Dan Patrick

I don't blame you thimolor. That would be a ton of work to edit all your other themes. I would encourage you to leave the other themes on here but I understand what you mean. You get better the more and more you do something like this. Your graphic design skills have gotten better and this theme shows that. Again, I appreciate all the hard work on this. I am excited at the potential of these new wall view abilities and this will be a perfect theme to show off that feature. Side note: I still can't get the gradients and icons to show up for me. I know it is on my end but still...why is this happening? Other themes load backgrounds and images. Every image loads except the gradient background and little icons on this theme. I've tried to refresh images and made sure to not alter theme files. Not sure what it is for me.

Weird, I didn't edit any theme files. I'll play around later with the update you sent me and try and get to the bottom of this. Thanks!

Hey thimolor, I finally got some time to look at the theme in Big Box. It seems slightly different than what I remember. Namely the gradients and drop shadows that helped separate the major sections of each screen seem to be absent. Looking at your screenshots from earlier posts on this thread, maybe my system isn't loading the theme correctly. I'm running the latest updates to my knowledge and I'm running it at 4k 3840x2160 at 225% scaling for Windows. I circled that little number 2 on my screenshot. Is that supposed to be the number of players? It didn't land in the right position somehow. Also I made a note about the text lists. They are not centered vertically. The list hit the bottom of the screen but still had a decent sized gap at the top of the screen. Hopefully you can figure out these issues. I did want to say that the animations look smooth and really nice! I especially like how the smaller groups of info (year, genre, region etc) animate in. Really cool.

Awesome to hear about wall view improvements! That's been a wish of mine for a while! Thanks Jason for your hard work!

I tried to come up with a critique and nothing came to me! The changes you've made make sense. As long as you don't do any drastic changes you're golden! I enjoy your other themes but this is your magnum opus. I just realized I never sent you my Sega CD Logo somehow. I drew the logo earlier but it got overlooked amongst all my files. It's quite accurate I believe. I've included my version of it here if you want it. Sega CD.7z

Love the name Pulse! That's so good! A cool sounding word and it fits the glowing line. The positioning of the title and details looks a lot better there. I have to agree with you about the circles. The blue is honestly nice but a bit too popping. Maybe the other icons should be grey also. It seems a little funny to have only one thing pop with that blue(other than the glow itself). Glad you like the icons! This is simply my favorite theme. I may be a little biased because I helped a little, but still. Love it! One tiny thing I just thought of, I like how you have the lines for the selected logo at the bottom in that image . Are those two lines darker than the rest of the lines? It's just is a little hard to see those. I think the lines work well there. Maybe make them a bit more visible.

Nice! I do enjoy those circles. The blue is not bad really! I like how it's tied to the same color as the glow. The completed, favorite, broken look nice. For some reason, I drew some new icons for you to look at. I tried to simplify the trophy a bit and also rethink the broken icon. Your current icons are literally, perfectly fine though. The only one I had qualms about was the broken icon. It's a bit unclear to me. I don't have your blue so you'd have to recolor them. I just made them black. I included a vector pdf if you want to change it. Theres 5 icons 2 possible for broken and completed and the same heart favorite. You won't hurt my feelings if you don't want to use them. I did them on a whim. No big. I still think the info could go up a touch closer to the title. Also should the title and all its info be centered in the upper section? Not sure. The theme's great! I'm nitpicking here. I also included a new coloring for 2 logos Neo Geo AES and NEC Supergrafx. Both were pretty off and now are more vivid and much closer to the original imo. Icons + Couple of Logos.zip

Man! That looks great! Amazing job! I think the rating under the box works well but what if you replaced the stars with the circles from your previous theme. I thought those circles looked clean. I imagine it as the same light grey used elsewhere. If you think the stars work better than I still think it should be the light grey. The only other thing is, I think the info below the title should be a tiny bit closer to the game title. I can't wait to use this theme. Excellent stuff!

What about this? It's not perfect, but I may have a couple of good thoughts within this screenshot. So, I'm not a big fan of having the various pieces of information being spread out so much in the example you showed. The layout that I'm suggesting has info more grouped together. All icons are in the top right. There may be a better solution for where the icons should go. I put the platform name above and centered. To me that makes perfect sense. I realize you had the video/screenshot centered in the left half. I imagined it being right aligned to the center. That may not be possible. If not it's good the way it was too. I think the year and genre belong with the title since its the most important information to me. I think the line on the left of the title looks good and helps it to feel less like its floating in the middle of nowhere. I should have centered the dev/title/year/genre vertically (I did this in a hurry lol). I don't mind the one grey gradient across the entire screen like you have it but I still think that it ads depth for the top and bottom to feel separate. I kept the gradient like you had it but I added a drop shadow under the glow line. It's not exactly a perfect solution but it does give it some depth. These are just some rough thoughts, see what you think.

Altered the colors on several logos here. I looked at multiple references images and tried to do an average shade based on what I was commonly seeing. I don't know how I had the 32x and Super Acan logo so dark and didn't notice lol. The PC Engine was orange because I used a photo that was at an angle so the logo had more of a orange tint. I don't know why I didn't see that one earlier. From all the photos I've seen, it's a true red with like, one drop of pink. The SNES logo is nearly the brightest RGB red. Super Acan is brighter and more saturated. The 32X is brighter and the 90s style Sega logo is a bit more bright as well. I sent a genesis logo with this brighter Sega logo too(It only effected one version). I also am sending a new NES logo only because the previous registration mark was misshapen somehow and I added a version with white fill if you want that instead. Also the red is now the more vivid Nintendo Switch red. It's a minor difference. The TG16/CD logos I think are much closer too. I'm looking hard at the colors as I'm doing my final organizations to the logos. I may find a couple more at some point but nothing super obvious has hit me yet other than what you mentioned. new colored logos.7z

Interesting about the snes logo. I see what you're saying. I'll give you a brighter one with those others I'm altering colors on. I might include the darker one in my full set later as an alternate. I'm going to have to agree with kidsholin here. I do kinda like the great/black better. I did like the color on the glow line with the greyscale. The purple is good too though! I just prefer the previous color scheme a bit more. Maybe there can be both? While the name may change from bare bones, the minimalistic approach is what drew me to this theme. That's still in the themes DNA. If it's called Midnight it could definitely be purple but greys and blacks would work just as well.

I will have to go through those and see if I can't get a better color for them. If you see any others please let me know. The only one out of what you mentioned that I will defend is the super Nintendo logo. I'm pretty positive that one actually is right. That is actually an official vector from Nintendo. https://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-classic/ . Although there's a chance that the new logo is darker than the original logo used in the 90s. Anyways, if you don't mind, I'll send you those ones updated sometime soon. Thanks for the logo feedback!

Hey thanks. No problem, you can use whatever logos you like! That being said, I want to fix/improve the ones you think are not the right colors. I have done a lot of research on the logos and I see a lot of inconsistent colors and faded images with weird lighting, so it's hard for me to tell what the real colors are. One of the ones I know that's a bit dark is the turbo grafx/cd logos. The only reason those ones are so dark is because on the official TG16 mini website, the logos are those exact colors I swear. I've already thought those ones need a lighter version. The main thing that I know is improved on my logos is the actual logo shapes themselves. The colors though...are not always so perfect. I would really appreciate your feedback on which ones seem off in color! You don't have to know the exact color, just give me a list of which ones you think are too dark. I want them to be as accurate as possible. You can still use whatever logos you like obviously. I've been wanting to ask, are you sold on the name Bare Bones? This is such a cool theme. I feel like the name almost undersells it! If you love the name, that's totally cool. I've just thought about some alternate names. What about something like: "Midnight", "Glow Line", "Essential" (because its only the essentials) or even "Essence". I don't know, I'm not really good with names myself but maybe there's a cooler sounding name you haven't thought of. See what you can do with the animation. The subtle bounce is 100% not necessary but it's a neat option. I'm sure you'll come up with something very clean. Thanks for your hard work! Also, thank you for humoring me with all the advice I've given you on this theme. You definitely didn't need me! You have great ideas! ? Again, if you could, please send me a list of logos that need a color adjust. I trust your opinion! EDIT: I made a new MAME Logo that's a bit cleaner. It's the exact same logo but there's several small alignment fixes from the original logo. You don't have to use it but I thought I'd send it to you now that I made it. It was a last minute addition. New MAME logo.7z

Thanks! I didn't even think about the platform view top section to be connected like that. That's such a good, simple solution for that. I literally love that! Happy to see the "available games" part figured out too! That looks great! Dude, this theme is dope! I made a very rough and quick video showcasing an animation technique I think you could try. The 4k/hd version of the video is still processing. It's a subtle bounce that has to be created manually with 2 different animations. I couldn't explain it without a little video. Anyway, I was thinking that bounce effect would look great for the platform images as they come in.

Thimolor this theme continues to impress! It's awesome! I'm all for the simpler logo idea. Having two images of the console was a little redundant anyway. I have alternate colors and versions for all of the logos I gave you. If you want a different version of one just ask and I can get it to you asap! I see that the amount of glow you have varies per view. I personally think a couple of the views could have the glow paired back just a touch. I love the amount of glow you show in your text games view. That's the perfect amount to me personally. I think it does make sense to allow for a little more glow on that vertical wheel you show in your last screen shot but imo still toned back just a hair. On the platform images views...I got a screenshot edit I quickly worked up. It's all the same except a couple ideas I had. I altered the glow (insert your colors because I don't know the exact blue you use). I'm not a huge fan of the bobbing up and down of the platform image. Instead , I’d recommend just a fade in and slide upwards about 15 pixels or so that would happen in maybe half a second then it stops smoothly. That's just me. Overall I love that view though! Also I've been meaning to tell you about a trick to get the "336 Available Games" thing to work. I have done this myself and I know it works. I got the tip from Retro Faeran. It's on this video at exactly 2:51:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5d1e8KOIc&t=10306s User Source.7z

Sorry for this minor update. I wanted to update 2 of the logos. This is the last update lol. The Amiga logo I added a little shadow(very minor I know) and the Triforce logo is totally new. I will be releasing all of these officially soon.

Do whatever you want with these logos. Let me know if one seems off. Also sorry they are unorganized at the moment but the logos are good to go. Arcade + Console Logos.7z

You've already made great progress. Don't overwork yourself. There's no rush!

Nice! The line looks good like that I think. I have been working on solutions for the best platform images myself. The set of platform images you have for that larger Sega Genesis image I'm not the biggest fan of because while some of them are great, some others in that set are weird (look at the game boy advance one for instance). The best platform image photograph images are (as you know) the ones from Evan Amos. He has made some cut out versions of a lot of the platforms. I had downloaded the cut out versions from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos because I was going to use them for my theme (I put it on hold because I was making the logos). Anyway, I went ahead and uploaded the cut out versions Evan Amos made here. Maybe you could just add the image on your grey gradient? Not sure. You might check them all because a couple images have white specks showing(look at the Odyssey 2) so a couple might need to be touched up a bit. I am including my handheld logos because I already had completely finished those. I made multiple versions of each logo but only sent the recommended ones for your theme. I'll send you the rest of them later today or tomorrow after I get off work. I sent these all as high res PNG's but if you want vector files of the logos I have those too. What about this look from your Dirty Old theme? It's simple but it works well. What if you just added the colored gradient line where the green line is and added the thin grey line, platform name, year etc on top matching the style used elsewhere in the bare bones theme? ---Edit--- Got the computer logos here as well. I will get the rest to you tomorrow I think. Don't feel like you need a banner for all of these logos. Whatever ones you feel like. Some of these are pretty obscure. System Images.7z Handheld Logos.7z Computer Logos.7z

Hey thimolor, I have new accurate logos that I'm still organizing. Let me send you a special pack just for your theme. I swear these logos that I've made are the best ones out there. I have spent an extreme amount of time redrawing logos from really accurate sources. It seems that you already made banners so perhaps I'm already too late. If I could get it to you today could you use them? You 100% don't have to but it's a thought. Besides that...I have a couple tiny adjustment suggestions: On your banner and box art view, to me the year and rating seems too disconnected on the right. Although I definitely see what you're doing. How about this: for the box art view maybe have the rating below the console name again and the year below the game title. Maybe you could even leave it as it is but make the year and genre on the left and rating and times played on the right. My thought there is that year and genre are the most important of those 4 things so having it closer in eyes view makes sense to me. On the platform view: for the video...maybe this could shrink just a hair to align it with your top and bottom lines. I think the year should be above "number of games" above the lower line. The number of games icon is cool. To me it's not quite clear enough as to what it is on its own. Maybe if it said "306 games" it would be clearer. On all your views...to me the colored line needs to still be a hair thicker. I'm not sure. It either needs to be the same width as other lines or noticeably thicker. Right now to me its only a tiny bit thicker. It's your call on that. The glow effect is a good idea! Great job!

PS5 UI Sounds (High Quality) View File This is a sound effects pack from the Playstation 5's menu. These are really nice, high quality sounds and they were recorded with background music off. I ripped them from this source: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdh1G7TQhVM&t=0s". I made sure there was zero popping in the audio. There's two sets here with the startup sound too. It's good to go! Enjoy! To use these, simply download and unzip the file. Place the folder into your "LaunchBox/Sounds" folder. Then launch BigBox and go into the "Options" select "Sound" and change the "Sound Pack" to "PS5". Submitter Dan Patrick Submitted 02/20/2021 Category Big Box Sound Packs