Jason Carr

@Grila Wooo! I will get you a beta today with that feature. I just sent out an email with a big image of the theme so people are gonna want it here soon. The one thing I would say though is that if there's any way for you to make it work with the official release, that would be appreciated (even without the option to fade the backgrounds). Otherwise, I think it will be a big source of confusion.

Awesome! Looking good @letstalkaboutdune.

It means that the clones will be available to run from the right-click menu, or from the game details menu in Big Box.

Unfortunately I think it was removed some time about when Brad left. I don't have access to it currently. I do know that we need a new one though.

If you see images popping in, you just need to increase the visible count. The visible count should be slightly larger than what is actually displayed on the screen.

@theolsonhome If you import hacks, sometimes unfortunately those hacks can end up as the main game, which is why you're seeing Hangly Man and such. This is due to the region prioritization, but I think it could be improved to skip over the hacks, so I'll look to do that here soon. If you skip the hacks though, then you won't have that problem.

Bulk clearing your genre fields and then running the metadata update is a good plan; that should work great. You may need to clear the Play Mode field as well for the 2-Player and 4-Player playlists.

Sure, what you have is probably a good solution if you want the genres separated out. In Big Box it's not a big deal because you never display an entire platform category's games. The playlists will still work just fine.

That is correct. Viewing an entire platform category only shows the games that are in platforms inside of that category. This is for performance reasons, but also, there's little reason to need to display games like that. Might as well just select the Arcade/MAME platform.

A better way to go though with LaunchBox 8.6 is to use the new MAME Arcade Full Set import wizard.

Hi @goyetus, when you first select the item to create the missing playlists, this is what you see: Please read that second paragraph; you have to have updated metadata for the new playlists to work correctly. You can either restore a backup of your previous playlists, or you can run the Download Metadata and Media wizard and overwrite your metadata. Then the playlists will work properly.

Yes, by default, the Arcade playlists show up under the Arcade platform category. You can remove them from there by editing the playlist and turning off that option.

I'm confident that crashes like this are not happening under regular circumstances, so unfortunately there must be something unique or problematic going on with your system. It could be collection-related, or it could be a Windows or a hardware issue, or some sort of application conflict. It's very common for crappy anti-virus applications to cause issues like this, so that's the first thing I would check; the last time I heard of issues like this, Malwarebytes was the culprit. Do you have any anti-virus or anti-malware software installed other than Windows Defender?

It can be done with a custom theme, but unfortunately that part is just using the default Windows look and feel in the default theme, so the colors can't currently be changed. I'll probably leave it up to custom themes to change it at least for the time being.

Use the OnSelected methods to store the selected games in a private variable, which you can then refer to from the GameStarting event.

I am aware of this issue; it seems to be more prevalent on slower machines. I'll do my best to review it soon.

I'm completely lost on that; it's an issue I've never seen before. Can you zip up and PM me your data folder (if you haven't already)?

I'm not sure if maybe you didn't use the full-set importer and used the old importer instead, or if these are just files that are usually filtered out by the various criteria.

Any set will work great with the new full-set importer. This is because the new full-set importer does not even look at the files, because it doesn't need to; it knows what the full set is. Therefore, assuming you're actually using the new full-set importer, it's a genuine impossibility that it's importing any extra files.

This is an bug/incompatibility issue with the GOG plugin. This error should not come up with beta 14.

These options should not be dimmed out; do you have the Arcade platform selected? Or a playlist?

I remember this coming up before. All I can figure is that maybe you have a platform or a playlist named All? Do you have any files named All.xml in LaunchBox\Data\Platforms or LaunchBox\Data\Playlists?

Sure; let me know what hooks/functionality you need, and I can get them added for you. Most often, things are easy to add, it's just best not to add them when we're close to a release. If you find yourself having to resort to reflection, just let me know and I'll see what it would take to make it easier.