Jason Carr

Hmm, maybe I screwed it up somehow. Sorry for that. I'll try getting it in for the next beta at least.

I'm testing it as we speak and I'm seeing good performance from my end. Unfortunately this means it's likely just something not fast between the server and wherever you are on the Internet. The topic has come up a lot, and the only real solution would be to have many servers/mirrors across the world, which unfortunately is out of our ability for the moment.

@daithidownunder If you would, please zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder, and I'll take a look to see if it's potentially an issue with the data.

@Lahma Thanks for pointing that out. I've added them in for the official release, which should be out today.

Previously, that drop down was taking forever to load and causing the application to appear to be locked up while it loads. I searched high and low for a better control for it, and they all seemed to have performance issues, or were missing features. So this is my temporary solution for now, even though it's not ideal.

No problem guys. I'll get these in before the official release tomorrow.

Yup, that is now by design. You can simply type in the box instead and separate items with a semicolon.

Beta 13 is out now with the following: Minor fixes for the built-in CriticalZone V2 - Default theme Updated translations New GamesCount property for Big Box themes now works for the TextFiltersView as well I'm hoping this will be the final beta with the official release tomorrow morning.

Unfortunately that's probably as small as you're going to get it for the moment. Back when I implemented it I ran into various issues when allowing it smaller, so that was the limit.

I honestly don't know, but I'm thinking it might be done by some other themes. Maybe Grila's ComixBox for instance?

The Startup Load Delay setting in Edit Emulator goes up to 30 seconds. You shouldn't be adjusting the Minimum Startup Screen Display Time in the general options, but rather the Startup Load Delay setting when editing the Retroarch emulator.

Still can't figure this out. I tried adding the image to a game in my collection and it shows up just fine in the sidebar. However, it could be that the forums are changing the image somehow, idk. Either that or the issue is not related to the image itself, but rather something else. Not really sure where to go from here, honestly, as I can't really get your entire collection with media. What is the file name of that image?

Thank you all. All updated for the next beta. Planning to put out one more beta today and then hopefully the official release tomorrow.

@ForsakenZaroc They should all be supported already. You can use the Steam import, and the Windows import should work for the rest.

Beta 12 is out now with a simple addition of allowing the ImageVideoView in the Big Box TextFiltersView, and translation updates.

@Retrofrogg Interesting. It looks like maybe it's trying to put the image there but it can't. Maybe the image is a weird JPG format or slightly corrupted? Can you post that particular image here?

No problem! Thanks for this; I'll get it into the next beta. I'll get this in as well. There is a single new item in the Strings file that Claudio pointed out (it was missing and not receiving any translations). It's no big deal either way though if you guys want to translate it for this version or not; it can wait until the next release.

You can embed another view, but unfortunately, as the view model in the code (my code) doesn't have a property for the achievements view model, it wouldn't be bound to any data, so it wouldn't be useful. I would just have to add a property to the games views to allow it. It might need some tweaking on my part though because it currently shows all the achievements.

Yes, the default theme no longer has the Styles folder. That's unrelated to the other themes. Styles folders are not being deleted in beta 11. I will review your theme, but it might take me a few days.

Yes, the download speed could be improved at least a small amount by combining the files together into zips. The problem is that then every zip would need to be extracted on the destination computer, but more importantly, they would have to be dynamically compressed/copied on the server for each request, which would likely bring the server to a halt considering the number of users downloading images at any one time. So unfortunately I think then we'd have a different problem on our hands.

Oh wait, or did you manually remove the Styles folder @wallmachine?

You may have ignored a majority of the betas, but unless I'm completely missing something, a previous 9.4 beta other than beta 10 or 11 removed the Styles folder. As best I can tell, beta 10 and 11 cannot do that. I tested over 70 themes, so I'm very sure of that. Regardless, without a backup, we're in the same boat anyways. The code should all be there in the views files, but the theme was unfortunately left in a semi-invalid state from a previous beta. I'm very sorry for the trouble there; I never recommend using betas without backups (especially when developing themes), but I understand how it would be easy to end up in this situation. As far as the actual problem, I'm guessing some styles just aren't being applied properly, but I don't have the code. If you want to send me the theme I'll take a look to see if I can figure it out.

@wallmachine The latest betas actually *stopped* removing the Styles files and folder. It must've happened from a previous beta. Unfortunately I'm guessing you're left with a version of the theme that didn't migrate properly. Do you have a backup of it anywhere?

@wallmachine Ah, I see. I didn't realize you had manually moved things. Unfortunately it looks like you got caught in the crossfire of confusion while I figured this stuff out (sorry for that). As it turns out, we ended up keeping the styles files, just manually referencing them. See here: So you can keep your styles files (or add them back) and just manually reference them like I do in the above post. My guess as to what's going on with the above is that somehow there are styles that are somehow not being applied.

@wallmachine Try removing the 9.4.5.txt file in the theme folder; it could be a relic from a previous beta. If that doesn't work, I'll need you to send me the theme so I can figure out what's wrong, along with details as to what's happening.