Jason Carr

The problem with this approach (and the reason why the boxes are needed) is the fanart. White text, even with a shadow, just doesn't work well against the wide array of possible fanart backgrounds.

Okay, good to know. I'll give RDP a test.

I love feature requests and I certainly don't mind reminders (because I often need them, admittedly). The only thing that tends to rub me the wrong way is comments like "this is ridiculous that this has not been implemented" or "until you implement this the product is useless". I get a lot of that and honestly it drives me nuts lol.

Lol, wow. For what it's worth I do plan to do my best to tackle the issue of preventing people from launching multiple emulator instances when spamming the play button. I have actually attempted to fix this in the past, but apparently I didn't tackle it well enough. I'll tackle it when I tackle the startup screen item from the poll. It's actually not re-generating the thumbnails at that point; it's just reloading the cached images (unless you've used the slider to resize the boxes or something). LaunchBox.Next does use a lot less RAM than the old version of LaunchBox, and admittedly the boxes don't always load up quite as fast. I may address this eventually, but it's a trade off either way.

I am human, and LaunchBox is my passion. So yes, I take criticism very seriously. It ends here or there will be consequences, because I just don't need the negativity in my day; I'd rather spend my time being productive and developing.

I haven't, though that's a good reminder. I'll add it to the shortlist (though admittedly it's likely to be a challenge to solve). You mean the item from the poll? It's on the radar of course but we haven't started it yet. To be completely honest, I didn't feel like it deserved a response. I very much appreciate feature requests and all kinds of feedback, but when it comes across as passive-aggressive dribble, I don't enjoy reading it or responding to it. No matter what you would like to think, your personal thoughts and opinions do not represent the thoughts and opinions of LaunchBox users as a whole. We're doing our best to tackle the most important items that pertain to what we believe the collective community wants. You do have some good thoughts in the above, but it's hard to even find them amidst the insults and complaints.

I am able to replicate this as well; will fix. I'm not quite sure what @neil9000 is getting at there. Keyboards are stupid in that the + and - keys to the left of the Backspace key are different than the + and - keys on the numpad. It's expecting the keys from the numpad, though I know this is confusing. Not sure if there's an easy fix, but I'll check it out.

Beta 5 is out now guys with the following: - Improvement: Zooming in and out has been added to LaunchBox.Next (as well as the slider in the button bar) - Improvement: Games without images in LaunchBox.Next now display the placeholder image instead of no image at all - Improvement: Background image fading has been implemented in LaunchBox.Next My to-do list for LaunchBox.Next is shortening up, but there's a fair bit of miscellaneous things I still need to tackle, as well as Arrange By and the List View, which are the large items that are left on my plate. Still, I'm hoping to be nearing the end in a couple of weeks or so.

Yes, unfortunately not currently, though I know this needs to be implemented. Good to know. I'll look to change this to search for Retroarch anywhere in the title in a future beta. At least at first, we're looking to tackle features that existed in the original version of LaunchBox, so stuff like other image types in the sidebar will need to wait until we get LaunchBox.Next all wrapped up and ready to go. The background colors are matched from the images; there will be an option to turn this off eventually if you don't prefer it this way.

This is due to the original LaunchBox using outdated scaling mechanisms which require a log out before scaling is updated correctly. Since it's fixed in .Next, I probably won't be updating the original LaunchBox version.

I'm guessing this is because of the name of the emulator. What did you name the emulator?

Yeah, not possible yet, but noted.

Beta 4 is out now guys. There's a few smaller-ish (but important) things added for LaunchBox.Next: - Improvement: You can now hide the sidebar in LaunchBox.Next - Improvement: The View and Tools menus have been added to the top right menus in LaunchBox.Next for easier accessibility - Improvement: Keyboard/tab navigation now works properly throughout LaunchBox.Next with proper visual cues On top of that, there's a hopeful fix in for extra command-line options showing up in the core dropdown options when editing the Retroarch emulator. I'll see if we can't fix the non-DLL files showing up for a new beta.

Yes, the issues with multiple files not downloading is because of the EmuMovies API. I have it on my plate to review in detail and send to Circo for a report, to see if he can get it improved. It's not top priority, but it is on the list. Thank you very much @UnderwoodNC.

Alright, I'm locking this thread down because we don't need this turning into a bullying match.

There is no System.Xml file used by LaunchBox, so that's why it's not there. Looking at the error messages, it does look to be caused by the SteamLauncher plugin.

Gotcha. Not quite sure what happened exactly, but glad to hear that it's all working.

@Kremlar It's good that you have a working copy of 7.16; that way we can help narrow it down. First off, make a backup copy of that folder so that we can go back to it if needed. Then we can upgrade one step at a time to see if it helps. I'll PM you a link to the 8.1 setup so you can upgrade it and see if it still works.

Thank you all, good stuff here. I'll be back to this thread here soon as we start on some of this.

Woot! Thank you much. I'll get these into a beta soon.

The above issues should hopefully be fixed guys in the beta I just put out:

Beta 3 is out now guys with hopeful fixes for the above issues, as well as the ability to add custom command lines for Retroarch cores again. The drop down column will handle the core selection, and you can add any extra command line options in the command line column. The dialog should properly split up your existing commands to accommodate the new columns. I will admit that I haven't tested this beta as much as usual (because it's late and I'm tired lol), so fair warning there, but I wanted to get this beta out to resolve the above issues. Let me know how it fares.

I assume this is with the original LaunchBox and not LaunchBox.Next? When I've seen this happen in the past it's been because of an emulator changing resolution, which causes the window to resize. I'm not sure if LaunchBox.Next is affected by the same issue, but at this point we're going to put off any issues like that until we've fully converted over.

Nice! Looks awesome @trellos. That theme does look pretty great.

Yeah, unfortunately the wheels will not work for the game details view. Currently the game details view only works with the text list views. Hopefully we can improve that at some point in the future, but it will admittedly probably be a while before we get there. Yeah, agreed. There should be some various themes that work decent enough, but it would be great to have a theme that's properly optimized for a traditional CRT.