faeran

February 11, 2018

On 2/7/2018 at 3:35 PM, dig311dug said:

If my calculations are correct...

gamecube time !!

some day

You, sir, have one good calculator.

CoverBox - GameCube has just been released. Theme inspired by the GameCube game box.

February 4, 2018

CoverBox - N64 has now been released. The theme contains 1 view that resembles the N64 game box. Other details include:

Utilizes your 4:3 video snaps and clear logos.
Updated Community Star Rating graphics to match the era
Complete set of ESRB rating graphics that match the era and dynamically change depending on game rating
Dynamically changing controller graphics that change depending on Play Mode

Enjoy!

January 31, 2018

54 minutes ago, dig311dug said:

any hints on upcoming system potentials faeran?

Next up is Nintendo 64. However, it is still in the design phase. Here is a sneak peak.

January 30, 2018

@Retro808 You are right, there is one more step to this.

You will need to go into CoverBox - SNES MSU1\Views\ and open the TextGamesView.xaml file in a text editor.

Use the find and replace feature of the text editor to replace any instance of CoverBox - SNES with CoverBox - SNES MSU1

There should only be 2.

January 30, 2018

4 minutes ago, Retro808 said:

@faeran Is there an easy way for me to make a copy of SNES theme and use it for another system? I have SNES MSU1 as a platform. It looks like I can easily edit the background .png to add an MSU1 logo. Just not sure if it is as simple as making a copy of the SNES Cover theme and rename it to like SNES MSU1 Cover and edit the .png to get it to work as I want.

@Retro808 It should be that easy. Make another copy of the CoverBox - SNES folder, call it whatever you what, like CoverBox - SNES MSU1. Then just edit the image with the MSU1 logo that is located inside of that folder. You should be good to go.

January 28, 2018

Added CoverBox - NES, a theme dedicated to the Nintendo Entertainment System. It comes in 2 flavors and is now available to download.

January 28, 2018

Updated to 1.0.1 to fix some bugs. Namely to fix community star ratings.

January 28, 2018

CoverBox

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The CoverBox project is one where my goal is to recreate retro console's boxart as a BigBox Theme.

Each theme is designed for 1080p.

P.S. I created graphic assets for the star ratings. Please feel free to use them in your theme.

With the release of CoverBox 4.0, the theme has been completely ported over to the COMMUNITY Theme Creator. I now included the COMMUNITY Theme Creator files that you can use to load into the CTC to make any edits that you'd like. Please follow these instructions to do so:

Make sure you already have a copy of the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and you have it set up (link below)
Download both the Theme files and COMMUNITY Theme Creator files
Extract the COMMUNITY Theme Creator files into your COMMUNITY Theme Creator\My Theme Projects folder (don't forget to right click the archive, go into properties, and unblock the file)
Open the Theme files zip, go into the Fonts folder and install all the fonts in there.
Open the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, you should now find it in the dropdown list of themes

Installation Instructions

Download the CoverBox - Theme Files.zip file.
Right click the file, go to properties and make sure to unblock the file
Open the zip file and place the folder into the LaunchBox\Themes folder
Select the CoverBox theme in BigBox

CoverBox Images

List of Supported Platforms

Spoiler

Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
ColecoVision
Mattel Intellivision
NEC TurboGrafx-16
Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo ENtertainment System
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo 64
Nintendo DS
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii U
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Color
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Sega Master System
Sega Mark III
Sega Genesis
Sega Mega Drive
Sega 32X
Sega Game Gear
Sega CD
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
SNK Neo Geo AES
Sony PlayStation
Sony PlayStation 2
Arcade
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
NEC PC Engine
Nintendo Famicom
Nintendo Famicom Disk System
Nintendo Pokemon Mini
SNK Neo Geo CD
Sony PSP
Nintendo Switch
Microsoft Xbox
Windows
SNK Neo Geo Pocket
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
WonderSwan
WonderSwan Color
GCE Vectrex
3DO Interactive Multiplayer

Thanks

y2guru and his COMMUNITY Theme Creator
This theme utilizes Styphelus' System Boxes by Styphelus
Anyone who has ever contributed to this project over the years.

Submitter

faeran
Submitted

01/27/2018
Category

Custom Themes

May 4, 2017

13 hours ago, Styphelus said:

Love this theme but I have 2 questions

1. Is it possible to move the logo and video to the center and have the box cover on the right side? I think that would balance it out more

2. Is it possible to remove the blur and use platform backgrounds just like the default big box themes? In my current setup i have each platform set to use a specific background with the exception of windows where i use specific backgrounds for each game.

Thanks @Styphelus.

@keltoigael is right. Blur would just be a simple number that needs to be reduced to 0. Inside of the Background with Blur section of the code, you'll see a BlurEffect Radius="80". That radius number would just need to be brought down to 0, and the blur would be gone.

To swap the logo/video with the box cover, it would be a matter of swapping grid location, and changing the sizes of the grids. Here, I took my main theme and made the changes for you so you can see what it looks like. Just place the folder in your themes folder and check it out. Let me know if you have any issues:

RetroFresh - Styphelus.zip

April 27, 2017

4 hours ago, Porl Hendy said:

Still lovin this theme. Is there a way i can make the wheel fade out a bit more, if not completely fade out? thanks

Hey @Porl Hendy. There should be a way for you to get a completely faded out wheel.

Just go into the Views folder in the theme, and open up the xaml file that you want to change. For example: PlatformWheel1FiltersView.xaml

In the code you will see a WHEEL FADE STORYBOARD section, and you just need to replace the numbers "0.05" to "0.00". Save the file and you will be good to go. You just need to do this for any view that you want completely faded away. Let me know if you have any issues.

March 18, 2017

3 hours ago, Panthon13 said:

For some reason, I cannot get the platform clear logo to appear in the top right box in the Horizontal Wheel 1 game view. It's just blank. This is in the detailed version.

It's probably my error, but what setting do I need on for that to work? Or am I just lacking a certain pack of images?

Thanks!~

Hey @Panthon13. platform logos are being pulled from

[launchbox folder]/Images/Platforms/[platformname]/Clear Logo/

check each of your platforms to make sure you have a clear logo in there. The clear logo should have the complete name of the platform, and be a png image (ie. Nintendo Entertainment System.png)

March 18, 2017

On 2/28/2017 at 5:50 PM, Mrtots said:

Hey Faeran great work! Am loving RetroFresh as its one of the cleanest and lightweight themes around.

One (slight) hiccup is that am having some trouble with manually updated clear logos in the games view. (using manage platform)..

Within the platforms view all looks great (Pic1), - Neo-geo, CPS2 and Cave have been manually updated in launchbox -

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Auto populated clear logos work fine (pic 2),

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But are missing when updated. is is CPS2 (displayed as arcade before)

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Cave is an experiment with the new custom playlists. And displaying as arcade for some reason. Any ideas on a fix?

Hey @Mrtots. Sorry, been MIA. I haven't played around with playlists yet, but what the code does is pick the platform for the active game, and looks in images/platforms/clear logo/ folder for a png file with the platform name. I'll have to see how exactly playlists will work to figure out exactly what I can do about them displaying the correct logo.

February 27, 2017

4 hours ago, Phoenix415 said:

this has been my main theme for a few weeks now, really liking it. i prefer the clean designs like this!

I'm not sure how hard it would be (or even if it is something you or anyone else would want) but one change that would make it easier to use for me would be:

1. during the searches, when bringing up the alphabet menu, rather than pressing up and down to cycle through letters it feels more natural to press left and right, then press up and down to get in and our of the menu. just a thought.

keep up the good work mate!

Thanks @Phoenix415

I see what you mean. In order to accomplish this, I'll have to figure out some code. But I have some time, so I'll add it to the list for the next update.

February 26, 2017

6 hours ago, GreenGriffon said:

Hi Faeran,

First of all, awesome theme. I try just about every theme that pops up here, and although the competition is fierce with some absolutely stunning themes, I think yours is exactly what I'm looking for....thank you!

Something that I just noticed that I'm hoping you can fix. It seems that when a clear logo has its text completely in black, it disappears from your scroll wheel. You can see it when that particular logo is the active highlighted one, otherwise it disappears. This is most noticeable in Sega Master System games, where many of the logos are done completely in black text.

Any way to fix this? It's a pretty noticeable issue.

Hopefully this screenshot illustrates what I mean. Look at the scroll bar below.

Thanks,

GG

Thanks @GreenGriffon.

I understand what you are talking about, it happens when you have the black logo in front of a dark background. I'll see what I can do about making the logo visible for the next update.

February 21, 2017

1 minute ago, denmiclaw said:

I'd appreciate it! Mainly I wanted it for the Arcade games, since there's more than a few that have multiple versions - 2p vs 4p Gauntlet, etc

I used the download link from the 1st page. Everything shows up, but the backgrounds are simply black. This is on the Main menu, and individual platform views - I get the text, video, wheel, and box art.

I do have screenshots for each game, they show up in regular Launchbox, I thought that was what Retrofresh used. Like I said, I'm sure it's a setting I probably turned off, but I don't know what it is

Thanks for your help!

Just spit balling before my class begins... I believe Launchbox tries to use fanart - background images as default for the backgrounds. There should be a setting somewhere to also include screenshots if you don't have any fanart images for a game. There should also be a setting to use clear logos in the background if you don't have either of those.

Off the top of my head, I can't remember where those options are located. It could be either a bigbox option, or a launchbox option that needs to be selected. I may have more time to look later, but at least that should give you some idea.

February 21, 2017

17 hours ago, denmiclaw said:

First off, I love this theme, clean, just what I'm looking for. I only have two problems that I'm quite sure are my own doing, perhaps someone could help with?

I'm using Game Vertical Wheel View 2 - and I don't have the blurred backgrounds in any games - I'm sure it's a simple setting somewhere, but I can't find it.

Second - is there ANY way, in the game details, change it to show the number of players?

Thanks very much for this theme, and for any help!

Thanks @denmiclaw. I'm not entirely sure why your backgrounds are not blurred, they definitely should be. Which version of RetroFresh are you using? and are they blurred for other views?

I like the idea of including the number of players. I'm in the process of updating the theme a bit, so I might just throw that in there with the next release.

February 12, 2017

On 2/10/2017 at 9:41 AM, Porl Hendy said:

Great theme, would it be possible on system theme to have the system name (gameboy color, arcade, ect ect ) fade out so we can enjoy fullscreen video. A bi like hyperspin when wheel fades away after a second. Thanks

Thanks @Porl Hendy. It seems like this should be possible. If I ever get time to look into this, I'll add it to the theme.

February 12, 2017

On 2/6/2017 at 5:20 PM, oilertitanfan said:

Is there a way to use the simple theme but have scrolling meta data notes only in the game details screen?

Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

Hi @oilertitanfan. Looks like the game details screen takes on the properties of the game list view. I made a custom version that will do what you want. Hopefully it works for you. Good luck.

RetroFresh 1.3 custom.zip

February 5, 2017

20 hours ago, ciskohansen said:

Any update? I love this theme

Enviado desde mi MX5 mediante Tapatalk

Thanks @ciskohansen,

I'm pretty satisfied with the way this theme turned out after the latest update. If you have anything particular you would like to see, let me know.

January 29, 2017

2 hours ago, NintendudeCT said:

Hey man, this is by far my favorite theme yet. I noticed that some platforms seem to use the Clear Logo instead of the boxart. I can't tell if it's something on my end or intentional, but was just wondering. I do have the images set to boxart. Thanks!

Thanks @NintendudeCT,

Try this:

Open up LaunchBox.
Open up each system you are having issues with and then click on the Image Type dropdown menu, and choose Boxes.

Now open up BigBox and let me know if that fixed your problem.

January 29, 2017

2 hours ago, Kriven said:

I know this isn't what you went with, but can a view like this be implemented? It's such a clean look.

Hey @Kriven,

Sure. I've updated RetroFresh to 1.3 with that view.

Let me know if you find any issues.

January 22, 2017

4 hours ago, BlueArrowUK said:

Hey @faeran

Noticed a small issue with platform view 2, it seems that if you don't have a platform video the standard gameplay video doesn't fill the whole box.

Hey @BlueArrowUK,

You are right. The issue here is that I set the grid background to fit the size of a 16:9 aspect ratio video, so any other videos that are not in that widescreen format will not fit to the edges. I played around with trying to stretch 4:3 videos to fit without any luck.

January 22, 2017

Update 1.2 has been posted on the Downloads page. Lots of information can be found there.

Here is the basic change log:

Spoiler

Created an alternate version of RetroFresh (called RetroFresh Detailed), which adds game descriptions to each game view
New Platform theme added - It is a vertical platform wheel view with a large video and platform description (this view utilizes your platform fanart)
The selected game on the game wheels now glows
The Game Wheels are now Unified: The Horizontal Game Wheel now has the same look as the Vertical Game Wheel
Experimental: Added a 4th game view to the main RetroFresh theme designed to be used with 4:3 Game Theme videos, this may be tweaked/altered in future versions

Hope people enjoy. Let me know if you run into any issues with this new update. I might have missed something.

January 21, 2017

1 hour ago, DJFallout said:

That did it! Thank you sir! Although oddly enough, I know that in all the tutorial vids Brad always says to use VLC, however in my case, VLC makes the videos choppy and slightly distorted. Windows media player is playing back the vids buttery smooth. I'd love to do the City Hunter background, but VLC doesn't like BigBox for some reason. It'll play the .mp4 ouside of BigBox no problem. Not sure if anyone else has come across that or not. *shrugs

I'm glad you managed to work it out. I feel yeah about VLC, as it's also buggy on my system. I usually switch to WMP in BigBox, but neither are really great on my system.

Maybe at some point we'll see integration for the open source media player mpv, if that's even possible.

January 20, 2017

1 hour ago, DJFallout said:

Hey guys! So I feel kind of stupid, when I select 'RetroFresh 1.1' as a theme within BigBox, it reverts back to the default theme when I got back into BigBox. So I'm not actually getting the theme. I followed the instructions, put it in the Theme folder, installed the fonts, and went into BigBox and switched to that theme, but it doesn't seem to be working. *shrugs Any ideas would be great. Thank you! Can't wait to use the new theme!

Hey @DJFallout, thanks for trying out the theme.

I'm currently in a class for the next 4 hours, so if I can't figure it out for you, maybe somebody else can.

First question:

Did you extract the RetroFresh folder from the zip file, and place it into the Themes folder, or did you place the RetroFresh zip file into the Themes folder?

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