Author Topic: mamewah - looking for layouts for emus with a common theme (Read 1800 times)

j123vt_99 · « **on:** February 27, 2005, 09:18:31 pm »

sorry for all the questions, but you guys are such a help..started using mamewah and think it is great. i am looking for layouts that carry a theme through all emus. basically i want all the layouts for each emu (genesis, gb, mame, etc) to match and have the same format (screen shot, box, etc).... I am having trouble finding these... I have found a lot of great layouts, but done that carry a theme for many emus... i have minimal art skills, but may try to do my own.

Onji · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2005, 09:40:08 pm »

http://mamewah.mameworld.net/screenshots.htm

Brad · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2005, 09:41:07 pm »

John is your saviour!

http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer/

Brad

j123vt_99 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2005, 10:02:07 pm »

i've been looking at john;s and they are great, but unforunately, they don't take advantage of the box or the title screen

the multi emu skins that cave did are really good and i will probably use them for now

Brad · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2005, 11:20:30 pm »

You could always modiy them yourself? John's given you a great start imo and the additions you want are no-brainers

Brad

j123vt_99 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2005, 07:32:20 am »

Quote from: Brad on February 27, 2005, 11:20:30 pm

You could always modiy them yourself? John's given you a great start imo and the additions you want are no-brainers

Brad

it might have to come to that

... if i do, i will certainly post my masterpieces for anyone else to borrow

jcrouse · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2005, 08:04:07 am »

It's not a complete (

) set but TimO has a start on a set like you describe. Check out http://www.timoproductions.com

John

j123vt_99 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2005, 08:29:42 am »

Quote from: jcrouse on February 28, 2005, 08:04:07 am

It's not a complete () set but TimO has a start on a set like you describe. Check out http://www.timoproductions.com

John

yeah.. timo has a good set going.. odd that he doesn;'t have any of the nintendo stuff.. might have to email him

jcrouse · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2005, 12:18:40 pm »

He kind of disappeared from the scene. I had emailed him a year ago and he planned on doing a Nintendo set, or so he said, then POOF and he was gone. Too bad, he made some great contributions to the community.

Stuzza has a nice Nintendo set that he did.

John

screaming · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2005, 06:00:08 pm »

Yeah, I emailed him a while ago about his layouts in MAMEWAH Config, but he never replied :/
*shrug*
-STeve

j123vt_99 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2005, 08:18:06 pm »

Quote from: screaming on February 28, 2005, 06:00:08 pm

Yeah, I emailed him a while ago about his layouts in MAMEWAH Config, but he never replied :/
*shrug*
-STeve

he must like me... i emailed him this morning and he replied about 5 mins later

.. basically he said he was going to do nintendo layouts, never got around to it and has been busy with ther stuff

Onji · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2005, 09:47:29 pm »

Here is a great site for mamewah layouts also (unless youve been here already):

http://www.screenshotarchive.com/skins.htm

btoddkelley · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2005, 11:24:35 pm »

I have thought for a long time that "themed layouts" would be really cool in mamewah. Jcrouse has a set of excellent themed layouts that have support for one snapshot. It would also be nice to have sets that supports 2 and 3 snaps as well. TimO has started a nice 3 snap set. I wonder how Tim would feel about someone completing his set?
If themed sets were created I bet Minwah would add a button that would allow you to cycle your themed layouts.

Later
Todd

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #13 on:** March 01, 2005, 01:21:10 pm »

JCrouse's collection is the most complete. I like Cave's better but it's really a matter of personal opinions.

Does anyone know of an image repository that would have a lot of images that could be used for designing you own layouts?
Things like characters that illustrate each brand/platform (such as Mario for Nintendo), logos, high res quality pictures of the hardware, ...

I would also be really nice if skin authors would offer the photoshop (or whatever) layered file for download, it would make it easier to modify at existing skin, or extract a aprticular element (such as a character or a logo) for use in another skin.

screaming · « **Reply #14 on:** March 01, 2005, 01:52:41 pm »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on March 01, 2005, 01:21:10 pm

Does anyone know of an image repository that would have a lot of images that could be used for designing you own layouts?

http://www.localarcade.com/

It would be nice if they hosted these layout source files too, but I don't think they do.

-Steve

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #15 on:** March 01, 2005, 06:00:14 pm »

Quote from: screaming on March 01, 2005, 01:52:41 pm

http://www.localarcade.com/

Wow! I can't believe I didn't know about this!

jelwell · « **Reply #16 on:** March 02, 2005, 09:59:47 pm »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on March 01, 2005, 01:21:10 pm

Does anyone know of an image repository that would have a lot of images that could be used for designing you own layouts?

Including localarcade.com I used these resources to build my layouts:
http://www.mameworld.net/massive/Marquee2/GFX/gfx.html
http://vectorlib.free.fr/
http://www.mameworld.net/massive/Marquee2/GFX/Vector/vector.htm

Also, there are free fonts here, like Crackman, which is a great pacman font:
http://www.freemacfonts.com/cfonts.htm

Personally, I like that each layout has it's own theme. It's good to know at a glance (and from a distance) what list people are on. Especially since one of my lists is an "Adult" themed list. It would be a tragedy to not notice that some friend's kid accidentally ended up on that list.
Joseph Elwell.


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