paste the bolded bits it if it's not):
; This section closes PCSX2 when pressing Escape
$Esc::
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Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}
}For MAME, you don't need the script.
Now launch BigBox and go to Options -> Controller Automation
I use a DualShock 4 myself and I set the Hold button to my Share button (appears in BB as button 7) and the Close the Active Window button to Options (button 8 in BB), so you can do the same with Back and Start on yours.
Now when you are in a game and you want to exit, hold the Back button and then press Start. This will close the game and emulator.
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Sony PlayStation 3 Themes (16:9)
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This is going to be a very small collection since I only have 2 PlayStation 3 games that I run on RPCS3: Demon's Souls and Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir.
I'll probably add more down the road.
1. Demon's Souls
2. Dante's Inferno: Divine Edition
3. Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir
4. 1942: Joint Strike
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Submitted09/05/2017
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Glad you got it somewhat sorted out!
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Same here. I'm on 1.9.1 of Cemu and the latest beta of LB (16) and not having any trouble.
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Wrestling Collection Playlist Theme (16:9)
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This took a lot longer to finish than I anticipated, but here it is. I had to cut back on some of the ideas I had for this initially (largely due to lack of skill with the software), but I hope you guys like it. This was a special request from @heelsinc (sorry it took so long).
I was asked by someone commenting on my YouTube channel to do a playlist theme for the Shining Force series and I have one that I started for Virtua Fighter (by request) and one for Shmups, though I am primarily focusing on gameplay vids for PC and PS2 at the moment.
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Submitted08/30/2017
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No worries! For the playlists, I hope to make those more interesting than the game specific ones since I make them with longer run times.
I still have to get more gameplay clips for the video and I have to work the next few days (12hr shifts... yeck), but I should have this one ready by Monday/Tuesday at the latest.
I'm honestly not super happy with it, but I don't want to start all over either. In any case, hopefully it will look good in your collection, but if it's not, no worries and I can try making a different one.
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18 hours ago, heelsinc said:
How's it coming?
haven't forgotten ya; just haven't had much time to devote to larger projects lately (usually need a few hours at a time to play around with things). I'll try and have it finished by Friday, but I think I might just leave it to American Wrestling (never could find anything appropriate sounding for Japanese wrestling).
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I have had the same issue that @Charco has seen; also for the Blue Box version.
For me, it has only happened when first starting up BigBox. The Categories menu will have no video, platform menus will have no video, but the game menus will have a video. If I close out of BigBox and relaunch that fixes it. It's only happened about 3 times now (out of at least 30 times I've launched BigBox since updating to this theme). Two times with the original DLL and once with the DLL linked above.
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Excuse you? I don't really care who you are and I won't bother commenting on the bulk of the drivel you decided to reply with.
It doesn't matter if you vouch for the site the library was downloaded from. Install it all day long if you want to, but there is absolutely no way you can say with certainty that it is non-malicious, so passing it along to other people as a solution is potentially putting someone else at risk if it is, in fact, malicious. Providing an official source is a better solution and if you go to the link I provided you can click the link for the Microsoft Update Catalog and download an update for their OS. If that did not work for you and you decided to go the route you did, you could mention as such (you didn't give anything specific other than "red herrings"), but providing a source that is non-official is still a bad idea. It would be up to individuals to figure that out on their own.
Have you noticed the plugins section here? Yeah, these are libraries created by users in the community to add extra features to Launchbox. However, they are not official and if you try to download one, you are prompted that it is at your own risk to do so. The reason? There is no way that it can be absolutely confirmed without thorough testing that any of these libraries won't run malicious code on someone's computer. It is very common for a virus to be masked as something harmless; happens all the time.
The d3dcompiler IS a component of DirectX. D3D is Direct 3D; one of several API in the DirectX compilation of APIs. That specific library may not be a component for versions of DirectX before DirectX 12, but it is still a DirectX component.
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I wouldn't recommend downloading libraries like that from non-official websites.
That library is part of DirectX, so it'd be better to install the latest from Microsoft if the package included with the Launchbox install doesn't include the library for some reason.
You can also get the library, standalone, directly from this Microsoft KB:
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Sony PlayStation 2 Themes (16:9)
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Keeping with Sony's platforms for now, so moving on to the PS2! I'm going to upload these in reverse order this time, so starting in the Zs. I'll have a little over hundred videos uploaded once this is finished.
For Final Fantasy themes, I already of most of the games for this platform available from the link below, but I still need to make one for Final Fantasy X and X International. I'm already using a theme made by someone else for X, but I will make a new one to finish out the PS2 themes for this series. I will upload those to that particular thread once they are done, instead of to this one, so check there if you are looking for them.
I've also already got a theme for Rez I made some time ago:
YouTube PS2 Playlist:
1. Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
2. Zone of the Enders
3. Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra
4. Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse5. Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht6. Wild Arms Alter Code: F7. Wild Arms 58. Wild Arms 49. Wild Arms 310. Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria11. Twisted Metal: Black12. Thunder Force VI13. Tales of the Abyss14. Tales of Legendia15. The Sword of Etheria16. Wild Arms 4 (version 2)17. Star Ocean: Till the End of Time18. Soul Calibur III19. Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves20. Sly 2: Band of Thieves21. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus22. Silent HIll 4: The Room23. Silent HIll 324. Silent Hill 225. Nightshade26. Shinobi27. Shadow of the Colossus28. Shadow Hearts: From the New World29. Shadow Hearts: Covenant30. Shadow Hearts31. Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 1: Phantasy Star Generation 132. Rygar: The Legendary Adventure33. R-Type Final34. Rogue Galaxy35. Rez (version 2)36. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal37. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando38. Ratchet & Clank39. Raiden III40. Radiata Stories41. Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams42. Onimusha 3: Demon Siege43. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny44. Onimusha: Warlords45. OKAGE: Shadow King46. Odin Sphere47. Final Fantasy X @Thornback48. Musashi: Samurai Legend49. Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks50. Metal Slug 651. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater52. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty53. Masters of the Universe Interactive - He-Man: Defender of Grayskull54. Maximo vs. Army of Zin55. Killzone @Thornback56. Black @Thornback
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Submitted08/04/2017
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Definitely not trying to be nosy and it's none of my business to know specifics and not interested in any sort of drama, but I'm getting a little bit concerned. Over the last month-ish, I've noticed there have been fewer updates to LB/BB than what Jason generally puts out.
I've also noticed the threads of people that watch the live streams and it seems that Jason is not doing those as of late. There also hasn't been a news upload since June 24th, though there have been some tutorials, so that's at least good.
I'm aware that Brad left a few weeks ago, so I figure it's maybe related, but it's been awfully quiet.
In any case, and again, I'm not interested in speculation or getting into other people's business or jumping the gun, so hopefully all is going well and we get some kind of update from Jason soon.
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PlayStation Now Category/Game Theme Video (16:9)
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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
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Submitted08/02/2017
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Yeah, awesome!
For tutorials, I recommend:
Video Co-Pilot. These guys are pros and make a lot of motion graphics for movies/TV. They sell a bunch of plugins for After Effects (most of which are pretty spendy), but they also show you how to do a lot of the stuff with what is already built-in to After Effects, which is pretty incredible. Most everything is really easy to follow, but some of the tutorials do require an intermediate understanding of how After Effects works. Youtube channel link below:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWp2Kj8aD9XlCGiIZzwHciw
I don't use these as much, but I'd also check out Kriscoart, Mt Mograph and RiverCityGraphix. Channel links below:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcck1Zdvdt5aML_O32Y_Adg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSUSgx9qc_NydrOL59xbJIA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuZiNqgNdWbtEg29tMLVaNg
For the art work, all of it is from Google image searches. Sometimes you'll be able to find character art already in PNG format with an alpha channel (background transparency), but frequently you'll have to use a wallpaper or something else and cut it out yourself.
@JamesBaker actually put up a few tutorials himself and the first one covers exactly how to do this in Photo Shop. If you don't have Photo Shop/don't want to pay for it, you can also use GIMP, which is free and is what I used for the last several years (only recently upgraded my Creative Cloud license to include all of Adobe's software). However, the pen tool in Photo Shop is significantly more powerful for cutting out images than the Fuzzy Select tool in GIMP is.
Jame's channel link below:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNgRrtLSth94xOHNUHqUfw
If you decide to just go with GIMP for now, I can tell you how to use the Fuzzy Select.
Hope this gets you going!
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PC Game Themes (16:9)
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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:
Spoiler1. Dead Space
2. Dead Space 2
3. Dead Space 3
4. Dragon Age Inquisition
5. Dragon Age II
6. Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition
7. Doom 3 BFG Edition (deleted)
8. RAGE
9. Mortal Kombat X (deleted)
10. Doom 3 BFG Edition (version 2) (deleted)
11. Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition
12. Lords of the Fallen
13. Castle of Illusion Remastered
14. Rez Infinite
15. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition
16. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
17. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate HD (deleted)
18. Advent Rising
19. Prey
20. FarCry 3: Blood Dragon
21. FarCry 3
22. FarCry 2: Fortune's Edition
23. FarCry ) (deleted)
24. Alien: Isolation (deleted)
25. Aliens vs Predator (2010)
26. Aliens: Colonial Marines
27. The Witcher III: Wild Hunt (version 2)
28. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition
29. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
30. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
31. Soma
32. Mega Man 2.5D (Fan-Made)
33. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (version 2)
34. Dark Souls II (version 2)
35. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (version 2)
36. Dark Souls III (version 2)
37. Doom (2016)
38. Mortal Kombat X (version 2) (deleted)
39. Half-Life
40. Black Mesa (Half-Life Remake/Fan-Made)
41. Half-Life 2
42. Half-Life 2: Update (Mod)
43. Half-Life 2: Episode One
44. Alien: Isolation (version 2)
45. Doom 3 BFG Edition (version 3) . (deleted)
46. Half-Life 2: Episode Two
47. Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
48. FarCry (version 2)
49. Alice: Madness Returns
50. Onechanbara Z2: Chaos
51. Dishonored
52. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (version 2)
53. Dishonored 2
54. Tomb Raider (2013)
55. Rise of the Tomb Raider
56. Tomb Raider: Legend
57. Tomb Raider: Underworld
58. Tomb Raider: Anniversary
59. Darksiders: Warmastered Edition
60. Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition
61. Mass Effect
62. Mass Effect 2
63. Mass Effect 3
64. Mass Effect: Andromeda
65. Mini Ninjas
66. Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
67. Ori and the Blind Forest
68. Halo 2
69. Resident Evil Zero Ø HD Remaster
70. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
71. Halo Online (AKA: EL Dewrito) - Fan-Made, multiplayer only hack/mod
72. Cuphead
73. Resident Evil 4
74. Warframe
75. Ryse: Son of Rome
76. Brütal Legend
77. System Shock 2
78. Prince of Persia (2008)
79. Psychonauts
80. Thief (2014)
81. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
82. Resident Evil HD Remaster
83. Resident Evil 5
84. Ghotstbusters The Video Game
85. Destiny 2
86. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
87. Alan Wake (deleted)
88. Alan Wake v2
89. Hollow Knight
90. Age of Empires II HD Edition
91. Assassin's Creed
92. Assassin's Creed II
93. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition
94. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
95. Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
96. Portal
97. Titanfall 2
98. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
99. Vanquish
100. Legend of Grimrock II
101. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (Releases on Steam 02/01/18!)
102. Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition (Releases on Steam 03/06/2018!)
103. Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
104. Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning
105. Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
106. Bionic Commando: Rearmed
107. Dark Souls Remastered
108. Wolfenstein: The New Order
109. Metro 2033 Redux
110. Metro Last Light Redux
111. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
112. The Messenger
113. Wolfenstein (2009)
114. Alan Wake's American Nightmare
115. Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
116. Batman: Arkham City GOTY
117. Assassin's Creed III
118. Fable III
119. FarCry 4
120. FarCry 5
121. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate HD (version 2)
122. Gears of War Ultimate Edition
123. Gears of War 4
124. Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance125. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time126. Silent Hill 2127. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell128. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction129. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory130. Tom Clancy's The Division131. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty132. Diablo II: Lord of Destruction133. Mirror's Edge Catalyst134. Nox135. Mirror's Edge136. Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
137. SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics (Mega Drive version)
138. SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics (Genesis version)
139. Syndicate (2012)
140. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
141. Grim Fandango Remastered
142. Jade Empire Special Edition143. Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition144. RAGE 2145. Final Fantasy VII (Cloud Version)146. Final Fantasy VII (Sephiroth Version)147. Final Fantasy VIII148. Final Fantasy IX (Bahamut Version)149. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag150. Battlefield 1151. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain152. Darksiders III153. Borderlands 3154. DOOM Eternal155. Mortal Kombat X (version 3)156. FarCry Primal ( @STAINLESS)157. Mortal Kombat 11158. FarCry New Dawn @STAINLESS159. DOOM 3 BFG Edition (ver 4)160. Halo: The Master Chief Collection161. The Surge162. The Outer Worlds
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Submitted08/01/2017
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6 hours ago, BlueArrowUK said:
FYI
I Stumbled on a really cool fan-Made game today. Mega Maker
Is basically a Mega Man version of Super Mario Maker for pc and it's free.
Just thought my fellow hacks and fan-made fans would be interested
https://mega-maker.com/index.html
Hey! This is sweet!
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So this is what I've got so far. This is cached at half resolution since it would have taken too long to cache at full, but I think it gives a good gist. Because it's just cache, there is a little warping/skipping in the audio/video, but they won't be there once rendered.
I'm still not sure on this, but I'm going to use the belt to feature the gameplay clips. I figure there tons of wrestling games, so I'm going to use all five "squares" on the belt. I thought it would be cool to transition to a Los Luchadores style about midway through, so the flag transitions to Mexico's and then I switched to a theme song for a Mexican tag team duo (OGT), but not sure I like it. Should I just keep it American wrestling? I don't know.
I'm also going to drop the light rigging fixtures if I can't get the lights to interact correctly with the belt, but I haven't started that yet, so they are still in there. Also still deciding on intro/transition stuff.
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1 hour ago, heelsinc said:
any update
I've still got one coming for ya. Haven't had a lot of time to devote to it the past week, but I have made some progress. I'll load a clip later today. I'm still unsure about it, though. I want to incorporate Los Luchadores wrestling into it, as well, but not sure how it fits overall. You'll have to see.
Also still not sure how I want to display the gameplay clips... or how to get the spotlight to work how I want it to, so might have to give up on that bit of it.
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11 hours ago, angelobodetti said:
Awesome!
Can I request 2 more playlist videos:
- Virtua Fighter Collection
- Mario Party CollectionThank you!
I'll see what I can come up with
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Sonic the Hedgehog Playlist Theme (16:9)
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This was requested by @BlueArrowUK. The filesize is a little bit large-ish (250MB), but it's also just over 4 minutes in length.
Hope you guys enjoy it!
Pixel art banner. Just put in the Banner folder in your Sonic Playlist folder.
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Submitted07/06/2017
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I've already got started on this, ha ha!
Here's a peek at the beginning. The video is going to be roughly 4:30, so it'll be biggish size-wise, but I think it's going to turn out awesome in the end.
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WiiWare Themes (16:9)
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This will be on hiatus after this initial upload until I am finished with the PlayStation themes (about half way finished).
However, I wanted to get this uploaded sooner than later. This was originally going to be for Mega Man 8 for PlayStation, but the Mega Man I wanted to use is actually from Mega Man 10 and then I realized I already have Mega Man 8 for Saturn, but I digress...
Anyhow, this theme is just as much a @JamesBaker theme as it is my own. James has started doing tutorials for Adobe Suite software and since I had questions about how to get Echo to work right, he used the Mega Man art I wanted to use in some tutorials covering those things, so a humongous thank you to him for giving some lessons and for giving detailed explanation for what is exactly occurring when applying effects and adjusting values.
Once I'm done with PlayStation, I'll finish this collection up next, though I don't have very many WiiWare titles.
1. Mega Man 10
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Submitted07/05/2017
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4 hours ago, BlueArrowUK said:
Hey @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT
Loving your playlist themes at the moment my friend, just wondered if I could put a request in for a Sonic the Hedgehog Playlist Theme
I'll totally try and come up with a cool theme for this!
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- Points 2 and 3 that @lordmonkus suggests
- The Clean up images tool to be a clean up media tool and include video/music/manuals that no longer have an associated game.
- The ability to mark a game as Completed while in BigBox and ability to delete games and associated media (I wouldn't consider this a new feature since it exists in LB). It's already possible to mark a games as a Favorite or Broken and you can even add games to Playlists while in BigBox, so it'd be nice to get some of these functions from LB rolled into BB.
- Additional apps being sorted in ascending order in BigBox. Example: If you have a Disc 02 and Disc 03, in LB, it will be in ascending order in the game's right-click menu. However, in BigBox, it lists them in descending order (e.g.: Disc 03 will come before Disc 02)
- @JaysArcade's suggestion about the non-repeating logo for platforms with few games in them. Perhaps adding a hard stop to the wheel scroll (so "Z" doesn't loop back to "A" and vice versa) would make that possible? Then it could be made a toggle feature in BigBox's options: Full Wheel scroll and Locked Wheel Scroll... or something like that?
How's it coming?
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I can definitely add those to my list. I've been trying to get PS2 and PC game themes done, so those are what I'm focusing on at the moment.
I've also got Shining Force collection, Virtua Fighter collection and Shmups collection themes planned.
However, that Looney Toons one sounded like fun, so I did get something started for it
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Muted the music so it would render quicker for the preview. Should have this one done pretty soon.