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Not yet, i got sidelined by something else. For the record, if you set the default image in the default theme, then switch back to Omni it sticks. So for now i figured it wasn't really that major of an issue.

I'm the same way, especially for games i care about. I'm using launchbox as a kind of digital bookshelf and sometimes i like to fill up the game with extra images, artworks etc even if they don't directly show up in launchbox and can only be accessed by directly looking at the image viewer. Now as far as i can see, there seems to be no way to force a default. I tried creating different folders, using wierd ascii characters but launchbox picks up everything no matter what. If the image shows up in the image viewer, and it is in the same root folder as the default image you want, it will be added to the rotation of default images, at least for the box front it seems i may have been able to fool the program for other categories (for instance i have 3D images for the North American, Japanese and European version for the game but i was able to have only the North American cover show up in launchbox by putting the others in "alt" folders, but that trick doesn't work for box front images). The only way i found to get around this is put images in the various platform folders. So i'll put the image i want as default in say box -front and then i'll put the extras in epic posters, gog posters etc. They'll show up in the image view but they won't be selected as default. The only problem with that is that it gets a bit confusing in terms of the priorities IF you also want to have an ordered slide show, especially if you don't have the paid version since you are forced to stick to the default priority there. Eventually the difficulty of doing this tempered my OCD about having to have a lot of extra images for my favored games, heh.

No i do have a license. Turns out it was the theme i was using (Omni). I'll have to take this issue to the theme's thread.

I just tried this but i don't see those "default" options. How do i turn them on? There's actually folders for those options but there's no way to select those categories.

That's perfect precisely what i was looking, haha. Thanks a lot.

This could be a stupid n00b question, but i've been trying google to no avail for quite a bit so i figured someone here may know the answer. I just loaded one of my childhood favorites, Black Tiger, and i noticed the aspect ratio wasn't the correct one. I tabbed into MAME and switched the ratio from 4:3 to 8:7 and now the game looks correctly, except the bezel got turned off automatically and the image wouldn't fit anyway. I was wondering if there was some alternative bezels made specifically for this aspect ratio. Sadly my knowledge of photo editing is next to zero otherwise i'd modified the bezel already downloaded by launchbox. BTW the bezel would have to be for MAME. I tried switching to retroarch but i couldn't even get the game to run at all not sure what's up with that but that's a separate issue for now i'd just like a simple bezel to fit this aspect ratio, even just a generic cabinet one i can universally use on games that have this issue.

Well, it seems i figured it out there's a limit for each image type and it's set to one by default. Just tried setting it at no limit and now it's downloading a whole bunch of stuff. Downloaded like 4000 extra pictures then Launchbox crashed hahaha, but i guess the mystery has been solved.

Ok so after testing this out it turns out launchbox just won't download all images in bulk, usually a couple from emumovies, and often of the same times (Screenshot - Game Over and Screenshot - High Scores most often for mame games which i'm using as a testing ground). I can download those images fine when clicking on the individual games but this would just take forever. Is there really no way to just force the program to download all those missing images in bulk?

Same issue here.

Not sure what's going on but after importing sets of games i always seem to find a few that have missing images here and there. Since it's impossible to just spot them all i figured maybe i can import them again to see if it actually downloads the missing images. Did that a few times with MAME and after every import it downloaded around 300 images. Am i supposed to just importing the set until nothing more downloads? It's kind of odd that it cannot catch them all in one go.

13.18. Did it again, twice in a row while pasting some copied custom text in the metadata of my last imported game.

I do actually. When i integraded eXo i made a backup of the parents file and renamed it .bak. Just took it out and so far it seems to hold. Switched view a bunch of times and parents didn't get wiped out this time. I hope this was it. Will report back if it does it again.

I think i figured it out it happens when i change view. Not sure why it just wipes out the parents. Could be an effect of having integrated exoDos, exoScumm etc into my main Launchbox installation.

Well, i did that, but now it did it again. Very odd too. I looked at Launchbox one last time, making sure everything was fine, then left my desk for several hours. Didn't touch anything, didn't restart, launchbox didn't crash, no errors, but when i came back the parents were gone once again. Just made a manual backup wanna see how long it's going to last this time.

Not sure what happened all i did is change view and suddenly all playlists lost their parents. Anybody heard of something like this? No idea how to get them back without manually editing every single one.

I'm having a problem with two of the archives, specifically (1-A) and (B). There is one video in each that won't extract anybody else?

Fair enough, just bought the regular licence come next year or later if i see a sale for the lifetime licence i'll take that one too.

I'm planning to get the regular license on the upcoming Black Friday sale to try out the full version. I wanted to get the lifetime version but sadly i need the money for something more urgent and i'm not gonna have much left. If i then decide to upgrade to the lifetime licence next year during another sale like this, would the discount apply then?

Ok, seems like i figured it out. It seems i have to re-select CD audio every time i load the game, which is annoying since that resets the cfg file. This goes for both my main launcbox installation and the original eXoDOS one, so it had nothing to do with symlinks whatsoever, just some error in how the batch file is setup in eXoDOS itself. Bleh. [EDIT] Well, unlike what the batch file says, re-selecting CD audio doesn't actually erase the cfg file. So this whole thread is even more useless now.

I know this isn't related to Launchbox but googling didn't help so i figured i might try asking here. Basically, what i did is merge all three eXo projects using symbolic links into my main launchbox installation in order to keep the original folders as untouched as i can. Everything seems to work fine but i found my first problem, namely, i tried running Blood (1997), which has an option to use CD audio but it doesn't work when i run my game from my merged launchbox platform but it does work when i launch it inside the original eXoDOS folder itself. Does it mean the batch file eXO is using doesn't actually see the symlinked folder as a true local folder? BTW, might be related but on my merged launchbox set up i can't get that pop up when you point the mouse over the box, the one with the option to mute or turn the music on, flip the front box etc.

I see. That's too bad i liked the idea of having links to extras, documents, trailers and misc stuff like that right in the context menu like eXoDOS does. I can use the additional apps option but it's not as clean.

I just installed eXoDOS and i noticed there are extra things added to the contet menu when you right click on the game. I tried googling but didn't find anybody talking about how to do this, but noticed other people have extended menus as well: How can add extra entires like that? I can add additional apps but that's about it.