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In Steamy, the manuals are only displayed like Faeran is talking about in List View. In List View Game Details is the entire right hand side of your screen (not just the top) like you are talking about. That being said you don't get to see your box front images doing that so there is a definite trade off. We currently don't have a theme doc written for LaunchBox, but should "soon" as the need and interest for one has been growing quite a bit.

You can turn off auto-backup. Then when you want a backup created use the Tools menu inside of LaunchBox to do so. THAT backup file has a static name and is not ever changed by the application which should work for your use case. You'll just need to remember to hit that backup button (though I really don't see the point since your backing up the entire directory in your RAID solution anyway.

I'd just ask in their GitHub Issues: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues Could also see if the eXoDos discord server has anyone that would be able to help you out, I know that community does a lot with DOS games and DOSBOX, they may be able to get ya on the right track.

In Keyboard Binding or Controller Binding (in Options) you want the "Close Active Window" binding

Np, Zaccarria also has their own discord server that is super friendly and helpful so if we can't get you where you need to be they may able to assist as well.

Nah where it's at shouldn't matter since Steam handles that. If you some how have two steam installs on your computer you'd need to point it to the right one, but I don't know that you can do that since Steam uses the registry to handle a lot of it's information.

Itch.io has turned me off pretty hardcore as a user because of how awfully the platform is ran, and because of frankly the false advertisement they use in their more popular bundles. A lot of the bigger bundles (like the BLM bundle) have a TON of content but there is no way to add them all to your library automatically so you have to manually add each one, because of this a lot of items you have access to don't show up as owned on their website or app. They told people during the bundle they were adding the ability but it wouldn't be added until AFTER the bundle completed (they had to dev it in, so understandable) but then came back after the bundle was over stating they weren't going to pursue it. Their platform has a lot of other similar issues in it and if we would add any integration to it we would get peppered with questions asking why certain things don't show up etc. That being said, LaunchBox can use anything that can be launched via command line so you can still import your itch.io games, just drag the shortcuts to LaunchBox and import them (select none in the window that pops up). After that use the process as usual and it should work fine. If not importing to the Windows platform though you will want to make sure you set the "Scrape As" value to Windows on the platform you're importing to or you won't get any metadata/media.

You need to point the "emulator" you use in LaunchBox to steam, NOT the Zaccarria Pinball executable.

I'd take a look in Windows Event Viewer in the Application Logs and see if you can find an application error log for the crash that could help shed some light on what is happening.

Glad you're enjoying yourself with the product. Just remember to actually PLAY the games at some point

As Faeran stated it sounds like you're trying to set a platform logo globally, but your images look like you have a theme specific folder open. Also after adding the image you need to clear your image cache in Big Box to tell the application that it needs to search for a new logo.

I'd just run Dolphin on it's own once and see if it has issues closing via the back button without opening through a launcher. Most controller logic isn't handled on the "main thread" that an application close event MUST be called from in most programming languages so if that wasn't done properly in the app it would cause what you're seeing. If both front ends have the same issue I'd assume the binding just isn't being handled properly inside of Dolphin itself. That being said you shouldn't need to change it in Dolphin if you're running it from LaunchBox since the Close Active Window controller binding will close the program for you, or the "Exit AHK Script" that is is fired when selecting "Exit Game" from the Pause Menu

Big Box intentionally hides the start menu, I don't believe we have anything in LaunchBox intentionally doing that though. I've left a note to myself to check this and see if I can replicate. Thanks for letting us know, this is first I'm hearing of some one having this issue.

To my knowledge we don't have a DB API, nor is there really a need for one since all the DB information is local as well anyway

@Hifihedgehog Yeah I didn't look at any numbers I was just using the 110k that was mentioned. Even a million units compared to the number of potential machines we hit from Windows + Android is pretty small. Like I said, I'd love to be able to get LB on the Steam Deck, but Linux was NOT made to be dev friendly for anything with a GUI. GTK is pretty garbage compared to the SDK's on other operating systems, and WPF doesn't always play real nice with WINE and other compatibility layers. Not saying it will NEVER happen, just that porting to something that can run in SteamOS is NOT a small task and our time is pretty limited seeing how we only have 2 devs on staff.

Unfortunately China has a LOT of government sanctioned middle men in their network stack that can have a pretty huge impact on anything net related. We don't have a CDN and so don't have a server we can place in China to get around that. Unfortunately you may want to look into a VPN (if possible, I'm not sure what rules are regarding those where you live).

It isn't an application you'd have installed, It's the name of a service you would see in the service tab of Task Manager and is simple "nahimic" (without quotes)

Every time I've heard some one report something like this they have extra files in their data folder that don't belong. Most typically these are backup files put there by Skraper and breaks your install. I'd look in your \\LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\ folder and make sure you only have one file per platform in there and nothing that says "backup" in the file name.

Have to rebuild your logo image cache. Can do it in the "Image Cache" options inside of Big Box Options menu

Yeah. I understand where you're coming from. I have a deck pre-ordered as well I plan to fulfill and enjoy, and would love to be able to run Linux/Steam on it. I also don't really care for a lot of the decisions M$ tends to make with their OS. I would love to have more alternatives, and if the deck opens that possibility up I'm down for it. That being said, I think people are jumping a bit too hardcore onto a hype train at this point and are coming to conclusions that aren't completely founded in reality. I love enjoying the occasional pipe dream, imagining all the things that could be, but you need to do so responsibility because at some point you have to return to the real world. Just trying to make that return transition as painless as possible.

If that doesn't work you can simply delete the BigBoxSettings.xml file (or move it to desktop if you want to keep it) with Big Box closed, then reopen it and it will restore default settings for you.

Close Big Box and make sure it isn't in Task Manager at all then do the following: 1) Navigate to \\LaunchBox\Data\BigBoxSettings.xml and open the file 2) In the file you should see a line that says "<RequireHoldToBackToSystem>false</RequireHoldToBackToSystem>" (without quotes), replace that with "<RequireHoldToBackToSystem>true</RequireHoldToBackToSystem>" (without quotes) 3) Save and close the file 4) Open Big Box, escape functionality should be restored

Just do as it says. When at the root of whatever the top most view is (you'll know you're there because your back button no longer does anything) just press and hold the back button until the system menu appears.

Yes, You can install Windows on Steam Deck. Yes, You can run LaunchBox/Big Box on Windows ON Steam Deck. No, Windows is not actually supported on Steam Deck. No, the drivers on Steam Deck currently do not make Windows as solid to use as SteamOS. MAYBE, that will change in the future, but no one knows at this point.

Numbers are a hard thing for people to keep in perspective. 110k preorders SOUNDS like a lot but you need to keep some other statistics in mind when comparing that number. First off, that is number of pre-orders, NOT number of units successfully sold, produced, and shipped, so the number of affected users that would utilize a new product SOLELY for a Steam Deck is FAR less than 110k at this point. Another thing to note is how popular Linux is compared to the other operating systems we've shipped to. When talking about desktop OS user count, Windows boasts 1.5 BILLION users, which sounds MASSIVE, but then you look at mobile tech and Android operating systems reports 2.5 BILLION users. 110 THOUSAND starts to sound pretty abysmal... The fact of the matter is that Linux has last been reported to be a 3% market share of desktop operating systems. That number has been PRETTY consistent and while I think Valve is helping to bring light to Linux with it's SteamOS it isn't the FIRST time they've tried, and frankly fell flat. Linux has many short comings and is a pain to develop on for anything graphical (which is why most apps you see for it actually render using web tech and not native graphics tech like OpenGL or Vulkan). To write something that natively ran on Linux would require a complete rewrite of our application, an application that has been in development for almost a decade. To start completely over for a 3% market share and a machine that at MOST at this point has only a potential 110k units sold is a pretty hard sell. If we DID get a Linux build up and running it most certainly wouldn't be solely with the intent of releasing to the deck, Linux desktop user base is FAR larger than the number of users the deck will sell in it's lifetime, and we'd need to hit quite a few of those users for the work to be profitable.