Jason Carr

Thanks @DFelten; will review.

We may come back to this at some point in the future. I know it matters quite a bit for Retroarch especially.

I see, thank you @glaymore. I'm guessing this has to do maybe with a corrupted Metadata.xml file. If by chance you can do any further testing, it would be appreciated. Once it happens, take a look at your LaunchBox\Metadata\Metadata.xml file (maybe in a text editor). Or you could attach it here and I can take a look.

Can you guys help me reproduce this? Is it happening on imports only?

Thanks guys, I have this fixed for the next beta. Basically, I changed the games database to use HTTPS and unfortunately broke that connection in LaunchBox without realizing it.

Just put out another new beta to fix a bug I discovered with Attract Mode, which was not behaving properly randomly. I've also tested these new betas on several lower-end machines, including the GPD Win, and the results are pretty drastic performance improvements.

Beta 13 is finally out guys, with some important new improvements. There are two new keyboard and controller button mappings for starting attract mode on demand, as well as spinning the wheel while a particular button or key is pressed, which makes for a fun way to randomly choose a game. More importantly though we have more performance improvements, specifically regarding general browsing and navigation. Transitions when switching between games and platforms should be significantly smoother.

@DFelten and @GreenGriffon, yeah there's definitely lots of improvements to make there yet. For starters we just wanted to make sure that the alternate titles were searching. @DFelten, what's your test for proving that only English names are searched when importing?

Should be perfectly fine as we can distribute the plugin specifically for and with the theme, as long as we have @eatkinola's permission. Gonna be checking this out in the live stream today guys! As always, huge thanks to @CriticalCid. Streaming today at 9:30 AM PST.

The bug was being hit when the CoverFlow reflection opacity was set to zero. You guys may find that performance is plenty good enough now and you can turn it back on.

@lordmonkus Done. New beta is out that fixes the bug that @Omen reported.

Thanks @keltoigael! You mean the forums? I upgraded them last night and had to fix the theme because it got all messed up.

Good to hear. I upgraded it late last night and had to spend an hour putting emergency fixes in because they broke the theme completely lol.

@neil9000 License is on its way. @kmoney I actually had the same thought lol.

Thanks @Omen, I have that fixed for the next beta. @JaysArcade You're right, it is none of your business, but we have in fact been known to give out licenses to moderators. @neil9000, I'd be happy to.

Just put out another new beta guys with more threading-related performance improvements for Big Box. In my testing, Big Box is running smoother than ever, by a long shot in some cases. I'm currently updating my GPD Win to see how it runs on there, but on my relatively lower-end PCs, things seem to be much improved.

@Lmagnus87 We may look to restructure the Tools menu here at some point, yup. @Norfair @DOS76 I believe it should be changing all of the additional apps, yes (the ones with use emulator checked). If it's not then it looks like we have a bug to look into.

Sorry for the delays guys, but I have a new beta out with some good news. Like I've stated elsewhere, we have the new 3D engine in the works as well as a rather large surprise, so that's why I've been more distant. Stay tuned on those things. In the mean time, I have a new beta out that vastly improves Big Box performance with CoverFlow and the wheels. It's worth noting that this does not yet include the new 3D engine; however, I stumbled on a few things today that have really helped with performance. Both are tricks that I randomly discovered while working on the upcoming surprise. Let me know how Big Box performance fairs with this beta.

Neiiiigghhhh,

Hey guys, just a quick update. I am working on two rather large things for the moment; the first is the new 3D engine for Big Box (which is largely @Vlansix's doing but I am working with him to get it integrated), and a rather large new surprise. Rest assured that I am still working hard on things daily. Trust me, there is no concern as to the future of LaunchBox. I will also get back to live streaming here soon.

New beta is out guys, again with the work from the live stream this morning: - A new "Change ROMs Folder Path for Selected Games" option is available under the Tools menu in LaunchBox that will allow you to batch edit ROM folder paths for when you move your ROM files. @Kevin_Flynn There's unfortunately not any logging in place for crashes like that. The best thing to do, if you can, is to PM me a zip of your LaunchBox\Data folder. That way I can test with it and at least make sure that there's not something I can replicate. Do you have any other PCs you can test on? @alondero Unfortunately plugins can cause crashes. There aren't really any good ways to 100% prevent that from happening if a plugin is badly coded.

New beta is out guys with the work from the live stream this morning: - A new "Launch With" option is available for each emulated game in LaunchBox and Big Box that will let you choose an emulator to use on the fly when launching games. This is available via the right-click or Game menu in LaunchBox and via the Game Details menu in Big Box. It can also be hidden in Big Box via the Game Menu options. As I stated on stream, I'm going to take a few days to try and consolidate the logins for the Games DB, the forums, and the www to see if we can bring them all in under the same accounts. This will enable us to do cool stuff like have people brag about their licenses and games database contributions, etc. on the forums. It's also been a major source of confusion having separate logins for the games database, forums, and licenses, so we'll see how it goes.

Interesting. I assume you've tried rebooting and such. Has anyone else experienced this?

Hi @SNAK3ATER, unfortunately there's no way to force that in Big Box currently. The user can customize the image priorities for the category, which should solve it for individual users, but unfortunately that is not currently available for theme creators to tweak. I agree that it would be nice to have though.

This type of functionality is already possible via the image priority settings, however, I do not believe that there are priority settings available for Steam banners. That said, it's easy to tweak the priorities to pull this off already by using one of the existing available image groups.