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BannerBox View File Welcome to Faeran's BannerBox. A horizontal banner based theme, inspired by 80s retro. This theme requires that you be running LaunchBox 11.10 or later due to its reliance on the new wheel. The following info is now considered legacy: Download banners created by the community in this thread: BannerBox Community Banner Thread - Platform Media - LaunchBox Community Forums (launchbox-app.com) Looking to create your own theme? Learn how by: Following me on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/retrofaeran Subscribing to me on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2C5q0Muy-ehYpZUIIdJ94Q CREDITS ---------------------------- Theme was created by @faeran Theme was created using the COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru Theme uses some amazing artwork by Rachid Loft. Find his work at: https://rachidlotf.com/ Submitter faeran Submitted 04/13/2020 Category Big Box Custom Themes

ArtBook - [Theme Stream] View File Retro Faeran's Theme Stream In every Theme Stream, I build a BigBox theme from the ground up for the program LaunchBox, using the COMMUNITY Theme Creator. Then, I release the Theme, as well as the Theme Creator Files to you, so you can play, learn, and edit the theme to your heart's content. If you are interested in creating themes, follow me on Twitch, or watch the videos later on YouTube. Watch Previous Broadcasts Theme Stream #1 - ArtBook - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5d1e8KOIc In this post you can download the ArtBook theme that was built during the stream. ArtBook is a port of the ES theme of the same name by alphatoanant. Instructions ArtBook Theme.zip - BigBox theme. Place extracted folder in your LAUNCHBOX\Themes folder ArtBook - COMMUNITY Project files.zip - Creator Project files. Place extracted folder in your COMMUNITY\My Theme Projects folder Credits Original theme by alphatoanant. Find it here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11728/theme-art-book COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ My Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/retrofaeran My YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2C5q0Muy-ehYpZUIIdJ94Q Submitter faeran Submitted 04/05/2020 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

Hi @NOMAD0P. The way this theme works is it tries to match the name of your platform to a couple files within the theme's directories. It's trying to find "Sega Mega Drive" so it doesn't match your "Sega Megadrive" and instead displays the default view. You have 2 options: You can rename your platform in LaunchBox to "Sega Mega Drive" You can change the names of the 2 files within the theme to match your platform name. They are located in: LAUNCHBOX\Themes\CoverBox\Views\TextGamesView LAUNCHBOX\Themes\CoverBox\Views\TextListView Hope this helps.

The theme itself just displays the play mode that you have set for each game in LaunchBox. If you want it to display how many players, you'll have to edit your games and set the play mode that way.

This would actually involve a code change within one of the xaml files. I'm not entirely sure where in the code it's located, as this theme was remade using the theme editor, so all the code happens in the backend, and gets auto generated. Optimal solution would be to wait for y2guru to include the transition presenter within the editor itself. However, in the meantime, I could try to teach you how to use the editor to add the transition presenter manually. Probably best to switch this over to PM though, it could be a bit spammy.

If I were to guess (without being on my computer), it probably has to do with the way the COMMUNITY editor calls the boxart, using a direct binding. @y2guru maybe a reason to include the main image transition presenter?

If you are referring to the platform theme videos, those are downloaded from within Launchbox. Under Tools > Download Platform/Playlist Theme Videos. Most of the videos are the Big Box Cinematix videos. Just remember that most themes don't come with media, they use your own media that you get from within LaunchBox.

It's possible that you didn't unblock the plugins. I would delete the entire Coverbox folder and download it via the BigBox theme manager. The theme manager will automatically unblock any plugins. You will also make sure you aren't making a mistake when manually trying to update this theme. Let me know if that works.

I really like the concept of this, but there's just no way I'm getting a shot of every game in my collection. Decided to take this idea and create a startup theme, using one of the screenshots in this post as inspiration. Posted it here for anyone interested.

StageBox View File A clean and simple startup theme that highlights the BoxArt. To install: Open the zip file and drag the StageBox folder into the LaunchBox\StartupThemes folder. Screenshots Submitter faeran Submitted 02/16/2020 Category Startup Themes

It's the themer plugin. I think one of the launchbox updates introduced compatibility issues with plugin, which was resolved in a newer version of the plugin. Just haven't got around to apply the update to all my themes. The plugin does things differently, the icons are hidden deep in the plugins folder.

Hi @HannesRoets. There's a possibility that this theme requires an updated plugin. I'll need to get around to doing that at some point.

CoverBox is strictly a text list view theme. It's just that I've created customized text list views for many platforms. So, if you have imported the NES, then it should automatically use the NES specific text list view. If you imported Sega Master System, it would use that text list view (and so forth...). You can see a full list of platform specific text list views that I have created on its download page. Just remember that themes don't include video snaps, or game specific images/logos. That is all downloadable in LaunchBox. The theme itself is just a layout which uses the assets you download in LaunchBox.

Hi @Sanctus. From the sound of it, you extracted the zip file as a folder, so you probably have a Coverbox folder inside of another Coverbox folder. If you remove one of the Coverbox folders, it should fix your issue. However, the simplest solution for you would be for you to just download Coverbox from the theme manager within BigBox itself.