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Make sure you refresh platform logos in the options menu after you place a new logo in the folder
All Locations.....
Launchbox/Images/Playlists/(Genre Type)/Clear Logo/
Launchbox/Images/Playlists/(Platform All Games)/Clear Logo/
Launchbox/Images/Playlists/(Platform Favorites)/Clear Logo/
Launchbox/Images/Playlists/(Platform Cooperative)/Clear Logo/
Launchbox/Images/Playlists/(Platform MultiPlayer)/Clear Logo/
Launchbox/Images/Playlists/(Platform Single Player)/Clear Logo/
Launchbox/Images/Platform Categories/(Platform Genres)/Clear Logo/
Launchbox/Images/Platform Categories/(Platform Play Modes)/Clear Logo/
Launchbox/Images/Platform Categories/(Platform Regions)/Clear Logo/
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Or my theme...I have over 200 platforms covered atm.
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20 minutes ago, sundogak said:
Thanks for all the work on this theme.
In the Arcade specific theme I notice that all work as expected except the "Pinball Arcade" playlist. If LB auto generates the playlist it uses the Unique Name as Pinball Arcade and Nested Name of Pinball Arcade (which doesn't match the others). If use this, then theme uses the default art (not Arcade default). If rename playlist to something like "Arcade Pinball" which matches the other arcade playlist naming conventions it will pickup the arcade default theme cabinet art but still not the specific one for Pinball Arcade. I noticed in the Images folder of the Arcade theme it uses the name "Arcade Pinball". I tried renaming my playlist a variety of different ways to match as well as the pinball arcade theme art but it never picks up the specific version. Not super critical but likely a naming issue somewhere.
Yeah...it's the only problematic Arcade playlist. I renamed mine to "Arcade Pinball" because I have a program called "Pinball Arcade" on my cabinet,and it conflicts with it in terms of artwork/platform video. Mine is displaying the artwork fine though,and all I did was change the playlist and nested name to "Arcade Pinball"...the videoborder and background should be named "Arcade Pinball" as well.
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So the way I originally was doing it,by changing the Auto Generating Filter from Platform to Genre...It didn't work in the end...for some reason most playlists were fine....but,then I got to "Platform Games" and the change made it create a playlist with 2600 games in it...so I knew then it wasn't gonna work.It wasn't creating a filter for MAME Genre...it was just nullifying it as a filter because MAME Genre doesn't exist.
That's the bad news...the good news is that after alot of trial and error,I managed to get it working a different way.
I deleted the filter for Platform/Arcade altogether and added one for Application/Rom Path - Contains instead. I typed in my Rom directory and voila! It works. I have put this filter in for every Classics as well as every Genre playlist for MAME,and they all are correct,and functioning with the correct artwork....but,most importantly they are nested.
I noticed that even on the top level,non nested user created playlists used the default artwork instead of the designated art...but this filter change fixed that too.
This is only an issue with arcade...consoles are fine
Anyone with my theme,wishing to do this as a fix/temp fix will need to drop the word arcade from the front of the playlists as well....or alternatively you can go into the images folder and add the word Arcade to the start of the VideoBorders and Backgrounds for Arcade playlists (This is the suggested method,because moving forward,all updates to my theme will have Arcade at the front of the playlist cabinet art file names)...either method will work.
Now,with all this said @Jason Carr I am just curious if changing the way Auto Generated playlists for Arcade are created,filters I mean....and having it auto enter the mame rom path,leaving off the Platform/Arcade filter altogether would be the easiest way to fix this?.....then playlists can be nested and use the proper art. People have to point Launchbox to the mame rom directory when they import the roms,even before making the playlists...so it stores that info already. Or if that's to difficult,maybe when they are prompted to create the playlists,they point to the roms again for that separate task? Just spit-balling here.
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On 11/3/2018 at 12:03 PM, zetec-s-joe said:
Just wondered what sound pack you are using RH?
Also, it might be seen in this test video I've made (ignore missing metadata) but it seems like I get video tearing on the theme videos when on that particular platform select wheel, if i change to the view that they are fullscreen it goes away, Maybe framerate issue on my screen? its a weird oneMind if I link to this video in the theme description? I would make my own,but my Elgato is acting funny lately and not holding the signal
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23 hours ago, Certifiedhalo said:
Just to second this. I too get really bad screen tearing with this theme, even on full screen videos. Apart from this my build is now perfect. Anybody any suggestions for things to try?
Hmm..I am not experiencing the screen tearing on my end...not sure what could be causing it,and if I am not getting it,it's tough to figure out how to fix it
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9 minutes ago, djsupermariooo said:
First off, amazing work Retro! Really enjoying this theme, thank you so much for putting in the time and hard work to make this!
Quick question though, I have BB view set to Platform Categories and my categories so far consist of Arcade, Collections, Computers, Console, and Handhelds (using your neon platform category videos!). For the Collections category, I am unable to find a background/video border for that category. I'm just wondering if that's something that is available, or if you might have a better suggestion on how to organize these categories to use resources that might already be in the theme. I'm planning on doing Genre, Year, or Developer categories within each platform so I'm also wondering about backgrounds/video borders in that scenario as well.
There is a Collections Addon available on the Unified Refried download page...it's the first theme at the top of the download list. You will have to activate it for every collection wheel,but,all of the art is in there for backgrounds and borders. I do have a Genres addon there as well,but,the developers one was never fully completed,so I haven't released it yet
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25 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
What I don't understand is how the Genre field would ever have "Arcade" in it. Do the genres on your games include the word "Arcade"? I feel like I'm really missing something here because none of this is making sense to me lol.
I have updated all metadata yesterday...My genres are the same as yours I promise you,lol. I am using an auto generated Beat Em Ups playlist as well. I am just showing what worked...I have no clue how either,but,it does...I am doing it to all of the Genre lists atm and they are all working.
The problem though,is that I also have a Classics sub-menu,which houses all of my Arcade Classics playlists....and nothing seems to fix those
31 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:I'm not fully following here either, but wouldn't changing the favorites theme from "Nintendo Entertainment System Favorites" to "Nintendo Entertainment System" cause it to display the favorites theme for straight up NES?
My NES theme,and Favorites Themes are 2 separate themes....so while you would use the NES theme on the Games Wheel...you could use the NES Favorites theme on the Favorites playlist. They call to different assets,in different folders...so any changes I make in the Favorites theme,don't effect the NES Addon theme
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16 minutes ago, CDBlue said:
Quick question to @RetroHumanoid about your refried theme. Not sure if this is a bug with the theme or with BB, as I haven't tested this with other similar themes (Unified Redux etc), but I noticed if I use the Text List With Details view, and then click the game to get to the Game Details page, the theme looks correct (keeps the theme look/feel - ie. wii look, widescreen video, artwork, etc.). However, if I'm using any of the other views for the game screen (wheel 2, 3, etc.), and click the button to get to the game details screen, it seems to switch back to the default looks/feel of the default theme instead of the addon theme I'm using for that platform.
Here's an example of what I mean for the Wii U platform. I've got the main theme set to Unified Refried, and the Wii U platform set to use the theme Unified Refried - Nintendo Wii U. I've got the game view set to wheel 2.
Game view:
Click to get to the game detail view:
Anyway, thought I'd bring it to you guy's attention in case it's something that's fixable at some point in the future
This is a limitation of the TextGamesView...nothing can be changed as of now...and it is actually working as it should be
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14 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Interesting. If you change the above, though, it's likely to change the games that are listed in the playlist. It also won't solve the other issue with all non-arcade playlists.
It does not change the games in the playlist...checked a few genres and they all are accurate after the change (amount of games is exactly the same)
Also,I just figured out the Favorites issue @angelobodetti was having,which is the only other issue with this as of now...It was a naming issue. I changed the VideoBorder name in my favorites theme from "Nintendo Entertainment System Favorites" to "Nintendo Entertainment System" dropping the favorites tag,and it works fine...so I will have to rename all my art and re-release the Favorites theme
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I may be on to something though @Jason Carr
Check this out...
This is with art assets named "Arcade Beat Em Ups" in the folders...
I should also note,that Platform/Contains/Arcade shows the same results as the first pic (ie; incorrect artwork) ...It was only when I switched the first option to "Genre" instead of "Platform" that it worked...of course adding "Contains" as well.
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6 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
I believe this is because the KnownPlatformOrPlaylistTitle property is returning the full name instead of the nested name in that case. We could get around it immediately by just making sure that there are files named "Arcade Midway Classics" instead of or in addition to "Midway Classics". I can probably tweak the property though for future versions to make up for this regardless. Thanks Retro.
Unfortunately I can verify this is not the problem...
Take "Beat Em Ups" for example... I have it under Arcade>Genres>Beat Em Ups>GamesView
I have tried naming the VideoBorder
Arcade Beat Em Ups
Arcade Genres Beat Em Ups
Arcade Genres Arcade Beat Em Ups
Genres Beat Em Ups
Genres Arcade Beat Em Ups
And none of them showed the correct VideoBorder...it always shows the Arcade VideoBorder from the Parent
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2 hours ago, Ginsonic said:
Thanks for your great work RetroHumanoid!
I tried to download Arcade theme 1.6, but the zip file seems to be corrupt. Could you check it again please?
should be good now
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Alright...I figured out the issue,and tested Redux to have the same exact problem...so it isn't the theme. @Jason Carr I will tag you ,as I am sure you would like to hear about the issue as well,so maybe there is a fix of some kind.
This pertains to the "KnownPlatformorPlaylistTitle" command recently added.
If your Arcade Platform List looks like this:
Then everything works fine with the command...but,if your setup looks like this...
Then it does not display the designated artwork for the ones underlined in red,instead it shows the artwork from the root parent,which is "Arcade". Although it does display the artwork correctly for green,and possibly blue,but that wasn't verified.When I change to "FilterTitle" it works perfectly across all Arcade Platforms/Playlists no matter how nested they are...but,it also borks up the rest of the systems in the theme (Consoles,Handhelds,etc)
I know this was tested before release,and I said it was good..but,I just started to deal with nested categories after someone mentioned an issue yesterday,and then after a day of tinkering,found this to be the issue. When I made changes that fixed it for them,it broke it for me...and vice versa...turns out,it's because we use different menu systems in our setup.
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30 minutes ago, ed20910 said:
I knew i should have went to bed. lol in testing with platform category view, the arcade systems/playlists do not have the specific video borders anymore. I noticed the border images were moved out of the default theme/video border folder and put in the arcade add on's video border folder. if i copy the borders over to the default they work fine. also, i have a couple of arcade playlists in my main platform wheel and when using the platform view, they lacked the proper border. again, copying the borders over fixed the issue. not sure of the other issues but it was working pretty good after the couple of tweaks earlier today. ?
Ok..either you are doing something really right...or i'm doing something really wrong...
You are saying,that in the default theme,with no addon enabled,you can see (for example) the Konami Classics arcade machine border,while browsing the Konami Classics games wheel?...and all you had to do was drop the borders back into the default themes videoborder folder?
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1 minute ago, ed20910 said:
is this to fix the issue i had earlier today? or were there other changes?
Some discs were not spinning in the Consoles addons....and I have reworked the Arcade theme,as well as how the Default theme handles playlists...you probably want to update,as there were more problems then what you were experiencing
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Released version 1.6.1 with changes to the Console,Arcade,and Default themes...do not overwrite the themes...you must delete the old ones and place the new versions in the theme folder
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1 hour ago, CDBlue said:
@RetroHumanoid Small bug I noticed in today's update. The WiiU addon no longer has spinning disk animation. Not sure if this was intentional, or just missed. Anyway, thought I'd mention it in case it was not intentional.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention...it's not intentional. I have a couple other things to go over with the default theme,as apparently it's not playing well with the changes in arcade playlists...after i sort it out I will update with the wii-u theme fixed,as well as any other bug reports.
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1 minute ago, ed20910 said:
That fixed it!!
One other thing i noticed in going through the different views and add-on themes is the box art seems to vary in size from view to view and even the add-on sometimes has a different size. Was this intentional? I havent dug into the xaml code to see if i can maybe spot the line that references and see the size differences. I was happy i found the setting to enable 4x3. Go me.
The box/cart/disc art sizes are somewhat intentional...I have planned to go through each theme and resize/finalize/fix positioning for that stuff...but,just haven't had the time
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41 minutes ago, alnyden said:
Thanks for the updates! Did these favorite/playlist icons make it into the new update, or is this something separate?
Thanks again Retro!
Not yet...it's a separate thing....i'm still working on them a bit
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14 minutes ago, ed20910 said:
go into "WheelGamesView","Wheel2GamesView", and "Wheel3GamesView" xaml files in the default theme....change the instances that say FilterTitle to KnownPlatformOrPlaylistTitle
Save them and see if this fixes it...it shoud...somehow the default slipped by me for that change
"TextGamesView" as well
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1 hour ago, ed20910 said:
LB 9.1 and new Refried 1.6. When i use the platform category view, i am still getting the Arcade video border in "All Games" and no platform logo above the video in the other playlists for categories other than arcade. The arcade platform category works perfectly, showing the playlist in the arcade marquee and changing the video border. This was an issue before, was this fixed in the 1.6 update or is it just my setup?
Is this in the Default theme,or are you using the Arcade addon? When you say "categories other than arcade", do you mean consoles and handheld system playlists show no logo?
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