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Without reading the prior conversation for context, I share roughly the same opinion...there is a lot of half-assed artworks that needed better labels than being considered official truths. But it is what it is... I only wanted to add that I imagine that the database on the backend needed to be split and wasn't and is now unmanageable because it's too big or not enough personelle policing it for validity. LB has clearly stated that it is Anti-DRM ...which is a weird topic to navigate when it comes to 'What is allowed...What is disallowed' because you can't play both sides of the fence on that. I think the peer review method was a good idea in the context of reviewing so complete trash is not uploaded... but it also facilitates that we are creating our own hell....OR we work together to figure it out...there is no gray area....there probably needs to be, but separately from 'official sources'....but also those 'official' sources should be disallowed to be monetized because I JUST KNOW some people would chomp at the bit to capitalize on that shit and that should never be permissible with communities like these...it's already destroyed HS (from my pov) I would hate to see that happen here as well.

Hi all, I shared this with a small audience and got some positive feedback so I thought i would share to a broader audience. I have made a Plugin the connects launchbox to Kavita reader to better store and utilize strategy guides. This is the first project I've ever made so no haters please, I'm really proud of it....constructive criticism, feature requests welcome. Download Link https://github.com/Shredder5262/Kavita-Reader-LaunchBox-Plugin/releases/tag/Latest

you can also use PDF's in kavita... i didn't mention it, but yes, it's a thing...it's basically plex for books. I use Kavita a self hosted docker image, and access it through a web browser so I have made it under the assumption that kavita is accessed through the web... if there is another way (local windows install) I'm not sure how that process works...so as long as you access it via web browser it would be fine. If things are stored in kavita you can also view those same things on a mobile app or tablet so it's a centralized place to store strategy guides. something on the horizon to deal with these things, I've got lots of stage maps and things also. Stay tuned. I don't know how long this other thing is going to take me though...programmatically speaking, playlists are evil. Question about this though.... what would an 'Official' term for these things be called?

@JoeViking245 @Tsik Thoughts?

Not Perfect, but a large improvement over the original. Original Enhanced

@JoeViking245 Since you're not familiar with cbz's I converted a nintendo manual from pdf to cbz and did some minor upscaling and resizing to showcase what the end result could be on a manual. I'm using my mouse wheel to scroll, but this could easily be tied to a button. Overall the quality of manuals and old documentation is abysmal at best, but it's what we got so I work with those things... and highly skilled photoshopper would be able to get better quality out of these manuals. So I think... png/Imageglass = maps, stage maps, diagrams cbz/comicrack = manuals and strategy guides pdf/pdf reader = cheat codes game faq parsed walkthroughs Would be a great combo, the missing piece is adding the additional app functionality into the pause menu.

I truely think that 'documents' like manuals and strategy guides should be standardized as cbz's , much more palatable experience than a pdf. I think a PDF only serves well for use cases like a cheat code list or a quick faq lookup...lengthy documents = cbz. I do feel strongly enough about it to submit a formal request.

In my opinion of a perfect world, I would set up a cbz as an additional document and assign the 'emulator/supplemental program' to handle it same as any emulator, the pause menu would see it as a document and launch it just like any other emulator with parameters that I give it...the pieces are all already there, ...just whatever backend mechanism is not there to treat it like a program launch is not in place. I could do without the batch wrapper, if that functionality is already in place. The functionality in launchbox, while also useful and ideal, does not facilitate the use of the material in-gam. I want to be able to pause the menu...check a strategy guide or map (reasonably quickly) then, unpause and go back to playing.

I think cbz stands for "comic book zip'.... it's basically a zip file with sequential images and an xml for indexing. Here is some basic info about the technical details of CBZ's https://www.comicconverter.com/about-cbz They are usually viewed in something like comicrack (for comics) or Kavita reader (basically, plex for books, comics, manga, and graphic novels). I did a modified version of your suggestion and tried a small portable version of ImageGlass as an emulator (https://imageglass.org) which works great ...as long as it's launched in big box (just as you mentioned). It would work ideal for Maps and stage layouts if there are several images in a folder and supports command line options. But in Pause it doesn't load. There is a possibility of using batch as a wrapper, something similar to what @Tsik suggested, but that also doesn't work in pause. It seems that PDF is the only acceptable thing that functions in a pause menu. Would really like to see an image support for 3rd party app launching like imageviewer or...in theory.. if additional, apps were supported for pause I could connect it to comic rack and launch a cbz viewer for strategy guides. If you can't tell already, my opinons of pdf's in general isn't very high...only because they're not very intuitive if you have a document with lots of pages. I'm fine with a few page doc as a pdf, but endless scrolling is annoying (imo)

ok, I was able to get it to display as a PDF. That takes care of the txt files, seems I have a bunch of converting to do. Not sure about the maps/level maps. Don't really want to commit to PDF's for all of them but I might have to... maps as PDF's aren't very intuitive imo...to be fair, they weren't intuitive as regular png's in rlauncher either... I really think cbz is 'the way' on all this stuff, I would like to see support for that added.. that opens up the possibility for full strategy guides, etc. (just thinking out loud).... anyway this unsticks me for a bit, thanks @JoeViking245 and @dragon57 for the suggestions

any special settings i need to have? I tried this and i didn't notice anything different. I would expect a new menu item to appear in pause, but that didn't happen...

Pause is where I ultimately want them, but I don't know how to get them there, going to try @JoeViking245's suggestion, if they show up as doc's that may solve the issue, I know that different menus appear sometimes in pause...but I don't know what causes that.

So I've got all these stage maps and diagrams and text file walkthroughs and passwords that I've collected from random places over the years. I've stored this stuff in Rlauncher, but I'm trying to move all files out of rlauncher and store them elsewhere and cleanup storage space, but still be able to utilize them. Launchbox has a place for manuals...but I don't see or know of any place other than that I may be able to utilize them. Looking for ideas or suggestions on what to do with them. I don't want to just delete them.

Can be downloaded at the link below. A few more to come soon. https://emumovies.com/files/file/6038-unified-genre-generic-category-themes-16x9/