Jason Carr

Sure. The black screen thing is definitely CPU-load related. I may just need to put in a slightly greater delay. Per the details, I'm not sure what the discrepancy would be there. Previously it was always stopped for me when returning from details, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't have been for you, but who knows. I'll come back to that at some point.

You mean after the update?

That's been the case for a while; it's not a new thing. Though I agree that I should put it on the to-do list to change.

Hiding behind the beard and the hair is a real thing.

Yup, just check the box in the LaunchBox options under General > Updates and restart.

I will be at some point @Porl Hendy. Just taking a break. Kinda got burned out because I'm a hermit at heart. You'll never take me away from my code though.

Yup, retro achievements are in Big Box. Look in Keyboard Mappings/Controller Buttons. This was fixed in beta 15, per the above. I just put out beta 16 to fix another issue with music not playing. I introduced that bug in beta 15 while fixing another problem late in the game. Hopefully this'll be the release candidate...

Beta 15 is out now guys. Unless we run into any glaring issues, this will be the last beta before we release the official version tomorrow. I spent some serious time this morning attempting to resolve the remaining issues with prioritizing music over video audio, specifically pertaining to the game details view and going back and forth. There's a million things to catch, but I believe (I hope) I've caught them all. Let me know if anyone sees any further issues there. We'll probably run with this code for the official release regardless, unless I introduced some bugs or something serious. Any testing you guys can do would be appreciated; we're trying to avoid duplicate audio (video and music) and incorrect audio (video vs. music). Furthermore, I believe I've finally fixed the rotten black startup video issue. I was finally able to reproduce it consistently by pegging my CPU to 100% via other apps (lol). And then, figuring out the fix was relatively easy once I was able to reproduce it consistently. So let's hope that issue is solved once and for all. Hooray! Thanks all, here's to a smooth last beta and release.

Unfortunately there's not really any good way to do that right now. I can understand it being bothersome though. Since games are of course still the priority, I can't see us focusing on stuff like that any time soon, but it is noted. I'll see if anyone else requests anything similar. You could also create a Bitbucket ticket to see if it gains any traction.

@Ammonox Tools > Options > Search > Retro Achievements in LaunchBox.

@BlackPixel The arcade divisions are really just playlists, so you can add a playlist and then add the specific games into it.

There could be an issue with duplicate games, but if you close LaunchBox, and then put your images in the right folders and name them correctly, then they should show up for that game the next time you run the app without issues. We know that works properly because if it didn't we'd have everyone all up in arms. You may need to go to Tools > Refresh Images in order to get them to show up if you add them into the folders manually.

Thanks @AVissie. This is a known issue, but is actually caused by the way VLC interprets album art. If all your music files are in a single folder, and there's a folder.jpg in that folder (or something similar), then VLC assumes that that is the album art for all of the music files in that folder. So it's a tricky problem to solve and I haven't looked into it any deeper at this point.

Good to know. All makes sense.

Still, I'm super impressed how quickly you picked it up. The theme is definitely worth some tinkering. Sweet up. @JamesBaker probably knows how to help you get started. I know Adobe Premiere is a fairly important part of it, but it is expensive.

It's possible, but the first thing I would try is disabling LEDBlinky in the LaunchBox settings. It's in LaunchBox under Tools > Options > General > LED Blinky.

@Cood Currently playlists are the only way to save filters, though I can see that being useful. I had planned on coming back to filters at some point to do something of that nature. For now, the hide games method would probably get you the closest to what you're looking for.

@keops Not sure if I'm fully following #1, but you can already batch edit games. Just select all the games to change, and right-click Edit. If you want to change a particular publisher's name, just filter by publisher, select all the games, and batch edit the publisher on them. #2 I'm pretty sure custom fields are already in Big Box in the game details, with an option to turn them on or off. Multiple values are also recognized in custom fields just by adding the field twice when editing them (instead of using a semi-colon). #3 Makes sense. It would probably be good to create a Bitbucket ticket for it using "Help & Support > Request a Feature" in the header.

We have actually seen this elsewhere recently. Do you happen to be using LED Blinky? Apparently Windows Defender just decided out of the blue to have a problem with LED Blinky, and it was causing performance issues in Big Box for some odd reason. It's hard to believe we actually got this one figured out elsewhere lol. Let me know if that seems to be the problem for you as well @Arcade1993. You should be able to just exclude the LED Blinky folder from Windows Defender, I believe.

Hi Martin, there's a setting called "Skip the Game Details View" in Big Box which will allow you to directly play the games without having to go into the details menu, using the same select button. Unfortunately, though, there's currently no option to prevent you from going to the menu with the Back button.

You can indeed add them, but they will be ignored by 7.14. However, I'm expecting to put out 7.15 either tomorrow or Wednesday so it won't be long. Thanks, btw. Loving the theme. If you're up for it I would love to see if we can get some transitions in there for the various elements. I can help with that here soon.

...and beta 14 is out. Had to put out yet another beta because I introduced a bug in saving the themes per platform/playlist.

Sweet. Thank you so much.

Gotcha, all sounds good. Thank you sir. If you're up for it, I'd love to work with you to either get this stuff integrated into Big Box or get the plugin all fixed up. We can tag-team the code if you'd be willing to share it.