Some themes have several versions - when I was not sure what version was better, I included all of them!
New original themes for Sega Naomi, Neo Geo AES, SNES, Super Famicom, Sega Genesis, Sega Mega Drive Japan, Sega Master System, Daphne, GCE Vectrex and Commodore Amiga (Amiga Forever!)! All themes are now compatible with both 16:9 AND 16:10 screen aspect ratios. All startup animations can be turned off through the layout menus. IMO this is the way to do animations unless you want to create unique animations Only when you go into the theme, it's sweet, short and doesn't bother you when you navigate the wheel. All themes now have a 'Startup Animation' meaning that when you first go into the theme, the graphical parts of the layout will "assemble" unto the screen. Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Simple Hyperspin Main Menu Theme Mode (featured in the demo video) Themes in the collection (including variations): The themes included in this collection are best suited for wide screen displays You can also disable animated backgrounds and the startup animations in the layout's options
In any other layout (consoles, computers, handhelds), disable any bloom or glow effects, for example: set "Enable CRT bloom shader effect" to "No". In the 'Hyperspin-Theme-Mode' layout series, set "Enable video shader effect" to "No".
In the 'At-The-Arcade' layout series set "Enable CRT screen glow" to "No" and if that is not enough you can also set "Enable lighted marquee effect" to "No" as well. If performance on low end systems such as the Raspberry Pi is slow, you can improve it by disabling shader related options in the layout options menu: To do so, Press "Tab->Displays->->Layout Options" (for example: Tab->Displays->Mame->Layout Options) or assign a hotkey by pressing "Tab->Controls->Layout Options->Add Input" Make sure to check out all the layout options each theme has. Pressing 'Enter' and choose a layout from the 'Layout' option (navigate the layouts list with up/down arrows or joystick).Īttract Mode should now know what emulators to use, where to find the art it needs and what theme to use for each system you assigned it for. Then go to 'Displays', choose the display you want to configure by Pressing 'Tab' will bring the main 'Configure' menu on screen. Launch attract mode and assign the themes (layouts) that you want to the emulators you have: Copy the 'gtc', 'gtc-kb' and 'gtc-pas' folders from the included modules folder to your attract\modules folderĤ. Copy the 'gtc-common' folder to your main attract folder (where the attract.exe file is)ģ. Copy the contents of the included layouts folder to your attract\layouts folderĢ. Stage 2: Set up the collection as your themes of choiceġ. Replace the paths in the example to the ones you have, save and close the file. Here you will tell attract mode what emulator to use, where to find all the art, etc.Ĭode: # Generated by Attract-Mode v2.6.1Įxecutable C:/attract/systems/mame/mame64.exeĪrtwork wheel C:/attract/menu-art/mame/wheelĪrtwork snap C:/attract/menu-art/mame/snapĪrtwork boxart C:/attract/menu-art/mame/boxartĪrtwork cartart C:/attract/menu-art/mame/cartartĪrtwork marquee C:/attract/menu-art/mame/marqueeĪrtwork flyer C:/attract/menu-art/mame/flyerĪs you can see, the "artwork" label tells attract mode to find wheel in 'C:/attract/menu-art/mame/wheel', snap (videos) in 'C:/attract/menu-art/mame/snap' etc. You can edit this file with notepad or from within attract mode's menu system. In our example it will be: C:\attract\emulators\mame.cfg For each system attract mode has an emulator cfg file located in. Now you need to connect the emulator to the media. In this folder create the following folders:Ĭopy the relevant files to each folder (wheel logos to 'wheel', snap videos to 'snap', etc). In attract mode's 'menu-art' folder, create a folder for your system, example:
You can download all the media you need from (wheel logos, snaps (game videos), cart art, box art, marquees, flyers, etc) Stage 1: Prepare the games roms and media for the emulated systemĭownload all the game roms and media and place them in folders of your choosing.įor example, for MAME, place the roms in 'C:\attract\systems\mame\roms' If you want to use the 'Hyperspin Theme Mode' layout, see instructions here: Video transitions from a pack I have prepared for the 'Hyperspin Theme Mode' layout:
Tested on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 (VM) using attract mode version 2.6.1. It is best suited for wide screen displays.Īll themes were designed and developed by me. The Great Themes Collection version 10.3.2 includes 105 beautiful, original, highly polished themes for your attract mode Arcade, Consoles, Computers and Handheld systems.