Arcadeflow theme v 17.5 [Release] Updated 17 December 2024

[zpaolo11x]

Arcadeflow is an horizontal scrolling, grid based theme for MAME, console and comptuer games, it supports multiple systems and is based on snapshots and game titles or on cartridge boxes / flyers.

This layout requires Attract-Mode Plus to work correctly.

Arcadeflow theme latest update



You can download the latest version from within Arcadeflow, and you can also install it automatically if you have set so in Arcadeflow options!

• Download latest version
• Arcadeflow website and version history
• Arcadeflow Discord server
• Arcadeflow GitHub repository

Enjoy the new features and, as usual, if something goes wrong, please let me know

There's a What's new file inside the archive, but I won't paste here the whole readme anymore so this post is going to be simpler.


AM notes:
From revision 16.2 Arcadeflow requires AM+ 3.0.6
From revision 12.0 Arcadeflow requires AM+
From revision 10.9 Arcadeflow requires AM daily build or AM+
From revision 10.0 Arcadeflow requires AM 2.6.1.
From revision 3.6 Arcadeflow requires AM 2.5.
From revision 5.9 Arcadeflow is compatible with AM 2.6.1

v7.8 on youtube, at last!
https://youtu.be/fevEcEoK--Q https://youtu.be/fevEcEoK--Q

You can see all layout options in readme.md

[calle81]

Nice! GJ

[zpaolo11x]

Nice! GJ

Thank you, sorry for the giant screenshot, is there a better way to post screenshots? Because I have another theme with more screenshots and I don't want to do a mess

[calle81]

I use www.postimg.org

[zpaolo11x]

Because my theme was starting to look a bit too much like Ambiance HD (and I swear I didn't see Ambiance HD before starting to work on mine ) I've redone the graphics so that screenshots are in the correct aspect ratio I like the new soft shadows

[verion]

nooooo!

Roll back to the first version with square cropped screenshots - it was really good.
More elegant than the last one - in my opinion.

And don't worry about the similarities to any other theme. I'm sure this won't bother anyone.

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ps: simplest way to post screenshot is to scale it down to 800px width

[verion]

I'm sure you've wanted it to look really minimal, but maybe adding some light semi-translucent background under the text could spice it up a little.
I've also added a little shadow under that title bar.

[ryuuji]

I'm sure you've wanted it to look really minimal, but maybe adding some light semi-translucent background under the text could spice it up a little.
I've also added a little shadow under that title bar.

yeah listes to the jedi master above ^

[zpaolo11x]

I'm sure you've wanted it to look really minimal, but maybe adding some light semi-translucent background under the text could spice it up a little.

Thank you for the comment, actually the kind of look you show in your mockup is exactly the first version of the theme I was working on, with lighter top band and drop shadow This is to say that, despite the fact that I like it, it's not fit with the kind of look I'm seeking right now: having a plain background gives more breath to the thumbnails IMO

I still have not decided if I like cropped or uncropped thumbs, uncropped has the advantage of immediately telling which games are vertical or horizontal... maybe I'll add it as an option

I'm also struggling with the Mac version of AM which sometimes behaves a bit different from the windows version, maybe it's also related to the hardware (the Windows machine is a 12 core Xeon with Quadro graphics card and PCIe4x SSD LOL, everything seems fast on that)

[verion]

Sure - that's your design.

As for the mac - from my experience mac version (especially when using surfaces) takes a greater toll on CPU - compared to win version. On my Macbook Air (1.3Ghz 2 cores) simple theme with just one surface hovers around 60% CPU - and the same theme without surface is around 20-30%.

[Tapper]

Looks pretty cool! Will try it out when released!

[jedione]

Personaly i hate it,,,  Dont work for me.  just kidding    

would love to try!   waiting thanks

[zpaolo11x]

As for the mac - from my experience mac version (especially when using surfaces) takes a greater toll on CPU

You are absolutely right, the latest version from mameonmodernmacs is a lot better than the official one though. In the past I noticed many times that using and updating multiple layered pictures as single entities instead of "packaging" them in a surface (like in my theme with the snaps and logos) was better (on the Mac).

Right now this doesn't seem to be an issue anymore, but for example "set_pos" to reposition and scale images takes a large toll and I'm trying to reduce it as much as I can

[zpaolo11x]

I've updated the theme with video snaps and other tweaks, right now it requires some preparation of snapshots (to avoid resizing pictures on the fly on my Mac) and the generating of fake blurred snapshots (dirty tricks, I know, but the crossfade effect is neat ) but otherwise it's almost ready for release...

Preview video here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nse_PPJXXvbx-dsJWXCLcTtbTt1ZLp8y/view?usp=sharing

as usual a bit of stuttering is due to the capture software...

[jedione]

any new's   
 looks good.