u/QUANTUM-VOIDD

View showcase screenshots here: WinBox Image Gallery

I wanted to go way beyond a basic visual reskin. To get that truly authentic feel, I ended up combining standard layout code with web tools and a true 3D graphics engine. I’m really happy with how it’s coming together, so I wanted to share the progress to date!

Main Dash: You can scroll through the classic vertical tabs exactly how you remember them. My WinBox, My Games, Game Marketplace, and Movies & TV.

No more only having a single main view cover grid, filter presets are now dash tiles, so everything is cleanly organized and flows like a real console!

Nostalgic Backgrounds: I fully recreated the animated floating rings and the glossy floor stage that reacts dynamically as you navigate around.

You can also change the background, stage floor and coverflow style at any time from the theme preferences sub menu of the system settings menu.

Working Lockscreen: Just like the real console, there’s a sign in screen where you choose your profile. Selecting your account loads up your specific PFP and your personal avatar.

Real 3D Avatars & Coverflow:

Instead of just showing flat images, the theme uses a 3D engine utilising Three.js through a WebView2 virtual host mapping overlay to render your game boxes in a true 3D cover flow.

And the best part, there is zero performance tax.

I even built a custom "Edit Avatar" window where you can easily swap out 3D character models and props, spinning them around to see how they look before saving.

The Guide: Pressing the Guide button (Home button on controller) slides out the iconic four blade menu right over whatever you're doing.

Console Settings: I built a fully functional settings menu where you can check your hard drive space, test your network speed, switch which monitor you're using, or shut down your PC directly from the couch.

Seamless Web & Flash Integration: I integrated a Flash player directly into the theme, meaning you can launch classic SWF games (like old school arcades or vintage web games) natively right from the dash.

Couch Friendly Browsing: To make sure you never need to reach for a mouse, the theme reads your inputs and turns your controller thumbsticks into a virtual mouse whenever you have a web menu open.

Grand Scale 3D Solar System App: As a bonus i also integrated my own custom built 3D model solar system as an app into the 'My Apps' grid built entirely in javascript using Three.js.

I used 8K/4K planet and moon textures from NASA and high resolution NASA space station models to create a beautiful grand scale solar system in Three.js, complete with 3D ship models from various sources with full six degrees flight on controller makes it practically a triple AAA sim. Some ships feature first person view as well as third person, such as the X-Wing and Tie fighter, and all feature hyper speed boosts with animations except for the Tardis, the Tardis has its own custom worm hole animation.

The solar system also features a full navigation system so you don't get lost in space due to the scale, as you can travel all the way out of the solar system and outside of the milky way galaxy. You can also interact with planets if you are in close proximity to them by pressing X on controller, this will let you drive a NASA ground vehicle around the planet or moon's surface while your ship remains docked in orbit.

It's been a long month getting all of this to work and play nicely together, but seeing it come to life makes it so worth it. Made by a gamer, for gamers. Let me know what you think!

I hope to have a first test build release ready soon.

I'm currently working on transforming the entire main view into a full NXE dashboard, capturing it as authentically as possible.

A lot still needs to be done, but this is the vision.

Just wanted to share a quick update on my theme project. Progress is slow, but worth the wait, I'd rather take the extra time to get everything polished and feeling just right than rush a half baked release.

Here is a look at what I’ve been grinding on recently. I’ve managed to implement a fully working (for the most part) xbox 360 guide menu that actually opens and closes fluidly right when you press the home button on your controller. Getting it to behave naturally within the layout took some serious tinkering, but it adds so much to the authentic console feel.

I've been focusing on designing and structuring the grid to capture that classic xbox 360 NXE aesthetic.

Still ironing out a few minor bugs, but things are coming together nicely. Let me know what you think!

Custom intro.

Xbox 360 style sign in screen and main screen profile container with gamerscore. (Currently working on making it a multi profile sign in screen to simulate a real 360 profile screen)

Xbox 360 style coloured buttons.

Custom Avatars inspired by xbox 360 avatar generation.

Fully transparent game grid, perfect for 2.5D and 3D box art sets.

Rotating earth at night main background. I built it in Three.js (3D javascript) using 8K NASA textures, captured a full 360 degree rotation and exported it into 1800 images at 4K resolution, which i then compiled into an mp4 creating a seamless loop.

Note: This theme is inspired by Xbox 360, it is not mean't to be an exact replica.

I do plan on releasing the theme soon, once i feel its at a finished state!

Honestly thought this was going to stay locked forever. After dealing with the persistent bugs and those ridiculous time walls that made "Horizon Legend" feel impossible to hit, it’s such a relief to finally see the notification pop.

No more waiting on patches or getting screwed by glitched progression requirements, it’s actually doable now.

If anyone else was stuck in the same boat as I was, it’s finally time to go back and clear it.

Good luck to everyone still grinding for it!

To make this a reality i modified Modern UI theme's codebase by stripping and redoing the background media elements to make the covers sit super clean on the grid with perfect background transparency, then further modified the codebase to make cover view and grid view share the same 5K resolution custom background image so switching between both views is seamless.

Further more i modified the code to disable game descriptions from showing on the main screen for a nice minimal aesthetic.

For the artwork, i put together custom pre-set filter icons and used high resolution 2.5D box/cart sets found on LB forums, with some photoshop mockup templates for roms that aren't in the downloadable box sets.

I think it came together well.

As a die hard fan of the original Scary Movie trilogy, I went into this one fully prepared to be murdered by laughter.

Instead, I got 47 minutes of cinematic water torture.

The Wayans brothers had one job, bottle the chaotic, filthy, perfectly timed stupidity that made the originals legendary. They didn’t just drop the ball, they fumbled it, tripped over it, and then tried to pass it off as comedy.

Zero spark. Zero timing. Just a painful parade of jokes that died louder than the victims in the movie. I officially tapped out at the 47 minute mark.

Rest in peace to my expectations. They didn’t survive the opening credits.

Anyone else actually make it through this thing, or am I the smart one who escaped early?

Packed Barcola in an SBC pick.

Packed Le Paul in a objective reward pack.

Packed Orkun Kökçü in a reward pack, sold him for 300k and bought Raphina.

If anyone has any idea for improvements feel free to chime in.