sw1fty808

Colorful Game View Remix View File I absolutely love Viking's amazing colorful theme but I wanted a game view which showcases more art and also places the game videos within the incredible hardware images of the colorful theme. I usually play on a large tv screen so it's really suited for that. This really benefits from having a well curated build of good artwork, especially background images which are very prominent here. There are a couple of folders to place generic fallback images for background and cart art to help avoid large empty space when those are missing from games. I've added a handful in there but far from complete. I've never made/edited a theme before or done anything remotely similar so it's quite possible I've done some dumb stuff somewhere. I've included 4 game views. Views 1-3 use an arcade cab layout which require theme videos and marquee images. - 3d boxes - 2d box front - no cart view. more ideal for platforms like steam and arcade - no cart and alternate arcade cab for non-themed videos and no custom marquee image I also included the original colorful theme platform wheel view and only increased the wheel scale. A couple of unresolved things.. Among the included badges is one for completed games but I can't figure out how to get that to show. It shows for games which were marked as completed before the newer progress system was added but not for newly marked games. I don't know if this is an issue of the theme creator, bigbox or just my stupidity. Also I wasn't quite sure what to do about the 3ds game videos. I couldn't get the dual screen videos to scale properly so I ended up just blanking out the bottom screen and just using the top. Obviously only useful for single screen video snaps. Platforms done so far Recommendations Vikings videos obviously and then I set gameplay screenshots as a secondary priority for backgrounds in launchbox. I also try to avoid fanart backgrounds which just mimic the box art so I'm not just getting duplicated images on screen. Not always an option but I find often the screenshots will work just fine in place. I've not posted anything before so it's all a bit new to me and I don't want to overstep any boundries in terms of posting themes with other peoples work. I'm not claiming any sort of credit for Vikings amazing work on the colorful theme. I've only made an alternative game view here using the existing assets. Submitter sw1fty808 Submitted 11/01/26 Category Custom Themes

Jason thanks so much for fixing the controller bug so incredibly quickly. This is why I will never hesitate to pull out the wallet for Launchbox software. Top notch customer care standards and the absolute guarantee that the software will consistently improve, in big ways. I seriously refresh the play store almost hourly throughout the day, excited at the prospect of an update.

Excellent beginnings for this app. Working great with Galaxy S10. The only issue I've run into is using the Ipega 9087S controller. When you exit a game back to Launchbox, the d-pad stops working. Switching the box/list view brings it back to life. Weird but no biggy. Really looking forward to some type of search or sort function. Scrolling full game sets is a bit tedious. Really impressed overall though. Launching games is very fast and I've experienced no crashes. Thank you very much.

Happy with this now

Absolutely perfect. I really appreciate this. My setup is now complete. That has been bugging me for the longest time. I should have asked sooner. I look forward to seeing what you create next because this theme is perfection. Clean, elegant and defined with a perfectly arranged and balanced presentation of details and artwork. Bravo.

Thank you! I am using detailed.

Would I be able to do it if I didn't use background images? I keep mine as just the simple black and charcoal colours.

This is awesome. Thank you so much! Any chance of getting the same stretched videos in the game view? Even if you just put the bit of code for that here, I would be happy to paste that in myself. Thanks again.

I would love that. Thank you. I wonder if another option could be to shrink the video and text border widths to match that of the video. Then widen the wheel to close the gap.

It is 2560x1080 at 21:9 ratio. I switched my monitor into 16:9 to see if that makes a difference but the video still doesn’t fill that border. My understanding of ratios and resolutions is very limited so this type of thing bamboozles my mind.

The greatest theme there is. Thank you. Should my video be filling the border? This is the only thing that bugs me.

Tweaked a few things in the view xaml and got the videos full screen stretched and even added a scanline overlay image to help the appearance of some of the videos which didn't look so pretty in full screen. Made a huge difference and all is dandy now. Thanks a lot for the help.

Oh I see. Unfortunately I am using the same videos. I don't think there are 16:9 versions of those available. I'm on a 21:9 monitor anyway. I guess the theme I'm using currently just stretches them to full screen. Maybe I can look at employing some type of overlay image for the sides so that I can use this theme and not have black bars.

I was just experimenting with this. It is almost perfect but not quite there. It's better than my solution in the sense that with this method I also get the additional information on the right-hand side which fades out. That's fantastic. The problem with this is that the video isn't full screen. It's confined to a centered box. The method I'm using fades the wheel and leaves the video filling the entire screen. But now you have me wanting that box and info on the right to appear and fade out too. I do not have that. If there is a way for me to edit the view of this cityhunter theme to make the video full screen, I will be very happy.

Thank you for making the effort to help me with this. I don't think I was being very clear. I've found a solution now but the problem was that I could only remove the game details and box cover from view by unselecting them in options but that then removes them from every active theme. My main theme for all other platforms is RetroFresh Detailed. I love that theme and I like having the box art and game details displayed. It was only MAME that I wanted those game details and box art hidden from view so that I could have only a full screen background video and a wheel. I solved my issue by downloading the WheelFadeDemo theme, opening the view file with notepad++ and deleting all lines referencing game details and box art. I now use that theme for MAME and it's exactly what I was after. Thank you.

The problem I have is that although many themes will have a suitable view, I can only achieve it by unticking some boxes in options to remove the text and box art. That would work fine except that I only want this view for the MAME platform. I don't want the box art and game details missing from other systems. The option to have platform specific themes is great but those layout options I need changed are applied across the board. I was hoping there might be a theme which takes care of this.

Hi Does anyone know of a theme which has a game view that is simply a full screen video with a wheel that will fade out of view? I just want to use such a theme for MAME with the themed videos. I have tried various themes but all of them have some type of window over the top of the background video for every view I select. Please help a frustrated old fool.

I'm delighted to report that the switch went very smoothly. Launchbox loaded right off the bat like nothing had changed. Big Box needed some kind of library files which required reinstalling but I just installed right on top of the existing files. Took just moments and nothing was lost. Thanks for the advice.

Thank you. I appreciate the advice. Fingers crossed..