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Not that I think EA has really being doing a very good job. Even the business side decisions are usually comically shallow. Be interesting to see what owners who don't have to pander to clueless stock holders will do with the brand. The sheer number of iconic IP's still under the EA umbrella is already pretty large so be interesting to see what comes of it all. It's also interesting to see how much of "western" game development is currently owned by companies in non-western world countries. Take-Two owns a HUGE amount of the landscape, and now the Saudi's will hold EA. Ubisoft used to be a French studio (though not real sure how much of it is still handled there). Definitely shows how global the industry is and is interesting to see how it'll change the landscape. I don't really ever play AAA games so I won't be immediately affected but it'll be an interesting journey to watch from the sidelines.

You already identified this isn't a theme issue and is something you're seeing several places across several themes. Not sure what response you were hoping for here. File a bug report if you haven't already and as we get time to look into possible causes the team can let you know then.

First step would be to verify your platform name and scrape as value. We use this information to attempt to look up what RetroAchievements platform this scan is for. If we can't find the platform (or the platform doesn't have any public achievements) I believe we put that in there. I know there are some extensions we DO unzip files for, but I'd have to review the code to remind myself what those are. I was thinking it was 7z though since I believe RAHasher already does .zip natively. Could you go to Edit Platform and show me the first page for one of the platforms you're attempting to scan cheevos for? Then maybe the filename of a game you think should work but isn't?

While not a core feature of the app themes can be made to do this. I was looking into it when I was first making my vpin cab. Ultimately I just use my monitor portrait so didn't need this theme and use the TrueVert theme. Should do what you're talking about. Can set it up on your pinball platform only if you have a setup where you're rotating monitor and need some stuff displayed normally.

Pretty sure you can override that priority system at the game or platform level by changing things in the Edit Platform or Edit Game in the 3D Model Settings tab. Generally speaking we prefer the 3 image types because we aren't guessing where the spine is and can more accurately render a box representative of the art.

Ah looking at the stacktrace that isn't the same one as the one we touched in beta release. I'll have to dig into that one. Sounds like the reason is likely the same for both so fixing it should be fairly straight forward.

Can drag images to the Edit Game/Platform window (when on that page/tab) to import them as well.

Web team has been made aware and will look into it as they have time. Thanks for letting us know.

Is the error the exact same? Are you doing in anything specific when you start to see it?

Can try some of the cut marquee options (think we labeled it Marquee compatibility) in Big Box options. They were designed to play nice to work with marquees that are made by cutting a full screen (and reporting as such to the OS) but may work for you use case. You could potentially just batch alter your images to add some whitespace to the top of the image as well.

This appears to be an issue that should be resolved in the latest beta release. You could opt into those via the Options window inside of LB and grab the latest version and see if that corrects this for you.

Some of those older themes were designed to only ever display video and don't fallback to any background images. If you don't have platform videos downloaded they wouldn't show anything there. You MAY be able to alter the BB settings in the Video section of the option menu and tell it to fallback to game videos for platforms missing them and then it'd play that (assuming you have them). To grab platform videos you can open LB and go to Tools > Download and in that menu should be something talking about Platform videos (don't have the app open so don't remember the exact label). After you click that a window appears that lists all your platforms, categories, and playlists and lets you attempt to grab videos for them that we have on our servers.

Feel free to adjust the theme as desired. I built it for the way I consume/navigate my library. If you have any specific suggestions I can potentially help ya edit the theme to do so. Not sure I have much interest in changing much at this point in the theme proper but I don't mind people making variations/derivatives from it. That being said this theme is pretty cumbersome so editing it isn't always as strait forward as it may seem like it should be, especially if editing the details since there quite a few number of permutations built into it.

Considering nothing we do is done via RL by default either YOU set it up and should know how to correct or you bought a pre-configured drive from some shady seller and should reach out to them for support.

Not entirely sure what you need help with. The error already tells you how to fix it. Open the emulator without starting a game (just double click it in File Explorer, or right click a game in LB and select Open RPCS3 menu item) and then navigate in it's menu to the settings window, let it open, and then press OK.

Email support@unbrokensoftware.com and explain your situation and they can help you.

Nope. I personally can't stand UI moving without me telling it to and so none of the UI does so.

While navigating BB interface Big Box natively does what you're seeing. Just turn on the marquee screen on the second monitor

Can you just navigate to that file, right click and select properties and then see an "Unblock" button on that first tab? Typically it's how you manually tell Windows to knock it off with the overzealous big brother stuff like that.

Spoke too soon @The Papaw, your issue resolved in beta 3 which I believe is coming out pretty early today.

1) You can change the look of any of the lists 2) You can add any number of your own collections to the top of the view, you can see some of that syntax in the default theme 3) Currently I don't believe you can stop the auto-generated lists in anyway short of severing the internet connection to Big Box. This would be good thing to submit a feature request for.

If the game is from Steam there is some logic tied to matching those games that differs from other platforms/sources. If a game is from Steam we look for the DB record that matches the ID, if one isn't found we then look only in games that don't have one assigned. If that game has one assigned and it doesn't match the ID you have then it wouldn't be found. If you go to the game in question and enter that games page, is there a "View on Steam" button on the right of the page? If so does it go to the same steam app id you have imported? If not you'd want to report that to the feedback site so we can take a look at it.

Many of the criticisms while worded a bit harshly aren't entirely off base either. I'll be the first to admit there are definitely some things in the app I'd love to get smoothed out. That being said there is a place to discuss that and this isn't it. I appreciate the positive vibes but this thread needs to stay on track. We aren't very picky about where things end up MOST of the time, this is an exception to the rule. The goal here is to keep an open line of communication with people taking the time to help us test a release to deliver a stable product. For example, if anyone is still having issues with videos or music playing after they launch a game, increase (or decrease) in stuttering, or they see some issue marked as fix still rearing it's ugly head we'd very much so like to hear about it. The intent is to release a stable full version fairly soon so we can move onto other things, it'd be nice to hear from a few people that saw these issues to confirm they no longer do. @The Papaw for example has an issue that should be resolved in this release (paths not coming over from Welcome Wizard), it'd be nice to hear if you're still seeing this issue on your end or if it is indeed resolved for you as well.

If you're doing this via a plugin you can call IGame.GetVideoPath on the game you added the videos to and it'll update that flag. If using a application outside of LaunchBox you'd have to manually alter the XML yourself. LB updates that flag on it's own anytime it goes to fetch a video and finds one, or during specific scans to set that flag (like when using the Games Missing Media sidebar or the Audit tool)