Working on (yet) another theme

[Draco1962]

This is a mock-up of the 1680 x1050 Space Invaders theme I am working on based off of the Bally/Williams bezel. Please provide any praise or criticism you see fit! Thanks!

[Adultery]

Ohh that's nice! It makes me wish I had a Space Invaders cab! Love your creative use of foreground images!

That's your best work so far IMHO!

[Krakerman]

Very nice one Draco! Might have to switch from Sins of a Solar Empire to that one when it's done!

Are you gonna add RSS feeds to that as well?

[Draco1962]

Not sure that I will. Will probably disable RSS feeds, Weather icon, and pop-up descriptions for the sake of simplicity and conserving space.

[Adultery]

Keeps it more alluring for the sake of a nice Space Invaders project too.

[Krakerman]

That's too bad RSS Feeds might look pretty kewl with that theme!

[Draco1962]

The nice thing about themes is that they can be modified to suit one's needs!

[celly]

Holy lord! I love it Draco! Man, that looks outstanding.

Adultery, here is a nice Space Invaders cab for sale here in Sacramento - http://sacramento.craigslist.org/vgm/2481661043.html

Road trip?

[Adultery]

Mmm that's in really good shape too! It would be a shame to molest it though if it still works, no? MAME devs would just cry!

[Draco1962]

OK, just about final with the tweaks then on to creating the common foreground/background screens, sound files and should be ready for release later this week. Feedback welcome!

[Adultery]

Still want me to pitch in the samples Drac ol' buddy?

[Draco1962]

That would be as you say.... awesomesauce!

[Adultery]

Okie dokie! I'll work on that right now.

.:EDIT:. PM sent!

[ehuonder]

Pretty sweet Draco!

[starbuck]

Looks good.

I gotta ask a question about a theme I wanted to do. Never done one so I need to ask a Theme God, is it even possible. When I scroll thru my games, could the foreground of your Space Invader theme change to another foreground that reflexs the game I'm on. So for Space Invader, the forground in this theme would show. For Pacman a different foreground would show etc. If possible I could see a theme like yours being used and others in the community making their own foregrounds for their favorite game and subbitting here to the site.

[Adultery]

This is not possible at this time, sorry.

[Draco1962]

Thanks!

@ehuonder - still waiting on that WOPR!

@Starbuck - Adultery speaks the truth on this. The only way I can think of possibly doing anything like what you would like would require setting up several instances of MAME setup as a separate emulator with the ROMs for each game you want to assign a separate screen. Not hardly what I would endeavor to do for the sake of a few custom screens.

[Draco1962]

Here are a few logos that didn't make the Space Invaders theme - enjoy!

[celly]

Here are a few logos that didn't make the Space Invaders theme - enjoy!

Thanks for these Draco!

[Adultery]

Man you're gonna make me finally set up Radical Bikers! *LOL*

[Draco1962]

Celly was kind enough to demo video the Space Invaders theme for me - I have added it to the Theme Competition thread and you can also view it

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Thanks, Celly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-P4C0_ePC8

[Krakerman]

What video? Says it's been removed!

[celly]

What video? Says it's been removed!

The first video had "copyright" issues due to the ambient music (Daft Punk). It kicked it back on both Youtube and when uploaded to Bookface, er, Facebook. I resnapped it with Arcade Ambience and no issues.

[simbamame]

This is a mock-up of the 1680 x1050 Space Invaders theme I am working on based off of the Bally/Williams bezel. Please provide any praise or criticism you see fit! Thanks!

Looks awesome Mike, might even take the plunge and use this as it was the 1st game i ever played as a kid lol

[Draco1962]

What video? Says it's been removed!

New link!