sam19

Probably a false positive (by Sophos.com), but just FYI: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b32a9e5fccdb856664907d74e86d86e88558ce2eb83ec7ef8a1195dd74fc4bf5/detection One engine detected this file b32a9e5fccdb856664907d74e86d86e88558ce2eb83ec7ef8a1195dd74fc4bf5 LaunchBox-11.6-Setup.exe

After importing NES roms as "Nintendo Famicom", I could not find the system under Consoles. It turns out that it was put under root for some reason (ie alongside Arcade, Computers, Consoles). But, not just the console name -- its sub-categories were put there too. It got worse. When I deleted one of them, more categories popped up under root. Now I have what seems like dozens of wrongly placed categories but no quick way to re-organize them (it takes 5-10 seconds after clicking before the delete command can be used). [edit: I read the deletion warning again that after deletion the subcategories would be moved under root by design. I am confused by this behavior] [edit2: even though I deleted both the Famicom and Famicom Disk System and they have no associated games, their empty playlists remain and I am diligently working at deleting them slowly. It's like a secret LaunchBox built-in mini-game, killing zombie playlists from a failed import! This game mechanics is all grinding though] I think this is not the first time I encountered this issue. I suspect the problem may be related to renamed system names.

Yeah that would mean sorting by release date for more precision. Glad to know there are others who are interested in the history of games.

I think this design is fine for shorter names that can fit on one line, but some filenames need 3 or 4 lines which will take up most of the image, which kind of defeats the purpose of displaying those images. There are ways to deal with this issue using this new theme, such as: - show only one line at the bottom for up to some number of characters of the game name, then truncate the remainder (eg "Super Mario 64 ..."), and then users can click and check out the info box on the right for the full name - display only the main part of the name, without certain information such as revision number. - shrink the name by using smaller fonts for longer names - use a more transparent text background for additional visibility

In my LaunchBox window, the game names are overlapping the images. The problem is that many names are way too large relative to the images and often cover up more than half of the image, rendering the screen shot or box art etc almost invisible. Is there a way to display each game's name below their image?

That seems to work much better now, thanks!

I noticed that Virtua Fighter 32X has problems with my Retroarch PicoDrive core v1.9.2 (latest). It either freezes at the beginning of the first stage, or it plays but the opponent doesn't do anything. Is this an emulator problem or am I using a bad dump?

Launchbox can scrape filenames containing regions such as (UE) and (JU), which it recognizes as regions "United States, Europe" and "United States, Japan" A couple issues though: 1) (U) is scraped as "United States" but (USA) is scraped as "North America". This is inconsistent. Wouldn't it be more logical if both say United States? 2) 3-region names such as (JUE) or (J)(U)(E) are not being scraped as expected. They either return no regions or just one such as "Europe". Renaming these to "world" wouldn't be ideal since they wouldn't be displayed under the respective regions.

This feature is accessed under the desktop Launchbox's "Platform Category" view. It can generate playlists under the platform in question. But if the platform was previously renamed (eg. from "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" to "Nintendo Super Famicom"), it seems to get confused and would put the playlists under Root in addition to under the platform as intended. I would have to delete those playlists to fix this.

That works, thanks!

I wish to use my own mp4 video clips for games in BigBox. Can someone please provide a simple example or point me to a tutorial on this?

Alright, thanks for the information.

Do we need a paid subscription to Emumovies to scrape even standard quality videos using Launchbox Premium? I was under the impression that we could still get standard quality for free.

I'm following the official tutorial on Youtube about grabbing videos from Emumovies. My problem is when I click on "Download images/media" for a game, I have never seen any video from Emumovies being available for download, for all the titles I tried on different platforms. For the EmuMovies tab, I get box, cart, music, but no videos, unlike on the tutorial. For the default tab "Launchbox Games Database / Wikipedia / Steam", I sometimes see "Big Box Cinematix Theme Video". I'm also getting weird things such as getting music for the wrong title, even though the name of the game appears to be scraped correctly. Any ideas?

This is possible in basic LaunchBox by using "arrange by"->"release date" or "release date year". This appears to be impossible in BigBox. Is this correct? I didn't expect the premium interface would not allow me to browse games chronologically.