Attract-Mode Support > Themes
The Great Themes Collection v10.3.2 - Final Edition! (Updated 27 February 2021)
Yaron2019:
The Great Themes Collection version 10.3.2 includes 105 beautiful, original, highly polished themes for your attract mode Arcade, Consoles, Computers and Handheld systems. It is best suited for wide screen displays.
All themes were designed and developed by me.
Tested on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 (VM) using attract mode version 2.6.1.
Download the Collection:
https://mega.nz/file/hYtkHJDD#HraUKxgJiMT7iXUtt1p5DmEO7on_QYtQ42Q7WOXDRHc
Instructions:
Stage 1: Prepare the games roms and media for the emulated system
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Download all the game roms and media and place them in folders of your choosing.
For example, for MAME, place the roms in 'C:\attract\systems\mame\roms'
You can download all the media you need from emumovies.com (wheel logos, snaps (game videos), cart art, box art, marquees, flyers, etc)
In attract mode's 'menu-art' folder, create a folder for your system, example:
'C:\attract\menu-art\mame'
In this folder create the following folders:
C:\attract\menu-art\mame\wheel
C:\attract\menu-art\mame\snap
C:\attract\menu-art\mame\boxart
C:\attract\menu-art\mame\cartart
C:\attract\menu-art\mame\marquee
C:\attract\menu-art\mame\flyer
Copy the relevant files to each folder (wheel logos to 'wheel', snap videos to 'snap', etc).
Now you need to connect the emulator to the media. For each system attract mode has an emulator cfg file located in ...\attract\emulators
In our example it will be: C:\attract\emulators\mame.cfg
You can edit this file with notepad or from within attract mode's menu system. Here you will tell attract mode what emulator to use, where to find all the art, etc.
It should look something like this:
--- Code: ---# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.6.1
#
executable C:/attract/systems/mame/mame64.exe
args [name]
rompath C:/attract/systems/mame/roms
romext .zip;.chd
system Arcade
info_source listxml
exit_hotkey Escape
artwork wheel C:/attract/menu-art/mame/wheel
artwork snap C:/attract/menu-art/mame/snap
artwork boxart C:/attract/menu-art/mame/boxart
artwork cartart C:/attract/menu-art/mame/cartart
artwork marquee C:/attract/menu-art/mame/marquee
artwork flyer C:/attract/menu-art/mame/flyer
--- End code ---
As you can see, the "artwork" label tells attract mode to find wheel in 'C:/attract/menu-art/mame/wheel', snap (videos) in 'C:/attract/menu-art/mame/snap' etc.
Replace the paths in the example to the ones you have, save and close the file.
Stage 2: Set up the collection as your themes of choice
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1. Copy the contents of the included layouts folder to your attract\layouts folder
2. Copy the 'gtc-common' folder to your main attract folder (where the attract.exe file is)
3. Copy the 'gtc', 'gtc-kb' and 'gtc-pas' folders from the included modules folder to your attract\modules folder
4. Launch attract mode and assign the themes (layouts) that you want to the emulators you have:
Pressing 'Tab' will bring the main 'Configure' menu on screen. Then go to 'Displays', choose the display you want to configure by
pressing 'Enter' and choose a layout from the 'Layout' option (navigate the layouts list with up/down arrows or joystick).
Attract Mode should now know what emulators to use, where to find the art it needs and what theme to use for each system you assigned it for.
Make sure to check out all the layout options each theme has. You can customize many aspects of them. To do so, Press "Tab->Displays->[The Layout you want to configure]->Layout Options" (for example: Tab->Displays->Mame->Layout Options) or assign a hotkey by pressing "Tab->Controls->Layout Options->Add Input"
Performance
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If performance on low end systems such as the Raspberry Pi is slow, you can improve it by disabling shader related options in the layout options menu:
- In the 'At-The-Arcade' layout series set "Enable CRT screen glow" to "No" and if that is not enough you can also set "Enable lighted marquee effect" to "No" as well.
- In the 'Hyperspin-Theme-Mode' layout series, set "Enable video shader effect" to "No".
- In any other layout (consoles, computers, handhelds), disable any bloom or glow effects, for example: set "Enable CRT bloom shader effect" to "No".
- You can also disable animated backgrounds and the startup animations in the layout's options
The themes included in this collection are best suited for wide screen displays
Themes in the collection (including variations):
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Main Menus:
Hyperspin Main Menu Theme Mode (featured in the demo video)
Main Menu theme
Favourites
Arcade:
At-The-Arcade
At-The-Arcade Candy
At-The-Arcade HD
At-The-Arcade Sega Model 2
At-The-Arcade Sega Model 3
At-The-Arcade Naomi
At-The-Arcade Naomi v2
At-The-Arcade Atomiswave
At-The-Arcade SNK MVS
At-The-Arcade Capcom Classics
At-The-Arcade Capcom Play System 1,2,3
At-The-Arcade OpenBOR
At-The-Arcade Mugen (M.U.G.E.N)
Hyperspin Theme Mode
Consoles:
SNK Neo Geo CD
SNK Neo Geo AES
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Wii U
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Gamecube
Nintendo 64
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Simple
Nintendo Super Famicom
Nintendo Super Famicom - Simple
Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Entertainment System - Lava
Nintendo Famicom
Nintendo Famicom Disk System
Sega Dreamcast
Sega CD
Sega CD - Dark
Sega Saturn
Sega Saturn Japan
Sega 32X
Sega Genesis
Sega Mega Drive Japan
Sega Master System
Sega SG-1000
Daphne
Sony Playstation 3
Sony Playstation 2
Sony Playstation
Panasonic 3DO
Commodore Amiga CD32
NEC PC Engine-CD
NEC PC Engine
NEC Turbografx-16
NEC Turbografx-CD
Microsoft XBox 360
Microsoft XBox
Amstrad GX4000
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari Jaguar
ColecoVision
Mattel Intellivision
Magnavox Odyssey 2
Bally Astrocade
Emerson Arcadia 2001
GCE Vertex
Computers:
PC Games
Commodore Amiga Forever!
Commodore Amiga-Memories
Commodore 64
Commodore VIC-20
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Atari ST
Atari 8-bit
Amstrad CPC
Windows 3.x
Sharp X68000
MS-DOS
MS-DOS Vintage
MSX2
MSX
Acorn BBC Micro
Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer
Apple II
Handhelds:
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Game Boy Color
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Sony PSP
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
SNK Neo Geo Pocket
Sega Game Gear
Atari Lynx
Bandai WonderSwan Color
Bandai WonderSwan
Nintendo Game & Watch
Neosys:
Many thanks Yaron2019!!!!!!! ;) :)
Joe Boyko:
This is a great collection. I'm having trouble getting the cartridge artwork to show up though. What folder am I supposed to put them in?
Yaron2019:
--- Quote from: Joe Boyko on March 05, 2020, 08:38:28 AM ---This is a great collection. I'm having trouble getting the cartridge artwork to show up though. What folder am I supposed to put them in?
--- End quote ---
I put it in 'cartart'
for example, the Atari 2600 will be:
Attract/menu-art/Atari2600/cartart
This is how the Atari 2600 emulator config file looks on my system:
# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.5.1
#
executable E:/Arcade/Attract/apps/RetroArch/retroarch.exe
args -L cores\stella_libretro.dll "[romfilename]"
rompath E:/Arcade/Attract/apps/atari2600
romext .bin
system Atari 2600
exit_hotkey Escape
artwork boxart $PROGDIR/menu-art/atari2600/boxart
artwork cartart $PROGDIR/menu-art/atari2600/cartart
artwork snap $PROGDIR/menu-art/atari2600/videos
artwork wheel $PROGDIR/menu-art/atari2600/wheel
Cheers
Yaron2019:
Update 1.1 Released!
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- Updated 'Hyperspin Theme Mode' to the latest version
- Added the new 'Hyperspin Main Menu Theme Mode' theme (demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcmgzOejQs)
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