Jason Carr

That is by design. But if it bothers people we can certainly change it.

Interesting. I don't have a solution to that, unfortunately. It sounds like it would be a coding issue with the emulator itself. Unfortunately there's no way for LaunchBox to tell an emulator to log in first, and then load up the game.

I may have already added it. Just added it to a bunch of threads. Not sure if I caught that one; just used the search.

@Luis_Shredding I'm not fully following. Can you explain exactly what is happening?

Also, Scott over at Retro Achievements just fixed Sega Genesis and Master System! So we should be good to go there now.

Quick update, folks, Scott over at Retro Achievements just fixed Sega Genesis and Master System! So we should be good to go there now.

Quick update, folks, Scott over at Retro Achievements just fixed Sega Genesis and Master System! So we should be good to go there now.

Yes, this is a thing depending on your font configuration and if you have the side bar sized really tiny. At the time I figured you could just make it bigger lol, though I know it certainly could be better. Just wasn't a high priority at the time...

Quick update, folks; Scott over at Retro Achievements just fixed Sega Genesis and Master System! So we should be good to go there now.

Oh hahahaha. Sorry I didn't get it @drphobus. I can be dense sometimes.

It does take some significant time for large collections when doing all games. It's most likely not stuck, just needs more time.

This is because going left or right in Big Box just adds or subtracts 0.5 to or from the current value. If you want to reset it to 0.5 increments, just go all the way to the right or all the way to the left, which should set it to 5.0 or 0.0. Then the increments will be back to normal.

That has nothing to do with LaunchBox vs. Big Box; it's a relic from the betas. If you run the Download Metadata and Media wizard for all your games it should be fixed.

What frontend is that @drphobus? Pretty sure we have the fastest developed frontend out there right now...

Well that's odd; can you zip up and send me your LaunchBox\Data folder @Nyny77 (via PM)?

Do you mean how we're going to integrate it? I still have to define that myself so I'm honestly not quite sure. Open to feedback.

What theme are you using? Are you building your own custom theme?

I have seen it lock up once myself as well. It's so rare though that it's been a real pain to hunt down. I've been running it on three machines 24/7 since the release and it's only locked up once lol. Still trying to reproduce it with some extra logging that I've added to see if I can fix it and put out a quick fix release.

This is in line with the same types of things we experienced back when we were dealing with all the VLC freeze-ups and developing the VLC engine for Big Box. Most likely it has to do with disposing and/or initializing VLC videos and the order that things are initialized. We have some stupid complicated code in place for the official Big Box code that ensures that everything happens in the right order. I'll share that code with @eatkinola to see if we can resolve it. I would still like to integrate the plugin code with Big Box though.

Where are you looking for them in Big Box?

It might be worth trying Retroarch instead. Other than that, I haven't tested that stuff myself (yet) so I'm not sure.

My guess is that it's a Windows DPI issue (incompatible with older emulators). You might have to use Retroarch instead or use a different NES emulator that supports it, if another one is available.

Question for you guys. I've been testing the 7.15 official release for stability on three separate machines for days now. Shortly after I released 7.15 I somehow managed to get it to force close once. However, I've been running it for days since then and I haven't been able to get it to do that again at all. A Windows Update ran on that machine after the force close, so I'm wondering if maybe Microsoft fixed a bug or something. Has anyone seen any Big Box force closes since the official release? Please keep in mind that there are a few themes out there (especially older versions) that do cause their own lockups (due to one of the plugins), so it's important to note what theme and version of the theme that you're running if you do run into one.

Yes, something like that is planned, though I need to do a bit of restructuring in order to make it happen. It's not exactly easy due to dynamic auto-populating playlists which make it difficult to quickly recognize when they've been changed. This is already possible just by going to all games and choosing selecting them all, then running the wizard. In the future I would like to make this more of an automated process, but for now it should work fine just to run the wizard with all games selected. Yeah, I think perhaps Download Metadata and Media is not always updating platform metadata like it should. I'll look into that. But yes, it's easy to update community star ratings for one platform just by selecting all games for that platform and running the wizard.

Certainly a possibility for the future @Xirvet. I'll probably add that to the next poll.