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#41 night

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Posted 27 September 2006 - 11:35 PM

View PostAdultery, on Sep 27 2006, 09:33 PM, said:

For the 2600 - Wouldn't a Combat tank or the dude from Pitfall be cool since they were big 2600 games?

i owned a atari 2600 (yes im old) :P the games back then people was enjoying most and was talking about was "Asteroids, berzerk, Missile Command" anyway in Denmark they was :)

tho i soon got a phillips G7000 (Odyssey) so i wasent that much interested in it after that so i dont know after that period if there was a game there get people hearths :)
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Posted 28 September 2006 - 03:25 AM

View Postnight, on Sep 27 2006, 07:35 PM, said:

i owned a atari 2600 (yes im old) :P the games back then people was enjoying most and was talking about was "Asteroids, berzerk, Missile Command" anyway in Denmark they was :)

tho i soon got a phillips G7000 (Odyssey) so i wasent that much interested in it after that so i dont know after that period if there was a game there get people hearths :)


It was all about football on the 2600. American football that is. :D
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Posted 28 September 2006 - 04:37 AM

So, for the Atari 2600, you'd prefer something like:

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Posted 28 September 2006 - 05:09 AM

Perfect! :)

I can't tell you how many hours I spent on that damn game! :)

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Posted 28 September 2006 - 06:26 AM

The NEW Atari 2600 pic for those who want it early:

Attached File  2600.zip   874.19K   25 downloads

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Posted 28 September 2006 - 08:52 AM

Here’s a few links to some Wonder Boy fan art:

http://www.geocities...EW-WB1_game.gif

http://www.geocities.../wonderboyland/

http://www.geocities.../wonderboyland/

this last one’s a link to a gamespy site:

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/won...y/wonderboy.htm

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Posted 28 September 2006 - 04:17 PM

I'm mostly a fan of fighters to, and I like the scorpion pick, it just stood out to me because alot of the older group weren't into the fighters. Personally I do like it just a thought. I'd also love to see a ryu too :)

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Posted 29 September 2006 - 12:12 AM

So, the Valhalla Theme has been out for a day or two. http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=7fa...366aaf6caaa4e22
Anybody have any grunts, grapes, or gripes? Any ideas or 'critiques'?

Also, incase you have an emulator I haven't yet gotten around to making, the Photoshop file for Valhalla is available by PM or Email request. It's very straight forward, even if you're not a Photo-phile.

I'm still hard at work on this Theme. Above I posted a more 'appropriate' Atari 2600 Bak, and I plan on adding a Ryu (Street fighter 2) version of the MAMEBak, a Dragon's Lair DaphneBak, and use WonderBoy (Thanks DragonSlayer!!) for the SMSBak.

ALSO! Take a look at the following link to check out the brain child of Adultery,A mos_82, and myself:
http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...ic=2&st=100
They're guaranteed to spice up the theme of your choice B) and they'll be included in the final version of Valhalla.
Big rounds of applause to Amos_82 and Adultery for their great work (I only kicked this off with my ADULT XXX images ;) who knew it was a good idea? haha!!)

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Posted 29 September 2006 - 12:15 AM

I'm having a problem getting some things to show up. I have it moved into my themes, and the vahalla background shows up, but none of the other images. Example, it shows the console in each emulator but its at the top left of the screen, and none of the character show. What could I be doing wrong

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Posted 29 September 2006 - 12:43 AM

This theme looks awesome and I would love to test it but I only have 800x600 at the most on my 27" Wells Gardner. I hope you are still planning to port it down to this resolution. I would try to do it but know next to nothing about making a theme.

Excellent work!

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Posted 29 September 2006 - 02:38 AM

View PostGotMame, on Sep 29 2006, 12:43 AM, said:

This theme looks awesome and I would love to test it but I only have 800x600 at the most on my 27" Wells Gardner.

You could try it out, but I'm 99% positive that you'll get an error about having 'an object outside of the resolution size' or something like that. No worries, though; there will be an 800x600 version soon. ;)

View Poststephenp1983, on Sep 29 2006, 12:15 AM, said:

I have it moved into my themes, and the vahalla background shows up, but none of the other images. Example, it shows the console in each emulator but its at the top left of the screen, and none of the character show. What could I be doing wrong

Did you go into the GameEx Config, select one of your emulators (Ex: Snes) and find the option that lets you select a 'Custom Background'? (Ex: select 'SNESBak.png') It's a common mistake. If it's something else, I need to know :blink:

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Posted 29 September 2006 - 03:27 AM

You can also add it to the theme.ini like this:
Open your theme.ini in a text editor.
Put the cursor at the bottom and paste this line
[Emulator_1]
CustomBackground=

Repeat this for each of your emulators (where Emulator 1 is your Playstation emulator for example)
[Emulator_1]
CustomBackground=psbak.png

Repeat for each emulator you want to use a custom sceen for, like this
[Emulator_1]
CustomBackground=psbak.png
[Emulator_2]
CustomBackground=n64bak.png
[Emulator_3]
CustomBackground=snesbak.png
[Emulator_4]
CustomBackground=nesbak.png
[Emulator_5]
CustomBackground=gbabak.png

...and so on. Save and exit.

Hope that helps! :)

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Posted 29 September 2006 - 02:22 PM

Yeah I didn't realize you had to change anything in the config, I'll try this when I get home from work, thanks

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Posted 29 September 2006 - 04:07 PM

What about this theme in 640x480 resolution? I have a Wells Gardner 27 but 800x600 gets all fuzzy on me. I think it is going bad. 640x480 is just perfect. I would be willing to pay for your efforts

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Posted 30 September 2006 - 01:45 AM

View Postpacman, on Sep 29 2006, 11:07 AM, said:

What about this theme in 640x480 resolution? I have a Wells Gardner 27 but 800x600 gets all fuzzy on me. I think it is going bad. 640x480 is just perfect. I would be willing to pay for your efforts

is 640x480 achieved by changing the image size to that in pixels?

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Posted 30 September 2006 - 04:40 AM

Yes 640x480 is 640 pixels wide by 480 pixels high.

hmm money to do themes...hehe might get me interested in this.

Tho I still have yet to finish my consol icons....after that I might start looking to do a theme...tho likely be for my self so it would be 1280x1024 since I'm a ghetto gamer on my PC currently. ;)

Tho I'll likely release my work\source files so that others can toy with them or resize as needed.
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Posted 30 September 2006 - 04:51 AM

This theme is awsome!!! Thank you ... I wish I had half the artistic skill some of you guys do. 640 X 480 would be most desirable for those of us with the Wells VGA monitors. Also there is another theme out there that might provide some graohics for you to fill in for some of themes that was put together by Talking Bull ..Just a thought but this is sweet..I can't wait for the lower res verson to slap it on the cab..Thanks allot!

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Posted 03 October 2006 - 05:46 PM

I have added the specified image to the custom background and it still shows my old logos. I wonder why its doing this any thought. I haven't had time to try adultreys idea yet.

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Posted 03 October 2006 - 08:16 PM

View Poststephenp1983, on Oct 3 2006, 06:46 PM, said:

I have added the specified image to the custom background and it still shows my old logos. I wonder why its doing this any thought. I haven't had time to try adultreys idea yet.
I think you need to change the Start Page logo aswell as the background for each emulator.

Its much better to add this is the theme.ini instead of using the config app, gameex can forget which backgrounds to use when you switch themes because the filenames arent the same in all themes.
So i'd add this stuff at the end of the emulator, here's an example of one:

[Emulator_10]
StartPageLogo=neogeo 2
CustomBackground=neogeobak.png

Make sure to leave the .png at the end of the startpagelogo.

Give it a try, its worth setting up :)

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Posted 04 October 2006 - 05:29 AM

I'M NOT DEAD!!!

Things outside of GameEx have been a little hectic, but I've still been pouring into Valhalla for an eventual 'real' release.
I've created a few 'missing' emulator screens, and even modified a couple of the ones I didn't like.

Take a peek:

Attached File  daphne.jpg   124.98K   61 downloadsAttached File  saturn.jpg   120.02K   65 downloads

*Big kudos to night and katuuuz for the DaphneBAK. great ideas and materials from both parties.

NEW:
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Daphne
Sega Saturn
MAME v2 (Ryu)

MODIFIED:
Game Gear
SMS
Atari 2600

TODO (Stuck on):
Intellivision
C64

PS Anybody know how to get SSF to load a rom in GameEx???

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