Leogames

On 1/11/2024 at 6:11 PM, Gabi23 said:

Nagyon szuper lenne ha a betű méret megfelelő lenne. Csatolom a fotót :

 

So it looks like you're just using the background, not my skin.

To the best of my knowledge, that shouldn't affect the text size - it's just a graphic. The text problem will be caused by something else.

On 12/31/2023 at 4:56 PM, Gabi23 said:

Great skin! But I have a problem, namely that the text does not fit on the display. The letters are too large. Fix please! 🙋‍♂️

Hi and thanks for the kind words. Are you able to share a screenshot of this?  I don't have this problem and aren't sure what you mean.

Either way though, I should warn you that I would likely have no idea how to fix this myself. There is little I can do beyond the surface-level options of Aurora Coverflow Layout Editor - there are no good guides on modding and the scene is now pretty much dead.  Maybe someone else can help if you share more details though.

And if not, I hope the skin is still good enough for you to use on whatever setup you have!

Yes, you can do that - but how do you then systematically navigate to something else you haven't played recently and don't know how far back it is?

Giving this additional option allows each person to navigate how they like. My Android phone gives me the option of opening on Last Used without resorting my entire app tray. It's a common sorting method which a 360 with lots of games installed would benefit from.

https://www.realmodscene.com/index.php?/topic/5274-things-not-to-ask/

Have you tried the solution above?

As a user, I would like to enable the Aurora coverflow menu to remember the last item selected before the 360 is shut down, and show that first upon next startup.  At the moment, the menu automatically always starts at the first alphabetically ordered xex, which is not what many people will want to boot.

This could be an option to select, instead of being the default, for those who still want the menu to open on the first alphabetical item.

Current flow:

Boot 360 > Menu starts on Game A > User scrolls to Game F > User plays Game F > Shuts down 360 > Repeat from start

Suggested flow:

Boot 360 > Menu starts on Game A > User scrolls to Game F > User plays Game F > Shuts down 360 > Boot 360 > Menu starts on Game F

That totally works for me!  You are, as always, a superstar.  Thank you and hope you're safe and well!

On 4/7/2023 at 3:09 AM, smithmal said:

Thanks for your response.  I guess I'll try and muddle through and ask any questions along the way.  Who knows, maybe after I've created a skin I can try and write an updated tutorial.

If it helps you to know, I'm in the same place right now.  I think the tool authors don't quite understand how confusing it all is to a newbie.  It doesn't help that a lot of the tools also seem to be broken now, at least on my laptop.  I can't tell if half the error messages I'm getting are because I'm doing something wrong or the tools are just broken.  It's a shame as it means the scene hasn't ever been able to flourish like it deserved to.  I still believe there's hope though!

Thank you! I have a tweaked version and will upload ASAP. I should say though that if you mean that you like the simplicity of the icons missing, they're usually there - Aurora just removed them when I took the screenshot

Otherwise, it surprises me that every coverflow layout that exists insists on an infinite style and with flows on *both* sides unless you fudge it this way. But for now, thanks again for the compliments, look out for the update and enjoy!

Please help! XZP Tool always fails for me when it comes to the first file held in a folder..  see screenshot!

Any ideas? I've tried running in Admin mode to see if it can create the Font directory - and it does, it just fails to extract anything into it and then stops 

Have just donated too 👍  Thanks for what you do and hope to see some more!

What folder are you putting them in?  On my 360 I have two places where it looks like they should go, but only one works! 😄

On 11/23/2022 at 4:43 AM, Gennaro said:

I made a small donation because you deserve so much for the work you are doing now more than ever with the release of rgh3 our beloved 360 is back to life I have done a lot of installations and it is very important because it means there will be more people able to dedicate yourself to 360 with a community in continuous growth

You can donate?! How did I not see that..

I want to echo Gennaro's thoughts. I'm very late to the Aurora/RGH scene but I love my 360 consoles and they're only this good because of this team's software.

I imagine it's difficult to keep developing especially when so many users seem demanding or ungrateful. But please know that so many of us realise that what you do is incredible - and we are grateful!

@Jenkins87 How did you get the animated background working? I didn't know this was possible

8 hours ago, Gennaro said:

 

I'm glad to hear it. It doesn't look like many other people are still engaging with these boards, which is a real shame - I love my RGH 360s!  So yes, let's keep the scene alive together

Keep going on your cover trailer screenshots, I'm excited to see the results when you're done!

Hi!  I felt the same as you but for some reason this doesn't seem to have ever been so made.  So I tried out a few tricks - take a look at this, it might be of interest:

Aurora is a great piece of software but I'm one of those people who likes a stock look on their modified console.  And we all know that NXE was the best 360 dashboard before MS started changing it with those awful tiles

So I've been playing about with Aurora Coverflow Layout Editor and have managed to create this:

It's a bit of a hack - CLE doesn't seem to officially let you have your library only appear on one side so I cheated and just pushed the other side off the screen entirely 😂  It's still WIP and needs a little tweaking but overall, I think it comes pretty close.

The left and right motion works great.  However, I don't know if it's possible to use the vertical controls to change categories without changing how Aurora works underneath.

The above screenshot uses the avatar from @KiwiMeoWii but I'd like to understand from them how we can tweak that.  I don't think the original NXE dashboard had the avatar in this position but it's still how I remember it, so I'm going to have it present on mine.

The layout and background from this are attached in this thread.  I'll keep working on this to improve it!

Xbox 360 NXE 2 by LeoG.cfljson

So I'm new at this, and only started using Coverflow Layout Editor tonight.. but this is what I made:

It's a bit of a hack - but I've combined it with a green backdrop and your avatar skin, KiwiMeoWii, to make it resemble the NXE dashboard.

I think it looks pretty good, considering.  I'd like to be able to make the avatar around twice the size and move them up and right.  But I don't know how to do that

(It doesn't matter to me personally if the accessories go off the screen but I know not everyone feels that way!).

EDIT: Instead of hijacking @KiwiMeoWii 's thread, I've started a new one:

On 2/28/2023 at 8:13 PM, KiwiMeoWii said:

If someone that is knowledgeable in code & frontends if the source code is released & adds in all the nxe features. You could build all the 4 360 dashboard themes from that xzp. But then Aurora will be going back to how fsd was. Which the Aurora team moved away from which I understand.

Okay, KiwiMeoWii and Gennaro..  I'm working on something that maybe I should share here soon.  Thank you both so much for inspiring me to do this.  Maybe you'll like it!

1 hour ago, KiwiMeoWii said:

This image is not the homescreen man. This is the Aurora Quickview. Only way I could emulate the nxe dash was using the quickview tabscenes to build it.

Ah I see. But it's still impressive work! I did think (and hoped) it was the homescreen but if Aurora makes that impossible then obviously that's not your fault.

5 hours ago, KiwiMeoWii said:

Yes adding the avatar has been possible from the start I guess. It's just the skinners never added it to there skins or just didn't like the avatar. The tools are publicly available. 

For NXE questions: it's possible but it won't turn out to be the actual nxe dashboard as your limited to the Aurora code. I have emulated the nxe tabscene using the Aurora quickviews options but thats how far I got. As I wanted to be able to boot the multi quickview scene on aurora boot up. But then found out it's not possible after talking to Mattie & Swizzy awhile back. As Aurora is built around the coverflow

You will need the Aurora Source Code & to do big changes.

This is another reason I stopped making my own custom skins. As I was limited in how far I could go. Plus most of the skins look the same

Only decent skin builders I have seen for aurora are Odin, M0514H & that skin Holimite Gears of War theme for 6b were my all time top aurora themes I'll use.  All themes now are all based from there custom skins. 

I am thinking of remaking that Holimite Gears of War 0.6b theme to work with v0.7b.2 but kind of busy doing other things.

Done this theme years back. But never released as it's still a working progress. But has the nxe idea behind it in the Aurora quickviews. Works like a charm. But the idea was not mine. Was all matties idea. But yeah life things get in the way

 

 

 

Thank you so much for sharing all this info. But wait - you built this in Aurora? That looks incredible! It's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I would just add the avatar to this and change the colour scheme to Xbox 360 green/grey.

It's truly inspirational to see that it can be done

1 hour ago, KiwiMeoWii said:

Yes definitely possible. My biggest other reason for where the avatar is. Mainly for running different variations of coverflows you can use. So the avatar wouldn't look out of place using different coverflows with it. Plus the props animations of course was the main part etc

Ahhh, thanks for the information. So displaying the avatar has been possible for a while, but you've changed the position so that it's always useful in this way? Is that right?

Do you mind me asking how you did this? If it's a publicly available tool, I might try it myself to achieve the look I want

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Edit: When I said stock earlier, that wasn't actually what I meant. It seems I meant the NXE/Kinect dashboard or at least some variant of it. Modern stock aka Metro is horrible!

So I'd like to try multiplayer for Outrun Online Arcade.  Unlike Outrun 2 or Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast, it doesn't have system link so is/was XBLA only.  I've read the following about the game:

"I can't speak for the PS3 release (Wouldn't surprise me if it has gone offline by now), but the Xbox 360 version remains online.

Unlike on the PC/PSP/PS2/PS3, there's nothing here for Sega to turn off. Matchmaking and leaderboard functions are handled by the standard Xbox Live service that has to run anyways to support online multiplayer in general for the platform. And player matches are hosted via P2P, the norm on the Xbox 360 outside of EA published titles (As it was on the original Xbox).

Online support isn't going anywhere until Xbox Live support ends for the platform. Just like Outrun 2 and Coast 2 Coast on the original Xbox that lasted right up until the end."

So my question is, as this is a P2P game should it work okay without risking a ban on XBLA - or do you risk a ban just by virtue of logging onto XBLA at all?  I'm assuming there's no way to manually recreate online multiplayer for it, not least as no multiplayer server was ever needed for this game.

On 2/22/2023 at 6:59 AM, KiwiMeoWii said:

Just turn off the scanning path I do this once I know I've got everything showing. I only switch it back on if I've added new titles or pathways etc. 

But I always have the title update Scan on etc

 

Thanks for the tip - although I think I've done that and it's still showing for me 😕

I'll check my system again to make sure..

This is fantastic!  Being new to Aurora, I was only wondering the other day if it was possible to show the avatar and now I've seen this

Is it possible, even just in theory, to:

1) Add this to a different skin if I already have a different?

2) To change the size and position of the avatar?  I'm trying to recreate stock as close as possible within Aurora at the moment.. 😇

Great work!

Posting in 2023 to say that Aurora is a fantastic piece of software.  I too, however, have this message displaying even though my console is usually offline.  Taking it online doesn't help when you come back offline again.

Did anyone find the cause and a subsequent solution?