Mr. RetroLust

Tonight:

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.

Included in the theme

Mr. RetroLust's Marquee Screen Filler Magic View File Mr. RetroLust's Marquee Screen Filler Magic Introduction: This is for those that like to fill the surrounding empty (black) space of their Marquee screens while maintaining the original Marquee's aspect ratio, what these replacement .xaml files do is duplicate the marquee with a blur effect on the background while the original marquee has a drop shadow, a technique often seen on TV when dealing with Vertical Video Syndrome material (a terrible disease btw, but that's another topic) Installation: Go to the theme folder of your choice: Launchbox\Themes\*name of the theme*\Views note: If you use the default Big Box theme first copy and paste the default theme folder and name it anything you like, it's important to do this as the default theme will always overwrite any changes you make in that folder. Backup the following files! In case you want to revert back to these Marquee files: GameMarqueeView.xaml and PlatformMarqueeView.xaml Extract the .xaml files in the zipfile to this folder, start BigBox and see the magic unfold Have fun. (Screenshots taken from a 21:9 marquee monitor) Check out the follow up on this here: Submitter Mr. RetroLust Submitted 07/27/2018 Category Big Box Custom Themes

I don't have a facebook account anymore, is there another way I can vote for this contest?

I'm a bit confused while working on the platform part of a new theme, what I want to do is use a 'Device' image and a 'Fan art' image side by side, for some reason when I use 'Binding Path=ActivePlatform.BackgroundImagePath' (that seems to be the path to the Fanart folder?) I get images used in the Device folder as Background/Fanart images as well (randomized), causing duplicate images which doesn't look nice. The weather is very hot atm so it might be I'm missing something, maybe in the way my big box settings/theme settings are set? Any help would be much appreciated. EDIT: Never mind lol I feel really dumb now, I had "Use platform device as background" checked in big box settings

Fix translation issues confirmed! Thanks man

Very welcome bro!