RetroHumanoid

For those that are interested...I added a Hacks video to the Platform Category set in the downloads section. It was a patreon request,but,I decided to make it public.

Oh man...maybe we need to stop uploading so much stuff!!!...j/k ...i'm re-uploading right now

RetroHumanoid Developers Video Set View File A set of 22 Developer Playlist category videos. Just a handful of my favorite developers,and I do plan to add some more to this set in the future. These match my previous sets which can be found here... Submitter RetroHumanoid Submitted 11/10/2018 Category Playlist Theme Videos

So what happens is...the 70+ SNES titles that begin with the word "Super" get all mixed up,and sorted by year,instead of alphabetical....

Then all of the games that start with "Super" or "Space" would be way out of order...and there are tons of those

yeah...looks like i got a couple mixed up...ill fix them and reupload

That's wierdly the same exact issue I had,if you remember Jason...but,it got fixed in the following beta after I brought up the issue. I did upgrade to the current beta this morning,and noticed a small amount of lag has returned...but,it's not as bad as it was before. Technically not "fixed" ,but more like "upgraded"....

Arcade Theme 1.5.2 - Now displays Clear Logo when no Marquee is present Last update for this theme...i'm probably driving the average downloader nuts by now...

honestly,getting the logos to show is the easy part...it's modifying the 65+ different arcade pictures that is the real work. Like I mentioned though,I plan on doing it at some point.

That was actually my first plan...and the default marquees are on the cabinet art (It's one picture). I have defaults that I use for my actual marquee monitor above my cabinet,that I was going to put on the cabinet pictures instead (like below),and have the clear logos in the center...but,that is a bit of work,and something for another update in the future.

Besides the odd fix,and revamping the whole thing to a 2.0 if Jason works on the details view...I will just be adding themes for more platforms until I have them mostly covered. I also have to make the videos for the new added platforms,and any future ones I add. After this next batch of videos is done though,I take a short break.

here are the new instructions...and the new theme has been uploaded... *Capable of displaying Marquees for each game in the marquee area of the cabinets In order to make this work properly,you must go into LaunchBox options,and change the priority for Cart Back Image to Arcade - Marquee,and uncheck anything else. This has been updated from the previous method,and if you still have the version where you have to add marquees to the theme folder,i highly suggest you update it again to this new version.

Ok...so I got it figured out now..it's a bit non-conventional,but,it works until something better comes along,and it requires the user to perform 1 thing to make it work. I will update the Arcade theme with new instructions in a bit.

I'm gonna take a look at the code and work with it a bit...there has to be a better way for marquees. I will reference my actual marquee xaml's and see if the code can be used from that in a way that doesn't require so much work from the users end. Maybe I rushed the arcade theme a bit too fast,but,hey...it's something for people to mess with I guess.

@ed20910 Thanks for the heads up on the issue...and sorry for the confusion...I have updated the description on the theme page

Hmm...looks like symbolic links won't work the way I thought they would then unfortunately...I will change the theme description and get rid of that line. The only way is to name them after the rom and place them in the theme images folder as stated,or to symbolic link and rename them to the rom name. If jason implements a priority list for marquees in LaunchBox,this will be solved and real easy to get working 100%. As far as the 3d box...that is in the theme...it's the disc/cart art that isn't. If you want to turn on the disc cart art,then you can open wheel3gamesview or wheel4gamesview and scroll till you see this... <!-- DISC X-AXIS MOVEMENT <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(TransformGroup.Children)[2].(TranslateTransform.X)" Storyboard.TargetName="DiscImage"> <EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:0.4" Value="4000"/> <EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:1.6" Value="0"/> </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames> --> Then scroll to this... <!-- DISC IMAGE <Image x:Name="DiscImage" Grid.Column="4" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.Row="3" Grid.RowSpan="3" Source="{Binding Path=ActiveGame.CartFrontImagePath}" Opacity="100" Panel.ZIndex="9" Margin="-200,0,125,-150" Stretch="Uniform" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Left" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5"> <Image.RenderTransform> <TransformGroup> <ScaleTransform/> <RotateTransform /> <TranslateTransform X="4000"/> </TransformGroup> </Image.RenderTransform> </Image> --> Erase the parts in blue and then save it...you will have carts/discs