Mr. RetroLust

I've made some high res photo's for you guys if you can use it for any project in video game history preservation, feel free to use, do note some have Dutch text on em as I live in the Netherlands. Since the complete collection takes too much time to upload at once (speed seems slow to the server) I'll place a new batch divided over several days. Daytona USA 2 Battle on the Edge https://segaretro.org/Daytona_USA_2:_Battle_on_the_Edge

I do made a few not long ago in an arcade here, but they are newer systems (around 2006-2012) like OutRun 2 and such which i'm not sure yet if they can be emulated, but i'll post em soon maybe they can be used.

Great man! Yeah I guess per system/playlist classics perhaps? Most succes I've had in finding high res cab photos was by using Google Images and it's tools, you can search with the option to display pixel sizes and upping the results to only see images from a certain resolution.

I recently launched a theme which uses transparent arcade cabinets as a showcase how it could look, see: If you like to join for a future project to make all arcade cabinet images transparent and swap existing low res images to the highest resolution images/photos of cabs available, please let us know or if you know someone who might want to join this project please tag him/her. I'll tag some people below whom might be able to help or connect us with others. I am still relatively new in this community so I don't know whom to tag really. This could benefit all themes and creativity itself for the community as a whole. Since I'm still working on other projects I can't guarantee at the moment when I can join in but maybe you guys already want to start with ideas, structure and such. Let's start from here as I have no idea yet to start such a project, hopefully someone is willing to take the lead in this. @goofers @jvlk @Retro808 @neil9000 @DOS76 @Jason Carr @Dan @FRETW1ZARD @Kondorito @Orionsangel @Styphelus @harryoke @Lordmonkus @Omen @MadK9 @dragon57 @Riffman81 @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT @kmoney @letstalkaboutdune @ea4492 @alnyden @deathr0w @Shinryu @damageinc86 @RetroKenesis @Sub-Zero @fire10 -------------------------------------- This has continued over here:

Thanks If you have enough money anything is possible haha, but you cant beat a 169 euro monitor of this quality, and as i've said before you might want height as well for those marquee that are not like bars. Have you found affordable wider marquee displays with industry standard resolution? I haven't in the past and stopped doing research after being very happy with this display, though it could have been a little larger like 27 inch, I like the added height of this aspect ratio and I think I would regret an expensive bar display without height. I'm almost repeating my past reply on this matter so you might want to read it again, I hope you find what you are looking for

FutureState Neon Deluxe View File FUTURESTATE NEON DELUXE *Click follow to stay informed of important updates* ---Introduction--- This theme started out as a custom color skin for the FutureState theme by Hexxxer, I wanted to make something that would fit my gameroom's dark blue/purple blacklight lit environment, a bit like the good old dark arcades, where light plays an important role to the experience. It evolved after months of coding long, long... lloonng hours into this, I had to learn this coding language along the way, I hope it doesn't contain any errors and such. Huge thanks go out to @Hexxxer for his amazing theme (FutureState) framework, controls (HexControls.dll) and kind permission, without him I couldn't have done this. Also a huge thanks to @NJDave71 for making it possible to see the game count for playlists through HelperControl_v4.DLL which is included in this theme. Thanks guys! And everyone else for all the inspiration, enthusiasm and dedication. Enjoy please read these instructions well! ---Installation, Tips & Probable Issues--- 1. This theme uses images and video pretty heavy, it could run slow on older systems, I did add some faster/lighter views, try to see what works for you after you let the lists cache. Huge lists with thousands of games always run a bit slower as more data is being transfered. I recommend doing the following to speed up BigBox greatly: * Uncheck all Background Images in launchbox/settings/image priorities * Set all transitions to "None" in BigBox settings 2. This theme is probably only fit for use on a 16:9 aspect ratio, as I did use some absolute positioning of elements, I'm not very experienced yet to make a 4:3 relative positioning version, maybe someone else might be able to make such a version. 3. If you use a 4K display you probably have to set the Windows dpi settings to 200% in order to keep the layout intact. 4. You can find transparent background cabinets here at Arcade Cabinets Project 2.0: 5. Download the theme zip file and extract the content to Launchbox/Themes/ folder. 6. Install the font file, you can find it in the extracted folder FutureStateNeonDeluxe/_InstallationFiles/ 7. To make the placeholder work which shows the Cabinets/Advertisement Flyer - Back/Box Back in the screenshots needs some changes in your image priority settings within Launchbox. As the cabinets don't have their own placeholder to be coded in a theme I used the Cart 3D placeholder as I figured most people will only use one cart view or can set Cart 3D in image priorities to Cart Front. You can control a lot to your liking within image priorities, as long as you remember it's Cart 3D for this placeholder. My setup in image priorities within Launchbox options: 8. You might need to unblock the .DLL's in the plugin folder for them to work properly. ---Features--- Slide-in/out platform/game wheel, disappearing when not in use to make room for more possibilities. The logo's have a glow beneath them so you can still see black/dark logo's apart from the background. Special Marquee monitor filler magic trick (previously released to be used in other themes as well). Using the empty space around marquees in a special way. If you rather have the default marquee views just copy 'GameMarqueeView.xaml' and 'PlatformMarqueeView.xaml' from the default theme views folder and overwrite in this themes 'views' folder. And loads more... ---Views Description--- Platform View 1 (PlatformWheel1FiltersView) * A lot of Platform details * Device image * Large video/image with ambient/glow beneath it * Total games counter for platforms and playlists Platform View 2 (PlatformWheel2FiltersView) * Same as Platform View 1 except for a few differences * Fanart platform image in place of device image * Device image to the right side overlaying video/image Platform View 3 (PlatformWheel3FiltersView) * Same as Platform View 2 except for a few differences * Details panel makes room for full size video/image Platform View 4 (PlatformWheel4FiltersView) * Full screen video/image Platform View 5 (TextFiltersView) * Text list of Platforms * In the mid collumn Platform banner image, device image, fanart image * Even more details about the platform/playlist Games View 1 (WheelGamesView) * 2 Game Screenshots * Details I found useful * Game description * 3D box (You can switch image view on this placeholder with a button) with Cart image overlaying. * Cabinet/Back Box/Back Flyer overlaying on left side over video/image * Details overlaying video/image like your star rating, developer, publisher, genre, playmode. * Custom icons for Broken, Portable, Completed, Favorite and ESRB rating. * Platform logo in the middle * Scanlines overlaying the video/image Games View 2 (Wheel2GamesView) Same as Games View 1 but with Cabs/Back to the right side Games View 3 (Wheel3GamesView) Same as Games View 1 & 2 but without cabs/back and without scanlines over the video, for views which have high quality video's and/or theme video's Games View 4 (Wheel4GamesView) A view which might be more suitable for quick browsing, slower systems and require more game details. * Cab images without transparency look better in this view * Static logo wheel * Video below with glow beneath. The cabs/back images are filling the screen (maintaining aspect ratio) to the right for better readability of back covers and high quality cab images. I prefer this view for inspecting/sorting out my games. * Larger Icons right/below side. Games View 5 (TextGamesView) A view to see even more game details, without video, the idea here is you can see the front and back image side by side while being able to read the back image. As if you would hold the cover in your hand. * Static Text wheel * Many details * Large Icons * Box/Advertisement fronts beneath image * Cabs/Back to the right Games View 6 (GameDetailsView) Same as Games View 5 Another example of FutureState Neon Deluxe in action: Here's the startup theme to accompany this theme: Submitter Mr. RetroLust Submitted 07/30/2018 Category Big Box Custom Themes

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Check out artist Travis Louie, these where just printed out on normal printing paper, with some old looking frames from a flea market lol printing paper lights up well in black light!

Tommorow, I'm now in the process of adding higher res Atari 2600 fronts and backs to make the video look more nice.

Game snap videos are in its platform video folder within this folder there is a folder named theme, these are the animated fanart videos, within bigbox/settings/video you can check or uncheck prioritize theme videos.

The 3D box front has it's dedicated placeholder, at least it has the placeholder where you can switch the image with a button for different views like front, back etc. the cart overlaying the 3D box is also a separate placeholder for front cart. That way you don't have to customize it (making use of what has already been made, like it's supposed to) and if there ain't no cart, the 3D Box/front still keeps being centered in the left panel. The Cab placeholder doesn't have a dedicated binding path so I took the 3D cart placeholder where you can control yourself within image priorities what you want to show in this placeholder, I choose priority; cabinets then flyer back, flyer front, back and front. I'll explain it all soon in installation instructions when I upload the theme, that'll be monday as I have to make a nice video for it.

Thanks bro! Sweet! I kinda cheated with those posters, most blacklight posters are quite large and expensive so I was looking for smaller posters for a small room, there's this black light poster book with double sided posters so I bought it twice lol, it's about the same price as one big poster (16 euro here). If you are interested, they are classic posters although they don't seem to be 100% like the orginals where it's still a great collection: https://www.amazon.de/Ultraviolet-Classic-Blacklight-Posters-Aquarian/dp/0810979993

Update of the cave: These photo's below are not recent anymore as I changed the pc and the ps3 died (yellow light of death) due to overheating in that damned narrow cabinet mid part, let that be a lesson though PS3 need sufficient cooling space. It might be fixable but I'm afraid it isn't. I'm a sucker for black light, the counter-culture and anything psychedelic for that matter. I might have overdone things a bit with those posters but it's my normal behavioral pattern. The black light is something I didn't expect to really work as it does, it's a led blacklight bar (it's not behind the tv btw those are other led strips), it gives far more and stronger light and is slightly more purple than the blueish classical blacklight, I love it, but that seems obvious I guess. I basically made this theme to fit a dimly lit blacklight/neon game room lol (sorry for the quality)

I finally have a youtube account setup and now know how to record my screen as well, I will make a better video for the theme, this is what I filmed today to give an impression externally. Got some lightning issues going on lol

Yep Did you get that LG ultra wide monitor?

Thanks bro, glad to hear you like it! I have made a few but mostly for CPS1 as a test, on games view 4 and 5 it's less of a problem when it's not transparent. The community has a lot of work to do lol, at least I hope it'll motivate people to upload high res transparent cabs, I will do a lot of them in the future but I also have other projects to work on.

You can give me your NAS if you don't mind, it's very nice ?

Finished result, release tomorrow or Monday. --------------------------Platform View 1-------------------------- --------------------------Platform View 2-------------------------- --------------------------Platform View 3-------------------------- --------------------------Platform View 4-------------------------- --------------------------Platform View 5-------------------------- --------------------------Games View 1-------------------------- --------------------------Games View 2-------------------------- --------------------------Games View 3-------------------------- --------------------------Games View 4-------------------------- --------------------------Games View 5 (Game details looks the same but with other menu to the left)--------------------------

Very glad you like it bro! Enjoy! There is a little thing to note however, if you have multiple marquees for one game you might have a different background than the foreground marquee.