Jason Carr

This is something I definitely want to do, but it is complicated and we're pushing for the 8.6 release at this point, so unfortunately it won't make it in for the next release. Hopefully I can take a look at it soon though.

Holy crap @Grila; that looks amazing. Well now I'm excited... We'll probably do a video on it once it's released since it's likely to be the first major overhaul theme.

Thank you very much @dukeemu. I have the Italian translation integrated for the next beta.

Hi Tony, sorry for the bad news there. Hopefully I can get back to it at some point to improve it, but until then I just don't want such a flawed feature to be included in LaunchBox.

Alright, beta 11 is out with the following: - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation thanks to @Cauptain - Hopeful fix (again) for folders being created in emulator folders - I noticed that performance in Big Box while going from platform categories into platforms was made a lot slower by all the new auto-populate playlists, so I did some work to speed that up, and it seems to be much faster now. Unless any new issues come up, I'll probably let this beta simmer over the weekend and we'll put out the official release on Monday or Tuesday.

Hi Dan, I tested with your data. I'm not seeing long CPU spikes on my end, but it could be because I don't have your media, or it could be because of something like an anti-virus app interfering. Do you have any kind of anti-virus or anti-malware programs installed? For some reason I didn't think of that before.

Unfortunately it's very different, since they're two completely different interfaces, so moving a theme from Big Box to LaunchBox isn't likely to be a good idea. The point of LaunchBox is to have a desktop-style interface, whereas the point of Big Box is to have a home theater or arcade cabinet-style interface. That's not to say that you couldn't do it, but it wouldn't be as easy as just copying the theme over and tweaking some things. That said, I'd love for you to play with it @SNAK3ATER and see what you can come up with. The recommended approach is to copy the Default theme and tweak it to be whatever you want it to be.

Good to know; I think I found the issue and it should be fixed (hopefully) for the next beta. If you run an update on metadata and choose not to overwrite anything, the wizard will add any new images that aren't in your collection. It never, ever deletes images. But depending on your priorities, it may show a different image than it did before if it thinks there's a better option, or if you have multiple options that it thinks are good. If you're overriding a game's metadata though, and you're happy with it, it may be best not to run a metadata update on it, because the whole point of metadata updates are to update the data with what's on the server. I did add a fix a while back to stop titles from being changed though.

Hi Axenn, both LaunchBox and Big Box are now using WPF, so either WPF or WinForms should work fine.

I looked into the code and unfortunately it's what I suspected: the controller code is exactly the same now as it was in beta 5. So I'm lost on that. It's possible that it's being caused by something else we added though, so maybe it's worth testing with the keyboard to see if you have the same issue. I do plan to work on performance specifically when loading up platforms from the platform category list, but I doubt that's what you're running into @Rjay.

Thank you Claudio; I have it integrated for the next beta.

Love it @harryoke.

@RetroHumanoid I'm updating the Unified Redux theme with those fanart backgrounds you posted; it's looking awesome.

No problem Claudio, just thought I'd let you know. Thank you very much!

Also, I should note that the latest beta 8.6-beta-10 allows you to prioritize everyone's videos as well.

Alright, I have all of the platform/category/playlist videos from @RetroHumanoid, @Padou, @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT, and @dragon57 all uploaded to the server for download in LaunchBox. That was a lot of videos! Here's the video coverage that we have currently: 2-Player Games - RetroHumanoid 4-Player Games - RetroHumanoid Ball & Paddle Games - None Beat Em Ups - RetroHumanoid Board & Card Games - RetroHumanoid Fighting Games - RetroHumanoid, PaDeMoniuM, CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT Flying Games - RetroHumanoid Light Gun Games - RetroHumanoid, Viking Maze Games - None MultiGames - None Pinball Arcade - RetroHumanoid Platform Games - RetroHumanoid Puzzle Games - RetroHumanoid Racing Games - RetroHumanoid Rhythm Games - RetroHumanoid Run & Gun Games - RetroHumanoid Shoot Em Ups - RetroHumanoid, PaDeMoniuM Shooter Games - RetroHumanoid Sports Games - RetroHumanoid

Beta 10 is out now with the following: - New default playlist clear logo images for all of the new MAME/Arcade genre and player playlists thanks to @RetroHumanoid - Notes are now added to the publisher-based playlists (I forgot to put them back in when I changed them to be auto-populating playlists) - A ton of new platform/category/playlist videos are now available in the video downloader from @RetroHumanoid, @Padou, @dragon57, and @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT. Huge thanks to all these guys for all the amazing videos. - Translation updates thanks to @Kondorito, @Bardock, @Cauptain, and @Opak

Thanks all, I have all these translation updates in the beta that is going up right now. @Cauptain I did notice that there have been some further changes since your last translation package.

I should have made that more clear.

Very cool @RetroHumanoid. Honestly we need a way of automatically downloading platform and playlist images. Currently the only thing we have is what's included with the LaunchBox download, and of course I have to keep that small so we only include banners and clear logos. So fanart will have to remain as a download on the forums for now.

Those indeed would be handy, but they probably won't make it in as automatically-created playlists. We need a way to use the MAME data to filter them, and I don't immediately know how that would be done for those two categories.

I'm currently going through @Padou's theme videos here on the forums and I'm finding some amazing vids, including some great vids that will match up with some of the new playlists perfectly. Can't wait to get these uploaded.

Looking awesome my friend. The only thing I'd say is that it's probably best not to start with the LaunchBox logo, since people move through platforms quickly and want to see gameplay or relevant playlist info early on in the vid.

Killer. Thank you Retro. Thankfully there's no reason to tie the videos in with the 8.6 release, since we can upload them to show up in the video downloader at any time. I'm glad we have the clear logos done though, because they do tie in with the release and I'm hoping to release the official 8.6 version here in the next few days.

I have all the clear logos integrated into LaunchBox as defaults for the next beta. Anyone who wants to can feel free to create additional ones as they're not set in stone, but I think RetroHumanoid has done an absolutely amazing job on them. The next goal of course is to get some theme videos created for "Ball & Paddle Games", "Maze Games", and "MultiGames", and then some additional video options for the existing ones as well if anyone is interested. Thank you all once again.