NESiCAxLive Theme

[shro2016]

NESiCAxLive Theme

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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.

 

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• Submitter
  shro2016
• Submitted
  02/15/2017
• Category
  Big Box Custom Themes

 

[atrfate]

I dont Normally Care, When people modify my work, however if your going to it you really should include all of the psd files that where made so people can freely edit it.

[DazStelfox79]

Hi, This theme is great & I use it daily hooked up to my big TV. I wanted to have the date & time & controller battery status displayed in this theme which would have made it complete for me so I tried to edit your theme with visual studio to add grila's big box controls plugin but have no experience with visual studio & don't know where to start. Would you please add grila's plugin to this theme if you get chance.

[jdestroyer97]

Hi I know this a very old thread but what do I do if I downloaded video snaps and images for a different theme already the unified and ultrawide theme but the video snaps are showing up behind the text and are very transparent is there something I'm missing?

[oldgamer]

I dont know how to fix this but Im having a issue here where the video clip for Nintendo 64 is Fade and big is there a way to fix it ? I just purchase Big Box and I am new at this kinda of stuff so is there anyway to fix this issue ?

here a picture of the issue