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Does it change it if you press Alt+Enter?
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Startup Screen Load Delay: greater than 30 seconds
JoeViking245 commented on JoeViking245's file in Third-party Apps and Plugins
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My cab's shut down for the night so can't look... but should box: be in the command-line parameters? I do recognize --escape-exit though.
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How Long To Beat (HLTB)
JoeViking245 commented on JoeViking245's file in Third-party Apps and Plugins
V1.1.0 Released New Feature: When Bulk-Adding HLTB Custom Fields, games that are skipped get added to a text file for that Platform Click View Skipped Games after bulk-adding to view and manually search the games that were skipped (if any). Or at a later time, you can select a game (any game), right-click and select the plugin. If any skipped-games text files exist, a View Skipped Games button will appear. Click it. New Feature: Now viewable in BigBox (found in the Game Menu) No theme implementation required. This will NOT save Custom Fields. But will read from them if available. Otherwise, it'll attempt to get times directly from HLTB. To close the window, press your controller button(s) mapped to Close the Active Window. Just like exiting a game. ...or click the "X" or press Escape or press Alt+F4. (love providing options) Yes. (you too @Jackdefjam) See above. -
You might try Tools < Options < Manage < Emulators - Add. Select ScummVM from the dropdown. Let it 'auto-fill'. Then next to the Application Path click Browse and point it to your already installed copy .exe file. Click OK to save. Then Edit it.
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Visual Pinball X + Bigbox ... a starters guide
JoeViking245 replied to ItchyRobot's topic in Emulation
Those do not look like ROMs. ROMs should all be .zip files. Note that ROMs and tables (table file(s)) are 2 separate things. -
Community Playlist 📄 Party Time! 🥳 + Steam Key Giveaway
JoeViking245 replied to AstroBob's topic in Community Corner
Taking a little bit of a different course. When someone says games and Party Time, I think Pinball!! Addams Family (Bally 1992): The most sold pinball machine of all time. Attack From Mars (Bally 1995): Just plain fun to play. Cyclone (Williams 1988): I spent many hours playing this table in college. Eight Ball Deluxe (Bally 1981): This table is a classic in its own rights. Riverboat Gambler (Williams 1990): Music that makes you feel 'happy' and straight forward gameplay. -
How Long To Beat (HLTB)
JoeViking245 commented on JoeViking245's file in Third-party Apps and Plugins
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How Long To Beat (HLTB)
JoeViking245 commented on JoeViking245's file in Third-party Apps and Plugins
Some Themes don't have Custom Fields elements built into them. The "Show Custon Fields" is there in BigBox Options, but the Theme itself may not have a 'placeholder' for them. If (for testing purposes) you switch to the Default Theme, you should be able to see them. Another Theme caveat is depending on the BigBox theme you use, the amount of data shown in the Game Details may be limited. So you might need to go into System Menu < Options < Game Details and deselect some of the [other] Details. I currently have the plugin disabled for BigBox because you can't do anything with it via a controller. Keyboard and mouse only. I'd hate to have someone select that in the Game Menu, then have to dig out their mouse just to close it. I do have on my list to see if there's a [modern] way I can have a window display that can be managed by a controller. I say "modern" because in the past to use my plugins in BigBox, I had to have it modify the BB Theme 1st before it would work. Kind of a pain. Especially when you update your Theme and have to run the setup again. No promises. -
How Long To Beat (HLTB)
JoeViking245 commented on JoeViking245's file in Third-party Apps and Plugins
Thanks! As it sits, you could make multiple playlists covering each Hour(s). i.e. Playlist name = "HLTB 10hrs" Playlist name = "HLTB 9hrs", Contains Value = "9 Hrs". etc.. But with that, you'd also get game that take "1 Day 10 Hrs 32 Mins" Another option is to set the Comparison to "Is Not Empty". Then back in LB, set Arrange By (ascending or descending) to "HLTB Main Story". The issue there is "Hrs 1" comes before "Hrs 2" (not an issue). But so does "Hrs 10" (is an issue). So not a good option. So, to answer your question(s), No. Not reasonably and effectively. -
Floating around out there somewhere is a modified version of the Dolphin Triforce branch 5.0-18171. It will alleviate this issue as it uses the newer --version parameter to check its versioning. Granted, it doesn't fix the plugin. But until then, it does 'fix' the issue from the end-user's standpoint. (Just need to ignore the 'update cloud'.)
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Version 2.2.1
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View how long it takes to complete a game and optionally save these times as Custom Fields for viewing in the game details. Also displayed are what other platforms (if any) the particular game is available on. All data comes direct from How Long To Beat. Be sure to log in there to save, compare and share times. Without them, this plugin wouldn't be here. The 3 types of timed gameplay this plugin gets are: Main Story (just run to the end) Main + Extras (Main Story plus Additional Quests/Medals/Unlockables) Completionist (complete 100% of everything) What makes this plugin different from other HLTB plugins and apps? It works Result are 'live' With some luck and little-to-no fear of website updates, it will still work next week, next month, through the end of the year and beyond... without any updates required (fingers crossed) Requirements: LaunchBox and the plugin file. Installing: Download and extract the contents into your /LaunchBox/Plugins/ folder i.e. D:/LaunchBox/Plugins/HLTB/HLTB.dll Using: Select a game Right-click and select How Long To Beat If the game is not found, follow the onscreen instructions to help narrow down results (optional) Click Add to Custom Fields The Custom Fields names will be: HLTB Main Story HLTB Main + Extras HLTB Completionist (informational) Platforms that the game is available for are shown No longer provided. A Box-Fron image is shown instead. Select a radio button for how you want your times to be displayed and saved. (Days-Hours-Minutes, Hours-Minutes or Minutes only) New in v2.0.0 HLTB Viewer and Playlist creator (Requires HLTB times to have been saved to Custom Fields) - View and sort HLTB games by title or Time To Beat - Launch a game directly from Viewer - Create playlists Creating Playlists: From the Tools Menu, select HLTB Viewer. Select a platform Select one or (preferably) more games Click on the HLTB Time column header to sort by Times. Click again to reverse the sort. Click Create Playlist (This will open a new Window) Set the playlists Title, Nested Name and Category (Category is optional) Click Create Playlist Playlists will be static. If you add more games to your collection, just add the HLTB times to the games Custom Fields (right-click game option) and then in the Playlist Creator, check the box Add to Existing Playlist. Select the playlist. Notes about the names and platform category [Unique] Name - No other playlist can have 'this' name. Nested Name - what shows in the sidebar. (i.e. HLTB 30-60 Minutes) Category - The [Platform] Category it will be nested under. (i.e. Arcade How Long To Beat) To get the Nested Names to sort properly, edit the playlist and set the Sort Title. In the image above, '30-60' sort title is set to "2". '1-2 Hours' is set to "3". etc. Remember to Like and Subscribe and check out my other.....🤣. Just go have some fun and be good humans. 😎 -
How Long To Beat (HLTB) View File View how long it takes to complete a game and optionally save these times as Custom Fields for viewing in the game details. Also displayed are what other platforms (if any) the particular game is available on. All data comes direct from How Long To Beat. Be sure to log in there to save, compare and share times. Without them, this plugin wouldn't be here. The 3 types of timed gameplay this plugin gets are: Main Story (just run to the end) Main + Extras (Main Story plus Additional Quests/Medals/Unlockables) Completionist (complete 100% of everything) What makes this plugin different from other HLTB plugins and apps? It works Result are 'live' With some luck and little-to-no fear of website updates, it will still work next week, next month, through the end of the year and beyond... without any updates required (fingers crossed) Requirements: LaunchBox and the plugin file. Installing: Download and extract the contents into your /LaunchBox/Plugins/ folder i.e. D:/LaunchBox/Plugins/HLTB/HLTB.dll Using: Select a game Right-click and select How Long To Beat If the game is not found, follow the onscreen instructions to help narrow down results (optional) Click Add to Custom Fields The Custom Fields names will be: HLTB Main Story HLTB Main + Extras HLTB Completionist (informational) Platforms that the game is available for are shown No longer provided. A Box-Fron image is shown instead. Select a radio button for how you want your times to be displayed and saved. (Days-Hours-Minutes, Hours-Minutes or Minutes only) New in v2.0.0 HLTB Viewer and Playlist creator (Requires HLTB times to have been saved to Custom Fields) - View and sort HLTB games by title or Time To Beat - Launch a game directly from Viewer - Create playlists Creating Playlists: From the Tools Menu, select HLTB Viewer. Select a platform Select one or (preferably) more games Click on the HLTB Time column header to sort by Times. Click again to reverse the sort. Click Create Playlist (This will open a new Window) Set the playlists Title, Nested Name and Category (Category is optional) Click Create Playlist Playlists will be static. If you add more games to your collection, just add the HLTB times to the games Custom Fields (right-click game option) and then in the Playlist Creator, check the box Add to Existing Playlist. Select the playlist. Notes about the names and platform category [Unique] Name - No other playlist can have 'this' name. Nested Name - what shows in the sidebar. (i.e. HLTB 30-60 Minutes) Category - The [Platform] Category it will be nested under. (i.e. Arcade How Long To Beat) To get the Nested Names to sort properly, edit the playlist and set the Sort Title. In the image above, '30-60' sort title is set to "2". '1-2 Hours' is set to "3". etc. Remember to Like and Subscribe and check out my other.....🤣. Just go have some fun and be good humans. 😎 Submitter JoeViking245 Submitted 08/22/2024 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins
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Additional Apps not waiting for Exit *Solved*
JoeViking245 replied to TheRealUnderhill's topic in Troubleshooting
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The message you show pretty much says it all. "Click the button below to open the Plugin Manager and update them!"
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I did just try several different approaches via code to be able to delete existing files, to no avail. Even tried: import an image, close plugin, refresh images [F5] (thought being LB would cache the [new] image(s) then "let go"), edit game and attempt to delete the new image. Hmmm... but didn't ty to delete the one "being replace". Anyway, I think you're on to something... Deleting existing images ain't gonna happen with the plugin. That should be easy enough. I'll add it to the list. Thank you!
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Thanks! No problems are the kind of problems I like to hear about. 😎 For Steam games that are launched via "steam://rungameid/xxxxxx", it will find an "exact match". All others are 'matched' via Game Title. To be honest, I never really looked at SteamGridDB until just last week and didn't realize they covered more than just Steam games. So subsequently added in the Title search as a backup to included non-Steam games. 😊 I had thought about doing this. By the time I got frustrated trying to figure out the 'best place' to default Grids and Heroes to, I gave up. 😄 Clear Logos are pretty straight forward as to where they need go. I will add this to the to-do list. I thought about his too. The plan was to, when you're in the View Existing Images Gallery, add a right-click option to delete the image. The problem is, sometimes (a lot of the times? Occasionally? Rarely?) the file will be [temporarily] locked by LaunchBox. And can't be deleted. It's not a bug thing. It's just-a-thing. Granted, me showing it in the Gallery probably locks it also and would need to work a way to release the image then maybe delete it. Maybe. Aside from that potential issue, if I were to say, add a checkbox to 'Replace Existing Image with Downloaded Image'... if that image-type [box-front or whatever] being replaced has more than one image of that type [for that game] existing, what-do-you do? A pop-up asking [and showing] which one do you want to replace might incur the above issue and may be more of pain to work around than I care to deal with. That said, I do still have 'this thought' in my notes and may look into it further. No promises.
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SteamGridDB Scraper View File Preview and import images from SteamGrid Database directly into your LaunchBox collection. A personalized SteamGridDB API Key is required. (See below about getting yours) Downloaded images are saved to the default LaunchBox image folder(s). Installing Download and extract the contents of the download to your /LaunchBox/Plugins/ folder. i.e. D:/LaunchBox/Plugins/SteamGrid Scraper/SteamGridScraper.dll First Time Run Select a game, right-click it and select SteamGrid Scraper. The "API key Required" window will open. Paste (or manually type in) your personal SteamGrid API key. Click Save Using Select a game, right-click it and select SteamGrid Scraper. In cases where an exact match for the game Tite is not found, a window will popup listing 'close matches'. Double-click a game from the list to select it. Click on the SteamGrid image group you'd like to view. Options are: Grids Heroes Logos Icons Up to 50 images will show in the Gallery. If the selected group has more than 50 available, click "2" to see then next 50. Use the Zoom slider to increase/decrease the image sizes in the Gallery. Double-click on an image to see a larger view. (Opens in a separate window). The Icons group is pretty much useless in LaunchBox. But since they're available, they're included. Saving an image To add an image to your game, right-click the image in the gallery and select Add Image. Select the Image Type (folder) you want to save it as from the dropdown box. (It doesn't change automatically for you.) Only a few select image types are shown by default. To see all image folders (types), check the box "See All available image types". (Optional) To view your existing images for the game, click View Existing Images Gallery. (Opens in a separate window) This shows only the images for the selected image type. (Optional) Click Open Image Folder to open Windows Explorer to the folder where your existing images are and where the image will be saved to. Click Save to save the image. Getting your SteamGridDB API Key Log into your SteamGridDB account. Go to your Profile - Preferences - API Click 'Generate API key' As always, all comments and suggestions are welcome. 😎 Submitter JoeViking245 Submitted 08/18/2024 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins
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Version 1.2.7
424 downloads
Preview and import images from SteamGrid Database directly into your LaunchBox collection. A personalized SteamGridDB API Key is required. (See below about getting yours) Downloaded images are saved to the default LaunchBox image folder(s). Installing Download and extract the contents of the download to your /LaunchBox/Plugins/ folder. i.e. D:/LaunchBox/Plugins/SteamGrid Scraper/SteamGridScraper.dll First Time Run Select a game, right-click it and select SteamGrid Scraper. The "API key Required" window will open. Paste (or manually type in) your personal SteamGrid API key. Click Save Using Select a game, right-click it and select SteamGrid Scraper. In cases where an exact match for the game Tite is not found, a window will popup listing 'close matches'. Double-click a game from the list to select it. Click on the SteamGrid image group you'd like to view. Options are: Grids Heroes Logos Icons Up to 50 images will show in the Gallery. If the selected group has more than 50 available, click "2" to see then next 50. Use the Zoom slider to increase/decrease the image sizes in the Gallery. Double-click on an image to see a larger view. (Opens in a separate window). The Icons group is pretty much useless in LaunchBox. But since they're available, they're included. Saving an image To add an image to your game, right-click the image in the gallery and select Add Image. Select the Image Type (folder) you want to save it as from the dropdown box. (It doesn't change automatically for you.) Only a few select image types are shown by default. To see all image folders (types), check the box "See All available image types". (Optional) To view your existing images for the game, click View Existing Images Gallery. (Opens in a separate window) This shows only the images for the selected image type. (Optional) Click Open Image Folder to open Windows Explorer to the folder where your existing images are and where the image will be saved to. Click Save to save the image. Getting your SteamGridDB API Key Log into your SteamGridDB account. Go to your Profile - Preferences - API Click 'Generate API key' As always, all comments and suggestions are welcome. 😎 -
I could, but don't think it would do much good. Your best bet would be to post a Feature Request. (Top of this page, Help & Support - Request a Feature) Once requested, and enough people express interest (vote on it), then 'the powers to be' will think about it. If they feel it's a worthwhile venture (cost, time, public interest, and probably a bunch of other Admin-type stuff), then they might put it to a public poll. IF it gets enough votes, then they might think about it more. But even then, there are NO guarantees it would get added. But 'someone' needs to get ball rolling by 1st submitting a feature request. That said, if you can live without the "curvature crt scanline shader" thingy (lol. Shows how much I know about it), the plugin seems to work just as well. As if it were built in. You might say it is pseudo 'integrated' (as in, once installed and setup, it starts and works within LaunchBox). Just not "built in". Semantics.
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Thanks! Glad you like it! For future reference, you question would be better suited on the BezelLauncher support page. If the " curvature crt scanline shader" is the one I'm thinking of, it's not possible with the BezelLauncher plugin. To get those to work would take a lot of fenagling and possibly third-party resources. The scanline that's provided with the plugin is a tiny 4x4 png file that is multiplied to fill the viewable area. I don't think putting in a full-sized image with curvatures will work. You might be able to find bezels that have the TV bezel (curvature part) built in.
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Don't put trailing slashes on the paths and don't "quote" "each" "path". Only "quote the whole thing". rompath "e:\MAME\MAME 0.268 ROMs (split);e:\MAME\MAME 0.268 CHDs (merged)"