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Hi all, I purchased the software and have a cab setup but I haven't used it much yet. I'm trying to change that and have a couple questions. If anyone has time to answer, thank you in advance! 1. Is there a tutorial video or written instructions with a step-by-step for newbies like me that explains how to list games by star ratings per platform? For example, when I go into the arcade platform, instead of showing games in alphabetical order it would start with the game with the highest user star rating and go downwards from there with the worst-rated games being last. 2. How do I find and download as many themes as possible for Bigbox? Is there a way for the program to see and update/download themes from some central source? if so, where in the menus do I go and what options do I select to do that? If not, how do I find and download themes into Bigbox manually? Thank you

Any reply at all? Is this even being considered? I submitted it here: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/8886/option-to-have-each-platform-system-in and it says submitted but I have no idea how to check if it's going to be added and if so, when.

Sorry in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong spot or if it's already answered somewhere else. I know this has been asked in the past, but I can't find anything current about it... Is there a way to have BigBox sort games in each system/platform by star rating? Meaning the best games (as voted by the public/community) will automatically display first in each platform instead of the games displaying alphabetically? I know this can be done in LaunchBox by going to View, Arrange by, and Star Rating. If there is not just some option I can enable in BigBox to make this happen, is there a theme that can do it? If so, which one, and what options need to be changed to make it happen? My preference for how the games would be sorted in each platform/system is by highest star rating to lowest and hopefully, as others have mentioned in other posts here, the system could take into account decimals in the ratings. So if a game's average rating is 4.3 it would be displayed after the super-awesome game with the 4.9 rating etc. And it doesn't need to show which games are over 4-stars, which are over 3 etc. It just simply shows games in order from best to worst. If there's no easy way to do this in BigBox I'm going to be really bummed. This seems like such a huge and important feature to me. I have over 2,000 Mame games for example after filtering out the junk and I can't imagine scrolling through all those to find the best games. I'm also not going to have a keyboard and mouse so no easy typing etc. for searching. I don't want to have to favorite games or spend a lot of time making playlists or other possible options. This should be a default feature in the program. I'm hoping it is and I just can't find it.

Thank you for doing that. Hopefully it will find it's way into the automated media downloads that LaunchBox/EmuMovies has.

I downloaded the logo pack for Xbox from EmuMovies, found the file I needed for a game and put it in the Launchbox\Images\Microsoft Xbox\Clear Logo folder on my computer. I changed the file name to match the Launchbox database. It fixed the issue for the 1st game so I will go try to do the same for the other 3-games. It looks like the only game that EmuMovies doesn't have a logo for is "Knight's Apprentice". I just decided to delete that game as it doesn't have very good reviews anyway.

It looks like there are just no clear logo images for the 4-games in Xbox that are missing the logo in my Launchbox. I'll have to find something to use and update them manually in Launchbox I guess.

Thank you C-Beats. And for those also having the problem here is the reply via email: You can either use one of the two "missing media" methods, or you can add them manually. Missing Media: Click on the Filter Dropdown and go to the Games Missing Media section, click on Games Missing Clear Logos, highlight them all, then go to Tools > Download > Update Metadata and Media Go to Tools > Audit > All Games (or a specific platform), then click on the Clear Logo header to sort by games with/without an image. Select all the ones missing an image and run the Tools > Download > Update Metadata Media wizard On a per-game basis, you can edit a specific game, go to its Images section, click on the Download Media button and it will check our database for available images. If we don't have an image for a specific game, you can add it manually. Edit any game, go to its Images section, and drag/drop an image into there, then adjust the images "Image Type" to clear logo.

I audited my original Xbox system and all games have a match from the database. However several games are not displaying their logos in Launchbox. I was wondering where I go in the settings for a game to manually associate it with the logo image? 1 example is "Bloody Roar Extreme". I cannot see the logo/game name when scrolling through all the Xbox games. It does appear in the list as plain text but the actual more fancy-looking logo image doesn't appear. I hope I'm explaining this in a way where someone would understand. I'm pretty new to Launchbox. If I right-click the game and go to edit metadata/media, I can see the logo file under Media/Images. It is image 5 of 8 and has the title of Banner. Thanks in advanced for any help. It looks like I have several of these that need fixing for just this system. So I assume I'll have more to fix for other systems as well. A couple other examples are "Halo 2: Multiplayer Map Pack" and "The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact Maniax".

Yeah it may have been the theme. I was just surprised to see that it didn't look like 2D boxes were really imported into LB/BB for arcade/MAME, even from emumovies. I did uncheck a few things when importing the media but it was just things like Fanart. The "box - front" folder seems to include 2D boxes for console systems but I guess just not for MAME. Maybe that media just doesn't exist for MAME at emumovies or wherever else LB/BB gets media from? I'm working right now and don't have time to check. I copied over all the 3D boxes into the "box - front" folder since I discovered that is where the theme was pulling the pictures from and they were pretty much all not there. It didn't detect some of them without me having to go manually rename the files. Then everything was fine. It just took a lot of time to do. This isn't really a program issue in that case. It's the theme looking for files that LB/BB may not be able to get so I had to improvise. A lot of the themes I just don't like the layout of so I was set on getting a specific theme to work. I just thought of another feature that would be awesome. If LB could detect which games are in MAME/Arcade in the system and then go delete (or at least move out of their original folders) all the unused pictures and videos it would help people free up a lot of hard drive space and clutter. It could be done for any system really. I just imagine it would be difficult to program because it would have to link each and every picture and video file with a specific game and then determine if that game is in the games list for that system in LB. Possibly really hard to do. I'm no programmer.

I'm not converting. I started fresh with LaunchBox on a new cab. Luckily moving over all the 3D boxes into the "box - front" folder worked for the theme I'm using. I just had to rename some image files to get rid of the "-01" at the end of the file name before it was recognized as belonging to the game in LaunchBox and/or BigBox properly and would display in the BigBox theme. Anything the devs can do to reduce the amount of time it takes someone to setup their cab would IMO, be the most desired features and would give people much more reason to use the product. The 2-things that would save time the most are robust importers and making sure media will sync, and into the proper folders with the proper file names from emumovies.

Thanks I already did the sort by year and spent hours checking each game to see if I liked it and then deleting them 1-by-1. I guess there really isn't an alternative for people who want to filter out the things they would never consider playing. I'll go request the features that I'd like to see in the program. Most of them have to do with more filtering options when importing everything and others have to do with the fact that much of the media doesn't seem to line up name-wise with the roms or games so I had to spend probably at least 20-hours manually renaming picture files mostly and moving them around between directories to get themes to display everything that they are supposed to (pictures and videos). I was surprised to see that even with a paid emumovies account that a lot of media never synced over. The only way I think that could be fixed is if both parties compared file by file and got the names to match up (or at least match more closely) and then tested the download of media into LaunchBox from emumovies until they get it to the point where everything matches and syncs over. Definitely a time-consuming process. 1-thing I do remember is that 2D boxes didn't really sync at all. I had to copy all the 3D boxes into the box - front folder and then rename a lot of the files before they would display in BigBox. So who knows, maybe it will take 100-hours to setup the machine the way I like instead of a few hundred hours with Hyperspin. At least it's an improvement right? I realize for legal reasons people can't put together an all inclusive product that contains the games, media, emulators, etc. etc. and have it be basically ready to play and sell it commercially. People who want a retro arcade have to be willing to have a big time suck to get the machine they imagine. That's just the way it is unless they want to buy a pre-built machine for $1,500-$5,000. After dealing with the nightmare that was/is Hyperspin on my fist cab I built I'm just burnt out, even though it was years ago. So doing this all again is bringing back bad memories and making me realize that this will be the last time I ever do something like this. I just want to play games, not spend hundreds of hours I don't have tinkering with things. To each their own. I know there are plenty of people who enjoy the tinkering and never stop.

So I guess no features to further sort/exclude games exist in the MAME importer or after you do the import. So unless I hear otherwise I'll have to spend many hours manually doing this the hard way. For the devs, if you could include a feature where people can further organize (or better yet not even import in the 1st place) MAME games by controller type (and maybe year of creation since a lot of people don't like the 70's and early 80's games that didn't have much to offer graphically) that would be a huge feature to add to your program and give people even more reason to buy. Even if you wanted to include a feature like that behind a paywall it would be worth it for so many people. I'm already a paying member but if I wasn't, I'd be much more likely to pay for something like BigBox access if I knew your product had features that would help me save lots of time in getting my retro arcade running vs. something like Hyperspin which is a huge pain in the butt. I think that ultimately this product will be easier to setup overall but not by much and not having to spend hours manually curating a MAME collection would be HUGE. I'm having to spend much more time setting up my LaunchBox/BigBox system than I thought I would and I have to admit I'm somewhat disappointed.

Hi all, I used the full arcade set importer and left all the things checked to filter out games like mature, tile, dance, etc. After doing the import I have over 2,800 arcade games in LaunchBox. I was wondering if there is a way to filter/sort by input/controller type? I'm using a wireless Xbox 360 controller with my LaunchBox setup and would love it if I can quickly find all the MAME games that were imported that I won't be able to play? I'd like to get rid of games that work with a ball, light gun, etc. etc. so that only games which will easily work on my controller are left. If LaunchBox/BigBox doesn't have a way to do this does anyone have an recommendations for me as to how I can get rid of games I can't play with my controller? I'm hoping to NOT have to go find some list and manually remove games 1-by-1 when we're talking about thousands of games here. I appreciate any help/guidance and thanks in advance.

I went with regular MAME instead of the UI version. I put this in my mame.ini (which I had to create by starting the MAME exe file from the command line, changing something, and then it generated the file): # # CORE ROTATION OPTIONS # rotate 1 ror 0 rol 0 autoror 1 autorol 0 flipx 0 flipy 0 I just opened a game from Launchbox and the game, which is a veritcal shooter, is rotated like I want. So I'll see if the other games that are vertical work the same way. Thanks for the help. I was almost there but like I said, there are a lot of incomplete or incorrect help articles online. I appreciate the help.

Thanks for the reply! I had found information about trying this, but as my original post said, the information was incomplete or just flat out wrong. I had been trying this and couldn't get it to work. I'm starting to wonder if the reason is because I'm using Mameui64 instead of just mame. For example. there is no mame.ini file. There is a mameui.ini and it doesn't even have a similar format to what you said to put in the vertical.ini file. So I'll get rid of mameui64 and replace it with standard mame and report back.