FBA_XXX_Pro_1.29_BETA release (codename "Banana Hammock")

[The-Ice-Man]

Isn't JoJo's Bizarre Adventure just an updated version of JoJo's Venture? That's why I was counting it as one like SF3. Anyway if FBA-XXX did all of a sudden play the cps3 games I'd grab them to add to the collection. Don't think it'd require it's own category though seen as even with the 'sequels' to SF3 an JoJo, it's still only six games. I'm going by Wikipedia's list there. There aren't some others I don't know about?

[fumanchu]

Isn't JoJo's Bizarre Adventure just an updated version of JoJo's Venture? That's why I was counting it as one like SF3. Anyway if FBA-XXX did all of a sudden play the cps3 games I'd grab them to add to the collection. Don't think it'd require it's own category though seen as even with the 'sequels' to SF3 an JoJo, it's still only six games. I'm going by Wikipedia's list there. There aren't some others I don't know about?

updated as in more characters and other goodies.

yeah there is just the 6 games.

[The-Ice-Man]

So yeah they should just be shoved in with others I reckon. If cps3 in FBA ever happened.

 

Making a HD version of my skin now, cba.gy offered to test for me as I don't have a HD TV. I did PM you by the way cba.gy but not sure if it got sent coz it's not in my sent folder. Anyway I'll upload the resized pictures when they're done and you can see how they look.

 

Edit: They're done, and thinking about it, I may as well just link to them here:

 

http://files.filefront.com/13770833

 

Those are just the resized pictures. What needs to be done now is a new config.xml needs to be made with updated positions for everything. So for each category, inlcuding the non-category view, all the xy values will need changing. The game preview needs to be made to line up with the new stretched window in the pictures. The menu may need moving, the romlist, title, previoussystem, nextsystem, loadinginfo, fbaxsetup, totalroms, zipname, players, company, year, system, everything probably. And I can't offer any clue as to what values should be used coz I don't have a HD TV to test.

 

So over to you HD TV owners. If anyone who makes an xml that works nicely could send it to me with maybe a screenshot of how it looks that'd be great and I'll include it in the archive I've just linked to.

 

Side note: Who the f**k killed me and Fu?

 

Update: Inky Killed me. Damn him. And he's too strong to kill back. But it was Echoman who killed you Fu. I've attacked him and he's nearly dead. Finish him off. Avenge yourself! Tiger Knee him in his red and blue balls!

 

Update 2: No need Fu. Did it for you. He's dead. I'll stop editing this post now.

Edited May 17, 2009 by The-Ice-Man

[cba.gy]

only just got back here this afternoon, got pm, will work on it later. Thats the best i can do.

 

Had a quick go (spare ten mins) used default config.xml. The only thing i could see off hand was

<players> X co-ordinates = 170 rather than 290.

All other remapping seems to be done with the default.xbe i have which i think is a HD version.

 

All co-ordinates are still stated using a 640x480 format then resized by the xbe i presume.

Edited May 15, 2009 by cba.gy

[cba.gy]

Heres a quick pic. Bad camera work doesnt do it justice

but hey what do you want. All i had to do was remap players

to bring it inline with the others. Personally i will remap romlist to bring them inline

too. Rom count will be remapped underto fall inline aswell. These are personal choices obviuosly.

Edited May 15, 2009 by cba.gy

[cba.gy]

TotalRom count re-aligned to X = 170

Rom list re-aligned to X = 50

Edited May 18, 2009 by cba.gy

[The-Ice-Man]

Looks good, even the longest rom names shouldn't interfere with the character's pictures now. Haggar in particular makes more sense in HD I think now I've mirrored him. I'd have done that in the standard def one too but because there isn't the extra horizonal space the romlist ends up going over his face instead of his shoulder.

 

Anyway, a few things I'd edit. The previoussystem, nextsystem and title values should be brought up so that the icons and text appear within the top turquoise bar. Also check that the main menu lines up with the romlist, I like things lined up nicely too.

 

And I'd swap some of the romdata values around. I'd put company where players is, system where company was, and then players where system was. If that makes sense. That way the uber long company names and system names of certain roms won't display over the CPS1/CPS2/NegGeo/Others logos.

 

Do all that, and you can have a cookie, and we can release your xml so that everyone can have the skin in HD. Booya.

Edited May 15, 2009 by The-Ice-Man

[cba.gy]

Exactly all those changes you mentioned are going in my version. Didnt want to post my changes cause i thought you may have got upset with me fiddling with your values. I did only have a few mins earlier to play with it, will complete later on.

[The-Ice-Man]

Don't worry about upsetting anyone, right now you're fiddling with the default values not mine, if you used the default xml to start with. That's why the romdata's in that order and the title and previous/next sytem icons are too low, coz the turqoiuse bar is lower down in the default skin.

 

It's interesting that it just resizes the 640x480 values to fit 720p. That means that the xml I made would have almost worked. Just that the rom info would've been too squished together coz I squeezed it to fit how I wanted. Anyway, keep up the good work. I know xml editing isn't the most exciting thing in the world.

[cba.gy]

Left truncated rom names on this time.

Didnt realise i had overscan before so had to re-mapped some stuff, as you can see.

Was stating co-ordinates in earlier posts for the The-Ice-Man.

But it makes for boring stuff so PM everything and just show results here.

Edited May 18, 2009 by cba.gy

[darknior]

Hi

 

When you have finished, will up the final XML please ?

 

Thanks

[The-Ice-Man]

That's the plan. I'm gonna be making a small modification to the pictures themselves, basically adding a couple of lines down the left side for the romlist to line up with, cba.gy suggested I try adding something down the left side to balance the skin. So we'll see what that looks like. I'll be doing that tonight coz I'm out of town today. Things are looking pretty spot on as they are now though I think.

[cba.gy]

Thinking of moving the A (start) and B (setup) along the X axis so the will sit between the two colomns of rom descriptions. Y axis (height) will stay the same. If you get what i mean. As they are they only line up with the first column which make it look kinda dis-jointed. Appearing below and between the columns will give it a smoother finished appearance.

[The-Ice-Man]

Go for it. I thought of that earlier too. Just got back in so I'll start on the pictures again. I'll PM you the first one when done so you can see what it looks like.

[mtsaint]

Apparantly there were soundtracks released for DoDonPachi and Battle Garegga. If I can find them I'll give them a go. I took a look at the tracks in the Arcade skin that Mtsaint posted the other day, and they're at 64kbps. I'll try coverting my track to that and see if it works properly, although I don't think it'll sound great at that bitrate.

 

you can get the soundtracks off of the sega saturn versions of those games in 16 bit 44100 wav format