Mr. RetroLust

During moderation accepting new games takes a long time, around 30 seconds if not longer (45 seconds at the moment). Usually with data and images added to the DB it doesn't take as long which is logical as new games adds a lot more data to the database. But when a large batch of new games are added it does take a long time and I can't seem to get through the queu like this as smoothly as I have to wait and wait, is it taking as long for you over there (across the ocean) as well? Might be my connection perhaps?

In my opinion: More choice is better, so uploading both versions would be great so people can choose what they prefer.

Thanks bro, no worries it's not of high priority at all, he should relax and rest with his family after all the hard work lately. Maybe it isn't Launchbox.next itself even but something in Windows 10? Who knows, I'll be happy to provide more info when he's fully rested

Launchbox.Next is amazing but I do have a small problem still, I live in the Netherlands but I don't wish to have most of the software in Dutch on my pc (except for Windows itself, I like that in Dutch) so when I have a problem or have to look stuff up there is so much more info online in English than in Dutch and thus streamlined in one language is very helpful. In Launchbox most of the text is in English (not all texts though) even though I've set the language to English but the menus and settings are in English which is great, Launchbox.Next shows the menus in Dutch (while the language setting is set to English) which was not the case in Launchbox, I guess it is because of the windows language settings? Surely hope I don't have to switch Windows to English though, any help/tips on this matter is very welcome

Thanks bro, yeah cutting out by hand would be the best result, most progetto cabs are too low res for the displays we have these days so to make things look really nice we need higher res. Perhaps we could organize a team with several photoshoppers in the future and work together on batches so the work is finished sooner and we can balance out the amount of time per person.

Thanks bro! I searched for high res cabs photos for a few CPS1 games at the time as a test concept, cut them out and color corrected/cleaned them up, I did upload a few to the database if I remember correctly. Am also planning to create cab images that don't have any or only very low res ones. Will be a lot of work but working through system by system would be doable, at the moment I'm still busy working through Neo Geo marquees and in the future their bezels. Lot of plans haha might take a lifetime all in all

Yep that's the one, great marquee monitor! But if I could choose now I would have bought the one a little larger, it depends how close you're sitting from it ofcourse, for me it's about two meters. Another factor to consider is the combimation with the size/scale of your main gaming screen.

Thanks man, all the credits go to @Hexxxer for his amazing Futurestate theme, I just changed around some image and info placeholders and adjusted the graphics a bit plus a few additional ones. Yeah I love to see all the info as much as possible, the arcade cab images deserve a lot more love imo, though I think the reason why it runs so slow on my lower end system is because of multiple overlays on the full video placeholder. I'll make a new post soon with the theme, hopefully it's in better hands then.

Thanks bro The monitor is a 21:9 25 inch LG ultra wide monitor the smallest one of the series, it aint't very expensive, over here it's around 169 euro. Ah yes the theme, been trying to manually adjust a copy of Futurestate from @Hexxxer in notepad++ as I don't want to install the required software package for customizing themes (wanna keep the system clean) but it's becoming too complicated for me at this point to create what I have in mind, the theme also runs reaaaally slow on my lower end system. All in all I have put it in the drawer for the time being and was thinking of releasing it to the forums so experienced coders could maybe finalize/fix/optimize it.

Moderators are going to be busy, and I still have to upload all the updated night mode versions of pack 1 lol. Pack 2 of all dual display layouts plus night mode updates are uploaded now, so in a few days perhaps they'll be available through the database. It'll take a while to complete the full artwork marquees, I guess within a month from now the complete Neo Geo marquee pack will be finished. Since I have about a few gigs worth of artwork I'll also be making 4K Neo Geo bezels including day and night mode in the future to make it a complete new experience.

I've added #5 to the examples above, I hope to have combined best of both worlds with this version, let me know what you think if you won't mind, I'll start with updating the Night Mode versions tomorrow. I'll have to adjust the blooming for each version though, some can use a lot more glow or it's radius and intensity than other versions. Here's another example of a more darker marquee where you can see more clearly what the blooming effect adds to the original, pay close attention to the edges of the objects best viewed at 100%, the grain effect is being put to good use now as well as if the light reflects off of the grainy material (hard to describe the exact terms for me in english but i'm sure you'll get what I mean). Orginal Upgrade/Bloom effect

Thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback and thanks also for the compliments Yeah i'm also torn lol 4 looks nice but it seems a bit too much glow, though I like the glow but then the details seem to suffer, arrgh. Can't decide either, maybe I could put it into two layers where the glow is present but the important parts like text and faces have less glow, i'll make a fifth option tomorrow. I do have to keep the amount of marquee versions as low as possible as I think the moderators wouldn't accept even more versions as full artwork marquees are also present so some already have 4 marquee versions in total lol

@Sub-Zero @Rowen @CriticalCid @Orionsangel @The_Keeper86 @GreenGriffon @Retro808 @latin625 @Belgarath @alnyden @RetroKenesis @keltoigael @fire10 I have an important question to ask you guys, sorry for tagging you but I value your opinion as you've shown interest in this project before . When you look and compare (maybe best to use arrows to switch between the images in larger view) the below Night Mode versions which number would you consider a more believable/realistic or just nicer lighting effect? I'm asking as I want to know what you guys think and if I should upgrade all the Night Mode versions, I would appreciate it if you could let me know which number has your preference if you'd like, it's sort of like a poll. Day Mode #1 (for comparison colors without effects) Night Mode #2 (Original Night Mode, current versions) Night Mode #3 (slight glow added on brighter/white colors) Night Mode #4 (glow on almost all colors except black/dark) EDIT: Night Mode #5 (#4's Blooming/Glow effect with details like faces and text set to #2 original)

Finally done with the last instruction flyer remake, nice result. From: To:

Thanks bro

Thanks bro, glad you like

Zed Blade instruction flyer side 2 in progress:

Other version of logo

Finished result reconstruction/remake Zed Blade instruction flyer side 1, side 2 is coming up and then it's done. Vectorized Logo:

8.3 Works like a dream! Seriously awesome work guys, really happy with this, thanks so much!

The very last flyer reconstruction and translation (phew!) Zed Blade aka Operation Ragnafok, quite a complicated one to do, screenshot in progress:

Finished result:

Viewpoint, revived! Cleaned, translated and partly recreated. Sources:

Could this be a controller issue? It reminds me of the old days with pcs or game consoles when the joystick was pressed while booting up it kept on moving to one side automatically,wrongly calibrated, maybe something worth checking if it stops when controller function is turned off.