Include Different Video Screens for Various Platforms in Big Box

[William Jones]

A cool idea I've seen in Hyperspin is watching the various Emu Movies previews in the appropriate video screen for the associated platform. For example, Arcade game videos are viewed in an arcade machine, DOS games are viewed on a monitor, Sega Master System games are viewed on an '80s TV screen, and the Wii is viewed on a flat screen.

Here are some pics to illustrate:

Arcade preview

DOS preview

Sega Master System preview

Nintendo Wii Preview

This idea could be extended to every platform. For example, Atari 2600 and Intellivision games videos can be viewed on a "rabbit ear" television, Nintendo DS and Game Boy games can be viewed on they're handheld devices etc.

Here's some more examples:

Atari 2600, Intellivision, and other 2nd generation consoles (I couldn't find an example)

Nintendo DS preview

Nintendo Game Boy preview

Tell me what you guys think of this idea

[Brad Cheyne]

We could probably adapt that to something similar but we also don't want to copy RL, so we probably wont implement that in the same way.

[William Jones]

Ok thanks Brad. I just updated the request to give you guys more ideas in case you're interesting in implementing this idea. IMO it would definitely add style points to each associated platform

[Emin Cavalic]

well if anything you could just let users make skins with ability to change video position etc

[Stephen Dail]

I imagine some of this could be done through themes, but I like the idea. I don't want to hijack this suggestion, but I might add the ability to add multiple platform videos along with the change in display. Currently it only plays the video named after the platform, or random game videos if no (correctly named) platform video is found.