Possible to change view to show game boxes or carts?

[jperkins79]

I haven't used GameEx in a couple of years, so I'm well behind the times. Last time I updated though, which was in the 10.x versions I believe, it was not possible to change your games list view to show game carts or boxes, instead of Screenshots. Has this changed? I would REALLY prefer to look at the game boxes when shuffling through the games, instead of screenshots. In my opinion, the screenshots view looks sloppy since there's no border around the screens.

Anyway, is this possible now? *fingers crossed*!

[Tom Speirs]

This should be supported in GameEx Evolution.

[u-man]

you need to point your pathes that belong to title screenshots to point at the gameboxes. you can do this in the setup-wizard of GameEx. So instead of pointing to Titles, you point to the Gameboxes instead. Hope it was clear enough.

aslo read this topic: http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/14574-theme-editing-question/

[jperkins79]

Tom and u-man, thank you both for your responses. I will check into both. GameEx Evolution, never heard of it. I'll read up on it, thanks!

[MNMax21]

Yeah, I went through this a little too. I live the boxes more than the screen shots. Looking forward to the evolution. Uman post will get the boxes going on emulators, Atari, etc. you just change the title path in the setup wizard for each emulator to point to the game boxes or whatever you prefer, be it cartridge or whatever. You will then display that and the video snap if you have a theme that does both. If recommend the gameroom theme by Krakerman. It's pretty slick.

[jperkins79]

So I just tried out the GameroomEx2 theme and swapped the Boxes and Titles path. While it accomplishes what I wanted to do in the most basic sense of it, it is pretty sloppy. The boxes are, of course, cut off at the top and bottom, so it doesn't look good at all. And this particular theme doesn't have any good views that really go well with browsing through the games by looking at the boxes.

Are there any themes that would work well with this kind of setup? In my mind, I'm picturing the boxes against a shelved background, like going to a video rental store back in the 80's/90's. A theme like that would be fantastic. Are there any themes like that?

[Adultery]

It's not a theme restriction as much as a limitation of the software.

[Tom Speirs]

It's not a theme restriction as much as a limitation of the software.

Of which we are aiming to improve with GameEx Evolution.

GameEx Evolution is about completely revolutionizing the skinning and display/cosmetic properties of GameEx.

[jperkins79]

Of which we are aiming to improve with GameEx Evolution.

GameEx Evolution is about completely revolutionizing the skinning and display/cosmetic properties of GameEx.

That sounds interesting. It launches in less than 30 days, correct? I can't wait to see it