Jason Carr

@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.

This is definitely something we need, but we need to add a bunch more related options so that the default images are completely customizable. So this is coming, but it might be a bit yet.

This issue is unfortunately going to be extremely difficult to troubleshoot and resolve, largely because it seems to be only happening on your system and I can't reproduce it. It's even weirder that it's only happening on first launch. Does it happen if you boot up the computer, and let it sit there for 10 minutes before launching Big Box?

Hey all, I'm very sorry for the delays and breaks from streaming, etc. This summer has just been insane for me. Anyways, I do have a new beta out for you guys. I've been working on the alternate titles stuff for like a week now, and I have alternate title combining working properly for both imports and ROM consolidation. It honestly proved to be much more of a pain than I expected, but I think it's mostly there. I'll go through the rest of this thread here shortly.

I have seen that before. I'll check that out Monkus.

Just put out beta 6 with steam banner support and the Star Wars-style Big Box Wall View (though it probably still won't be the final version).

That's odd, though unfortunately it sounds like some kind of odd incompatibility with video drivers and the latest version of .NET, or something along those lines. Anyone else seeing anything similar to this? I would try grabbing all Windows updates and video driver updates, etc.

Hi Wolf, in my testing Big Box is blocking any input while loading up a game, at least while the loading pop up is visible. However, I have seen some focus issues if keys continue to be pressed after the popup goes away and the emulator is still loading. I'll come back to this and see what I can do to address it here soon.