lingpanda Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Yup. Too bad, too. But Tom's doing good work with GameEx, so I'm patient (kinda )Where is mamebak supposed to be displayed? You can already change the mame background. I'm a little confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebrand_X Posted October 12, 2006 Author Share Posted October 12, 2006 Where is mamebak supposed to be displayed? You can already change the mame background. I'm a little confused.How do you get a specific background (ex: MameBak.png) to show up under 'Emulators' -> 'MAME'?Crap, now I'm confused... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lingpanda Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 How do you get a specific background (ex: MameBak.png) to show up under 'Emulators' -> 'MAME'?Crap, now I'm confused... Ahh.. I think I understand. My mame is on my start page. I suppose you have it under emulated games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebrand_X Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 Ahh.. I think I understand. My mame is on my start page. I suppose you have it under emulated games.Bingo. Confusion cleared Anyways, here's a preview of what I've been up to. Open these, then Right-Click and Save to use them.Background:(Improvements, right? )Icon:Still screwing around with the media bar... bah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 For your Capcom logo there... You should trim out the center. It looks a little cleaner that way.Just a wee suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansolo77 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 For SegaCD, you should use some kinda Sewer Shark, or maybe a Lunar Silver Star character. I'm not familiar with what that character is. I also had Mad Dog McCree and Wing Commander that might have some decent characters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 For SegaCD, you should use some kinda Sewer Shark, or maybe a Lunar Silver Star character. I'm not familiar with what that character is. I also had Mad Dog McCree and Wing Commander that might have some decent characters...Snatcher was one of the most popular games on the SegaCD and are sat as one of the biggest classic on the SegaCD today so i think the choice with "Gillian Seed" as the charater for the BAK are fine enough Mad Dog McCree did better on the 3do the reason i know that are i owned a phillips CD-I and was close to buy a 3do back then and holded a close eye on the 3do even tho the CD-I had the mpeg module (DVC) so it had alot better movie output than the 3do but still the cd-I didnt sell well so the game it self was better known either from the real arcade or the 3do i guess if you should go after the most known/sold it should have been sonic but then again sonic would apear on all the custom backgrounds when it was a sega unit and prolly zelda when it was nintendo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amos_82 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Hi firebrand X,Ive been sitting on an idea for a while now, im waiting for custom emu layouts, or maybe a horizontal database before i make any more themes.Anyway, how about making the home/exit buttons part of the background image, then making the focus buttons white, this way the buttons will change colour with the emulator pages. Here's some examples:The same can be done with the media controls, if you make the 'MediaControl.png' part of the background, and choose an active colour like white for the 'MediaControlStop.png'.Just an idea buddy, could be a nice finishing touch to your theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebrand_X Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 For SegaCD, you should use some kinda Sewer Shark, or maybe a Lunar Silver Star character. I'm not familiar with what that character is. I also had Mad Dog McCree and Wing Commander that might have some decent characters...You've never played 'Snatcher'?!??!!!! It's only one of the rarest and greatest game for the Sega CD, and made by the legendary Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid and Zone of the Enders.Pick it up sometime, it's very slick. The only way to describe it is:The Terminator + BladeRunner Snatcher was one of the most popular games on the SegaCD and are sat as one of the biggest classic on the SegaCD today so i think the choice with "Gillian Seed" as the charater for the BAK are fine enough Ah, nevermind, Night nailed it first Hi firebrand X,Ive been sitting on an idea for a while now, im waiting for custom emu layouts, or maybe a horizontal database before i make any more themes.Anyway, how about making the home/exit buttons part of the background image, then making the focus buttons whiteJust an idea buddy, could be a nice finishing touch to your theme Its an awesome idea! But for now I'm going to stick with what I have going for me because it's so close to being finished. Still, that would be a really cool thing to do, and I know you have the knowhow to make those 'hotspots' in the GameEx Theme Editor (something I still suck at).But since you thought this one up, you should try it out first. I'm really curious to see how it'd look/work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Hi firebrand X,Ive been sitting on an idea for a while now, im waiting for custom emu layouts, or maybe a horizontal database before i make any more themes.Anyway, how about making the home/exit buttons part of the background image, then making the focus buttons white, this way the buttons will change colour with the emulator pages. Here's some examples:The same can be done with the media controls, if you make the 'MediaControl.png' part of the background, and choose an active colour like white for the 'MediaControlStop.png'.Just an idea buddy, could be a nice finishing touch to your theme That's a smooth lookin nav bar - almost like an internet browser feel. Like the logos too. Very sharp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebrand_X Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotMame Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 That is so cool. I see the download say 1024x768. Is the 800x600 still in the works? Excellent looking theme! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 well the main res. are 1024x768 but the theme have 800x600 bAKs included as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebrand_X Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 well the main res. are 1024x768 but the theme have 800x600 bAKs included as well...What Night said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricci Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Very nice! Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon_slayer Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Iâ??m having a problem downloading it. Iâ??ve tried downloading it a few times and each time it gets to 29% the download stops... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Iâ??m having a problem downloading it. Iâ??ve tried downloading it a few times and each time it gets to 29% the download stops... i just re-checked the complete package is there but im not aware of any problems i guess thats Toms call its a big theme tho i guess removing the 3 songs in it would help alittle to size it alitte down if thats ok with firebrand_X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebrand_X Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 i just re-checked the complete package is there but im not aware of any problems i guess thats Toms call its a big theme tho i guess removing the 3 songs in it would help alittle to size it alitte down if thats ok with firebrand_XNOOO!! Not the music!!!... okay, sure It was just added for 'shits and giggles' anyways.The size is still <50mb as of right now. Is it too big?The music thing is your call, Night.EDIT:Amos_82 has fixed the taskbar so the rollovers work as intended (yay!)Here's the link: Fixed TaskbarThe .ini's will need to be renamed accordingly, but it's pretty straight forward to throw it over what people may have already downloaded.Night, if your dropping the music, can you also recompile the Valhalla.zip on your server with these changes? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 sure thing ill update it later tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebrand_X Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 sure thing ill update it later tonight Thanks Night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon_slayer Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Iâ??ve got broadband so the size wasnâ??t a problem. Is anyone else experiencing problems downloading it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jthompson Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Iâ??ve got broadband so the size wasnâ??t a problem. Is anyone else experiencing problems downloading it? Nope, Broadband. Downloaded OK. Nice Theme.Jay T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotMame Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Finally had the time to install this on my cab with the Wells Gardner monitor at 800x600. It rules! Thank you for taking the time to create such an awesome theme.I haven't found any issues with theme at this resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricci Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Man that is SWEET!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebrand_X Posted October 26, 2006 Author Share Posted October 26, 2006 Thanks for the flood of kudos, all! Glad everyone's enjoying it.If you're having some problems in the 800x600, or if you downloaded the theme before Night added Amos_82's INI fixes, you might want to redownload it just incase. It was pretty fun making Valhalla, but things have gotten kind of boring since I finished it... Maybe I'll do a Version 2 in the future ... Or maybe a whole new theme Who knows?Anyways, thanks again everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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