Anyhow, I'm very happy with how well it works, and more so the game list FILTERING! I only have a couple questions regarding customizing the look of the graphics section of the front end, and am hoping there might be an easy solution that won't require altering and compiling the source myself:
1. Is there a way to customize the "missing image" graphic placeholders that appear in the "Machine Externals" and "In-Game Content" tabs on the right? Right now they show faded Mario/Sonic/Pac-Man images for "Machine Externals", and TV-style test pattern/off the air images for "In-Game Content". I can appreciate the ideas... however I'm a fan of a more minimal, clean and character-agnostic look, and these images add a bit too much visual distraction to my eyes.
I looked inside the .app container using Mac OS X's "Show Package Contents", and while I found the "/Contents/Java/theme/skin/" folder which looked promising, those specific graphic placeholder files don't appear in there. I'm guessing these images are "baked in" to the Negatron.jar java app itself? If so, would it be possible to break them out to external files that can be manually replaced by the user, like how the Theme Skins currently are?
2. There is an animated "page flip" transition effect on the right hand side EVERY single time a new game is chosen from the list. While it's a cool effect the first two times, it very quickly becomes visually irritating... especially when rapidly selecting games using cursor keys. Is there some kind of hidden option to disable this effect? Even it the transition was changed to fast Fade instead of the Page Flip, that would be a huge improvement.
These are obviously very minor requests... however they are also enough of an issue to detract from my FULL enjoyment of using Negatron, as everything else works so well! Please advise if there is an easy way for me to fix either issue.
Thanks again!
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