Jason Carr

Wooo! I think I'm going to like those a lot. Have you played with the Unified Redux 1.1 or 1.2 theme yet? I love how those backgrounds you put together are looking.

Ah, maybe something went haywire with the download. Try going into your LaunchBox\Metadata folder and deleting Metadata.xml, Mame.xml, and Files.xml while LaunchBox and Big Box are closed. Then just start it up and it should put new ones there that work properly.

Very cool Padou! By the way, I tried to fix the color of the text in your post but it's not working for some reason lol.

Very nice.

Beta 12 is out now with the following: Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation thanks to @Cauptain Updated Italian translation thanks to @dukeemu Additional video download priority options for @harryoke and @uv777bk videos Added a Box3DOrNormalImagePath property to games for future versions of the Unified Redux theme (and any other theme that wants to use it, just prioritizes 3D Boxes and then resolves to boxes if not found) Reverted the game controller handler code back to beta 6, which had the most optimizations; it's been a confusing mess trying to figure out what the most performant controller code is Planning to put out the official release on Monday.

Okay, if you can zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder, I'll take a look to see what might be going on.

What version did you update from? Did you check your LaunchBox\Data\Playlists folder for the playlist XML files?

I've reverted to the beta 6 version with the most optimizations for beta 12, which is uploading now. I think we'll keep this unless there's a unanimous conclusion that it's worse.

The playlists won't show up if there are no games found for them.

Do you still have the playlist files in your LaunchBox\Data\Playlists folder?

Okay cool; it's not an anti-virus issue then. What are your computer specs and collection size?

No problem Claudio; I have it integrated for the next beta. Should be out later today. Planning to put out the official release on Monday.

I see. At this point, honestly, it's just a matter of priorities. I've moved on from .Next development for the most part back into building actual features. The black bar thing can easily be changed with a custom theme, and I know that there are custom themes being built, so I probably won't be back to that any time soon. Per Tahoma vs. Segoe UI, I might tackle that later if it proves to be a more common request, but as it stands I could be wrong but I think you're the only person who's requested it, so unfortunately that's not on the radar currently. That said, that could be solved with a custom theme as well. Sorry to not bring better news.

Alright, all of @uv777bk's videos have been uploaded as well. @harryoke Let me know if you have any additional platform, category, or playlist videos in your back library that we could upload.

I have all of the new @RetroHumanoid vids uploaded to the server, as well as the new Ball & Paddle Games video from @harryoke. The next beta will have the option to prioritize @harryoke and @uv777bk's videos as well. @uv777bk I'm in the process of uploading your pinball category video as well as the rest of the videos you've made to the server; they look and sound great, btw. I assume it's okay for us to put them in the automatic video downloader?

Woah! Very cool. We do have videos for everything at this point from RetroHumanoid, but we could certainly use some more options. It would definitely be appreciated and we'll get them up on the automatic downloader.

@maxcb97 Can you give me an example of the overlay not stretching properly? I'm not sure what you're referring to. Also, Segoe UI is the new Windows font used for pretty much everything, so that is by design.

That video looks awesome @uv777bk. The Pinball Arcade playlist is for MAME-based pinball arcade games, rather than Future Pinball, Visual Pinball, or Pinball FX though.

Awesome; thank you Retro! I'll get these uploaded to the server.

It does make sense for beta 6 to have been the smoothest beta, because I had put in the most performance improvements. However, I ended up reverting the improvements that I had put in for beta 6 due to claims that they made it worse lol. So perhaps I'll go back to the improvements I had put in...

Wow, I love it @harryoke! Very cool; I'll definitely be using it for my own collection. We should probably start a harryoke set of videos for the downloader in LaunchBox as well.

Hi alec, yes, previously the System menu stuff just hadn't been implemented, but it is implemented in the latest betas. The official release should hopefully be out early next week. Let me know if you run into any additional issues.

Just a shameless plug for the Unified Redux theme for Big Box: I've updated it to work very well for the new MAME/Arcade playlists.

I just released version 1.1 of the Unified Redux theme for Big Box with lots of image updates primarily from @RetroHumanoid: The updated theme should work really well now for all the new playlists.

Just letting you all know that I just released version 1.1 of the theme: Background images revamped (and in some cases removed) for common platforms in order to increase readability of the wheels and remove JPEG artifacts (many of the Classics playlists had backgrounds with horrible artifacts from Hyperspin). Thanks to RetroHumanoid for many of the new backgrounds. Removed the default Big Box logo for platforms or playlists with no logos. Even we're not that in love with the Big Box logo. Added background fanart images for some playlists that will show up if there are no videos for that playlist; previously the theme was showing a black screen in this case. Reduced the size of the theme by over 350 MB by converting the background images from PNGs to maximum-quality JPGs. There is no perceived quality loss and now the theme is less than half the size. Modified/removed some of the video borders with characters in order to better support the new arcade playlists (some of them were irrelevant to arcade games) and make room for arcade flyer images, which used to half-overlap the characters. Highly recommended: Modify your "Images" > "3D Box Priorities" settings in LaunchBox to include "Box - Front" and "Advertisement Flyer - Front" images in order to display regular box or arcade flyer images if no 3D box image exists.