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    Amazing work, looking forward to integrating this with my mega drive theme! Always wanted to work on this but didn't find the time, great job!
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    Awesome!
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    Still not working in what's new for me, the link above worked though. What is added to this xml from the standard one? Be aware genre data for this xml is out of date see below thread for details.
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    No xml just logo it seems...
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    Ok no problem just taking a look now, I should be able to rename these to conform with the xml if I get some time this week. If so I can re upload here if your cool with that.
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    I think he is asking if the files are named to the usa convention or pal so as to know for what xml it will work with? I'm downloading now I can take a look. I've taken a run at converting PAL cart art I found to suit the default USA xml, it required a lot of renaming due to game titles being named differently in PAL regions. Take a look here for more info. As I said i've tackled this before so I may be able to take a run at it if it requires renaming. I'll also take a look at the theme I linked to ensure it's compatible with my theme or if I need to make some adjustments (so the video lines up etc) As i'm very interested in making this pack work with my PAL theme to complete the entire PAL conversion Great work by the way.
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    Hmm i'll take a look today when I have the opportunity. I don't recall resizing them but this was a while ago so maybe I did and forgot. Either way I'll take a look and let you know the size I have. I know kondorito has added the source files to that pack for download so check to make sure you haven't downloaded those by mistake. edit - Ok I checked and my boxes are 462 * 380 sorry I probably forgot to mention resizing them.
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    No... Thank You! You are doing great work with those videos. I've been holding off while I chipped away at my Arcade genre stuff, but now that that's (sort of) done I'll be delving into hypermarque and customised fades etc. from what I've seen so far your videos will be a huge help for that. I've been at this for a few years now but I've already learnt a number of things I had no idea were even possible from just a few of your tutorials.
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    I am happy to share, the only thing is my xmls exclude a few different control schemes. For example my run n gun xml is missing a handful of titles that use spinners, or smash tv that uses dual joysticks for example. Also I'm still running off .189 at this stage. Your best bet will be to use a program like romlister to pair down and create your own custom genres, though it is a bit of a learning curve and process. I'm happy to share at least what I have which are non standard genres though, just be aware they are not necessarily 100 percent correct or suitable to what you might want. Which ones in particular are you after? In some cases I've split or renamed existing genres. I'll add some resources to the bottom of this upload tomorrow in regards to an xml pack around here that is available that has most of these genres for standard setups also you can use it to pair down your stuff pretty easily with dons hypertools in regards to two player lists etc. EDIT - I've added those links, when I get some time later I'll add some of my custom genre xmls in the link for people to reference from
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    More information about "Genre Backgrounds and Wheels - MAME"

    Version 1.0.0

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    Ok guys been working on this for a while, thought I would put out the 1.0 while I've got the chance... ...Presenting genre backgrounds and wheels for MAME/Arcade! Here is a collection of wheels and backgrounds in the style of my SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis packs. Unlike those packs, there are no included xmls with this pack as I have spent hours hand sorting my genres in a specific and unique way that will not match the average user 1 to 1. Unfortunately what this means is you are going to have to get your hands a bit dirty this time to make this pack work for you, the backgrounds and wheels are provided and organised, but you are going to need to do some renaming in order to suite the images to your xml files. Also you may find there are certain publisher or specific genre wheels that don't have included backgrounds or wheels here. The good news is there is a large selection to find something appropriate to complete your own setup, there are multiple images for just about every genre and I HEAVILY ENCOURAGE you to go through and rename the images you like, rather than the defaults I have selected. If your not sure what is involved in setting this up check out @ninja2bceen 's excellent tutorial video on genres. I take no credit for any of the background images, i've merely edited existing images that are out there to suit. I have created a few of the wheels from scratch, and given some existing ones a face-lift. There's a fair few hours of work here and I hope it shows. When I have some time there is a chance I will come back to this to increase it's scope and rename the images to match the standard naming conventions so it can be a little bit more plug and play. As usual i've included the default image for the border so as people can create their own backgrounds. I've also included my genre.xml which is unlikely to suit you directly but might help as a starting point. If anything seems incorrect, or you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments. Enjoy! A few resources: Check this thread for links to phulsofs xml packs. --------------------------------------------------- Check this great tutorial for using Romlister to create your own genres: https://forums.libretro.com/t/howto-generate-pretty-curated-mame-playlists-the-easy-ish-way/5529 --------------------------------------------------- Here is @SupraKarma's Mame pack, it contains wheels for all occasions and was the base for this pack, anything not included here you should find there. Also check here for the 'Base pack' It may be more recent and complete I'm not sure. --------------------------------------------------- Here are my other genre packs for SNES and Mega drive/Genesis
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    More information about "Multiple Systems - Volume Normalized - Wheel Sounds Pack"

    Version 1.0.0

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    The wheel sounds packs I've found for various systems were much too quiet compared to the base sound pack. I've gone through and normalised them to increase decibels, while also reduced the default pack which I found comes in like a wrecking ball. Most of these packs I found on the ftp and were not available on the site anywhere when I looked a while ago, though that might have changed over time. The Playstation and Master System packs have been put together by me but I can't take credit for anything else aside from adjusting the decibels, there is a chance I hand edited a few of the other packs to remove some of the more annoying or less impactful sounds files. I've also included the default wheel click with reduced decibels in case anyone prefers it. Let me know if you think anything doesn't seem right. Enjoy! Here is another great tutorial from @ninja2bceen if you need some help installing these.
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    Yeh I tried it out a few weeks ago, seems like the video snap the colours are all crazy and out of whack though. I'm guessing maybe it originally had a bad dump and it's been improved in recent versions? Either that or maybe the video is from a different level or something.
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    Thank you! Don't know what's up with the video snap for this game though!
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    Had a bit of trouble finding this through search. Not sure if I can add tags to a comment but here's some text in case it comes up in the search. Secret Agent secretag 4:3
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    Many of these are marked 4:3 but are actually 16:9 ? At any rate thanks for filling the gaps, i've just been deleting the video.png and correcting the video aspect, good enough for now. divebomb.zip
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    Rowr14 commented on uatu's file in Game Themes (4:3)

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    Changed the theme xml for forced aspect to both so it's not showing like a vertical game for the video. euroch92.zip
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    Thanks mate! Thanks for your cart and box uploads!
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    More information about "Nintendo Super Famicom Default Theme (4:3)"

    Version 1.0.0

    184 downloads

    My Super Famicom default theme. If you have seen my Super Nintendo Theme you know what to expect, the box art appears on the right, the cart goes into the system from above and the video comes in over the box. Unlike that theme the video wont overlay nicely over the box art due to the long mix of vertical and horizontal boxes. Feel free to size you box art in a manner that makes you happy. My artwork folders are fairly incomplete for this system, i'm using two cart sets merged together which makes up about 95 percent of the carts, I haven't been through to investigate if there are still more carts in those packs that suit my xml as I've already renamed and puzzling out the final games can be difficult and time consuming given the different naming with japanese etc. I'm using the 1.1 list from the site. Box art is Artwork1 folder, Cart art is Artwork3. As usual here is the game text details if you want them to match the above images. Paste into your Nintendo Super Famicom.ini in the 'settings' folder of HyperSpin. / [Game Text] game_text_active=true show_year=true show_manf=true show_description=true text_color1=0xDCDCDC text_color2=0xDCDCDC stroke_color=0x000000 text_font=Style1 text1_textsize=18 text1_strokesize=9 text1_x=390 text1_y=670 text2_textsize=20 text2_strokesize=9 text2_x=390 text2_y=700 / Enjoy!
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    More information about "Arcade player number wheels"

    Version 1.0.1

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    I'm going through and sorting out my mame genres and made these wheels for player number. I'm not sure if i'll release a genre background pack like I have done for SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis so I'll put anything I make up on it's own as appropriate instead.
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    Thanks!
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    More information about "Nintendo Super Famicom - Main Menu (4:3)"

    Version 1.0.0

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    As with all my main menu themes it's designed to suit the style of the default main menu themes that come with the HyperSpin download. Bass comes in from the right and hits the video, Megaman comes in from the left and fires from his arm cannon. I spent a lot of time getting the timings just right with the override transition that I've included with the download, so pop that into your "Media\Main Menu\Video\Overide Transitions" folder for best results. Enjoy!
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    More information about "Genre Backgrounds (4:3) - Sega Genesis/Mega Drive"

    Version 1.0.0

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    These are my Genre backgrounds for the Sega Genesis/MD. You can see a few examples above. Put these in 'Media\Sega Genesis\Images\Genre\Backgrounds' in your Hyperspin folder. These go with my Sega Genesis/MegaDrive genre fix and include xmls and images from @SupraKarma's Ultimate Genesis pack. (Linked below) I've included the xmls here for convenience, but head here for more details. There are multiple backgrounds for some genres so definitely please take a look and pick which you prefer. Just rename without the attached number. Enjoy!
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    Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Genres Fixed View File I have been chipping away for the last few weeks giving the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive the same treatment as with my SNES genre fix and backgrounds. I have edited genre information from @SupraKarma's xml from the Ultimate Sega Genesis Pack. Basically if you want to use the Genesis/MD genre function it's worth grabbing this xml. I've included with the zip the xmls already split by genre and also a handful of useful xmls from SupraKarma's pack such as coop, exclusives, multiplayer etc. Everything has custom backgrounds included. My approach to this xml was more thorough than when I originally went through the SNES xml which I fixed in order of worst offenders to least genre wise. This time I went through from start to finish and judged every title individually based on video, wikipedia entries and other lists and resources. The occasional game I loaded up to play a bit to be sure. My results went back to the SNES xml in cases of multiplatform games and that been tidied up a bit and re-uploaded for consistency, the link is below if you are interested. Roughly what has been done: This XML was the opposite of the SNES in the case that a huge amount of titles were assigned to 'Platform'. Randomly every 20 titles or so something was assigned to 'Platform' that was just in no way shape or form a platforming game. Many titles were also moved to more appropriate places - usually 'Action'. The 'Shoot em up' category was filled. Previously they were in 'Shooter' 'Educational' was added and the correct games assigned. Many games were assigned to 'Adventure', generally 'Action-RPG' type titles which have less emphasis on stats and strategy. 'Arcade' was added. Titles that were ported from arcade versions, classic arcade compilations or even newer titles that have arcade type gameplay (e.g. fix it felix). Beat em ups that qualified for this however were left in the 'Beatemup' genre (e.g. GoldenAxe) I opted to move the flight sims into it's own category 'Flying' (in staying consistent with the snes xml) as there were enough titles to warrant it's own category. Numerous other corrections which I've forgotten. The Sports categories for the most part were correct as were Beat em ups, so thanks to whoever put that work in. I did opt to remove some categories from sports such as bowling and skating and move those titles to the general 'Sports' category as they only contained a single title. I also removed the compilation category and assigned those to relevant sections. Thanks again to @SupraKarma whose awesome Ultimate packs have inspired this work and also where the xmls, wheels and sports category backgrounds are from. The Ultimate Sega Genesis pack is linked below. Below are links to the Backgrounds that accompany this xml (though they are included in this upload for convenience) and to my SNES genre fix. Please let me know if i'm missing anything in the upload or anything doesn't seem right. Enjoy! Submitter Rowr14 Submitted 04/26/2018 Category Databases (XML) Credits @SupraKarma
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    More information about "Sega Genesis/Mega Drive - Genres Fixed - Database (XML)"

    Version 1.0.0

    642 downloads

    I have been chipping away for the last few weeks giving the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive the same treatment as with my SNES genre fix and backgrounds. I have edited genre information from @SupraKarma's xml from the Ultimate Sega Genesis Pack. Basically if you want to use the Genesis/MD genre function it's worth grabbing this xml. I've included with the zip the xmls already split by genre and also a handful of useful xmls from SupraKarma's pack such as coop, exclusives, multiplayer etc. Everything has custom backgrounds included. My approach to this xml was more thorough than when I originally went through the SNES xml which I fixed in order of worst offenders to least genre wise. This time I went through from start to finish and judged every title individually based on video, wikipedia entries and other lists and resources. The occasional game I loaded up to play a bit to be sure. My results went back to the SNES xml in cases of multiplatform games and that been tidied up a bit and re-uploaded for consistency, the link is below if you are interested. Roughly what has been done: This XML was the opposite of the SNES in the case that a huge amount of titles were assigned to 'Platform'. Randomly every 20 titles or so something was assigned to 'Platform' that was just in no way shape or form a platforming game. Many titles were also moved to more appropriate places - usually 'Action'. The 'Shoot em up' category was filled. Previously they were in 'Shooter' 'Educational' was added and the correct games assigned. Many games were assigned to 'Adventure', generally 'Action-RPG' type titles which have less emphasis on stats and strategy. 'Arcade' was added. Titles that were ported from arcade versions, classic arcade compilations or even newer titles that have arcade type gameplay (e.g. fix it felix). Beat em ups that qualified for this however were left in the 'Beatemup' genre (e.g. GoldenAxe) I opted to move the flight sims into it's own category 'Flying' (in staying consistent with the snes xml) as there were enough titles to warrant it's own category. Numerous other corrections which I've forgotten. The Sports categories for the most part were correct as were Beat em ups, so thanks to whoever put that work in. I did opt to remove some categories from sports such as bowling and skating and move those titles to the general 'Sports' category as they only contained a single title. I also removed the compilation category and assigned those to relevant sections. Thanks again to @SupraKarma whose awesome Ultimate packs have inspired this work and also where the xmls, wheels and sports category backgrounds are from. The Ultimate Sega Genesis pack is linked below. Below are links to the Backgrounds that accompany this xml (though they are included in this upload for convenience) and to my SNES genre fix. Please let me know if i'm missing anything in the upload or anything doesn't seem right. Enjoy!
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    More information about "Sega Mega Drive 2 Default Theme (4:3)"

    Version 1.0.5

    529 downloads

    Inspired by a few themes out there a few months ago I created a Mega Drive 2 theme incorporating the cart going into the system. I also went through for my self and renamed box art to suit USA roms for mega drive box scans and a limited amount of carts I could find, which was a bigger undertaking than you would expect given the many name changes for releases. I then realised after that no one seems to have put together a euro mega drive cart art collection (if you know of anywhere to find one let me know) otherwise it's something i'll look into in the future if I have time. I realise this is imperfect and impure solution, but basically i'd like to have my cake and eat it too - using the USA versions of roms with the European (specifically Australian in my case) artwork. As i've renamed the artwork I've kept a list with titles that were renamed for Euro/NA release with an intention to later edit the xml to show both the USA and EUR release names. So yes this "project" is sort of half complete at this point, ultimately there is still majority genesis cart art sliding into a Mega Drive 2 which is annoying (although many carts are indistinguishable of region when they are in the system so it's not noticable), but I figured I would share now while I have some time in case this is valuable to anyone. Another option is to just use the theme without cart art if you prefer. I changed the size of my cart art to 142*94. Carts and box art now included. Artwork 2 folder for boxart and Artwork 3 folder for cart art. Here is the game text colour and location information, paste this into the [games text] section of your settings ini file if you would like it to match the image. I don't use the default special art so you won't find much room left here for it. Feel free to edit to your own tastes. \ [Game Text] game_text_active=true show_year=true show_manf=true show_description=true text_color1=0x0061A8 text_color2=0x0118B3 stroke_color=0xffffff text_font=Style3 text1_textsize=18 text1_strokesize=6 text1_x=480 text1_y=655 text2_textsize=25 text2_strokesize=6 text2_x=440 text2_y=680 \ *Edits - I've included my own cart pack which is sized down to suit the theme and filtered from some cart packs here on the site so I just wanted to credit those below. - Re-uploaded this theme into the correct section and separated it from the Main Menu theme. This was one of my first uploads and I failed to put stuff in the correct place so I'm correcting that now. You can find my Main Menu theme linked below. - Added renamed and resized Mega Drive boxarts, see the version notes below for details. Copy the provided box arts into your Artwork 2 folder and overwrite any existing Genesis art. You will need to find genesis box art for the boxes not provided. - Added a newer brighter theme as an alternate and changed the header to MD 2 style logo.
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