RetroHumanoid

Keep in mind any changes you make directly to the Default theme,will revert back to the default settings when you restart Big Box...you need to work off of a copy of the Default theme. You will need to change any references to the default theme,to point to your copy as well.

Unified Refried uses the following... *Box - 3D *Cart - Front *Clear Logo *Advertisement Flyer - Front *Arcade - Cabinet *Disc *Arcade - Marquee (Setting the 'Box - Back' priority to 'Arcade - Marquee' in Launchbox...it does not use 'Box - Back' artwork) And if you want the backgrounds for the default load screens to show,you will need to keep the 'Fanart - Background' art as well

No there isn't....is there any particular reason you wouldn't upgrade your version for it?...7.15 is pretty old at this point

The 2 white 32" on the left are my Main PC monitors...the small 19" tv is just a tv...and the 32" on the right is the Arcade Cabinet main screen,with a 25" marquee monitor above it. It is duplicated because I was running an Elgato HD to feed the Arcade/Game Consoles to my Main PC desktop,and the HDMI was run to the 19" tv so that I could play with no lag (because the elgato has about a 3-5 second lag time from source to elgato to obs) while sitting at the desk. I dropped that small tv while moving and it broke unfortunately...I was pretty happy with the setup,so it really sucked to lose the tv..but,it was a cheapy. I believe this pic was during my Hyperspin days...but,I have setup my marquee through Launchbox to look very similar to the setup in the pic when I converted over.

A few pics of my old game room (these are from 2016,so a few things were changed,but,for the most part it was the same)...I had to move about 6 months ago,and we are in a much smaller place atm,but,we are hopefully getting a nice big place again in a few weeks and I can take it all out of storage and set it up again. What isn't shown,is the shelf with all my PS1,PS2 and Sega games...as well as the closet packed with crap I found cheap at yard sales,but,will probably never use,lol

I didn't use photoshop for the theme...it was assembled in Gimp actually. I used default borders for every system and built onto them with layers of prepared artwork...just kinda eyeballing placements for each one. Here are the borders I used.. Refried Borders.zip Not much else to it really Happy New Year to you as well!

Sorry for the delay...holidays and stuff,still recovering... I really appreciate the share,and can definitely tell you put alot of work into this thing. Your collection is definitely leagues above what I have as far as pdf files. I haven't had the chance to place it into big box yet,but,I can already tell that now I have to do this with my comics and magazines,lol.

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This is awesome...as I currently have a large pdf collection already,I would love to get ahold of your premade setup (minus the actual books)...It would look great in my setup,and make D&D night more convenient. I will have to make a platform category video for "Books & Magazines" now if I set this up

Check the priority list in Launchbox options..make sure you have Background Fanart turned on (Check marked)

You have to disable it in Launchbox and Bigbox options...there are two places

Jason is right..I am currently working on one with a default background for every platform...and it will be very "tweakable"...I am putting every project on hold at the moment though due to the holidays,but,I will pick it back up after new years,and it shouldn't take long to get the initial setup out.

I was responding to OP...you typed a reply the same time I did. I realize there is much more to RL...I have devoted the last 4-5 years of my creativity bug to RL and the media it displays.

Look in your Backups folder...there should be a file,or files like the ones highlighted in the picture below...copy the one with the most recent date,into the root of the Data folder and rename it to Parents.xml

I remember having to actually start the program up,and save the settings from within MAME,in order for it to create the ini file

The Launchbox startup isn't breaking the emulator...the emulator is RocketLauncher...which it is loading fine. Once it loads RocketLauncher,it puts it in focus,which covers up the emulator that RocketLauncher is loading. It's simply not compatible with RocketLauncher...and probably never will be,as it is there to be an alternative to RocketLauncher...not work side-by-side with it.

These marquees can be located in the "Unified Refried - Arcade" addon theme,and there are 8 of them currently...noone else was working on them except me as far as I know...and I am not currently working on them...I will,but,it's just not high on the priority list yet. If other people would like to work on them,they are more than welcome to.

Fixed and reuploaded the Region logos...Europe and North America were changed

Here is another mockup of a platform specific theme for the main menu,this time the SNES...

for the main menu...it would be the default theme,with platform specific borders and artwork...like the pic above for nes. It's probably confusing now that I think about it. Not the Game Views...the Platform views. The only thing I have to get sorted before I work on the art,is transitioning from one system to the next gracefully.

Another Idea I have been throwing around today btw...custom themes per platform for the main platform category view of Refried...but,who knows if I will have time for this anytime soon...it would take a bit of work.

SNES Startup...takes about 5 minutes for each one now that I got the base one done..

This is what I got so far..