C-Beats

If you are in platform category view you should be able to right click the platform and there is an "Auto-Generate Child Playlists" button there to do what you're asking.

Yeah, pretty sure that file is generated but no longer read in current code so it doesn't really matter. Regardless of what version you have though it's safe to remove. We'll just regenerate it. It was used to determine sidebar counts so if you have that enabled you may take a second or two longer to load up the sidebar while it regenerates those counts. Really most modern machines the time difference shouldn't even really be noticeable.

After reviewing the images, I can see why a moderator changed the flags. They aren't cart scans they are images made in photo-shop. notice how the cart in the same images is the exact same (like pixel perfect the same). You'd not get that with a scan. I can see your point that sometimes having images that in the front category would be called "reconstructed" in the pure "fanart" section being kinda confusing though since if these are done correctly look like real carts (and I admit the ones on those pages are done well enough I was second guessing myself at first). This is one of those things I believe the mods are actually correct, but the way users perceive the types causes confusion. @AstroBob mentioned early this week he was taking a look at a lot of the moderator guidelines. Pinged him so he can see register this as a potential pinch point moving forward we can look at and potentially address.

Do you have any examples? A few games you've seen this on for example?

Yeah, it's definitely a different animal. Initially I was planning on splitting the major ones, but after seeing how few entries there are (and how few those entries would have) I'm struggling to decide. Why I decided to take input on the matter from those that know more about that side of the scene than I do.

MAME will likely be my next set I begin work on. That said I'm not real familiar with Arcade systems in general. I know many people that are have their MAME sets split by popular boards and chip sets and think I MAY do something similar. That being said I don't know what I don't know. If you split your Arcade set this way, could you let me know what systems you have and about how many games you have for them? I'd be curious to hear how granular some of you get with it.

Data has been updated, added the following platforms: Atari 2600 Windows has around 100 games added as well

Thanks for this. I made sure the team saw the post. Appreciate the heads up!

Theme has been updated. The View Mode and Detail Mode selector now listen and follow the "DarkAccentColor" found in the ThemeValues.xaml file. These were previously hardcoded into the control because they are generated using a plugin.

#2 is already a user choice thing, and any automated media download does already grab a limited set of images. You want less images grabbed, just grab less images. Use the settings provided and you can tell LB to only ever grab 1 of image group. #4 also already happens. Only thing not lazy loaded is the actual library details/metadata. This is mostly because depending on settings you need the entire library loaded to be able to use certain features anyway. There's been talks about eventually moving to Sqlite like we did with the GamesDB and that'd reduce the need for a lot of that since the data can be read from disk far faster than the XML files at the moment. We just need to make sure we have a solid plan on how to do that since typically we do our best to make it possible for users to downgrade, and without tools to help with that process that simply wouldn't be possible to downgrade from a Sqlite version to an XML version (or at least not without saving to both formats which is cumbersome).

Make sure to remove any installers in the \\LaunchBox\Updates\ folder, also in LB settings turn off auto-updates.

Ah yeah, Genre isn't an object that can have artwork applied, we are just reading the string applied to the game. You can set up your Platform Category tree to work that way and start the app into that. It requires more manual effort to get to that point but would allow it. I currently have a by genre section in mine doing that. I don't do JUST genre and have a way to get to it on the main wheel so I can navigate more traditional ways if desired. That tree is extremely customizable so ultimately should be able to get to the point you want, just won't be as fast and simple as pushing a single button.

In Big Box it's Options > Views > Default Startup View. Set it to Genre

People reporting this are almost always just putting the wrong value in the URL window. You don't need the entire URL, or a slash, or anything like that. Just the value of your custom id as it appears in the 3rd (or used to be third) textbox on that page in your Steam account.

If you manually set a sort title on these games the raw string is used which does NOT take into effect that it's 1,2,10 and not 1, 10, 2. We have special logic to pad numbers for you in the title to get it to sort correctly if you aren't using sort title that you have to kinda do manually if you are. For example if using sort title on these games all single digit numbers should have a 0 in front of them. So Game 1 is actually Game 01. This way in string sort 02 and 03 come before 10 (since the 0 is the first character it hits).