Mr. RetroLust Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Neon Deluxe Arcade - Final 4:3 (Big Box Theme) View File Note: This thread will not be pushed to the front in the "whats new" section once updated in the future, if you want notifications for future updates be sure to follow this page by using the follow button in the upper right corner. NEON DELUXE ARCADE - FINAL 4:3 ----------------------------------------------------- CREDITS Huge thanks goes out to @y2guru for his Community Theme Creator Software and his endless personal help, also he created the animated wheels for this theme! @Hexxxer for the original inspiration of his FutureState theme. @Rincewind for the inspiration on his use of the icons. Thanks guys! ----------------------------------------------------- INTRO This is the final version of Neon Deluxe Arcade, it's completely rebuild from the ground up. The old theme was slow, I couldn't even run it in 4K but with this rebuild it runs even smoothly with 4K theme graphics. As the name suggests this is the 4:3 version of the theme, not all views are ported over from the 16:9 version (non of the horizontal views) but it has it's own unique views. I left out the scanlines overlay on the video's as I expect this to be running on 4:3 CRT's. This theme looks the same in any DPI setting now but it's only for 4:3 views. ----------------------------------------------------- INSTALLATION 1. Download the theme here and place the folder in Launchbox/Themes/ 2. You might need to unblock all the .DLL's in the plugin folder, I usually don't have to though. 3. I recommend doing the following to speed up Big Box greatly: - Uncheck all Background Images in launchbox/settings/image priorities - Set all transitions to "None" in BigBox settings - Use the Clean Up media tool in launchbox/tools/Clean Up Media... (this can really speed up lists with thousands of games and duplicate media) - Defrag the drive that holds your media files Hope you like and enjoy! ? ----------------------------------------------------- LINKS Neon Deluxe Arcade is a series of themes and elements, if you like you can download these to accompany the complete theme, visit this page to see all my other work: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/profile/88501-mr-retrolust/content/?type=downloads_file The excellent start up video by @PaDeMoNiuM Submitter Mr. RetroLust Submitted 07/21/2020 Category Big Box Custom Themes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikkus Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Hey, loving the theme. One thing seems weird. If i click on "options", the Theme changes to default. But only in the options screen. Do you have any advice or trick for me? thx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 22 minutes ago, mikkus said: Hey, loving the theme. One thing seems weird. If i click on "options", the Theme changes to default. But only in the options screen. Do you have any advice or trick for me? thx Looks like Retrolust did not design a theme view for the options page. This is not uncommon. Sometimes theme designers will leave the options page with the default skin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Yep didn't customize the options page, I did so with the regular 16:9 theme but it has some weird background scaling problems on some displays. Seeing 4:3 is being used on very different resolutions I just can't garantee it would look right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zengeek Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Hey @Mr. RetroLust - I am seeing this error on Launchbox 11.4 - any clues? - looks like a reference to an asset that is missing? Many thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 22 minutes ago, zengeek said: Hey @Mr. RetroLust - I am seeing this error on Launchbox 11.4 - any clues? - looks like a reference to an asset that is missing? Many thanks in advance I'll have a look, seems theres an image missing or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 Well all seems ok on this side with 11.4 installed, maybe there's something wrong with your theme install. Please delete the folder launchbox/themes/Neon Deluxe Arcade Final - 4-3 and install the newest version at: Please let me know how it worked out for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zengeek Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) I did some more troubleshooting, and seemed to move towards the cause of it. 1)Reinstalled theme - same error 2)Reinstalled launchbox and theme - same error 3) Moved to C:\ (NTFS Formatted hard drive) folder - no error Working hypothesis - there is some strange incompatibility on running on a exFat formatted USB memory stick. I will try reformatting the drive in NTFS and see if it is something to do with file system. Interesting on previous versions of the the theme (on the same USB storage, it was fine?) Edited September 1, 2020 by zengeek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 48 minutes ago, zengeek said: I did some more troubleshooting, and seemed to move towards the cause of it. 1)Reinstalled theme - same error 2)Reinstalled launchbox and theme - same error 3) Moved to C:\ (NTFS Formatted hard drive) folder - no error Working hypothesis - there is some strange incompatibility on running on a exFat formatted USB memory stick. I will try reformatting the drive in NTFS and see if it is something to do with file system. Interesting on previous versions of the the theme (on the same USB storage, it was fine?) Yeah thats weird, have you tried other themes as well on the usb stick? Usb sticks aren't as fast as hdd's or ssd's though, could it be some form of lag perhaps? LB/BB is pretty intensive on reading cycles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 @zengeek I just read this, I think it covers your problem: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zengeek Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Ah ha!! Well spotted Sir, yes that is exactly the issue! - In that case, rather than wait for 11.5 to drop, I will reformat in NTFS, as that is what is suggested anyways for launchbox, and that will fix it up. Keep up the fabulous work @Mr. RetroLust 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 27 minutes ago, zengeek said: Keep up the fabulous work Thank you sir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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