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Title: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: postmortem on June 07, 2018, 03:45:57 pm

I have an arcadeVGA 5000 plugged into a jpac running on a k7000 and I am looking for a frontend theme that is similar to maximus arcade, but has readable text when running in 320x240 res. I've looked into mala and attract mode, but can seem to find a good theme. What frontend and theme(or layout) do people have good success with? Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: Ian on June 07, 2018, 04:19:41 pm

Quote from: postmortem on June 07, 2018, 03:45:57 pm

I have an arcadeVGA 5000 plugged into a jpac running on a k7000 and I am looking for a frontend theme that is similar to maximus arcade, but has readable text when running in 320x240 res. I've looked into mala and attract mode, but can seem to find a good theme. What frontend and theme(or layout) do people have good success with? Thanks for the help.

I had the same issue, I tried Mgalaxy but It was hard to read the games on some of those skins. They have since made a few updates, might be worth your time to check it out. I ended up using Hyperspin. Another one to look at is Launchbox.

Title: Re: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: postmortem on June 07, 2018, 06:36:12 pm

I purchased bigbox, but havent tried it yet. I couldn't seem to find a theme that was designed for 320x240

Title: Re: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: B2K24 on June 08, 2018, 12:14:37 am

GameEX has a low resolution mode you can choose in it's setup wizard. There's a default - Hybrid Blue that shows the games in list forum and it looks good on my Sony Trinitron KV-27FS100

Title: Re: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: Mike A on June 08, 2018, 07:48:57 am

Mala has a low res theme that I use for my CRT. I can't remember what it is called. When I get home I will look it up. I will also snap some pics. It shows the name, marquee, short gameplay video, and the control panel.

Title: Re: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: postmortem on June 08, 2018, 11:22:53 am

I think I'm going to ultimately go with launchbox. I found a theme that isn't too terrible. Thanks for the help

Title: Re: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: keilmillerjr on June 09, 2018, 07:12:20 am

Attractmode. There is a Maximus clone theme. I’ve also written two themes. I tested and run my themes at 480i. I assume you are using 480i and not 240p. My flavors theme has been verified at 240p using raspberry pi. Oomek has a few excellent themes that should work at lower resolutions.

If your a Capcom fan, check out big blue frontend.

Title: Re: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: evreno on October 31, 2018, 04:43:12 pm

you may like the frontend that I have programmed myself
I've shared details in this forum

http://www.commodore.gen.tr/forum/index.php?topic=13097.0 (http://www.commodore.gen.tr/forum/index.php?topic=13097.0)

Title: Re: CRT frontend advice needed
Post by: fallacy on November 02, 2018, 12:01:05 am

here is my mala frontend, made most of the backgrounds myself. The resolution is 800by600 though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UR99lUYvhg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UR99lUYvhg)