C-Beats

Glad to hear you're enjoying the product and getting good use of it. The community as a whole is pretty awesome as well and really helps make LaunchBox FAR more than just the application so is always nice for it to get the high praise as well.

Your constant negativity probably doesn't help your case. It's the weekend as well so most of use this time to re-center ourselves and hang out with family, or take the rare opportunity to actually PLAY a game instead of stare at our library collection reminiscing of the good ole days where we actually got to play and enjoy the titles we've added to our collection. Regarding your particular issue as Neil stated a screenshot of what you're seeing vs what you expected to see would help. MOST consoles have default artwork for banners and logos, but if you looking for background or video those typically need downloaded and added. I know Refried has artwork in the forums, I'm unsure if they are included in the theme itself though. If you're referring to the videos that play while hovering over a platform, those need downloaded via the Tool > Download > Download Platform/Playlists/Category Video tool.

If you look the true vert theme I'm PRETTY sure I modified all of that. In that theme you will see several files in the view that start read "Options....MenuItemView.xaml" These view files dictate how those items are all rendered including font size. Pretty sure I touched all of them in the theme so should get you close to what you're shooting for hopefullly.

Are you downloading them from the website and manually adding them to your directory, or using the "Manage Theme" menu inside of Big Box to apply new themes? Also by "don't work" could you elaborate? What is happening that shouldn't be? Are you getting an error message, does the theme just not look like what you expect it to?

If add them as additional applications they do show in your context menu, and their is a badge to mark they are there. It would be nice to have a more dedicated "Additional Documents" section, but for now this is the best we have in the application.

This has to with the image header information. I'm looking into it to see if I can find a way to circumvent this. I have a few tricks up my sleeves to try, but can't make any promises at this point.

To add the PDF to the game you have two options: 1) Add the PDF as a manual via Edit Game 2) Add the PDF as an additional app to the game To my knowledge the only theme that has links like you're asking to your document files in Game Details is Steamy, and even then only when using list view.

Looks like you're local metadata file got corrupted. In LaunchBox go to Tools > Download > Force Update Games Database Metadata.. and let that process run and you should be good to go after that.

Just so everyone is on the same page did you change the video playback option in Big Box as well or just LaunchBox? They both have their own independent setting for video playback so I want to make sure which application you set it in.

They aren't blank, but are white text you just can't see against the white background. There are quite a few logos that you can download for your playlists in our download section. Pretty positive we have ones for both 2 and 4 player titles

Yeah, thats your problem. Do you have that folder set to readonly for some reason? That folder should be deleted and replaced on startup and it looks like that process is failing. If you delete that file you should be in better shape.

One thing I'd be curious on is if in \\LaunchBox\LBThemes\Default\Views\ you have an OptionsView.xaml file

Can you confirm whether we are talking about Big Box or LaunchBox? That error is talking about a path/view that is used in Big Box, but I was reading your post as if you were talking about LaunchBox. At this point I'd do a fresh install to a new directory and see if you still have the issue. If not, copy your data folder back in, then see if you have the issue.

RetroAchievements requires your rom file to have the same file hash (meaning it's the exact same file) as the one required by the achievement. If you're file is different in any way it won't work. They do this to stop hacks from being used to game the system.

@Starfox confirmed this in code. Should be corrected in next version.

TYPICALLY it's the opposite that's taught lol. Users tend to be destructive in nature and so you want to limit the number of ways they can blow themselves and your application up. I've really not used any RAID backup to really offer you a better solution at this point. Hopefully one of the other users on the forum have messed with it and can give you a better work around while you wait for any new developments.

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.