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Wow, so happy to see 2 of my favorite ports for the C64 - Starflight and Dragon Wars - included in v0.45 so thanks for that. Now literally every game I ever enjoyed on my C64 has been collected into one frontend/emu experience. However, the test build causes massive system instability for some reason on my Windows 10 box. I play around with a game in v0.45 using my Xbox-emulated DS4Windows DS4 controller (very nice that we can use a pre-configured xinput pad in this, btw) and after I return to my desktop, my keyboard no longer works reliably and goes wonky, and sometimes I can't mouse-click and switch browser tabs. I didn't have this issue in v0.35. Could it be some autohotkey script that forgets to unload when I exit C64 Dreams, I wonder?
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18 hours ago, maikeru1986 said:
No problem. Yeah, I intend to implement "search terms" input and some things to increase success rate, maybe have more results and pick the best match (honestly not sure), but unfortunately depends on what YT has. I did intend it for Modern Windows titles as i don't think emu-movies has many (see below).
That would be ideal but tough to implement well, I'd imagine, but you did a great job with this scraper so good luck on any future enhancements!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, everyone!
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2 hours ago, maikeru1986 said:
@JoJoJuJu59 Could you try this one with your LB 11.3?
if it works, kudo's to @JoeViking245.
If it doesn't, maybe you could consider updating to 11.8 as it's pretty good imo
The eagle has landed! It works with 11.4 ? Kudos to both you & @JoeViking245 It's a shame that there isn't a YT-like service catering strictly to older DOS era games since I only get about 20% success rate when scraping for MS-DOS games (was intending to use it with eXoDOS to get those missing video snaps) but your plugin does exactly what it's suppose to do and is excellent with newer games. I won't use emu movies anymore since they renewed my subscription without authorization so this is a handy little utility Thx, guys ?
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Yes, that would be great if you could make it more compatible with older builds because I tend to stick with older versions of any software for a long time if I find it runs stable and has the features I like before i'm forced to upgrade (the whole "if it ain't broke don't fix it" thing). But if it's too difficult or too risky to do and there's not enough demand for it I can see that point of view I suppose. I was just very frustrated because I couldn't get certain scrapers working for months now (though the documentation said they were supported with my versions) because I had an older build of LB - but not that much older, imo - and i'm sure others who tend not to upgrade software they're comfortable with like myself (Windows build 2004 was my most memorable negative experience lol) will discover those same frustrations and issues no doubt.
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You're right. Just tried 11.8 it and Vidsnap Scraper downloaded a video (Ace Combat 7) fine. So it just doesn't work with my version (11.4). Even youtube scraper worked with 11.8. Thanks for your suggestion. This is a useful utility so special thanks to maikeru1986
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10 minutes ago, maikeru1986 said:
Ok so you don't even get the icon/item in the right-click menu? and you do have other working plugins, and there are no errors during LB startup.
Thats right before anything even really starts so not sure what that could be but I will try to look into it for you but.
you're on windows 10? which game are you testing out? platform? Sorry these are all shots in the dark.
Perhaps someone else here could shed some light.
Nope. Get nothing related to this scraper upon right-click. As mentioned earlier, the Steam Scraper shows up on fine on my system (Windows 10 build 1909) so I know at least some plugins can work. Launchbox version is 11.4. Tested various games, using the Windows platform & ExoDOS. I even tried it on two separate installations of LB (both 11.4) and it just won't show up, neither this nor the newest youtube scraper. Oh well.
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3 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:
Did you unblock the dll file? (right click, properties, unblock) Will probably need to do the exe file as well.
Yes, that's always the first thing I do when installing a plugin in LB.
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1 hour ago, maikeru1986 said:
Hi there, sorry to hear it doesn't work for you. Could you try changing the folder name to "Vidsnap_Scraper" (with the underscore) and trying again? i changed this at some stage and forgot to change the writup, apologies.
Both of these are made by @srxz and maybe he could shed more light.
I think Youtube Scraper needs an update or something, I think it uses YouTubeSearch library which unfortunately is kinda defunct due to Youtube changing things all the time. Steam Scraper works well for me too.
Thanks for answering. Yeah, I changed the folder name and it made no difference. I get no "Download Video Snap" option when right-clicking on a game. Thx anyway.
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Doesn't work for me. I'm using Launchbox 11.4 (premium). I've extracted both Vidsnap_Scraper.dll and youtube-dl.exe into the folder "Vidsnap Scraper" in \plugins and no joy. The latest youtube scraper (0.1.9.1?) doesn't work for me either but an old beta does. However, the Steam Scraper from this forum works perfectly. Any ideas?
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What an awesome project! The Commodore 64 was my very favorite computer growing up. Even today with my Intel i7 and Nvidia-based system it just doesn't capture the nostalgia I felt for my C64 (which I found in a closet, along with a 1541 disk drive, in a half-way house in 1988 haha).
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Using the LB desktop UI, sometimes certain gameplay screenshots won't display even though they're in the exact same resolution and format (1920X1080, jpg) as the others that do. Legend of Grimrock, for example. None of the screenshots show up in Game details though they're all present in the correct Images folder. I even tried adding them manually and they won't display. What could be the issue? Also, sometimes it takes forever for some jpgs screenshot images to load in Details, causing scrolling to freeze for several seconds. What causes images to act so wonky in LB? I'm using 11.4.
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Sorry if this is 101 but when I double click on the movie in the game details pane, by default it opens VLC in full screen. I have to then double click to open it in a window. Is it possible to open it in a window by default? I'm using LB 11.4.
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Can someone test this for me? I noticed it will even lose focus and snap back to the LB main desktop interface if I just open a screen shot after double-clicking it the Game Details panel and do nothing. Sometimes it happens within a few seconds or up to a minute. It can't be the mouse or keyboard causing it since just leaving a screenshot opened in LB's internal viewer in fullscreen can cause it. I really want to know if it's a problem with my Windows 10 installation or LB itself so I can stop chasing my tail.
Edited to add: I found the culprit. It was a little app I started using a couple of weeks ago called Caffeine. When enabled, It temporarily prevents the screen/screen saver/display/ from turning on/off when enabled by automatically pressing a key every minute or so. So it wasn't a LB issue after all.
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Not a big deal but annoying. With all builds since at least 11.4. using the desktop LB whenever I go through the fullscreen screenshots with the mousewheel it randomly returns to the main LB GUI (desktop interface) instead of staying in the screenshots. It doesn't matter which theme I use (Default or old theme). Anyone else have this issue?
Edited to add: just wanted to mention that it happens with keyboard cursor/page up cursor/page down shortcuts too so not just a mouse wheel issue. Something from the desktop GUI randomly steals focus when flipping through screenshots.
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Just now, neil9000 said:
You will need to change to the old default theme to get names under the boxes. You cant move the search bar in the options. Your first image is a very very old version of Launchbox, its not possible to go back to that look unless you simply use a very old outdated version.
Aww, that's too bad about the Search bar no longer being able to be visible at the top in later builds. It was very convenient and I didn't have to enable the Side Bar to search. But at least I'll be able to get the game title text under the box art instead of within again so thanks for that
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Trying to get my later build of Launchbox's main desktop GUI to look like older versions with text under the box cover art rather than inside and also the Search bar field present at the top, like this:
Is this possible? What are the settings? Right now, the game text title is located inside at the bottom of the front cover art, like this:
Thanks for any help.
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2 hours ago, Retro808 said:
In BigBox settings under General there is an item for "Remember Last Game for Each Platform" you can check. I am not sure if it retains on new startup or not or if it is only for when in the existing occurrence of BigBox as I have not used it that option before.
Alas, yeah, it doesn't remember the Last Played game when I close then reopen BigBox for the next session. In the non-BigBox LB program it does though, but not in BigBox.
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I'm using the City Hunter 2 BigBox theme. When I run first run BigBox, the games are listed alphabetically during startup, How can I arrange them to be Last Played during start up?
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1 minute ago, neil9000 said:
It can certainly be done, this is the Lambda theme for example.
Great! What's the easiest way to do that? Is there a special LB theme editor program? I'm a newbie to this just in case you didn't notice
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On 7/2/2020 at 12:55 PM, Jason Carr said:
Hi @JoJoJuJu59, it is possible with a custom theme, but that would be the only way to do it currently. Could just copy the default theme and tweak it to make it whatever you want it to be.
It there any xml or data file that I can just open and edit with a text editor or something that particular text? I just wanted to add a few lines of text to start.
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When you first run Launchbox without BigBox you get the "No Games Selected - Please select a game to get details" details pane on the right. Is it possible to edit this (text, images, etc)? I want to add a few things and turn it into a sort of Welcome screen.
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I have a huge collection of roms & media on HyperSpin from several years ago but I like Launchbox more. Is there any program or app that helps transfer my Hyperspin stuff to Launchbox? Just thought I'd asked
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Was going to order this today until I learned PayPal is not accepted. Surprised to learn this since PayPal even accepted emumovies and they even charged my PP account for a yearly renewal without my authorization.
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Found the solution to my own problem: I used X-Mouse Button Control to assign Page Up/Down keys to my mouse wheel. Works a treat. It was a big deal too because it makes things much easier to scroll through nearly 400 games in my collection.
C64 Dreams (massive curated C64 collection)
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It turns out the issue was hardware related. I had installed C64 Dreams to one of my USB 3.0 Ext drives and I was also downloading to it at the same time. External USB drive bottlenecks have always had strange effects on my system, causing massive OS instability. I now have C64 Dreams on one of my SSDs in a place of honor. Question: how do I bring up the retroarch menu while in-game? I want to customize a couple of things like volume levels and C64 color palettes; strictly for my own use, of course