Nintendo Made Windows XP Themes... Let’s Explore Them!

HEYYYY I AM SO HAPPY YOU MADE A VIDEO ABOUT THIS FROM MY TWITTER POST OMG

keep up the great work, have been following you for years now :DDDD

Can you still redeem those codes?

I love the GameCube theme as well, imma set it as my main XP theme

I can't even begin to express how jealous I am of the people that lived this during that time.. it makes me sick

I remember using the GameCube and Mario Sunshine themes, I don't remember well but I think you earned points and then you would trade those for these themes and songs. in particular I remember a song from Nintendo DS that I just can't find anywhere😢

I can't believe UI design peaked in 2003.

The themes still work on modern windowblinds!

GameBoyAdvanceSP was amazing

Does this work on windows 10

i had the gamecube theme back in the days, god i loved it but my mom didn't so we made a compromise we kept it ! 🤣

ME: Increases volume
Actually hears the game BG music

Do they change the startup sound?

Eternal Darkness was not only one of the best games ever released on the Cube, but was also arguably the best 'Lovecraftian' game ever made. You should play it if you get a chance.

I'm surprised that Nintendo didn't take down this video.

Not only did Nintendo laughed at Microsoft for trying to purchase them, they also put a skin on Windows XP haha

europa

Before the name Club Nintendo, Nintendo Europe had a fidelity program called "Nintendo 24:7" and it was actually started in May 2002 with the launch of Nintendo Gamecube. The name Club Nintendo was adopted later when Nintendo decided to use the same name in all branches.

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There were also a mask de smith killer7 theme for windows xp

i’m biased because i’m a pikmin fan but i would absolutely use the pikmin theme

yeah I remember these, maybe I even had one of them briefly

I'd love to use these on Windows 10.

I still love window xp like this custom visual theme

I like the Picmin one.

Surprised that there wasn’t a Luigi’s mansion theme

This is like the old windows Medea player but if the theme applied to the rest of windows.

you figured out so many details. great vid.

These are all terrible. Apart from that Advanced SP start menu.

stardock is still a thing but windows is now so secured, that you connot customise anything anymore :/

looks boring on windows 10

Nintendo games themes on Windows: Hmm... cool! We can have many themes related to our favorite videogame on Windows!!!

Nintendo GAMECUBE theme on WINDOWS: A-are you sure this is a l-legal thing?!?

Even a modern new installation of Windows Blinds will install to the Nintendo Desktop Manager folder xD

I'd enjoy seeing you showcase more windows theming made by video game companies. I know sega released screensavers and things that I still remember fondly but can't find much information about.

I am putting this on my dsi xp emulator

I have the Mario one on Windows 11!

Did you try applying the Nintendo visual styles after Luna instead of Classic? I suspect that Classic disables the visual styles engine in XP and that the version of Window Blinds that the Nintendo app is based on didn't know how to deal with that.

Woah dude

There is a Nintendo of Europe button in the star fox adventures theme

Honestly I didn't know about this. Thanks to this video now I have a super mario sunshine theme

Seeing that Xbox Windows media player skin was such a blast from the past. I haven't seen it in maybe 20 years.

God damn these are so 00s cool

Honestly, they are ugly. Even for back then, there are plenty of much better designed fan themes for XP - this looks like garbage made by a fan with no experience in design whatsoever. The console themes are decent though but the game ones.. nope...

Now we'll need a Minecraft Mini Series Theme for Windows.

Nintendo does tend to have the source files but I think this is a sort of "unofficial-official" kind of thing, like NOA deciding what they want to do even if it conflicts with NOJ. Back when OOT was newer and people were using flash and random other third party plugins for website content, they used recordings from OOT for many different things. That was still only the NOA side of things acting independently.

cool

Fascinating stuff. Y'know, this does make me wonder as to what hypothetical themes of GameCube and GBA games that didn't get the same love as the likes of Super Mario Sunshine and Metroid Prime would be like. I for one would've really liked to see Luigi's Mansion and Kirby Air Ride desktop themes...

My Ninetendo is still a thing just not the same