Madhead

I reinstalled Launchbox and it works now. But if it happens again I'll be sure to screenshot the error log and report it. I'm thinking it's a virus of some sort. If so do you think I can still salvage my metadata and media if I reinstall windows?

All of a sudden the pause menu in LaunchBox and BigBox has stopped functioning properly. It actually launches when I press the PS button (what I've mapped as pause button), but none of the options work. It doesn't exit nor does it load or save a state on any emulator. And when in BigBox it crashes the app and brings up an error message. Also curiously enough my exit game mapping I have on my controller now doesn't work either. I mapped it as 'Share button + Triangle' on Dualshock 4 and now it doesn't exit the emulator. Worked without issue before. Its like Launchbox has stopped recognising hotkeys altogether. Also it doesn't crash LaunchBox (just nothing happens), but it crashes BigBox. A few anomalies have been happening with LaunchBox recently. Like a few xml files in the Data folder were corrupted for seemingly no reason at all. I had to re set up the settings. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

@faeran Here mate, sorry to bother you again. I'm just wondering, cos this theme for me is the best default LB theme, but I want to change a few things. Mainly the background colour/opacity and blur amount. Basically I want it to be less dark blue and more clear coloured so you can make out the fanart background colours better. I had the right colours in the old default theme so I basically just want it like that. Images below. Everything else is perfect really, but help there would be appreciated, thanks.

Nevermind I edited the "COLORFUL_Styles.xaml" and changed the colour codes for those platforms. For those who want to know which platforms I changed and what color codes match perfectly with the platform videos, here: <SolidColorBrush x:Key="Commodore 64" Color="#115BAE"/> <SolidColorBrush x:Key="GCE Vectrex" Color="#4F97D8"/> <SolidColorBrush x:Key="Microsoft MSX" Color="#4157C5"/> <SolidColorBrush x:Key="Microsoft MSX2" Color="#4157C5"/> <SolidColorBrush x:Key="Microsoft Windows" Color="#3AB1E0"/> <SolidColorBrush x:Key="NEC PC Engine" Color="#BB3F42"/>

it actually doesn't look too bad but since the other platforms are all uniform and matching i'd rather just change the colour for these few.

I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix the colours of the side bars for some of the platforms to match the videos? While most of the platforms are colour matched, the likes of Vectrex, PC Engine, C64 etc all have a green bar at the side instead of the colour of their platform video. Examples in the post. If you could tell me how to change the colours in the xaml files that would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

Thanks a lot mate! You are a big help and your themes are fantastic.

This is great. I'm just wondering is there a way to remove the game background image from the Game Details panel? Also I want to increase the size of the display game count text, could you give me a hand there? Thanks.

Nevermind I fixed it. Turns out the site I got them from didn't have the latest versions.

Hi, I'm having a problem with some games in my Amiga setup on Launchbox recently. I have my Amiga games set up individually in Launchbox using FS-UAE and an application one of the LB community made called FS-UAE Exporter, which creates code ID's for each game that LaunchBox can boot. Up until recently this has been working fine, but then I started getting error messages with some games. First thing I did was download the latest WHDLoad versions of each affected game, as they weren't showing up in the FS-UAE Launcher itself so of course LaunchBox wouldn't boot them. I tried that and it worked for some of the games, but most were still not being shown on the FS-UAE Launcher, and so weren't booting through LB and getting the same error message. I'm not sure whats going on with it. Is this an issue some of you are getting? Some of the games that aren't working are: Another World Body Blows Cedric Chaos Engine 2 Dragon Spirit Fire & Ice James Pond Lemmings 2 Ruff n Tumble Shadow Of The Beast Syndacite Could any of you do me a favour and try one of these games through LaunchBox and see if they still work for you? If they do then I can only guess that you haven't recently updated the FS-UAE Database, and the old WHDLoad files still work for you. If that is indeed the problem of course. Thanks in advance.

Hi, does anyone know where to find High resolution Gameboy color and Original Gameboy box art? I can't for the life of me find a good collection anywhere. Theres the odd high resolution scan here and there but a lot of them are low res or messy in some way. I've got this OCD thing where I need each box art image to be at least 1080 pixels high because i'm a lunatic, but that's not even why I want these, I simply can't find good scans of these platforms at all. Any help in finding them would be appreciated. If you have some that you've sourced yourself maybe you could share them? I have some i've done myself too. Help eachother out etc. Thanks.

I included Date Added cos I use the "Arrange By" tab at the top of the screen that does it better.

Hi, I have been trying to tidy up my collection as much as possible and I have noticed that a lot of the categories on the side bar aren't used at all really (by me, atleast). Among these i've found are: -Complete -Date Added -Date Modified -Installed -Portable -Source You may use these categories but I was wondering if there's currently a way to sort it so that these don't show in the side bar of LaunchBox or the main menu of Big Box? Like a way to hide them? If not could you consider adding it? Thank you.

So is this the biggest collection anyone has on launchbox?

There are a few Game Gear cart images spread around my collection that are uniform and look like the images below. The other collection isn't as good but I was wondering who created these? And if there is a complete collection of these anywhere? Cheers.

Oh yeah thanks. That makes sense.

Just wondering because I am using the retrofresh theme and I want it as streamlined and quick to use as possible, so the ability to just play the game with one button press would be nice. But that seems to disable the functionality of rating and favoriting games, viewing videos in full screen etc. Is there a way to map those functions to a button on the controller while just hovering over the game?

Yeah I see what you're saying. If anything I just wish the video box was smaller because many of the standard definition videos (most of them) look a bit pixelated at that size. I'm not massively bothered about the platform logo at the top left, or even the fades at the sides. Just an option to make the video box about the size as in that pic. Would you know what to edit in the xaml files? Thank you.

I quite like it with just the text tbh. But maybe a choice with another view yeah.

I'm happy this theme exists it's amazing! It's got that minimalist multinational corporation interface look about it. As sleek as the new consoles sort of thing. I was just thinking though, what if you were to fill in some of the gaps with like a clean white platform logo at the top left corner? Like all white to maintain the understated look? And 3D boxes by default instead of box fronts? And is there a way to make the video window smaller? It's just that It would be more seamless looking in a smaller window with fades on the sides like netflix. Here's a wee mockup i did, just an idea, like all platform clear logos would be white like that one. Fades on the side of the video. Button prompts. Or can you tell me how I could do it myself? I wish I knew how this stuff works

They not wrong though. If you're going to bother contributing to the database, why not look for the best possible images you can find?

What do you think would be a better alternative? Gameplay Images may not look too hot either. Do you know how or where to add the code to blur the background images for bigbox themes? Thanks.