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wp34:

Those are some nice looking themes BadMouth--especially the driving one.  :cheers:

I need to give MALA a fresh look.


--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 24, 2012, 05:50:53 pm ---It's just a matter of taste.  I tried Hyperspin and ended up doing everything I could to get it to not look and feel like Hyperspin.
I dislike the whole "wheel" concept, so I guess there wasn't much hope for me.  :lol

I don't like GameEx and the others that look and feel like media center software....because they look and feel like media center software, not like an arcade game.

I use MALA.  It's basically just a gamelist that you choose the font and color for, plus any other pictures, video, or info you want displayed for a game.
You decide what is displayed, where it is displayed and how big it is.
It looks as slick or basic as your background picture editing skills allow.  ;)
If you can draw what you want your front-end to look like in photoshop, you can make MALA look like it.
You can have different themes for different emulators if you want.

I have a very basic theme, but it's exactly what I want.
(the marquee, screenshot, & CP change with the highlighted game)


Driving cab one is more polished


I gotta start doing some different color schemes.......right after I finish the current red and black cab.  ;)


Go to the MALA forum and search for "theme" to see what people have come up with.

The biggest complaint most people have about it is that it can't display tranparent layers correctly, so for example, you can't display the video inside a circle with the edges of the video covered up.

With some work-arounds, it's possible to have all the arcade games show up in your MAME list, even if they use a different emulator.
It isn't easy, but well worth it IMO.


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drventure:


--- Quote from: wp34 on May 25, 2012, 11:06:43 am ---Those are some nice looking themes BadMouth--especially the driving one.  :cheers:

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+1, that driving cab theme looks great!

Rok:

I use Mala here. Two reasons:

1) Mala is super simple.

2) My cabinet just doesn't have enough horses under the hood to run HS.

HS is a solid FE though. Props to the devs.

Los Abrazos Rotos:

 Quote from: Dazz on Today at 07:18:17 AM
Game Ex is great... if you want that Windows Media Center look.  Most people that have a cabinet want a more "arcade" like experience and want to loose the Windows aspect.  Game Ex is good with what it does and I'd use it if I had a media center type setup, but I don't see how anyone would like it in a dedicated cabinet setup.
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Have to disagree, mine certainly doesn't look like a media centre.  I like frontends to be simple and functional - the games speak for themselves.

BadMouth:


--- Quote from: drventure on May 25, 2012, 11:11:30 am ---+1, that driving cab theme looks great!

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--- Quote from: wp34 on May 25, 2012, 11:06:43 am ---Those are some nice looking themes BadMouth--especially the driving one.  :cheers:

I need to give MALA a fresh look.

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Thanks. 

wp34, For your cab, instead of the usual circuit traces or lines, I think you should have Tron Legacy concept art in the background:
http://godsofart.com/tron-legacy-concept-art
I like the ones of Flynn's Arcade.

Throw some semi-transparent boxes on top of that outlined in glowing borders and you've got a nice looking theme without too much work.
Just my opinion.  ;D


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