The Papaw

Details View File Hey ya'll. This here's another Bigbox theme called Details (SE). It was designed for big screens. It uses the 16:9 aspect ratio, and geared more for using on large 4K TV's. I'm still working on this one and it's not finished. I plan to add more views like a Marquee, Coverflow, etc., I'm just not that far along yet. Assets Used in the video: Jarvis Sound Pack: https://bit.ly/46qXWXA Jarvis Startup Video: https://bit.ly/46qXWXA Details (SE) Startup/Shutdown Theme: https://bit.ly/46qXWXA Details (SE) Pause Theme: https://bit.ly/46qXWXA This one has more time and work put into it, more than any theme I've done to date. From graphics to unique views. There are somewhere around 300 view files used in the theme so far and still counting. I've done 100 or so custom wheel items/images for the platform and playlists wheels so far. This time, I went with controllers and year for the wheel items of the platform/playlists views, and game cartridges and discs for wheel items on games views. I love how Launchbox allows us to download our artwork, but I was going for a more consistent look with the game cartridges and discs. I have spent 100's of hours trying to replicate each of the media types used so far, trying to add as much detail to each as I possibly could without going overboard and crippling the theme. I tried keeping the look fairly simple, but this theme is very complex in design. Unlike most themes, I'm not using 2 or 3 fonts. So far, it uses 57 different fonts, as I tried matching fonts that pertained to each included platform or platform clear logo. I tried to match them as best I could. I also tried to throw in a bit of history you might say with some of the artwork. Or making Retro, as Retro can get. Like in some of the art I used in the Arcade platform. I used images of the very first arcade machine ever made for public use. It was called "Computer Space". Or with "Future Pinball", I used a wooden pinball machine. I put a lot of research into this one, even details such as the years that the store fronts were founded in the Store Front playlists. I also set it up to work well with some of the best platform videos out there, the Colorful Platform/Playlists Video Snaps. You don't have to use them, so if you prefer different ones or none at all (choosing none will show random snaps), that's no problem. However, if you don't plan on using the Colorful videos set, you need to DELETE or RE-NAME a folder in the theme called "Colorful" (..\LaunchBox\Themes\Details (SE)\Media\Colorful). This theme relies Heavily on "Fanart Backgrounds" and "Clear Logos". It also needs good metadata for things like ESRB Ratings. The ESRB ratings are used quite a bit on much of the media replication I've done. (I also included an extra PEGI folder for those folks that use that system as well. You may need to do a little file renaming and moving to get them going as you need too, but they are included.) The biggest problem with this theme is the Playlists views. They can be slow. The more platforms used in a specific playlist, the slower the loading. This is because of the way LB/BB is using a "default" view when it's loading everything for that playlist. LB/BB will be loading many different types of cartridges and discs from different systems all at the same time, well, it can get slow. BTW, the little animated trophy means that game has Achievements if you use Retro Achievements. Well that's about it for now. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe to the video if ya watch it to help out the channel, and do the bell thingy if you wish to be notified of new videos. Leave comments, suggestions and Reviews here on the forums. If you have a minute, make sure to check out our Buy Me A Coffee page for all the latest updates and information on how gain access to exclusive content to the PSGC and PSMC collections, and while you're there, maybe you'll buy me a cup of coffee or maybe become a member. Or maybe you might make a donation through PayPal. All donations are to be used for my grandson's college fund. On a side note about Papawson, (my nickname for my grandson), I'm awful proud of the little feller. We started home schooling him starting in the 1st grade, he is only 10 now and should finish the 7th grade in just a couple months. He tells me all the time, Papaw, you know you will have to drive me to college everyday, because I won't be old enough to drive. -ENJOY! • The Papaw 🙏❤️🙏 Submitter The Papaw Submitted 01/26/2025 Category Custom Themes  

Thx Joe

I am having similar issue with Xemu as it uses <CTRL><Q> to exit.

I was re-doing some roms for my SNK Neo Geo AES collection. Out of the 214 files, and allowing the merging the variations, I wound up with 158 games. It appears to have downloaded artwork decently and this is what the platform shows (only 8 game with no names or anything below them, except 1): After closing and re-opening LB it seems to be showing correctly.

Yeah that happens to me as well. Or if you go to do something that uses a dialog box, it will appear in the top left corner of the screen instead of normal location. Been that way for months for me.

Thanks Teach, so I should probably use non-merged set to import into LB, then export them to be added to NAS to save HDD space on NAS. Less chances of them not working and less headache, other than time. Would you agree? BTW, hope all is well with ya Joe

Can you export MAME roms from a Merged set like you can with a non-merged set. Like shown in last youtube video? Going to build a new setup using 0.273 and need to be able to export them for NAS. I do use chd files as well if that matters

Gotcha, but it doesn't cover the beta's