Author Topic: Custom Windows XP Boot Screens (Read 37849 times)

Miguelsluma · « **Reply #40 on:** February 26, 2008, 04:40:40 pm »

Quote from: Ritalin on February 26, 2008, 03:10:44 pm

Here's a Rotterdam Nation boot screen for you.

Please remember that there's a max of 16 colors, so I had to simplify your image a bit to one that uses far less colors but still keeps your theme in mind.

Enjoy.

thanks man, will surely use it on my cab!

Lutus · « **Reply #41 on:** February 27, 2008, 08:24:18 am »

I have a Donkey Kong machine (vertical monitor).

Would it be possible to take the image of the very beginning of the first level of donkey kong and make some type of load screen out of that?

That would be amazing.

Ritalin · « **Reply #42 on:** February 27, 2008, 07:34:33 pm »

Quote from: Lutus on February 27, 2008, 08:24:18 am

I have a Donkey Kong machine (vertical monitor).

Would it be possible to take the image of the very beginning of the first level of donkey kong and make some type of load screen out of that?

That would be amazing.

Here are two different choices:

The first choice is based off the marquee and has a more "classic" look.
The second choice is based on what you requested from level one.

The ZIP file contains both boot screen options.

Enjoy!

Lutus · « **Reply #43 on:** February 28, 2008, 08:22:41 am »

PERFECT!!!!

That is exactly like I had in mind.

A 1000 thank yous to you and your family, ancestors, etc...

Ritalin · « **Reply #44 on:** February 28, 2008, 04:27:13 pm »

Quote from: Lutus on February 28, 2008, 08:22:41 am

PERFECT!!!!

That is exactly like I had in mind.

A 1000 thank yous to you and your family, ancestors, etc...

No problem, enjoy!

Ritalin · « **Reply #45 on:** March 05, 2008, 07:15:42 pm »

I've been toying back and forth with making my cab a Galaga or Galaxian theme, so I created a vertical Galaxian boot screen, In case anyone is interested, here it is to use. Enjoy!

WunderCade · « **Reply #46 on:** March 10, 2008, 12:33:04 am »

Thanks for giving back to the community Ritalin and providing this thread.

Hopefully no one else will attempt to hijack the thread. I know you are doing this free and I think if others want to charge or get artwork orders they should take it to another thread. You clearly stated you wanted this thread to be free of charge and that you were giving back.

Game On....and thanks again bro!

Steve · « **Reply #47 on:** March 10, 2008, 07:15:39 pm »

Ritalin,

You are doing superb work, keep it up

I love it when people give back, it makes it all worth while.

Steve

phishpac · « **Reply #48 on:** March 10, 2008, 10:16:34 pm »

Ritalin,

Thought I'd give you an update. I started cabinet construction and I cannot wait to install the custom boot screen you made! Thanks again. Here's what I've done so far:

http://phishpac.blogspot.com/

Ritalin · « **Reply #49 on:** March 11, 2008, 12:43:11 am »

Quote from: phishpac on March 10, 2008, 10:16:34 pm

Ritalin,

Thought I'd give you an update. I started cabinet construction and I cannot wait to install the custom boot screen you made! Thanks again. Here's what I've done so far:

http://phishpac.blogspot.com/

Thanks all!

I love the cab idea you have planned. The color scheme and grateful dead logo are perfect for a cab. Great idea!

DrumAnBass · « **Reply #50 on:** March 19, 2008, 02:09:59 am »

My boot screen (I have 3 yr. old twin boys):

BASS! · « **Reply #51 on:** March 20, 2008, 02:36:07 am »

I tried to make mine as unassuming and fitting as possible for my cab.

Ritalin · « **Reply #52 on:** March 21, 2008, 06:44:36 pm »

Both of those are great!

wilef · « **Reply #53 on:** November 09, 2008, 11:10:37 pm »

I wouldn't mind a Mario Bros. and a DK3 boot screen for my reproduction cabinets!

http://mariobrosarcade.blogspot.com/

cmoses · « **Reply #54 on:** November 12, 2008, 09:20:53 am »

Ritalin,

Any chance of getting some generic ones? I don't have a theme as of yet, but would be interested in a generic ARCADE or MAME one.

Something with a retro feel, showing some popular characters, Donkey Kong, Mario, Pac-Man, Burgertime, etc.

On a side note, are you using Photoshop to convert the images to 16 color? Is there a easy way to do this? I would like to try to experiment with this.

TalkingBull · « **Reply #55 on:** November 13, 2008, 10:06:43 am »

I am so glad I found this post. I have been screwing with trying to get a decent vertical galaga themed boot screen for days! Nothing was working or coming out right. The problem was the vertical orientation of the 640 x 480 BMP being only 16 colors... kept getting screwy dimensions and crap! Thanks so much!!! I totally ripped off your Galaga Vertical screen

EnderWiggen22 · « **Reply #56 on:** November 18, 2008, 04:00:30 pm »

Has anyone made a boot screen "Scramble" themed? I've got a few conversions in need of some software TLC. So scramble would be good, or B.O.T.S.S. (Battle of the solar system)...

dprush83 · « **Reply #57 on:** December 04, 2008, 02:51:17 am »

This is great! I'm glad I came upon this thread. I went ahead and attached the image I just created to put on my cabinet. Now if only I knew how to make an intro video...

dprush83 · « **Reply #58 on:** December 04, 2008, 08:09:27 pm »

Oh bummer, I didn't realize my cab had Vista (lame, I know). Does this work in Vista as well?

BASS! · « **Reply #59 on:** December 05, 2008, 03:21:14 am »

No, but there is a utility for vista by stardock that will do it for you.

wooowman93 · « **Reply #60 on:** December 15, 2008, 09:43:21 pm »

You should make a street fighter them withe ryu's haduken going across the screen for the loading bar that would be pretty awesome

shilton · « **Reply #61 on:** July 14, 2009, 07:46:16 pm »

Any chance of a Congo Bongo themed boot screen (or at least a multicade screen featuring some obvious elements of the game). My son got his hand on a Congo Bongo cab and would like to keep it as original as possible. Thought this may be a nice element.

FunkyAndroid · « **Reply #62 on:** July 17, 2009, 01:57:29 pm »

All your work is clean man. Very nice! May I ask what program you're using to make the .bmps?

Beaps · « **Reply #63 on:** July 17, 2009, 03:44:58 pm »

I am after an XP screen Ritalin - here is my image can you use this?

THANKS!

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #64 on:** July 19, 2009, 08:58:23 pm »

Quote from: Dazz on February 20, 2008, 05:49:11 pm

Ugh.. I followed this to a T and now I cannot get into Windows. This is on a fresh install of XP with SP2. When I reboot the computer I see the boot screen, but the bootscreen never goes away.

I am trying to use Restore from my XP cd, but that isn't working either. :mad:

I had a similar problem..... except all I ever saw was the post (bios) screen and then it goes blank and won't finish booting any further.
Narrowed it down to the /bootlogo switch.
The /noguiboot switch worked fine, took the WindowsXP logo and all that off.

A suggestion that I would make that I did after having to fix this through the pia bootcfg restore option with the WinXP disc is to go ahead and set up three different configs just to be sure each option doesn't cause a conflict of sorts and it will always give you an immediate fix option to revert to.
Of course it'll boot up and you'll have to choose which option to boot, but once you know for sure it'll work you can go back and delete the extra config lines and then you won't see that selection option again.

I was just goofing around on my regular pc, not a MAME machine or anything.
Figured "why not".....and of course that turned into an ordeal all it's own.
So now I'm determined to figure out another way to do this.

Any other suggested ways to do this ?
WinXP Professional SP2

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #65 on:** July 19, 2009, 10:26:16 pm »

Been playing around with this method:
http://www.geocities.com/thejjoelc/XPbootcolors.html

A bit complicated, but not bad once you figure it out the first time around. And be sure NOT to REPLACE your original ntoskrnl.exe .

The only thing that sucks is I still had to open up each image file, I just used Paint since it was handy, and re-save it as a 16 color format image. (even though the ones in this thread are supposedly already 16 color) (I'm not software artwork swaavvy) Which just made them all look crappy.
But it booted with the right image at least, etc, etc.

Still not sure why the simple method doesn't work with the /bootlogo switch.

Hunk_4TH · « **Reply #66 on:** April 15, 2012, 10:19:45 pm »

I apologize for bumping such an old thread. But will these work in Windows 7 the same way they do in XP? I know we have Windows Boot updater for 7 but I've messed up with installation a few times using that. Also do you still make these?

BASS! · « **Reply #67 on:** April 17, 2012, 08:59:39 pm »

I just used the tool from

http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/win7boot/

Worked great for me. It lets you load custom animations too. I just used a space invader gif I found on the web.

Hunk_4TH · « **Reply #68 on:** April 18, 2012, 03:01:28 pm »

Thanks! I use that too. I was just curious if this worked in Windows 7 same way it does in XP. I guess using this tool is much better for us 7 users. I'm using a Space Invaders thing I found in the "hiding Windows 7 completely" thread.

ChurchOfSolipsism · « **Reply #69 on:** April 22, 2012, 07:50:24 am »

Wow I've been looking for a vertical bootscreen for my Donkey Kong mini bartop and BAM! here comes Ritalin and provides the goods! Thanks a bunch, man!


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