2 New Widescreen Themes:

[amos_82]

Hi people,

I treated myself to a widscreen tv/monitor a few days ago, so ive updated the 'Hybrid Blue' and 'My Games for MCE' to suit the widescreen resolution.

- Both are Version 1 themes

- Around 50 Emulator Backgrounds & icons

- Resolution set to 1024 x 567. (this can be changed by altering/deleting the resolution in the theme.ini

My Games For MCE

Download: Default - My Games for MCE - Widescreen.zip (8.89 MB)

More screens of non-widescreen version in this gameex post

Hybrid Blue

Download: Default - Hybrid Blue - Widescreen.zip (29.19 MB)

More screens of non-widescreen version here

Enjoy

[Michael]

Hi people,

I treated myself to a new widscreen tv/monitor a few days ago, so ive updated the 'Hybrid Blue' and 'My Games for MCE' to suit the widescreen resolution.

- Both are Version 1 themes

Enjoy

Nice work will definatly be using this keep up the great work

[iano]

Nice work will definatly be using this keep up the great work

Hi Amos. Great work (as per usual !!). Stefanka better watch his ass !!

Cheers,

iano.

[Adultery]

Amos:

Great work as usual!

I re-upped your themes just in case. I always worry about those free file transfer sites taking down links.

Here's the link.

It's cool to see people creating themes for different resolutions than just the good ol' 1024x768 and 800x600 resolutions. Makes GameEx even more adaptable than it already is!

[amos_82]

I re-upped your themes just in case. I always worry about those free file transfer sites taking down links.

Thanks for that Adultery

[amos_82]

UPDATE:

I wasn't happy with the selector bar, it was pretty ragged when stretched to widescreen, so i remade the bars.

Here's the links & snaps for the final version:

My Games For MCE Widescreen

Hybrid Blue Widescreen

Before & after:

[EDIT: The original download links have been updated to include the bars]

Download From FileSend

Default - Hybrid Blue - Widescreen.zip (29.16 MB)

Default - My Games for MCE - Widescreen.zip (9.10 MB)

P.S. If you have downloaded the older versions, you can use this pack to update the bars without downloading the whole lot again.

Selector Bar Update.zip (1.25 MB)

Sorry for messing around, but i think its a good improvement.

[Adultery]

UPDATE:

I wasn't happy with the selector bar, it was pretty ragged when stretched to widescreen, so i remade the bars.

Sorry for messing around, but i think its a good improvement.

Updated. Great job as usual Amos!

[VT-Vincent]

The new themes look great! I did have two Q's however, first, is there any way to vertically center the text on the buttons for "Hybrid Blue"? The text appears to be a bit too high on the button.

The second was rather a general question about themes... Is there any way to have the images on the left of the interface alpha blend properly? I noticed that PNGs w/ alpha blending display an ugly rough black edge instead of properly alpha blending.

[amos_82]

Hi VT

Q1

There isn't really a way to center the text vertically at the moment.

Both themes use identicle selector bars (in size) with different fonts, so i think the position of the text varies with the font used.

You can use the same font as the mce theme (segoe media center, this only comes with mce versions of xp) to center the text.

Or you can play around with other fonts to get the alignment you want. 'Frutiger' and 'Myriad' are also nice simple fonts which are similar to 'segoe' and the 'Microsoft Sans Serif' used in the hybrid theme.

Q2

Alpha Blending isnt possible with gameex, thats why black dots/borders can be seen sometimes, i wish it was possible though, you could do some fancy stuff with that