JoeViking245

Thanks for the appreciation! It [still] seems to me like a duplicative effort to add systems that have the built-in feature that does the same thing. (and probably better than I could) It'd be like creating a plugin to reset your games' Play Count to zero when LaunchBox can natively do that. Oh wait. I did that. Or creating a plugin that shows badges on games that have RetroAchievements when LaunchBox does that too. Oh ya, I also did that. Anyway, in the works is adding bezel support for games using LaunchBox's DOSBox and ScummVM. It's a little tricky because of how they're launched, but should be coming soon to a download near you.

Good point. I guess when I was grasping at straws, I grabbed the short one.

When I did my test, the Platform was "Windows". Similar to your last Edit-Game Metadata screenshot. So another workaround might could be, temporarily change the Platform to 'Windows' (or variant), link the ID, then change it back.

Add (2023) to the title, then search

Burger Time (DECO Cassette) and Burger Time (Data East set 1) are technically 2 separate machines (as classified by MAME). Both ROMs are parent systems (vs 1 being a clone of the other). Since neither is a clone and both are working machines, both get imported. There really isn't a way to filter those out on import beyond adding, yet another checkbox for 'skip DECO Cassettes'. (Feature requests are available at the top of this page) The easiest way to get rid of all (33ish) Arcade DECO Cassette games might be to create a playlist filtered on Version Contains "deco cassette" and Platform is Equal To "Arcade." Save. Then select that playlist, select all games in the playlist and Delete.

You're welcome. I've never looked to see if someone made a plugin to scrape book/magazine/comic books. That would need to be scraped from different sites than for movies. Box - Back and Box - Spine: If TMDB or FanArt.TV has those available, that's something that could be looked into adding. If you see that either of them has those, let me know.

After downloading, the images will typically appear after clicking a different 'game' (movie) then clicking back on the one you just downloaded for. A poor man's alternative to automagically refreshing the images on the fly. Alternately, with 'that movie' selected, press F5. Since the log says images were downloaded (and even some were skipped because they 'already existed'), look inside your Images folder. /LaunchBox/Images/[name_of_your_movie_platform]/Box - Front/[name_of_movie].png

In the plugins folder, there's a subfolder called \Logs\. Sometimes the most recent log file (when the error occurred) may shed some light. Can you share that file? (drag and drop the file rather than copy and paste)

Exactly (essentially). It doesn't a Force Close, so it's safe.

Grabbed from some old notes for doing something different, but the result is what you want... ; Master application Process, Wait, BigBox.exe Sleep, 5000 Process, Wait, BigBox.exe Process, WaitClose, BigBox.exe I'm not sure when exactly when the Startup App gets triggered, so for a safety measure we wait 2 times. The 1st Wait is for BB launched from LB's root folder. That exe starts BigBox.exe that's in the /Core/ folder then closes itself. We give the 1st exe a few seconds to do its thing then Wait for /Core/BigBox.exe to be running. Lastly, wait for it to exit before restoring things. You might be able to do away with the 1st two lines of code. But having them in there won't hurt anything and the cost (programmatically and financially) is free. 😎

Sounds like that'd be an excellent feature request. (Help & Support - Request a Feature [at the top of this page]) I'm not sure making the xml ReadOnly is a good idea but should do-the-trick. For a while. One problem, as mentioned is you wouldn't be able to save any changes to BB. But if you have it setup the way you want, there really is no need. Another [potential] problem would be when BB gets updated. I do this on my cab for (A) playing on the cabs monitor or (B) playing on the TV. I use different Themes for each and have a PowerShell script that will 'edit' BigBoxSettings.xml, changing the Theme accordingly. Then starts BigBox. (2 scripts actually. One for each screen.) Here's an example that will set the <LastPlatform> to "Arcade" and then start BigBox. Before using something like this, you will need to have had BB closed with the option Rember the Last Platform set to On. Otherwise, the script won't be able to find the element <LastPlatform>. $filePathToTask = "D:\LaunchBox\Data\BigBoxSettings.xml" $xml = New-Object XML $xml.Load($filePathToTask) $element = $xml.SelectSingleNode("//LastPlatform") $element.InnerText = "Arcade" $xml.Save($filePathToTask) & D:\LaunchBox\BigBox.exe Exit It's not the prettiest startup process (i.e. you see the PowerShell window pop up for a second), but is quite effective. You could probably do the same thing via an AutoHotkey script or maybe even a batch file, if those are more your flavor.

Option A Edit your RetroArch emulator and add a 2nd "Atari 800" Associated Platform, set it to use the other core and do not check the Default Emulator box. Save. Then to use the other core: Right-click a game and select Launch with - RetroArch and select the other core. Option B (the override option) Edit the games that you don't want to use the platforms' default core and set a custom command line parameter that'll load the 'other' core. Edit a game got down to Emulation check the box Use Custom Command-line Parameters type in the command to load the other core -L "cores/atari800_libretro.dll" (or whatever core you need to load) Save This would need to be done per-game (aka one-by-one). To do this in bulk (change if for several or many games all at once), you can use the Bulk Custom Command-Line Editor plugin.

Dang! I was sure that had worked before. But then again, I've been wrong before too. And after some testing, I find I am wrong again. Sorry about that. I don't actually use BB that often, and when I do, I'm usually playing in the same platform. One other option (not that the 1st one turned out to be an actual option) is to set the platforms Sort Title to something like "01". (LaunchBox, Edit platform, Details tab, Sort Title). Also, turn off Remember Last Platform (in BigBox). This should put it at the top of the list above 3DO. It might look funny being there, but it will still say "Arcade" and be the default starting platform.

Do the above steps not work to do that?

Pretty sure with most cores, you don't need to have LaunchBox extract the ROMs 1st. You might try unchecking that option on one or a couple of the Associated Platforms and test that way. I'm not saying they shouldn't work if LaunchBox extracts them 1st. It's just I've never tried it that way.

Yes. To start BigBox ON a specific platform: In BigBox, navigate to your Arcade platform. Exit BigBox (re)Start BigBox You should be on Arcade Goto System Menu - Options - General Turn Off Remember Last Platform I don't believe there's an option to start BigBox IN a specific platform (viewing the games).

"Version" is not in the options to be displayed in the Game Details (your 2nd screenshot, "Information"). But you are able to display it along with the text in the Main View. (You'll also need to have Text on All Games checked.) View - Show / Hide, Versions

If done per the method shown in the video, the image only gets saved to the appropriate /LaunchBox/Images/... subfolder.