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Attract-Mode Support => Themes => Topic started by: OtakuD on February 13, 2020, 01:42:26 AM

Title: Favourite themes?
Post by: OtakuD on February 13, 2020, 01:42:26 AM
Hi Peeps!
First things first, thanks for everyone's hard work here, I Attract Mode is my favourite front end so far and I think it's certainly the most user friendly to setup though it could use a few more guides on more advanced features.

Anyways I feel that a lot of the really good themes are somewhat lost here, I almost gave up on the front end in the beginning because I couldn't find one that appealed to me i.e. looked a bit flashy while not being too minimalist and showing off 3D box art/carts.


That all changed when I found the HyperPie (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2053.0) theme which is my current fav so I was wondering what else I might have missed and what you guys all use?  ;D

(https://s17.postimg.cc/3xuo6fcyj/System_-_Horizontal_wheel_view.png) (https://postimg.cc/WqJ22ySq)

Just as a note, I think the best scraper for this is Skraper (http://skraper.net/) which allows you to get custom image types for all your games (like 3D box art instead of flat) in a nice easy fashion with UI. You will need an account on ScreenScraper.fr (http://ScreenScraper.fr) though but that's fine with me. Thanks again, and I can't wait to keep improving my build!
Title: Re: Favourite themes?
Post by: PSOGene on February 13, 2020, 07:41:54 AM
 :o I never haer of this skarper thingy, can you pretty please tell us how does its work and also show how can we added to my pc, I had to go threw a huge struggle dealing with emumovie and older scraper that came with attrack mode, because Im been using two frontend that NxL for my Main One for My custom Cutie Candy Capcom Arcade and I use Cosmo 1.1 theme for my PC
can you teach us how to add it so I can have 3d box art for my custom arcade pretty please.  :o
(https://i.imgur.com/YRQn0I5.jpg)





Title: Re: Favourite themes?
Post by: PSOGene on February 13, 2020, 08:21:31 AM
also when I try to register to skraper website its wont let me send my registration  :'(
what Im doing wrong please I did click send button but nothing is happening. its like wont let send my registration :(
Title: Re: Favourite themes?
Post by: OtakuD on February 13, 2020, 10:35:08 AM
Cool arcade machines!  :o

Ok I'll try to help:

Scraper Database

SkraperUI
(https://i.imgur.com/L9MMFvP.png)


Now you will see a "media" folder in your rom folder like above, you will want to rename the folders for what your theme/layout needs.
(https://i.imgur.com/EEz66Be.png)

Copy all these files to your Attract Mode/scraper/"Emulator Name" folder name you want to use (There should be a folder here else you need to scan for games in attract mode). Now you want to rename these folders so attract mode can use them. For my layout (HyperPie v2) I rename the following:

Rename Folders

 I now go to Attract mode and make sure my Layout/Theme for the emulator is selected and it should all work. You can tweak a number of themes to use different folders too if they are using images you don't like:

(Tab menu -> Displays -> Emulator -> Layout/Layout Options )

Let me know if you have questions  ;D
Title: Re: Favourite themes?
Post by: PSOGene on February 20, 2020, 02:15:51 AM
 :o thank soooo mush this help me a lot now
and thank you again I feel that they need to pin this because this is very useful information for us Arcade Cabinet Owners

thank you these are my jamma board type custom made, and I work so hard for them,
Title: Re: Favourite themes?
Post by: ReBirFh on February 29, 2020, 09:29:18 PM
Thank you for the tip OtakuD!! That's an awesome site/software, it will save me a lot of time.