Jump to content
SpesoftPinballXConvert-It

All my products and services are free. All my costs are met by donations I receive from my users. If you enjoy using any of my products, please donate to support me. My bare hosting costs are currently not met so please consider donating by either clicking this text or the Patreon link on the right.

Patreon

Iso of a Custom theme

stephenp1983

By stephenp1983
in General

 Share

Recommended Posts

stephenp1983 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

stephenp1983

Posted
Posted

I am wanting a customized theme to match the theme of my cabinet. I honestly don't have the time or skill to do something like this right now. I would be willing to paypal whoever can do this an amount between 10-20 dollars for their work, or make a donation to this site or one of your choosing. THe theme for my cabinet is a Goonies cab. I have the marquee as VS the goonies, but will have some custom sideart in the works. So basicly I want a gameex theme to go along with the cabinet, like some of the people at byoac have for their cabs. I have some images already select that could be used, but don't have to be. IF anyone is interested in doing this please let me know. Here are the images:

This is what the sideart looks like except alot bigger. I have this smaller version that I thought would be neat to incorporate, but it might be hard.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5182/goon2yl3.png

Here is a pretty nice background that might work

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9231/kykidswill2wv2.jpg

Another image, dont really know about it.

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/5803/go...35889833yd7.jpg

these are from the goonies playing cards, but individually cut out I think they would be neat to incorporate somehow. I have these in the picture already edited, and the rest of the cast with lettering still on the cards that I can upload if needed.

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/2218/gooniesnr5.jpg

So if anyone would take this task please PM me or post here, thanks

lingpanda GameEx God (Top Rank)

lingpanda

Posted
Posted
I am wanting a customized theme to match the theme of my cabinet. I honestly don't have the time or skill to do something like this right now. I would be willing to paypal whoever can do this an amount between 10-20 dollars for their work, or make a donation to this site or one of your choosing. THe theme for my cabinet is a Goonies cab. I have the marquee as VS the goonies, but will have some custom sideart in the works. So basicly I want a gameex theme to go along with the cabinet, like some of the people at byoac have for their cabs. I have some images already select that could be used, but don't have to be. IF anyone is interested in doing this please let me know. Here are the images:

This is what the sideart looks like except alot bigger. I have this smaller version that I thought would be neat to incorporate, but it might be hard.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5182/goon2yl3.png

Here is a pretty nice background that might work

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9231/kykidswill2wv2.jpg

Another image, dont really know about it.

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/5803/go...35889833yd7.jpg

these are from the goonies playing cards, but individually cut out I think they would be neat to incorporate somehow. I have these in the picture already edited, and the rest of the cast with lettering still on the cards that I can upload if needed.

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/2218/gooniesnr5.jpg

So if anyone would take this task please PM me or post here, thanks

Was Goonies ever released as an arcade game other than a VS game?

stephenp1983 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

stephenp1983

Posted
  • Author
Posted
Yes, there was a Goonies cab. I've played it!

Yes I believe so, I know there is a Goonies 1 and 2 for Nes, although the first one was not very well known on the NES. Then you have the Vs the goonies and Playchoice goonies which are both the same game on the arcade. The goonies 1 on the NES looks to be just like vs the goonies, and playchoice goonies. Was there another one on the arcade that was different?

stephenp1983 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

stephenp1983

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Amos, I really appreciate your attempting this. Like I said I don't mind paying you or the site. Anyway the cab itself is black, with a vs the goonies marquee, and will have the images posted above as the side art(http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5182/goon2yl3.png) which will stretch down the side of the cabinet at about 27 inches wide by 39 inches long or a little less. Here is what the marquee looks like, but feel free to choose whatever colors you think look best. 800*600 would be great.

http://www.klov.com/images/V/mVs._The_Goonies.jpg

stephenp1983 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

stephenp1983

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Yeah I think the Vs the Goonies and the Playchoice are the same game just in different cabinets. It looked like the playchoice had dual monitors.

Taken from klov:

Trivia

One interesting note about this game is that although it could be found in the PlayChoice and Nintendo Vs. System cabinets, it was never offered for retail sale for the NES in America. The sequel was sold in the US, but did it not keep the same play mechanics.

amos_82 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

amos_82

Posted
Posted

Here it is so far,

Its using the marquee and sidepanel art, & the background is the actual map from the film :)

Im just having a bit of trouble with colour scheme because of the light background, (it would be cool if there was an option to change the font colour when the game is highlighted). Also the layout needs to be tweeked, but right now im tweeked, so im gonna leave it for tonight :)

post-539-1162945011_thumb.jpg

p.s. Stephen, im happy to change things to suit your cab, just shout.

stephenp1983 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

stephenp1983

Posted
  • Author
Posted

You are never going to believe this katuuuz lol. Amos that looks great, katuuuz is also working on a design for me as well. We were trying to come up with a background image and I google the treasure map because its a big part of the movie. I just want to assure katuuuz that I hadn't looked at my thread when I recommend it lol its just a big conincidence.

hansolo77 GameEx God (Top Rank)

hansolo77

Posted
Posted

I grabbed the DVD from the Library a few months ago. It's great. They have an extra feature where they have the original cast doing a live feature length video commentary on it. The movie is in the background, and the have a popup window in the foreground with all the original cast and the director (I think it was the director). It's really neat, and fun to watch.

stephenp1983 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

stephenp1983

Posted
  • Author
Posted

katuuuz, couldn't get the theme to work last night. I was using an older version of gameex like 6.23 so that could be the cause. I will try adding it on my laptop which has the newest version. Everytime I loaded it would crash and give an error log. If I still can't get it to work tonight I will post the log

amos_82 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

amos_82

Posted
Posted

hi stephenp1983,

its pretty much done now, just wondering which emulator backgrounds you need, like snes, n64 etc.

If you can give me a list with the words you wat to appear on the screen.

katuuuz GameEx God (Top Rank)

katuuuz

Posted
Posted
katuuuz, couldn't get the theme to work last night. I was using an older version of gameex like 6.23 so that could be the cause. I will try adding it on my laptop which has the newest version. Everytime I loaded it would crash and give an error log. If I still can't get it to work tonight I will post the log

what does it say in the log? usually the last line.

amos_82 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

amos_82

Posted
Posted

Hey stephen,

i've just finished the theme now, there's also an intro movie which plays after the loading screen,

i though it would be a nice touch for your cab.

snapur4.png

Some more snaps:

post-539-1162945215_thumb.jpgpost-539-1162945286_thumb.jpgpost-539-1162945341_thumb.jpg

There's a couple of things worth mentioning:

- You need to install the 'digital.ttf' font from the 'default - the goonies/fonts' folder for it to work.

or you can use the 'Microsoft Sans Serif- Font theme.ini' which looks good too.

- Also if the theme is stored in a location other than:

'C:\Program Files\GameEx\THEMES\Default - The Goonies'

you will need to change the 'StartupVideo=' in the theme.ini in order for the intro movie to play.

- Finally, if you need more backgrounds, you can use the 'background maker' photoshop file, or pm me.

Hope you like it :)

Download from SendSpace: Default - The Goonies.zip (28MB)

amos_82 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

amos_82

Posted
Posted
I'll let you know shortly, I screwed some stuff up on accident so I am having to reinstall gameex, and redo my emulator configs, I should be done shortly

Just realised i messed up too, i had a spelling mistake on the video; here's a link o the corrected one, i'll update the zip in a while.

Download: Intro Movie.wmv (1mb)

[EDIT: updated video has been added to the Default - The Goonies.zip]

stephenp1983 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

stephenp1983

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Alright the version that is on my cab right now is 6.00, and I think I had 6.32 on before I had to reinstall. This could be the reason why its not working.

here is the log

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: GameEx: Version 6.00: Starting Log

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Operating System Name: Windows XP

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: .net Framework 1.1 Installed

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Checking Registration

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Running Randomize()

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Running Misc startup tasks

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Setting Menu types

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Opening Configuration File

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Getting Configuration Values

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Using Theme: Default - MCE Glossy

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - MCE Glossy

18:37:34.8 11/7/2006: Launching HideOS.exe

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Hiding Taskbar

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Is Media Center running?

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Media Center Mode 2

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Text/Language: English

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Applying Language/Text

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Creating Scancodes.txt (List of DirectInput scan codes)

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Snap Delay set to: 1

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Get other settings

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Start work for Form

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Getting Original Screen Size

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Loading ICON

18:37:35.6 11/7/2006: Initializing Component

18:37:35.7 11/7/2006: Initialising Bass Audio Library

18:37:35.7 11/7/2006: Loading default loading screen

18:37:35.7 11/7/2006: Using 2D Animations

18:37:35.7 11/7/2006: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

18:37:35.7 11/7/2006: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

18:37:35.7 11/7/2006: Initialising DirectDraw

18:37:35.8 11/7/2006: Creating DirectDraw Device

18:37:35.8 11/7/2006: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color

18:37:35.8 11/7/2006: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces

18:37:35.8 11/7/2006: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

18:37:35.8 11/7/2006: Creating Back Buffer

18:37:35.8 11/7/2006: Loading graphic surfaces

18:37:35.8 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs

18:37:35.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surface Volume

18:37:35.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Arrows

18:37:35.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text

18:37:35.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar

18:37:35.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds

18:37:36.8 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls

18:37:36.8 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo

18:37:36.8 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit

18:37:36.8 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Snaps

18:37:36.8 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars

18:37:36.9 11/7/2006: Creating Fonts

18:37:36.9 11/7/2006: Creating Menu Font

18:37:37.0 11/7/2006: Creating Game Font

18:37:37.1 11/7/2006: Creating Game Font Standard Size

18:37:37.4 11/7/2006: Creating Font Black

18:37:37.5 11/7/2006: Creating Font Black Small

18:37:37.5 11/7/2006: Creating Game Font Faded

18:37:37.6 11/7/2006: Creating Title Font

18:37:38.1 11/7/2006: Creating Control Panel Font

18:37:38.3 11/7/2006: Fonts Created Succesfully

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: Initialising Windows Media Player Component

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: MAME Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: MAME EXE file is: Mame32.exe

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: ROM Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32\roms

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\history.dat

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: Loading Controls.ini map file

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: Loading Custom Emulators

18:38:00.4 11/7/2006: Loading Emulator 1: Nintendo

18:38:00.5 11/7/2006: Loading Emulator 2: SNES

18:38:00.5 11/7/2006: Loading Emulator 3: Nintendo 64

18:38:00.5 11/7/2006: Loading OfflineList Dat File for emulator: 3

18:38:00.5 11/7/2006: Cannot Find Offline List Dat File

18:38:00.5 11/7/2006: Loading Emulator 4: Gameboy

18:38:00.5 11/7/2006: Loading Emulator 5: Gameboy Advance

18:38:00.5 11/7/2006: Loading Emulator 6: Genesis

18:38:00.6 11/7/2006: Loading Emulator 7: Sega 32X

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Snap Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32\snap

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: AVI Snap Path: Not Found

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Flyer Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32\flyers

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Cabinet Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32\cabinets

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Title Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32\titles

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Panel Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32\cpanel

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Icon Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32\icons

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Marquee Path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen\Desktop\Arcade\mame32\marquees

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Attempting to load game list

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Loading last used Game List

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Setting Music Volume

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Creating DirectSound Device

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Loading Sound Files

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

18:38:00.8 11/7/2006: Creating ICONS

18:38:01.2 11/7/2006: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support

18:38:01.6 11/7/2006: Unable to create a joystick device

18:38:01.6 11/7/2006: Playing intro sound file

18:38:01.6 11/7/2006: Initializing MCE Remote

18:38:01.6 11/7/2006: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

18:38:01.6 11/7/2006: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

18:38:01.8 11/7/2006: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: GameEx configuration updated, reinitialising

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Opening Configuration File

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Getting Configuration Values

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Using Theme: Default - Goonies 800x600

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Goonies 800x600

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Hiding Taskbar

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Is Media Center running?

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Media Center Mode 2

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Text/Language: English

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Applying Language/Text

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Snap Delay set to: 1

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Get other settings

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Loading ICON

18:38:55.0 11/7/2006: Loading default loading screen

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Version 2 Theme being used. Loading.

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Loading Button Data

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Loading Font Data

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Loading Layout Data

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Loading Taskbar Data

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Using 2D Animations

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Initialising DirectDraw

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Applying GameEx is Loading Image

18:38:55.1 11/7/2006: Creating DirectDraw Device

18:38:55.2 11/7/2006: Setting Resolution to 1024x768 32 bit color

18:38:55.4 11/7/2006: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces

18:38:55.4 11/7/2006: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

18:38:55.5 11/7/2006: Creating Back Buffer

18:38:55.8 11/7/2006: Loading graphic surfaces

18:38:55.8 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs

18:38:55.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surface Volume

18:38:55.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Arrows

18:38:55.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text

18:38:55.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar

18:38:55.9 11/7/2006: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds

18:38:56.2 11/7/2006: ERROR

It looks awsome I will let you know if I have any issue, which I am sure I will with my old version of gameex lol. I probably should upgrade it. I really like the font it gives it the nes font feel.

Hmm I seem to have an issue with my computer. I just reformated so my video is screwed up. Now this won't affect the cab computer, but when I play the video in windows media player it works but the color is distorted. I assume I am missing a codec, but when I use gspot it doesnt even recognize the video file. ANy suggestions.

For some reason my new post are getting put in my above thread so just read what I wrote above

Yep Is anyone else experiencing this issue whenever I do fast reply or add reply its acting like I am editing my post which I am not.

amos_82 Ultimate GameEx Guru!

amos_82

Posted
Posted

Gspot wont recognise it because its a wmv file, i made it using windows movie maker, so there wasn't any fancy encoding. I downloaded the video, and its working fine for me. Its strange

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...