Jason Carr

HI @Gamer009, the answer is yes to pretty much all of these questions. Marquees in Big Box are flexible enough to use pretty much any kind of image, and Big Box can even prioritize the kinds of images to use. So it's pretty much guaranteed that something will be available to display on your marquee screen for at least close to every game. And yes, LaunchBox by default uses the LaunchBox Games Database to automatically download media for all of your games. It can also download images from EmuMovies, and videos if you pay for an EmuMovies subscription. It's a pretty complete solution at this point.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the update.

@Revan67 I checked the database and you are marked as a moderator. What browser and OS are you using? Are you still not seeing moderation tools? Do you have any plugins installed that could be blocking cookies or session data?

@Opak @Cauptain @dukeemu Thank you guys. I have these translations in for the next beta, which we're hoping to put out later today.

Congratulations Duke!

We're nearing that time again, guys. We actually have some extra time for once, as we've solidified translations and release notes for this next release, but we don't plan to actually release it until next week. But this week is the time to get the translations in for the next release. Thank you all very much! @Offone @Kondorito @Cauptain @Nyny77 @Opak @dukeemu @cyanjiang @Just001Kim @MajKSA @gamehacker @alexposad @k_kutsugi @Bardock @Soomin papa

No problem, my friend. Sorry I'm late to get it added. I've just added it and it should be available in 13.4-beta-3, which we just put out.

Thanks guys, we're noticing some bugs as well. Just FYI, this may not be quite as stable of a beta as we were hoping. Hopefully we can put out a new beta tomorrow to fix the new issues.

We are not hiring for QA at the moment.

This should be fixed now. Let me know if you have any further issues. Thanks!

Custom Platform Marquee Images for 32" Cabinet Marquee Screens View File Hey all, this is a package of 28 (currently) marquee screen images for your platforms and platform categories. It works best with marquee screens on 32" cabinets. All images have a resolution of 1920x360 pixels. Personally, I use them with my Super Pixelcade LCD Marquee screen: https://creativeartsandtechnology.com/product/recroom-lcd/ I use the Rec Room Masters Xtension 32" cabinet version, despite the fact that I my cabinet is not Rec Room Masters (it's custom built, see here): https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/70171-jasons-arcade-cabinet-build Anyways, I could not previously find platform marquee images that I was happy with, so I built custom-built some for myself, and I thought that I should probably share them. Thanks to so many awesome people in the LaunchBox community that have already provided the backgrounds and clear logos that I'm using in these marquee images. In order to use these images, all you have to do is extract the zip file into your LaunchBox\Images folder, and everything should go into the right spot. You may also need to delete some existing platform and platform category banner images in order to make sure that those aren't used instead of these, however. Here's a complete list of all of the marquee images: Enjoy! Submitter Jason Carr Submitted 05/03/2023 Category Platform Banners  

Potentially, we'll consider it for a future release.

I have thought about that, but the problem is the development and administrative overhead that is introduced in having to maintain two releases. We have multiple systems that would need semi-significant coding updates in order to support it. And yes, we could provide just a custom one-off download, but ultimately that risks messing up things like metrics and such, so unfortunately it's not an easy problem to solve.

To be honest, you might not get much help, because I'm not aware of many people who use MESEN around here. I've never used it myself.

I see, yeah, there may be a gap there. Platform metadata fields have admittedly not been much of a focus thus far. I'll put that on our list.

Hi @donarumo, basically, you just need to populate the Scrape As field.

Glad it's working for you. There are lots of options for MAME, so I'm not sure what you're referring to here. We'll need more details in order to be helpful.

@SadLaunchboxUser Are you using the latest version that just came out? Version 13.3? We actually removed the need for a .NET Framework install with this version. We can definitely help you get up and running here. Sorry to hear about this. LaunchBox doesn't usually have these kinds of issues on Windows 11, so it's helpful to us to figure out what's causing it so that we know and can solve it for anyone else in this situation as well.

Thank you guys! I'm getting these translations in for the official release, which should be out later today.

LaunchBox for Android 1.9-beta-2 is out today with the ability to sync game statistics just like the Windows beta: Game statistics can now be synced between your various collections in LaunchBox for Windows and/or LaunchBox for Android Favorites, Completed, Last Played, Play Time, Play Count, and Star Rating can all be synced via your LaunchBox Games Database account. To enable, select the Sync Status item in the LaunchBox for Android main menu. Any testing would be very much appreciated, as we're hoping to release both the new Windows and Android versions next week.

Thanks, I'll put this on the list. Most likely this is a RAM issue. Unfortunately the Shield devices are rather low on RAM. If Android determines that it's running out of RAM, it will kill other apps in the background. So unfortunately, other than us trying to reduce RAM usage, there's probably not a lot we can do there.

Wonderful! I can confirm that we received it. We'll be reaching out to you soon.

Hey all, it's that time once again. We're hoping to put out the next official release later this week. My apologies that we missed the weekend this time. The translation packages are all ready to go. Thank you all very much. @Offone @Kondorito @Cauptain @Nyny77 @Opak @dukeemu @cyanjiang @Just001Kim @MajKSA @gamehacker @alexposad @k_kutsugi @Bardock @Soomin papa

Alright, the bugs with the one-off records that were in limbo have been fixed. The issues were: Trying to insert a new game or update the title of a game to a value that conflicts with an existing game (a game already exists with the same title and platform) Trying to insert a new alternate title on a game that no longer exists Trying to insert a new game with an invalid release date In the case where a change has invalid data (such as the above), and cannot be promoted (made live), then the record is ultimately just disregarded, even though it was approved. So it's worth noting that for these rare one-off inappropriate or invalid changes, they will just be disregarded. We had around 10 of these changes that were in limbo.