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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

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.

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.

Hey @Kriven, Sure. I've updated RetroFresh to 1.3 with that view. Let me know if you find any issues.

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.

Update 1.2 has been posted on the Downloads page. Lots of information can be found there. Here is the basic change log: Hope people enjoy. Let me know if you run into any issues with this new update. I might have missed something.

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.

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?

Awesome! I'll clean up the code and add it to the next release (v1.2). Possibly today or latest by the weekend. I'll need to find some cool platform fanart backgrounds to show this view off

Oh I see @BlueArrowUK... So Something like this then:

Thanks @BlueArrowUK Is this kind of what you were thinking of?

I actually copied and pasted the Default theme, and then I used that to edit in visual studio. The file I edited was just WheelGamesView.xaml, but any of the 4 wheel view files can be used. I deleted most of the contents, built a simple grid and pasted the wheel code in there. Hope this helps.

RetroFresh View File This theme was designed to add as little overhead as possible, while giving a clean and simplistic view of the content. RetroFresh works with your own media and uses them as its centerpiece. Hope you guys enjoy. This theme was ported over to the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and is the only version still supported. Both the theme and the Theme Creator files are supplied, just in case you would like to make any changes with the theme. Installation Instructions Extract 'RetroFresh - Theme.zip' LaunchBox/Themes folder. Open Big Box, go to Options/Views, select the RetroFresh theme. Video Demonstration The views I made are as follows: RetroFresh If anyone finds any issues, please let me know. Submitter faeran Submitted 01/17/2017 Category Custom Themes

Hi Merlin, I just checked to see if it's possible, and it sort of is. You have to start with the Horizontal game wheel from the Documentation.pdf, located in the themes folder. There's a 'curveamount' value that has a default of 0, just change that to a higher number to get your desired effect. For example, I used a CurveAmount of 25, and got this effect: I'm not entirely sure if it's possible to rotate the images though. Good luck.

Thanks @Jason Carr, sounds awesome. And thanks everyone. I'm glad there are people enjoying the theme.

Thanks @BakerMan. A horizontal view is definitely something I can work on for the next update.

Hi Guys, Started using LaunchBox a few weeks ago, and after setting it up and playing around with it I realized I couldn't find a theme for Big Box that I wanted to use, so I decided to try my hand at making my own. The only problem was that I didn't know that XAML existed until last week, so it took some learning to get a grasp of it, but I think I managed to learn enough to get the desired theme that I was looking for. I thought I'd share my work, just in case someone else may find the theme useful as well. The theme itself is inspired by a UI I once saw in a Simply Austin video about a year ago, however I took a different approach while creating it. The theme was designed to add as little overhead as possible, while giving a clean and simplistic view of the content. To do this I decided on not adding any images at all to the theme, and instead used XAML to build all the elements. When zipped, the entire theme comes out under 300KB. Download Theme Click here to download RetroFresh from the download's section Installation Instructions Extract RetroFresh.zip into the LaunchBox/Themes folder. Go into the RetroFresh/Fonts folder and install the 'SF Atarian System.ttf' font Open Big Box, go to Options/Views, select the RetroFresh theme. The views I made are as follows: Platform Wheel View This platform view was designed to get out of the way of the full screen platform videos made by all the wonderful people contributing to LaunchBox. The platform videos are the focus here, as the wheel's transparent background let's the video through. Game Vertical Wheel View 1 This game view let's the box art and game video take center stage, while the blurred background image allows for the transparent UI elements to take on its color property. Game Vertical Wheel View 2 This game view is the same as the first, except the wheel is on the right. Game List View This game view substitutes the wheel for a text list. This view will help on lower end systems, while the essence of theme remains intact. Video Demonstration If anyone finds any issues, please let me know. RetroFresh.zip