Jason Carr

Hmm, that certainly shouldn't be happening and it's the first I'm hearing about it, so it must be some kind of odd fluke with your setup. Do you use Windows Media Player or VLC for the video playback engine?

Odd. Is it still happening after a reboot? Does it only happen with certain DPI scaling settings? Is it happening for all grids with check boxes or just that one? I'm guessing it's because the rows are sized really small, but I'm not sure why that would be.

Thanks @Zombeaver; I haven't fixed that bug yet but it is on my shortlist for before 7.8. I also have getting those vids in the app planned before 7.8 as well. Per the playlist media, I'm tempted to rename the categories so that the existing Platforms categories support both platforms and playlists. Thoughts?

Thanks @ALIE; I see what I did wrong there. I'll fix it for the next beta.

Wow, that's interesting. I'll take a look to see what I can do about that; if that's the case, I'm surprised it hasn't come up before.

No kidding, it's amazing how hard Coverflow type stuff is on hardware. The biggest trick is to use cached and resized images, yup. As neat as it would be to integrate Unity into Big Box, I don't think that would work out so well. It's another huge library, and we'd lose out on all the theming stuff, etc. It's good to see that there's a Blender converter though; that's awesome. So hopefully we can use something like that and use XAML for the animation.

Yup, thanks, I've noted that @hackenbacker. Hopefully we can do something with that soon.

Before we're done, there will be a package available on the forums to download all the arcade playlists and they should just work with an existing collection by dropping them into the playlists folder.

@nikeymikey Use the Issues/Requests link in the header.

Yeah, but I've never seen it cause weird folder issues like that; that still puzzles me a bit. Also, LaunchBox goes out of its way *not* to cause problems like that if possible. For instance, only XML files that actually change get updated, and files are always refreshed before rewriting them. That way, it shouldn't cause any issues to have two copies of LaunchBox open on two different computers. So I honestly don't know what might have happened to cause all that trouble.

Very nice @zannyuk!

Wow, amazing work. The next step would be to figure out how to export from Unity or Blender to XAML, but I'm guessing that's gonna be tough lol.

Ugh. Sorry to hear about all that @MichaelBolton. Honestly I haven't tried using Amazon to sync anything this complicated before. I will say that I tried using Google Drive a while back and it was horribly buggy, so I know that some of the cloud service providers don't do a good job with the file sync stuff. I swear by Dropbox because it just works; that's what I personally use for my own collection and I never see any problems.

I see; it's hard to tell what happened without seeing how things were done to begin with. Glad you got it mostly figured out though.

Sorry guys lol. Whoops. I just hit..."the button". @DR9, the latest beta wasn't out until just now.

Yeah, we'll probably need to add something for this in the future. Probably deserves a ticket.

Beta 9 is here guys:

Beta 9 is out, guys. The platform theme video downloader now supports both platforms and playlists (yay for playlist theme videos!), and Big Box now has key mappings and controller button settings for switching to any view type (platforms, playlists, genres, etc.). Also, I'm really hoping the LaunchBox side bar sorting bug is fixed. We went through it in the live stream this morning, and I gave it my best guess (I still can't replicate it), so we shall see. Let me know. Here's the remaining to-do list for playlists: - Adding games to playlists from within Big Box - A new tab in the playlist add/edit window to display the games in a grid for custom sorting - Custom ordering for playlist items (needed?), currently uses the same ordering as everything else - Auto-populating of certain playlists on imports (such as Capcom Classics, Namco Classics, etc. for the Arcade platform) Thanks all.

Thanks for the error reports and all the troubleshooting @Norfair; much appreciated. I'll be putting out the next beta shortly which I'm hoping will fix the sorting issue (per what we tackled in the live stream); we'll see.

That's exactly where they should be showing up, in that drop down. What custom fields do you have in your collection?

Hi @Mrtots, great to hear about the playlists. I'm confused what you mean in your second paragraph though, can you explain? Specifically, a "playlist that has been given a platform"?

Ah, that is something I hadn't thought about @nikeymikey. Yes, the bulk edit will only update the emulator on the main default ROM, not all the additional applications. So, hmm. You'd probably be best off just deleting the games and re-importing them. You can keep all your media and not download any media the second time, which should make it pretty quick to just re-import.

Not currently, unfortunately. I'll just go ahead and send you a license for your troubles though @Zenesis. Thanks for bearing with us. I'm still in talks with Stripe over what the problem is. Email me at jason@unbrokensoftware.com with your full name and the email you want to use and I'll send it out.

Awesome, yeah, I'd love to see 3D boxes and carts/disks and stuff in Big Box; that is somewhat of a dream of mine as well. WPF will certainly support it, though I'm sure there are plenty of challenges to conquer to make it happen. But getting the 3D models and images in place is definitely the first step!

Hi oxJRxo, does the XML file actually include all of the games if you open it up in a text editor?