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Overview TypeXtra was designed to make setting up TypeX and Nesica Systems more straightforward. There are lots of different game sets out in the wild, so setup can be quite a confusing job. This aims to make it a few clicks job. TypeXtra does not come with any "ROMS." That would be illegal. If you own the system you are aiming to emulate, then you can secure a "ROM" image of the game to emulate on your PC. Once you have the ROM/s you want, TypeXtra aims to make setup a 3 step process: Point it to the directory/s in which your ROM/s reside Click "Autoscan." It will automatically identify most games if their folders contain a game.inf file (some roms don't) Click "Setup Games" to install an assured set of support files which will make the game run. This does depend on your ROM files Features Import other "Game Service" sets - ones that are designed to ensure games boot OK. Some of these have modified game executables, therefore they're not included with this distribution. However, see elsewhere for instructions on obtaining and importing. Import "HD Exe" sets. The original game executables ran at lower resolutions. Some modified executables have been produced to have these games work at higher resolutions (not just stetch to fill your display, but to actually render at higher resolutions). Customise what files launch the game, what file to monitor for the game ending and what controls setting application to use on a game-per-game basis. Runs invisibly from command line - once you have your games set up, send it the short ort long game name and it will boot the game and close itself once the game executable has stopped. This helps with front end setups, where the front end will monitor for the temrination of the launch application (in this case, TypeXtra). Create shortcuts pointing towards the game launch files in either the 'long' or 'short' game format. This can be used to have a front end launch a file directly by executing the shortcut, or, more helpfully, get the correct command line parameter to pass to TypeXtra to launch the game. Audits the exe files and compares against a database of known working vs known rubbish roms (database in early stages) Screenshot Video Download and further info https://sites.google.com/view/magoarcade/software/typextra

Hi, I've came across this Nesica xLive theme by taito and it really look awesome. I was wondering if anybody share my thoughts can would possibly create this for Big Box? There is a review by simply austin here, and there is another fan made link here where all the files have been create for Attract Mode and Rocket Launcher. I've only used Launch Box till now thus I'm not sure how to operate others, and I thought to continue using Big Box in the future too. Not sure if the artwork and borders can be supported using any previous themes created in the forum here to enable the possibility faster? Really hope someone can create this for BIg Box, any takers? Oh, this is the fan channel link, not sure if it helps? Saw someone did it in Hyperspin, was wondering if it can be also be done for the BigBox?

NESiCAxLive Theme View File Click to view video of theme Introduction This theme was originally requested by @Evilmaster and is designed to mirror the interface of the NESiCAxLive system Taito use in their TypeX2 mutli-game cabinets. The theme has been completely rebuilt from the ground up in version 2.0 and should now scale correctly for all resolutions. The theme does include the ability to display publisher logos as well as game specific control layouts within the interface. The theme is also built around using steam-style banners - I have detailed the simplest way to set this up currently in Launchbox below as the wheel does not support steam banners as a games view currently without some tweaking of your library. It will however, now also work with standard game boxes but I highly recommend that you set the option to remember different views per platform so that you can use the view that works best for the given platform cover art / banners you are using. Installation Unzip the NESiCAxLive folder to your Launchbox /Themes directory into a subfolder called NESiCAxLive. Setting up Steam Banners In order to setup the steam banners you will need to download steam banners for your games manually as unfortunately Launchbox does not yet automatically download these particular files for anything other than Steam games. Some good resources I have used to get these images from are: http://consolegrid.com/ http://steambanners.booru.org/index.php http://www.steamgriddb.com/ (Thanks to @Evilmaster for pointing me in the direction of these) When you download the images and add them to your games make sure you set them as Steam Banners within the game options in Launchbox. Then for them to be used in the theme correctly set the priority of the boxes view to prioritise Steam Banners first - if you ever want to revert this it is then simply a case of lowering the priority of the steam banners in the boxes list rather than having to remove or reorganise images. To do this open Launchbox and go to Tools --> Options and in the window that appear select Box Front Properties in the Images section and use the Up button to move the Steam Banners to the top of the list. Setting up Control Layouts Open the theme directory and browse to Images/Controls - in here you will find a folder for most systems, if the system you want to add control layouts for is not listed create a new Folder in this directory ensuring the folder name matches the platform name in Launchbox exactly. In each platform directory you will find a minimum of two files; controller.png and buttons.png. Using your preferred PNG image editing program (Photoshop or GIMP are recommended) open both files as layers. You can then position the buttons over the controller image as you want. When done you can hide the controller layer and just save the new button layout into the directory to replace buttons.png. This file will then be loaded by the theme and the animation applied automatically to fade it in and out. Setting up Developer Logos By default Launchbox/BigBox does not grab Developer/Publisher logos. I have downloaded many of the most common ones already and included in the theme. If you find that the view you are using needs developer logos and the one you need is missing you can simply download from the internet - ensuring it is a PNG file with transparent background - and place the file in the images/company logos subfolder of the theme directory ensuring the file is named exactly the same as the developer of the game/system is listed in LaunchBox. The Platform Views There are 4 Platform Views to select from shown below: Platform View 1 - Banner View with Recently Played Items Bar Platform View 2 - Banner View with Favorites Items Bar Platform View 3 - Banner View with no Bar There is also the Text Only Platform View The Game Views Horizontal Banner View * Horizontal Boxes View Horizontal Carts/CD/DVD View Horizontal Screenshots View Vertical Logos View Vertical Banners View * Text List View Small Banner View * * Requires Front Images configured with Steam Banner as the top priority and for Steam Banner images to be present in your library to display correctly. Submitter shro2016 Submitted 02/15/2017 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

NesicaXLive Arcade Edition View File This is a theme based on the Nesica network UI I tried to keep the interface clean and as faithful to the original as i could. This was made with the The Community Theme Creator so a shout out goes to y2guru for his amazing app. also a thanks goes out to shro2016 for give us his original theme that i have been using for the last year on my arcade Submitter necroticart Submitted 10/22/2019 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

Griddle BoxView View File ****** NOTE THIS THEME IS BUILT FOR FOR STANDARD BOXART TO BE SHOWN ON THE FLOWCONTROL WHEEL. IF YOU WOULD RATHER USE STEAM STYLE BANNERS THEN DONWLOAD THE THEME GRIDDLE BANNERS INSTEAD ********* Following on from the NesicaxLive theme I created previously this is my second theme - GRIDDLE Unlike the Nesica theme this theme should scale correctly to most 16:9/16:10 resolutions. I have tested at 1080p but the theme has been built with images sized suitably for 4k displays. If anyone has a 4k display and would like to test this and feedback in the comments section that would be appreciated. Also as with the Nesica theme I created this theme has additional elements included within it for Publisher/Developer logos to be displayed and also controller layouts to be shown for each platform. I have also included in seperate zip files below the platform fanart I have used in the screenshots above should you want to do the same in your setup (note unlike theme itself which is drawn to 4k the fanart are only 1080p but should scale ok up to 1080p). With regards the game/platform videos I recommend using default videos for this theme without other elements to keep the look clean and in 4:3 ratio where possible - videos shown in screenshots are all available from emumovies. If you want to change or add additional controller layout images you just need to drop the images into the following directory within your Launchbox directory /Themes/Griddle/Images/Controls/Platform Name (you may need to create the relevant Platform Name if it does not already exist) All views are the same layout but with different colour themes applied. This allows you to set each platform to a different colour scheme but whilst keeping a consistent look and feel throughout. Any issues, recommendations etc. are always welcome. For anyone who has posted on the Nesica theme I am going back and working on that one currently to make that one responsive so it scales to other resolutions and also adding in some of the features from this theme so expect a 2.0 Nesica release soon. Thanks Platform_FanArt.zip Submitter shro2016 Submitted 07/07/2017 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

Sounds I converted for the NesicaXLive theme NesicaXlive Sounds.zip

Griddle BannerView View File ****** NOTE THIS THEME IS BUILT FOR STEAM STYLE BANNERS FOR THE FLOWCONTROL WHEEL. IF YOU WOULD RATHER USE BOXART THEN DONWLOAD THE THEME GRIDDLE BOXVIEW INSTEAD ********* Following on from the NesicaxLive theme I created previously this is my second theme - GRIDDLE Unlike the Nesica theme this theme should scale correctly to most 16:9/16:10 resolutions. I have tested at 1080p but the theme has been built with images sized suitably for 4k displays. If anyone has a 4k display and would like to test this and feedback in the comments section that would be appreciated. Also as with the Nesica theme I created this theme has additional elements included within it for Publisher/Developer logos to be displayed and also controller layouts to be shown for each platform. I have also included in seperate zip files below the platform fanart I have used in the screenshots above should you want to do the same in your setup (note unlike theme itself which is drawn to 4k the fanart are only 1080p but should scale ok up to 1080p). With regards the game/platform videos I recommend using default videos for this theme without other elements to keep the look clean and in 4:3 ratio where possible - videos shown in screenshots are all available from emumovies. If you want to change or add additional controller layout images you just need to drop the images into the following directory within your Launchbox directory /Themes/Griddle/Images/Controls/Platform Name (you may need to create the relevant Platform Name if it does not already exist) All views are the same layout but with different colour themes applied. This allows you to set each platform to a different colour scheme but whilst keeping a consistent look and feel throughout. Any issues, recommendations etc. are always welcome. For anyone who has posted on the Nesica theme I am going back and working on that one currently to make that one responsive so it scales to other resolutions and also adding in some of the features from this theme so expect a 2.0 Nesica release soon. Thanks Platform_FanArt.zip Submitter shro2016 Submitted 06/27/2017 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

Hey guys... i was wondering if anyone can direct me on how to setup NesicaxLive games on launchbox. Is there a tutorial out there on how to set this up in launchbox.? Thanks in advance.!

NESiCAxLive Theme View File Introduction This theme was requested by @Evilmaster and is designed to mirror the interface of the NESiCAxLive system Taito use in their TypeX2 mutli-game cabinets. This is my first attempt at creating a theme so please be kind. The theme has been built for 1920x1080 resolution and is likely to look wrong in other resolutions currently. I may update the theme for other resolutions if there is sufficient interest for me to do so, The theme does include the ability to display publisher logos as well as game specific control layouts within the interface. The theme is also built around using steam-style banners - I have detailed the simplest way to set this up currently in Launchbox below as the wheel does not support steam banners as a games view currently without some tweaking of your library. The Views Platform Wheel 1 - Horizontal Banner View Platform Wheel 2 - Horizontal Logo View Submitter shro2016 Submitted 02/15/2017 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

IfExist, .\NesysService.exe Run, NesysService.exe -app Sleep, 5000 IfExist, .\cryptserver.exe Run, cryptserver.exe Sleep, 10000 IfExist, .\RFIDGod_inject.exe Sleep, 5000 Run, RFIDGod_inject.exe Escape:: Process,close,NesysService.exe Process,close,RFIDGod_inject.exe Process,close,Game.exe Process,close,cryptserver.exe Process,close,Start_Game.exe Process,WaitClose,NesysService.exe Process,WaitClose,RFIDGod_inject.exe return Save script as Save_Game.exe. Compile with AutoHotScript so end results is Save_Game.exe. It's not much but I hope it helps.