Game themes

[ninja2bceen]

Been watching this project for some time. Still using Hyperspin and the only thing holding many of us back from using this instead is use of Hyperspin game themes. There are years of work there and would hate to lose them. Is there a way to use Hyperspin game themes in big box?

Is there a tool that could allow you to create game themes like hyper theme does? I get that big box has its own types of themes. It's all great btw but this is on of the reasons why I continue to sit and watch all the activity here.

Keep up the good work!

[CriticalCid]

Hi ninja, great to see you here! Unfortunately, there’s no native support for HyperSpin themes and probably never will be because Jason doesn’t want to step on any toes over there.

But you can use video themes like the ones from @BakerMan without any problems. You just have to use a Big Box theme which offers a nice view for these kind of videos.

I can’t go in to any details right now but there’s gonna be a huge announcement regarding that topic in the next time. So stay tuned

[SentaiBrad]

There are two completely different aspects that users who convert are a bit confused on. There's themes, and then there's videos. Themes are created in XAML, anyone can create them and many users have. @CriticalCid here has created some great ones, along with many other users. Cid's theme specifically pair well with the new Platform Video's that James Baker is now creating for us, which is what you're mostly used to in HyperSpin. LaunchBox uses no traces of Flash. Video's are native and regular video formats that your pc can run, and LaunchBox is built with Microsoft published C++ libraries, and is in part what XAML is edited with, Visual Studio (or at least one program XAML can be edited with). XAML can also be edited via text files, but that can get cumbersome. It's also worth noting that you don't need James' video to place here, you can technically place any video you have or want there, as long as it plays in Windows Media Player or VLC, you're good to go. These are also different from the Game Video's that are downloaded from EmuMovies within LaunchBox, if you have LB and EM Premium. James' videos can also be downloaded from within LB with LB Premium as well. Otherwise, platform and game video's can be completely supplied by the user manually, if they have anything.

[ninja2bceen]

[emoji362][emoji362][emoji362] what if we record all the themes for games from Hyperspin so they are technically movies? That would be possible and not much effort I think. Well it would take some time but it would work out of the box I think. Maybe we can get a team that does that? Would that be possible?

[ninja2bceen]

Also I saw sounds in the download page, how are those utilized. Like the megaman sounds. At what point are those used in the front end? Maybe a system wheel or maybe only when you hit a matching megaman game?

[DOS76]

the sounds are used in navigation the different packs change what the sounds are. As to the part with the videos we had someone that started out making videos of the themes but the project halted because the HS people weren't happy with him using the themes like that.

[SentaiBrad]

There is a Sounds folder that house sound folders, so sound packs can go in there and they change various Big Box sound effects.

So yea, like Derek said, HS wasn't happy. We had permission from the theme holders, but the HS team still didn't want it to happen. Now that we have James though, videos will be coming out just for LaunchBox.

[ninja2bceen]

Wow, thanks.