SiriusVI

If you know how, 1g1r sets can be created fairly quickly, but only if you have good dats from no intro and redeump. It's not possible with TOSEC unfortunately.

For 1g1r sets, it doesn't get larger than around 52.000-55.000 games, depending on how many systems you add (consoles + handhelds + arcade). I'm at around 52.000. That includes everything up to the PS3 in consoles (excluding Xbox 360) and PS Vita in handhelds. The only way to get beyond this number is with computer systems, but if they are not curated by no intro or redump, it's very time consuming / near impossible to make a clean 1g1r set.

Well, I have 1g1r sets for most systems that are a part of either no intro or redump. For Computer Systems I use TOSEC, which adds some duplicates however. On systems that have an eshop and virtual console games, I usually add these games under a separate platform, such as Wii (digital) or 3DS (digital), which also adds a couple of duplicates. I don't feel like manually comparing digital and physical releases, so I just keep the duplicates. I have also the whole Flashpoint Ultimate collection imported into Launchbox, which adds over 200.000 entries. All in all that gives me a total of 34.288 games for consoles, 17.226 for handhelds, and 3.533 games for arcade. I need to overhaul many of my computer systems, because more often than I'd like, games will just not launch. It's a real pain setting everything up. But currently I have 269.089 entries here (200.333 is just Flashpoint Ultimate).

Also, I love consistency and the fact that there is a shader for basically every console and handheld out there as well as quite a few computer systems makes this just the perfect solution for me. The only issue I have is that some of his presets don't use integer scaling which can cause strange moire effects in 3D games that are super distracting, especially on a 1080p TV (I hear it's better on a 4K TV). But for these cases I just turn off the scanlines or use fake scanlines which don't cause moire.

I cannot imagine playing games like Donkey Kong Country or Super Mario World without shaders and Bezels. Also for handhelds, shaders and bezels are basically mandatory. I prefer the Duimon shaders which come with integrated bezels that look great. https://forums.libretro.com/t/duimon-hsm-mega-bezel-graphics-and-presets-feedback-and-updates/28146

Yeah, I do only need these shaders for GameCube. I was content using the retroarch core until now, but now standalone dolphin also supports Retroarchievements, which is why I would like to switch

Yes, these shaders are for Retroarch. But I want to use these shaders with, say, Dolphin Standalone, because the Dolphin core is inferior to the standalone emulator. I thought that might be something your plugin would allow me to do.

Can this plugin also load the HSM Mega Bezel Shaders? https://forums.libretro.com/t/duimon-hsm-mega-bezel-graphics-and-presets-feedback-and-updates/28146

OK thx, would be nice to have, though.

Can I turn on / off auto rom import only for specific platforms? I have some custom platforms that I don't want to get messed up (e.g.: PS3 disc games; PSN games).

I restored my backup before I used the v13 importer for the first time and did a fresh import with your new build. It seems to have worked perfectly now. Thx!

Thx for the tipp. First Past The Post_Continues.png worked. However, renaming the Player-Produced Perils.png and .xml manually didn't work. In fact, it broke the icon and it wouldn display, so I renamed them back to their original name with the "-" and that fixed it again.

I finished importinng and it seems to have worked fine at first glance. Just a minor issue: The playlist "First Past The Post: Continued" has no Platform icon. Well, the image file is in the correct folder, but it wont show up in the platform view. I believe this is due to the fact that the the file is named "First Past The Post- Continued.png", which differs from the name of the playlist. EDIT: I tried renaming the .png file, but of course I can't use ":" in a filename. Do you have a suggestion on what to do?

Awesome! Importing it now.

I know, and believe me, I don't know what's going on. Not saying that something is wrong with your theme. I'll try reinstalling Launchbox and putting back the theme. Maybe that resolves it. Or maybe it was just a strange coincidence, but it really happened right after copying the theme folder and starting laucnhbox and it occured three times in a row after starting launchbox =/. Everything on my PC is up to date. EIDT: I think the issue was caused by the recent Windows 11 update. I reset my PC to an earlier build before the most recent update and thwere were no further crashes. After the update I get multiple errors in the event manager. But curiously, I don't get any Launchox application errors or .net errors like I did before resettingg the PC. SOMETHING happened that caused Launchbox to frequently crtash, but now it seems to be gone. I believe my issue can be ignored.

Would like to try this theme, but for some reason, whenever this theme is in my "LBThemes" folder, I get an instant BSOD. I tried this 3 times in a row, and after deleting the omni folder again, everything went back to normal. I don't know why this happens and I am really lucky that I wanted to try the theme out right away, otherwise I would not have made the connection. Any idea why this would happen? Of course it may be the case that this is just a weird coincidence.

It wasn't my intention to dunk on Launchbox. I still think it's great. I just wish it weren't so slow. =(

I have never used Hyperspin, but I do love Launchbox for its looks and versitility. Even the most complicated Computer Systems can be made to run automatically with scripts if you are willing to invest the time. I have invested roughly 6 years in my build and I don't have the time or energy to start from scratch with another frontend. I'll stick to Launchbox / Bigbox and just hope that there will be a fix for this someday.

Hey everyone, Launchbox has never run smoothly for me. I used to ignore this and thought it was, because my PC wasn't the fastest in the past. But now, I have for the first time bought a really powerful PC with a 14700k, 32GB of DDR5 Ram and a 4070Ti. Still Launchbox runs terribly on my system (any system I ever owned) and I don't know why. I thought that maybe it's due to me having a lot of high quality images, but even if I set up LaunchBox completely freh and just copy over my Data Folder with no images whatsoever, Launchbox still uses between 4-5 GB of Ram. When caching images, it will even use over 10GB of Ram. This screenshot was taken when using a Launchbox build with no images: I do have an absuredly large LB build of over 300.000 entries (I also imported comic books and Flashpoint Ultimate, e.g.), but even if I reduce the number of imported games to 0, the RAM usage remains relatively high and the unresponsiveness stays. This is with just one platform imported (SNES) and no images: This next screenshot shows Launchbox runnning without any games imported (completely fresh): Plus the software is really unresponsive. If I make a change, like deleting a game, Launchbox will sometimes just freeze for a minute until I can use it again. Also, when exiting Launchbox, it will stay open in the task manager for 5-10 minutes until it actuall closes and can restart it again. I have read many topics here in this forum and over on reddit where people had similar Ram issues with their systems. Has this issue every been identified? I'm using the default Launchbox theme.

Hey everyone, I bought a new PC and was setting up Launchbox on it and I have run into an issue that I have never faced before. Whenever I have a Nintendo Switch Controller connected and start Launchbox, my PC completely freaks out. The mouse moves on its own, Launchbox minimizes and maximizes, some errors appear, because Launchbox wants to start some AHK weirdness and so on. The only thing I can do is restart the PC. The problem does not appear if I disconnect the Switch Pro controller or disable Controller Input in Launchbox. It might also have something to do with Steam Running in the Backround, but I'm not sure. I don't remember if I did something on the old PC to prevent this issue, but I don't remember it ever happening. Does anyone know what's up?

Take your time 😃

@oblivioncth Flashpoint Ultimate 13 was released. Currently downloading it, hpoing the issues from the last version are fixed. Any ETA for an updated importer? 😃

With the latest importer, importing 12Ultimate works, but the Ultimate version package cannot be used out of the box. You need to copy around some folders in order to be able to import the mages correctly.

After installing the base version, there should be an "update" folder with a .bat file. You must update your existing insallation using this .bat file.

You must update eXoDOS after downloading & installing from www.retro-exo.com.