C-Beats

Currently the only way to do what you are wanting (as far as I know of off the top of my head) is to create a IBigBoxThemeElementPlugin and then embed it into the view then can tie your logic to the OnSelectionChanged function to perform the logic you're interested in. You could also POTENTIALLY do something like using LEDBlinky if you can tie into the feed the application regarding entering and exiting platforms, though I am not experienced enough to tell you whether THAT avenue would definitely work or not.

LaunchBox itself is portable, but to make your collection portable you need to make sure all paths are relative which cannot happen if your roms are on a different drive than the LaunchBox executable. Big Box does work much better running of an SSD simply because load times for all the media is much faster. If you're going for portability + performance then yeah an SSD works best. You CAN split up your collection so that LaunchBox and Big Box sit on an SSD but the roms sit on a HDD but then you'd lose true portability. When moving to a new machine you'd need to make the sure the HDD was connected to the same drive letter as it was in the first machine.

If on current version you could use Marquee image group. Can also just use Box - Front and prioritize Steam Banners.

Current versions of LaunchBox don't use .NET Framework. We use .NET Core 3.1. If you get the installer from our website it should handle that installation for you. If not Google ".NET Core 3.1 Desktop Runtime" and grab it from the microsoft link that should be the top result.

You're local database file is corrupted. Open LaunchBox and go to the hamburger menu. Then in the help section there is something that says something close to "Refresh local games database metadata". Push that and let it download/update and you should be good to go.

Hmm interesting. That I have not seen before.

I know we have an issue with the grid sometimes doing this when all the games are missing an image but I've never seen it do it with images applied. We do plan on taking a look into this and getting it corrected. I can say if this is related to the known issue that if you scroll up or down then they all should appear again. Certainly not ideal I admit, but least can hopefully help you out while you wait for us to find the cause of this issue.

In short, you can't. Each version has a single source. LaunchBox is designed in a way that the source used in the game is the same source as the primary application. The additional application for both versions would have their own source that is set to whichever storefront they came from. You can create Auto-Populated playlists that do this sort of logic for you that can be used in Playlist or Platform Category view, but not in the Source filter like you are hoping to.

NTFS has some features that ExFAT doesn't. You can use some GoogleFu and check out the differences. If not using NTFS though you will probably run into issues with Big Box themes that load files from disk.

NTFS

@kayoti The only other way currently is to use the "Hide" field as your means of doing what you want. Mark games you want filter as hidden and then when some one is using the app that you don't want to be able to see the items you can hide games marked hidden, then when you are on and want access to them turn that off so Hidden games are still shown. You could essentially do the same thing with the broken field if you wanted.

@dominikabra I'll take a look when I get back in office Monday. Could you do me a favor and use the "Help & Support" link at the top of this page to "Report a Bug" with this information. Helps us make sure we don't lose the report in the shuffle of the forums.

@maabus Can you give me the steps you are taking to create the new category so I can attempt to reproduce?

Same line as the string x:Name="MarqueeImage"

Fairly certain most use PcEm though I have 0 experience with it personally

Poor dude still has that ugly sticker covering his face like some overgrown pimple...

@Briantodd Is that a marquee image? If so could you check the element named "MarqueeImage" and set it's alignment properties to Stretch instead of Center and let us know if that corrects the issue for you?

That's the games Clear Logo and can be scraped during import or by using the Download Metadata and Media wizard or manually adding it to a game in the Edit Game window

I'd have to check. I believe Platforms only have the one. Games I know for a fact can have as many as you want and they will be randomly selected (like start ups). Just add them via Add/Edit Game's video page and as long as the type of video is allowed to be used (determined via your Video Priorities options in Tools > Options) it will be randomly selected.

What version of LaunchBox are you on? Should be a matter of just changing the fill type used in the XAML file for the most part.

With the steps Joe is telling you to take you wouldn't need to. Simply download the ini and let the plugin make the playlist for you. Even if you don't want to keep the playlist long term, you could make it, then select all the games in that playlist and add a custom field to them all then delete the playlists and plugin

You can do that but not with Big Box default ImageVideoView. Would need to use the new FlowVideo controls to do that. It is possible though, just requires quite a bit more custom XAML to pull off.

Isn't built into the CTC but you can use the RandomGame binding to access a random game from the platform currently being hovered over.

Any Windows game that doesn't have a Quit or Exit menu item should be removed from your computer and never heard from again....

Yeah. Been kinda putting off changing that code until RetroAchievements gets an endpoint added to their API that allows you to search for a game by the ROMs file hash (same check they already do within RetroArch). That alone would solve most of our problems.