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Here's the directory structure that causes problems: K:\games\C64 Dreams v0.60\C64 Dreams. It accepts where my LB folder is for that first required path but I get the invalid directory message for the C64 dreams folder. Note: the "C64 Dreams v0.60" folder is where the launchbox,exe is.

Update on the problem I've been having getting certain new games e.g. Steel Ranger to run, By checking this thread and messing around with game.cmd and game.bat files, I fixed the problem and even learned how to add some missing games to C64 Dreams I played on original hardware like Stationfall (a difficult infocom text adventure). I also learned how to add my own manuals. C64 Dreams has been a great project and Zombeaver has done a superb job making all the old C64 classics available to us in an easy, curated and pre-configured package. Even if he stopped working on it, I feel it's polished enough to leave as is. All new releases and missing old games can be easily added yourself. Thanks for all the effort. A question though: what's a good color shader/reshade to use to add just a bit more color (very little) to make that C64 palette pop a bit more so the colors look slightly more saturated like the old Sega Master System, Amiga, ZX Spectrum or Atari ST but not oversaturated? That's one thing I miss in the Commodore 64 is the default slightly dull color palette, imo, compared to these old systems.

Good luck trying to solve the issue of trying to get videos to play consistently (or not occasionally reducing to quarter their size in video details pane) in LB. It's a problem that's gotten MUCH worse with later versions of LB.

Some multidisk games like Steel Ranger and Metal Warrior Ultra that I obtained .d64 roms for refuse to swap when I use either the KB or controller. I can eject/insert the disk but when I attempt to swap them only the first disk shows up. I even tried m3u files but no joy. Is there a reason for this?

I have VLC selected in Options but since the last few buuilds of LB, It's not uncommon that when I jump from cover to cover in the main LB program (not BigBox), the audio will play for the game but just a black screen displays for the video. I'm on an SSD with a good rig (i9/RTX 3070) so I don't think my hardware is an issue. It seems to have gotten even worse with the newer builds of LB. I tried selecting Media Player Classic in Options but then nothing plays at all. Is this a known issue and if so is there a fix for this? Btw, I'm using the Neptune third-party theme.

I previous builds of LB (not Big Box), whenever I double clicked on a video in the details pane, it would pick up exactly in fullscreen where the video was playing in its video snap window. In the last few builds, it always restarts the video once it goes into fullscreen. Is there a setting to revert to the behavior of picking up where the video was in details pane? I'm using v12.11 because latest versions reduce the video window size (slightly but still noticeable) in my theme (Neptune) and I prefer a large video window.

You are correct, sir. I just tested it with even old LB default themes and it re-starts the video as soon as I double-click on it to make it fullscreen. I'm thinking maybe it was an older version of LB that I was using (I'm currently on 12.11) that caused the video to pick up right where it left off once I double-clicked to fullscreen. I wish I knew if there was a setting that allowed current builds of LB to do this. Sometimes I see a part of a video in my LB that I want to see enlarged or fullscreen, and now the default behavior is to restart the entire video once in fullscreen. I suppose I can ask in the general forums. Thanks for your help. Meanwhile, I'll continue to use your theme because it's my favorite by far, so thanks for that too 😃

This is still my favorite theme and I just updated to v1.4 but one thing I prefer about the default theme(s) is that when I click on the video in the desktop version of Launcbox to have it go fullscreen, it picks up right where it left off in the LB browser but when I do the same with Neptune installed, it restarts the video from the beginning. Is there a setting to make Neptune behave more like the default theme and have videos continue where they were when I double-click to fullscreen them?

No, just my LB would freeze up Then after it finished downloading the video (or not finding one), it would go back to normal and I could use LB normally again. I'm thinking it was something going on with my Windows installation at the time, either some other program or redistributable that Windows was using that caused this quirk. Now it works fine though. I've since upgraded to Windows 10 build 21H2 which might have helped. This plugin of yours works great and it's one of only two LB plugins (the other being the Steam info downloader) I use. I wanted to use the latest version and now I can.

Heh, just tried it now with the same version that was giving me trouble on the same build of LB and it works fine. Must have been the older Windows build I was using or something. Love the new added features, btw, and it runs much smoother than the older version I was using where it would freeze up my LB until the video was downloaded. Great job on this plugin. Thanks.

Thanks for the tip about the author's thread. Alas, that was one of the first things I tried to get rid of "Platform" but it's not even ticked by default in the game details options so it must be hard-coded in the XAML or something.

Thanks. Is there any type of guide that deals with the text editing aspects of LB's XAML files instead of using the theme creator software (though I imagine it may be even more difficult this way)? There are a few other things I want to remove for my personal use that I don't need that take up space in the game details pane. For example, Platform. All my launchbox games are installed under Windows category so I don't need the description of what platform they are for that.

I tried tinkering with a few xaml files with notepad++ but have no aptitude for HTML code-type endeavors. Does anyone know offhand which part I would have to delete to get rid of the "Overview" and "Related Games" functions in the game details panel? I looked for all instance of those words in gamedetails.xaml and deleted them but it did nothing.

I really love this theme and it's become my default one (I don't use BigBox much; mostly the desktop browser version of LB). I particularly like the innovation with the dynamically resizing video in the game details pane; no more loss of real estate with certain videos that have a smaller, less than ideal or odd aspect ratio. Really good work! There are only a few things I would customize for myself but I'm afraid theme creator software is too daunting and involved for me, unless there's a more newbie friendly way to customize LB themes for the desktop, non-BigBox version *looks at you all hopefully* 😶