Mr. RetroLust

(Warning: Opinion article/review lol) With this controller added to the collection it feels like I am back in the console wars again, the epic years of Sega sucks and Nintendon't, the endless show-off of smelly black belt gaming teens and pale technologically advanced android children, the war will only end when this generation passes on to the next dimension, without a doubt the war will go on over there, anyhoot... I feel like I have a SNESS controller and a Mega Drive controller in my collection again, but better... much much better! (opinion < opinion!) The most expensive controller (top-left Xbox One controller) does not compare to the other two, ain't that funny! But I never had an xbox variant console or controller before so the feeling of this controller has never grew on me. The 8bitdo SF30 Pro is amazing brother @Dane, it is smaller than the rest but funny enough it is just right and wide enough for around 30 years older hands. It's exactly like the original controller in terms of feel - or how I remember it - it was my favorite controller back in the day and I didn't like the original Mega Drive controller as much back then as the D-pad wasn't as pleasing to me and if I remember correctly I didn't like the buttons sticking up so high, also it was a bit too large for my hands in those days, but I played a lot with them either way and still love those controllers as well. Now the Hori Fighting Commander wins this contest for me without any doubt! But this controller has dual analogness, wirelessness, rumbleness and aerial movementness (forgot what they call it) and probably some wise assness other feature my old brain fails to pick up. I find the analog sticks on this controller much better than any other I've checked, those are Dual Shock 3 & 4 - looser than these I haven't found anywhere yet, funny how I only noticed the looseness since comparing other controllers - and Logitech F310. It has the perfect amount of 'tightness', it's tightness is about the same as the Xbox One controller but the Xbox One controller's sticks are a bit higher giving that 'stick' feeling more 'schtick' although the SF30 wins the analog contest as it has a much nicer feeling 'grip-wise'. I love the old classic select and start button placement, what I really don't like however is the position of the 'guide/home' button (situated below yellow button B), since I use this button as a 'press, hold, combine' button for secondary actions it would have been better if they would have placed it somewhere in the middle, between the analog sticks or on top of the logo lol. The other small extra button - below the D-pad - is a Turbo button, it works but it does not have the amazing second level turbo function the Hori has: auto pressing and repeating the button, that's just Hori 2.0 for ya. But at least it has turbo. The D-pad. Difficult, I like em both but Hori wins for ease of 'roundness' if you know what I mean, the SF30 Pro has a bit smaller and a more 4-way pronounced feel, which can be great to when desired a more 8 bit feeling so to speak. All in all, both these controllers combined is all I need for now untill something better comes along. Greetings, Lust ps Sega rules! ?

Ah ok, can't promise it won't be demanding for your system although with Futurestate Neon Deluxe I also made some views which where a lot quicker. Have you tried turning off all background images , cleanup images and turn off all transitions for this system?

What is a Potato FE PC?! Lol sounds organic

Slow progress on bezels, will show when getting it to work in xaml, meanwhile further work on arcade inside, small changes, while I'm working on it it slowly falls into place to being a completely different theme than Futurestate Neon Deluxe, puzzling where which element goes can be quite a mind fuck.

Awesome @Jason Carr I was just working on a new theme and riddled how I would do such thing as platform specific and there you are! ? Seen this @Kondorito?

@Kondorito I dont know which files will be in play for these changes (havent tried it yet) but if you are afraid of things changing around try to temporarily protect those files by setting the files to "read only", works for most things windows.

Not sure if this answers your question but just in case: 1. Big Box/Options/View > Check box: "Remember Separate view for each platform" 2. Big Box/Options/Controller Buttons (and/or Keyboard Mappings)/Switch Theme > Map a button/key for Switch theme, now when you are in a platform you can use the button/key to switch and it will remember which theme you've used.

In the mean time I bought a Xbox one wireless controller as I have never used any xbox controller before I was curious, to cut things short: I like the analog sticks better than ps4 although the top of the sticks are meh, the dpad is not my thing as it clicks and overall it doesnt really do it for me, its much smaller than I thought. The Hori Fighter Commander is still my fav controller, and finally was able to order a 8bitdo SF30 pro controller, have been wanting this one for a long time now.

I like to make my own backgrounds/graphics so it will have a unique feeling and in 4K, New Retro Arcade screenshots (almost all in 1080p) are overly used at this point. For the time being it will be a crossover between FutureState Neon Deluxe and this new theme: "Neon Deluxe Arcade" it'll feature a cabinet with video/screenshots, what you've described is my wish as well although at this point I might only be able to get the arcade cabinet part done, when PASC is out i'll try to make a different screen for each system, it'll work much easier then.

I just place the 2 images here without saying a word, that way it will be really mysterious, they'll be like huh? Why doesn't he say something, I'm going to sit here and watch.

I'd like to change the text color of a status, like "Good" would be green, "Imperfect" in orange and Preliminary" in red. Anyone know if this would be possible and how this can be done? Thanks for any reply.

Thank you so much for all the hard work, I still have to finish watching the video but it already blows my mind how cool this is, ps 4K youtube video is also awesome!

Muy Muy misterioso, mi hermano hombre. Psicodélico incluso.

I would love to watch but am very busy atm, will it be possible to see the stream afterwards as well?

It might, that would be a personal choice

Great collection! I love the neon mouse pointer, mind sharing where you got that?

I wish this place was my house

It's a mystery

Yep all seems fine with the videos here, I tried to provoke the grey/greenish video artifacts by navigating faster than it could load the video, going back and forth titles really fast, trying to confuse the hdd, in the past I got the artifacts by doing this occasionally using my theme (it uses large videos), it doesn't happen anymore. I'm not 100% sure/could be a feeling but it seems to load video's a tiny fraction slower (could be below a second), is there a way to make videos load faster or is it connected to the loading times of a theme/speed of systems hdd? Edit: I think It's the theme, I was able to speed up the parameters from the custom code by hexxer for wheel hiding, now it's faster

I'm affraid I will make 20 different themes when you release this weapon of mass creativity bro Really looking foreward to the creative explosion this will bring, keep up the great work! \m/

Looks awesome bro!

Sounds great! Hope to see photos or video of your project so we can follow it and maybe learn from it as well.

Neon Deluxe Startup Theme View File Note: This thread will not be pushed to the front in the "whats new" section, if you want notifications for future updates to this file be sure to follow this page by using the follow button in the upper right corner. A startup theme to accompany the Futurestate Neon Deluxe theme I haven't touched the shutdown theme file as I don't use shutdowns. 1. This theme does not use the backgrounds like usually but one static image stylized to a neon lit brick wall (in 4K quality btw). 2. The left side has been bound to "Box3DImagePath" or what you've set in this image category's priority list 3. The right side has been bound to "Cart3DImagePath" or what you've set in this image category's priority list, I've set it to this for use in the above bigbox theme as well: 4. In the center below it's been bound to "CartFrontImagePath" or what you've set in this image category's priority list. Unpack the folder in: LAUNCHBOX\StartupThemes, go to startup settings and choose the title of this theme. If you like to stare longer to the startup screen, simply delay it to 5 seconds in the launchbox and/or bigbox settings. Thanks @Retro808 for the inspiration of your startup theme Submitter Mr. RetroLust Submitted 01/20/2019 Category Startup Themes

Maybe a dumb or a revolutionairy concept but wouldnt it work to slightly tilt the dual sticks foreward towards the player just a bit, and/or more to the right or left, leaving more room for movement and no accidental button presses. I must write them hahaha

Hori Retro Commander, couldnt get the nice rounded look much, analog sticks are from the hori onyx controller, want this