Madhead

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.

I was looking through some of the images on my Launchbox setup and found that many of the box art images can't be found in high resolution anywhere on the internet. Especially on the computer platforms like C64 and MSX. So I was wondering if there was a good tool to sharpen the images and make them look better in bigger sizes. I knew what I wanted (a proper AI image upscaler), but I just assumed that all I'd find for free was a simple image sharpener (like you'd see on traditional DVD upscalers for example), and that would have been enough. Instead I found this website that upscaled with AI called Vertexshare. It's actually insane. Should help you make your collection that much richer. Here's some examples. Open each in own tab to compare.

I was wondering if you can change the blur amount on the backgrounds of Big Box like you can in Launch Box? It's just that some box art for some games are really low resolution (like some MSX games for example), and they look a bit shit blown up in the background. It would be nice to blur them a bit so it looks more seemless. I'm using the criticalzone theme in Big Box. Is there a value I can edit in some ini/xml file or whatever to change that?

Do all of these have video snaps as well? Thats crazy if so.

For PEGI and CERO I just used the equivalent in ESRB. For example for CERO A/PEGI 3-7 games I used E for Everyone etc. If you go in to the edit menu you can add your own rating system by simply typing it in and it will be created automatically, similar to developers and publishers. I'm not sure where you would put the rating badge images. I'm not sure where the ESRB rating images are stored in the Launch Box folder either.

God is there anything this program can't do? Thanks a lot! So does send and sleep control exactly how long and what order the keys are pressed in I'm assuming?

I was wondering if this will ever be implemented into Launch Box and Big Box since it would be very handy. Also do you think a transparent pause menu would be possible? As in you can see the game paused in the background? It would just make it look that much better, though I know it's not important. And the ability to map the save/load game command to emulators that don't normally support it in the pause menu (like ePSXe, mapping Save State to F1 and Load State to F3, for example). Thanks.

I have downloaded 6,500 MAME snaps from Progetto, and while they are clear quality for the most part, there's quite a few that are laggy and are badly skewed in the launchbox video window. I'm wondering if there's a place that has clear MAME snaps that run at a high framerate. I don't even mind some being 30fps as long as they aren't jerky. Also C64 snaps would be helpful too, been looking about and can't find loads of them. Thanks in advance!

Really? Strange. I don't use screensaver mode so I don't notice that. You could download shotcut and splice them to your liking of course. The thing is when I was looking for suitable gameplay, there was always a bit more good gameplay after the 30 second mark that felt worth showing. There's a couple of ones I want to replace like Breath Of The Wild, maybe a bit more of an exciting moment in the game. But it's important not to spoil too much of the game either. Thanks.

Hi, just wanted to share my video snaps for WiiU since it's difficult to find good ones on the internet. They are anywhere from 35 to 50 seconds long and are all 720p, and 60fps if the game itself runs at that framerate. I used the standard Emumovies style of fading in to the gameplay then crossfading to the title screen at the end. Here are the titles included: Bayonetta Bayonetta 2 Captain Toad Treasure Tracker Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Hyrule Warriors Kirby and the Rainbow Curse Mario Kart 8 Mario Party 10 New Super Mario Bros. U Paper Mario Color Splash Pikmin 3 Pokkén Tournament Splatoon Star Fox Zero Super Mario 3D World Super Mario Maker Super Smash Bros for Wii U Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild The Wonderful 101 Xenoblade Chronicles X Yoshi's Woolly World Tried to include all the main Wii U only titles in there. Also I used Nvidia Shadowplay to capture the footage then 'Shotcut' (a free video editor) to splice the gameplay into suitable video snaps. Some videos were taken from high quality youtube videos too. Enjoy! Wii U Video Snaps 720p 60fps.zip