darreldearth

So for anyone trying to use PS3 ISO ROMS instead of JB Folder versions (which are annoying for storage kuz of the thousands of files in each one) you've probably noticed they're all Encrypted. So wanted to see if anyone with any scrypting knowledge would wanna take shot at creating a Batch file that would use PS3dec to decrypt the game using a games dkey when launched, and then load the decrypted game. Then delete the created decrypted ISO on game quit. Saw someone did it a few years back but he never posted his code. (Also yes you could just decrypt all the games in your library , but then you'd lose the encrypted original which is nice to have if you ever wanna use it on your REAL Modded PS3) Someone already made the powershell code to mount the games ISO and unmount it here... (but it would need to be tweaked to launch the decrypted iso instead of the initial encrypted one) Heres a link to the PS3dec and how its works as well as a youtube video if it helps. Its all done using Command Prompt... Anyway, just throwing it out there to see if anyone wants to take a shot at it, because it would be nice for preservation, and also be a lot more convient than the JB Folders most people are currently using.

The yt-dlp.exe needs to be updated to the latest version from github for the plugin to work. So for everyone who uses this plugin you'll need to replace the yt-dlp.exe file in the Launchbox/plugins/vidsnap_scraper folder with the latest version which I've attached. yt-dlp.zip

Did you ever end up cleaning up your script for use with the redump iso's? im using the redumps also and decrypting thousands of roms isnt very fun, so if you still had the scrypt lying around i'd love to check it out. thanks!

The Long/Large Jewel case seem more washed out Compared to the small jewel case. Was it meant to be that way kuz its supposed to be thicker? If not is there a way to reduce the plasticky effect to make them the same? Regardless, Still looks a lot better overall having real cases

Is the new theme going to still have the original platform layout as well? I think the new one looks nice. Only thing I could come up with was maybe the top right box be only the description/clear logo, and then the bottom box having the recent games and the system icon somewhere. And there wouldn't be a random game 🤷‍♂️. Honestly I personally like simple, so just like seeing the description, system icon and the video. Anything else is just fluff to me. Also thanks for all the work on the theme man. I hope your personal situation works out so you don't have to stress.

Yeah the black looks a little easier to read 👍

is there a chance it's because you don't have the option selected to import duplicate roms? the importer might see them as all the same game since they all have the same name. Other thing it could be is that since they have the same name the importer may have consolidated them all into one game during import, but only if you had that checkbox checked during import.

I personally think the fan art option looks great especially if u had an option to enable/disable them. Would it be on the vertical wheels also? Yeah the cards could just have like a 25% transparency or something so u can read them 🤷‍♂️, but overall I think it looks great.

Not sure if this is your problem but I was having this issue a while back, and turned out to be that if you have a video link pasted in the metadata then this program will only download that video. Otherwise it will actually search youtube for a video. It shouldn't be using the rom name though from what I know to do the search. It should be using the name you gave it in launchbox.

Oh I see, yeah that makes sense then. Also just realized coinops redux already uses box art and cart art on seperate views lol. So if all you did was delete lines trimming the fat then maybe it's already implemented 😅. I'll check it out in a bit when I'm in front of my computer🤦‍♂️

It's just nice having the option to use them (through a separate view) adding another layer of immersion.

You might already know but just in case after you setup your emulator correctly the way he stated the XML he posted needs to be changed slightly to work. You'll need to use notepad to replace this line to match the number that launchbox created for your vita3k emulator.... (you can find your emulators number in your own xml that launchbox created) <Emulator>3e5d187b-fc20-4067-92c7-4541fb3cff22</Emulator> also, if you want all the games to scrape then also replace all the ®️ and ™️symbols with spaces because launchbox wont scrape them with those symbols. Lastly... here's my xml. I used teamgt19's and cleaned it up and matched the majority of the games to the launchbox database which took a little while if you wanna skip the hassle. 1583151279_SonyPlaystationVita.xml

Does it support box/cart art?

the batch file you made doesn't seem to work when trying to use it from a NAS Drive (Unless you know how). if possible and if you still have them could you zip all the txt files you made from the "archive" link you posted and post them in the chat? thanks!

hows anyone scraping their games? because the Title ID which looks like PCSA00001 isnt listed as a title name in the launchbox database.

Is there a way to get playlists to show custom art like the platforms do? Other themes let you so figured it might work, but When I place custom backgrounds, pointers, logos, and video boarders in their respective folders they don't do anything, and the only thing that shows up is the platform art which is the parent to the playlist. Using the playlists because some platforms are broken down from "Sega mega Drive" into "sega genesis" and "Sega mega drive" playlists which each need seperate artwork

In themes such as Unified Redux is there still a way to make the original 3D box shown? if so I can't figure it out (and setting the platform to 3D boxes in launchbox doesn't work), because some systems don't have boxes or flyers, such as tiger handheld games which only has 3d boxes which look ugly when placed on the 3D rotatable box. Or is this a theme specific problem and it's based on the theme developer?

Didn't know they had to be set on a per platform basis in launchbox. Kinda tedious switching when u have a large setup😵. Oddly I was using 3D box for everything in lauchbox but 1/3 of the platforms were still using the 3D rotatable boxes in big box which made it hard to figure out. However, setting everything to use box front images made them all work. Thanks

Little confused why while using the "default theme" in "Vertical View" some platforms are letting me use the 3D rotatable boxes and others are just displaying the old static 3D box. All the platforms are setup the same, so any reason they're not all displaying the rotatable boxes? All the boxes are rotatable when using the cover flow view, its just happening in the vertical views.

Is this theme going to be updated to use the new 3D rotatable boxes? or is it going to stay with the 3D static images?

Thanks for the reply. video playback is using VLC, and I've only tried it for normal videos consoles/handheld/arcade. Haven't tried steam trailers because I never setup steam through launchbox yet. Seems to have started around the same time I upgraded to 12.6, but for all I know it could have been present in 12.5 also.

Randomly while scrolling through games in launchbox the video will play with a black screen, but you can still hear the audio in the background. Then, if you click off of the game and back on to it it'll will work correctly. it happens once every 10-20 games I click through, so wasn't sure if it's just me or a new bug introduced in the newest version of lauchbox.🤷‍♂️

Looks great!

Thanks for the reply but I think you misinterpreted my question. Maybe I'm explaining it wrong. If I'm using theme #1 I can save a different View for every platform within that theme. However. If i switch to using Theme #2 and start customizing views using the new theme and then switch back to theme #1 all the views will be using the incorrect settings, because I changed them while using theme #1. So I was asking if there's a way to save each theme's view customizations independently of one another so they don't share the same settings.

Haven't been able to figure it out, so assuming there's still no way to use multiple custom views for more than a single platform. Is the only file which saves all the views the Platform.xml in the data folder? if so ill just keep multiple copies of that and swap between them when needed.