spektor56 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) Yea, it would be cool if the background images were made to be easily swappable. Bedroom / familyroom / basement makes sense for home consoles, arcade makes sense for mame and such. I really like the whole concept here though. Looks like you cut off the end of the NES controller in the picture Edited January 11, 2017 by spektor56 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vice350z Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 2 hours ago, spektor56 said: Yea, it would be cool if the background images were made to be easily swappable. Bedroom / familyroom / basement makes sense for home consoles, arcade makes sense for mame and such. I really like the whole concept here though. Looks like you cut off the end of the NES controller in the picture Yeah, the original image I used had it cut off. This was just a rough draft seeing how it could possibly look and dropped items into it. I would swap out the TV model and stuff and make it my own so its not just a copy of skainlurms's theme. That's if I even get time to do it all. As mentioned I'm new to BigBox and themes so just seeing how it all works. 2 hours ago, MatticusFinch1820 said: This is awesome!!! I like the Bedroom theme much better! It would be cool to be able to have the arcade theme for the arcade systems and then have these bedroom themes for the consoles which each console having the TV of its era and posters of its era in there. What an amazing theme if that could be done like above! Thanks. I'm new to Launchbox/Big Box and just messing with an already awesome theme. I'll play around with the main consoles that I always use and gauge interest. Just need to find posters/toys/TV models for 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vice350z Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 And i guess I should start my own thread should I decide to explore it more. Don't want to derail skainlurmis original thread here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Just looking for some help with installing a theme. I downloaded the file, unzipped the contents into a folder in the Themes folder of Launchbox, then selected the theme in BigBox. However, I get this: What am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vice350z Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 1 minute ago, Dan said: Just looking for some help with installing a theme. I downloaded the file, unzipped the contents into a folder in the Themes folder of Launchbox, then selected the theme in BigBox. However, I get this: What am I doing wrong? That's what I got at first. I went into options and set my K key to change views and cycled through till i got to the right view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 That did it, many thanks! Great looking theme. Pity it doesn't have themes for the Atari systems or CPC464. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vice350z Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 1 minute ago, Dan said: That did it, many thanks! Great looking theme. Pity it doesn't have themes for the Atari systems or CPC464. No prob. I think @skainlurmis is busy but I think he mentioned at some point he'll do more systems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatticusFinch1820 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 On 12/18/2016 at 1:57 PM, skainlurmis said: Hey everyone, so I'm (slowly) working on a new theme inspired by the aesthetics of "New Retro Arcade Neon". Up to this point I've only done the platforms that I currently have myself. This really started as a vanity project, but I figured maybe other people would be interested. The individual platforms take a pretty decent amount of work, so they take a while to produce. I also am using some assets from different sources: - The background image is a screenshot from New Retro Arcade - The carpet texture is also from New Retro Arcade - The ambient arcade sounds are from Andy Hofle's Arcade Ambience Project I'm also planning on making images for the third "Game Details" view with the "Play, flip box, etc." (the one a lot of people turn off). But that's tabled for the moment. A bit of the in's and outs of this are that; as I am not a programmer ..at least not a skilled one, these platform images are actually Banner image replacements. My intent was to only really use this one view so that works fine, but if you wanted to use a different view it would look a little screwed up. I figure in the future they could be converted to be platform videos, but I just don't have the time to work all that out at the moment. So this is both a heads-up saying "Hey this is something in the works", but also a request for a little help. As I try to make the files ready for upload here, I'm running into a problem with my XAML. File paths need to be changed to make background images work, but the bigger issue is that, when I copied the them file and moved it to my desktop to edit it, it now gives me an "Invalid Markup" and my "transistions:transistionpresenter" tag is giving me errors. SO!!! All that being said, if anyone is interested in helping me figure this fellow out, I will gladly upload the theme folder for anyone to play around with and actually get working. I hope this is something you guys are interested in, and thanks for being such an awesome community, and Launchbox for being such an awesome product! YOUTUBE DEMO I posted this in the Bedroom thread but it applies here too. Question for you (or anyone) though, I was experimenting with this style background from the New Retro Big Box theme by taking the TV and Desk PNG and making a CFG file so i can use it as a retroarch TV overlay and play the games through the TV with the system and desk in view. It worked!!! BUT the TV screen is small as hell for playing and the TV and desk are off to the side (because of the console wheel space.) so my question is, Would it be possible to make these TV pngs modified to be able to use as retroarch TV overlays? I would think the only thing to be done would be to make the TV slightly bigger and the desk and TV more towards the center. That way each system you play, you are playing it in the TV on the desk with the console right next to it! Ive included a PNG of the file from NRBB so you can see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vice350z Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 (edited) if it worked for you already I would assume the artwork just needs to be redone/reworked to fit the area. Can you set the game size screen to be smaller in retroarch to fit within the tv? I assumed if just filled the whole screen. Months ago I was trying to figure out how to get the TV overlays to work in my RetroPie setup but couldn't figure it out. Where does the overlay file get uplaoded to and how do you select it in RetroPie/EmulationStation? I knew how to overlay scanlines, i would assume same way to overlay the TV screen. What kinda file does the tv overlay have to be saved as? Edited January 16, 2017 by vice350z 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatticusFinch1820 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 15 hours ago, vice350z said: if it worked for you already I would assume the artwork just needs to be redone/reworked to fit the area. Can you set the game size screen to be smaller in retroarch to fit within the tv? I assumed if just filled the whole screen. Months ago I was trying to figure out how to get the TV overlays to work in my RetroPie setup but couldn't figure it out. Where does the overlay file get uplaoded to and how do you select it in RetroPie/EmulationStation? I knew how to overlay scanlines, i would assume same way to overlay the TV screen. What kinda file does the tv overlay have to be saved as? Ok I figured it out. I took the png image out and cropped it and now it looks like the attached image. I did this for each system. Now, to get them to work in retroarch as overlays, you need to make a .cfg file (ive included one, just replace the name with each console you have a png image for). Just make sure the name of the png image is listed in the .cfg file and put them in a folder in the Retroarch root directory and then go into your retroarch menu, go to settings, overlays and chose the cfg for the console you want. Now you need to resize the screen in retroarch. Go to video settings menu and look for the "aspect ratio index" setting and put it on custom, then you can resize the screen using the four settings below that option. Its tedious to resize but once it fits in it looks great! I have included the N64 png i resized and a cfg file, you can copy this cfg file over and over and just replace the name of the png image. Thats it! If we could just get a slightly bigger TV in this, it would be amazing. Nintendo64.cfg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnescorpionn Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Great theme!!! How can i download it? Congrats skainlurmis!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imdavid555 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 http://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/224-new-retro-big-box/ you can find this theme and others in the downloads section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnescorpionn Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Just now, imdavid555 said: http://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/224-new-retro-big-box/ you can find this theme and others in the downloads section. thanks!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitamina1984 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 You are the best!! FANTASTIC Theme... Possible create theme ps3 and xbox 360? Thanks spetacular theme Sorry for my english i'am italian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samisigsag Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 (edited) Hey Mate, this is the best Theme that I saw. :3 Can you create more Systems? Or any chance for PSD files or items of it? Because I love to have all in same style. Edited October 9, 2019 by Samisigsag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skainlurmis Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) So I just wanted to chime in as its been ..a million years, and a handful of folks have mentioned it so I figured I'd upload the raw PSD file of the main platform/ console view. It's in the downloads section for New Retro Big Box, ..I left a comment with the file in there. Have fun! @RetroRalph @Kittoei Edited October 10, 2019 by skainlurmis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroRalph Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 I tried so hard to find the files. There is no such comment !? If anyone has found the files, I would be very happy if you post this here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skainlurmis Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 Ok that's my bad ...it's here now .. at the bottom of the page before the comments (Click on the Title ..not the "download this file" right there) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroRalph Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 I found the files. Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 (edited) Hello guys, I am well motivated for beautiful skain work, I have already done some tests with my nostalgic bedroom, and after letting me animate these drawings in theme rachid lotf the immense kindness of let me use his work again ! Here are some examples of a night of tests, I want all of us to integrate video backgrounds and change the mood according to the developer (the perfect example is the capcom with final fight with a dirty metro I still have a lot of things to master. I'll keep you updated on developments soon! Edited October 22, 2019 by PaDeMoNiuM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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