The Papaw

Neon Skyline & Neon Brick Skyline View File Do you remember neon lights from the 50's and 60's? (Yes, I know I am old) They were everywhere on about every store. The flickers, the sounds? With this theme I tried to capture as much of that as I could figure out how. All the backgrounds are animated as to replicate the flicker of a neon bulb of the platform name and device coming on. (the intro startup video I made even includes the sounds). Also has a second set of backgrounds that replace the neon city with a dark brick as optional download. I sure am not a graphics designer and can use all the help I can get . But I have attempted to create more glass looking clear logos, added lighting and reflections of the neon stuff and attempted to make the light pass through in all the info boxes I used best I could. Between what I could do in photoshop and CTC, this is what I have so far. This theme is the most extensive theme I have done to date. Version 2.0.0 doesn't need the backgrounds like version 1 did. Choose from Neon Skyline or Neon Brick Skyline OPTIONAL (only needed for version 1): If you would like to use the other backgrounds, they are named: BrickBackgrounds - Just dark brick wall Neon Brick Skyline - I combine the brick wall with the neon skyline to make it look like a mural on the wall. To change the backgrounds, just rename or delete the files in the ..\Launchbox\Themes\Neon Skyline\Media\Backgrounds folder. Extract the replacements and drop them in the same place as the originals I was planning on doing all the platforms, but I might wait to see if there is enough interest there before I spend that much time on it. It takes me sometimes hours to do a single platform (I'm old, remember ). Let me know in the comments what ya'll think. Watch the video, download and try it. BTW: Theme has most of my usual stuff (shows partial gamepad support like Steam, little popups for Completed, Broken, Needs Installed, etc.) and runs very smooth on my large BB rig, even in the Arcade platform on my older PCs. Only tested with 16:9 so not sure how it looks on others Sample Video: Startup Video (I have 4K version if anyone is interested) Startup.mp4 Comments, reviews, questions and suggestion are welcome! If you have found any of my efforts useful, let me know! If you'd like to buy me a cup of coffee, I would really appreciate it (via PayPal donation) Enjoy! The Papaw Submitter The Papaw Submitted 12/06/2022 Category Custom Themes  

Thanks @C-Beats I will look for the feature request, but shouldn't this just be part of the update rather than a feature? Anyways, again, thank you Sir. BTW thanks to all you guys for getting the media paths added for them, In case I forgot to say thanks....

I would like to know if you select "Games Missing Media" feature, does it include any of the new 3D model stuff. If so, would one select the 3D boxes to download the new stuff? Or is this something that hasn't been added yet?

Thanks Brian, I know your busy. Last night, I renamed my main LB Image folder and started running a fresh media download (hasn't been done in a few years). It will take all day or more to run with EMU being as slow as it is at the moment. Here is a zip of the Data folder, it was made during the downloading though if that makes a difference..

Okay, even with Official release, I deleted the ListCache.xml before running, this time I only selected clear logos for the Arcade platform, All downloads fine, then searches emumovies, downloaded files, through "z" as normal, then it still goes to Searching Emu for 3DO interactive media and just hangs there. It appears it downloaded clear logos from Emu best I can tell, but I'm not really sure. Out of the 3361 games it downloaded 2379 files, 1900+ were from LB database, the remaining came from Emu. Again, cancel doesn't stop the process, but I was able to close LB normally without having to kill it with task manager. Here are screenshots of LB and one of the processes running in task manager after it goes to the 3DO stuff:

I went ahead and updated to new beta, done as you suggested and same thing happened

Just reporting strange event. I went to update some media for my Arcade platform. I only selected boxes, spines (fronts, backs, 3d's, etc.), one image and replace option, using recommended not to replace existing data. I started it like 6:00am this morning. I minimized it and kinda forgot about it. I opened it up a few minutes ago (over 3 hours later) and it's hung on Searching EmuMovies for 3DO Interactive Multiplayer Don't know why it is searching for 3DO stuff, is it suppose to do that? Cancel wouldn't kill it the process, had to kill LB with task manager, just reporting it (beta 13.2)

Thanks for the reply @Retrofrogg Is not my question related to the new 3D model introduced in the beta? Are not these Newly added folders used to make them happen (that didn't exist until the beta release) ???

Are there any plans to add the new image folders to the settings so they can be located elsewhere like the rest of our artwork? Box - Full Box - Spine

Thank you Sir

I am working on a theme using CTC and am having video issues with both beta 13.1 & 2 only in the Fullscreen Coverflow view. I am playing a "select item video", but have a secondary video to play if there is no "select item video". It only plays the secondary video for every game. However, It works as expected in other view type like horizontal view, but in the Fullscreen Coverflow, nadda. I have also noticed that you can change nothing as far as the wheel itself, other than its size. Is this something @y2guru will need to look into or a LB thing due to the new 3D box features?

Since adding "Box - Full" and "Spine", should not LaunchBox be creating new folders for them to download into? I found them, they are saving to the default folders, my bad I am not seeing them under the Folder tabs to change their location though, shouldn't I be? I do see them in the Tools > Option > Media section

Does or I should say is the Update Retroarch feature in LB update the RA cores? If so is it working for anyone else? I just tried it and LB took a couple minutes for the bar at the bottom to go away, but when I looked at the file creation date of my core files, they were old. I ran it through RA and it updated them all just fine

Neon Looking Platform Clear Logos for LB & BB View File I made these for one of my themes and thought I would share them with the community. They look decent in most Launchbox & Bigbox themes if you like the neon look. I really like them in @Mr. RetroLust's Neon Deluxe Arcade - LaunchBox Theme. I made them for 4k so they are on the bigger side, so you might want to make them smaller for certain themes Includes around 250 clear logos (Platforms, Platform Categories, and a few Playlists as well as some extras like TV Shows, Movies, Comics, etc.). Enjoy! -The Papaw Submitter The Papaw Submitted 11/06/2022 Category Platform Clear Logos  

Okie Dokie, thanks for the reply. Wasn't sure if they were related or not. My bad.

I am still seeing black screens if Screen Transition is being used in BB settings, if that helps any. Actually might be worse now. Especially the more hungry ones. Was taking 6-8 minutes before I seen it happen, but now might happen within 3 or 4 changes??

Hey Brian, you were correct. I tested but left Screen Transition to "none". Sick of trying to record the video over and over! It would usually take 6-8 minutes into recording (browsing thru BB) before it would happen if that helps ya'll duplicate it. Thank ya Sir for the reply

@y2guru @faeran or anyone else that may know UPDATE: I want to add that it has something to do with the transitions in BB. After disabling them ALL, it no longer goes to a black screen. I seem to remember seeing something about similar issues some time back but I am having issues with BB going to a black screen after scrolling though BB after a few minutes. It's random, happens sometimes in platform view, sometime in a game view or even setting view? Once it happens, that view stays black until exit and restart of BB. I'm trying to make a video of a CTC theme update using OBS. But it happens without OBS running as well. Anyone know anything about this? I have the same issue with 12.4 but seems to go away with 12.3 (but since the theme was created in CTC, some features aren't working). Here is a sample video, when I try to enter the platform, I get black screen, when I press enter, it works as expected, when I go back, it goes back to black screen. In this example, when I go back again, to settings, it is also black screen. I un-plugged all additional monitors to eliminate that as well. Also tried both VLC and WMP in BB It is also happening with BB default theme. See 2nd log file Any ideas anyone? 1233196738_MyVideo.mp4 Debug 2022-10-06 08-11-13 AM.log Debug 2022-10-06 08-45-41 AM.log