Jason Carr

Thank you @DOS76. Good to know that this has to do with startup videos. Do you know if this has been happening the whole time or is it new for this beta?

@Riffman81 You will likely have to reimport, yes; though you should be able to keep all your existing images and media. We might build a tool to migrate games but that probably won't be there for v1. Also, for v1 we won't be handling the case where names are different, but hopefully we can add that in going forward.

No problem @stmyhell; just resent your license to your email.

Thank goodness, according to @CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT, the weird null reference bugs and random lockups are indeed fixed, and were apparently due to the previous version of VLC. I'm a bit scared to celebrate, but holy crap was I glad to hear that lol. Anyways, tomorrow and Friday I'll be working on fixing more bugs and tweaking imports to divide up the games into multiple ROMs per game.

Name: LaunchBox 7.6 Released and We Need Your Vote! - 2017/01/28 - LaunchBox News and Updates Category: News and Entertainment Date Added: 2017-02-02 Submitter: Jason Carr We need your vote on upcoming features! Vote here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/launch... CriticalCid's CriticalZone Theme: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/file... Startup Videos: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/file... LaunchBox: https://www.launchbox-app.com/ Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/launchbox Our Forums: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/launchboxapp Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/launchboxapp Our Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jasondavidcarr Our Discord: https://discord.gg/X3Cwsyw Big Box Cinematix Video Themes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNg... LaunchBox Version 7.6 is out with the following changes: Improvement: CriticalCid has updated his amazing CriticalZone theme (included with Big Box) for better performance and two new games views! Improvement: A new option has been added to the Big Box General options to specify whether or not you want to hide the taskbar while Big Box is running Improvement: New options have been added to the Big Box General options to specify whether or not you want to remember the last platform used and the last game used for each platform Improvement: Updated the list of Patreon producers in the About form! Thank you so very much to all contributors. Improvement: Added ActiveGame and ActivePlatform properties for use in Big Box custom themes that behave the same as SelectedGame and SelectedPlatform, but are delayed until an item is fully selected Improvement: Improved the performance of scrolling platform notes in Big Box Improvement: A new %gameid% variable can be used when launching emulators to help with game identification Improvement: New Dutch translation is available thanks to Bardock on the forums Fixed: Startup videos were not working properly on 32-bit systems Fixed: When using the text filters view in Big Box, the first selected filter was not populating details for the filter (introduced in 7.5) Fixed: The audit tool was sometimes missing a few games from your collection Fixed: Additional stability issues in Big Box with the "prioritize music over video audio" option LaunchBox 7.6 Released and We Need Your Vote! - 2017/01/28 - LaunchBox News and Updates

Name: LaunchBox 7.5 Released! Audits, Startup Videos, Themes! - 2017/01/20 - LaunchBox News and Updates Category: News and Entertainment Date Added: 2017-02-02 Submitter: Jason Carr LaunchBox Big Box Updated 7.5. Two New Themes. First Skype Call on Friday 20th at 4pm. Update for LaunchBox for MS-DOS to version 1.1. Added LaunchBox Startup Videos! LaunchBox: https://www.launchbox-app.com/ Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/launchbox Our Forums: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/launchboxapp Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/launchboxapp Our Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jasondavidcarr Our Discord: https://discord.gg/X3Cwsyw Wood Hawker's Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/BeatEmUps Big Box Cinematix Video Themes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNg... LaunchBox for MS-DOS Special Edition 1.1 - http://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic... dmjohn0x's startup video - http://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic... Grilla's Classic Mini Theme - http://forums.launchbox-app.com/files... Faeran's RetroFresh Theme - http://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic... Jason's Music - https://jasoncarr.bandcamp.com/ LaunchBox 7.5 Released! Audits, Startup Videos, Themes! - 2017/01/20 - LaunchBox News and Updates

Thank you @dannyg86; would you mind zipping up your LaunchBox\Data folder? You can either upload it here or email it to me at jason@unbrokensoftware.com. Thanks!

I just changed the default theme from light to dark.

Yup! Theme drop down at the very bottom of the page.

Name: LaunchBox Big Box 7.4 Demo with CriticalZone City Hunter Theme Category: Demos Date Added: 2017-02-02 Submitter: Jason Carr Check out a fairly lengthy demo of LaunchBox Big Box 7.4! Download the CriticalZone City Hunter theme here: LaunchBox Big Box 7.4 Demo with CriticalZone City Hunter Theme

@stevep Sorry to hear that; I agree that we need to implement rotation. If you'd prefer, I'm more than happy to send you a refund.

Oh, ha, actually that's not quite what I meant. I meant put *all* apps and ROMs in the new interface instead of having one main one and the rest as "additional".

Yeah, additional ROMs and apps is probably the most clear (though it is a bit long). Game Preference feels like it's a bit too difficult to know what that means at first glance. One trick here is that it feels like we should have originally separated out applications and ROMs from the beginning, instead of calling them "additional". So that's another issue; I'm tempted to remove the first tab on the Add/Edit game window and put everything under Apps/ROMs.

True, but I still appreciate posts about them because then I know who got the bug and can ask questions to help get it fixed.

Questions and discussion surrounding the beta. Bugs can benefit from separate threads because I can respond with questions about the bug, and it'll be a lot cleaner of an approach.

Yeah, unfortunately that's a separate thing @lordmonkus.

If you would please, guys, put bugs into separate threads, because I can already start to see this one getting out of control lol. I've subscribed to the entire forum so I should see anything you put in this forum.

I'm planning to group anything that has the same game title into the same game, but it will be optional. For v1, we're gonna look at file names, and if they match sans for the extras, they will be grouped.

This doesn't have to do with bulk, no, at least if I'm understanding you correctly.

Can you test to see if it has to do with music or videos? Try turning off auto-play videos and/or auto-play music. Actually, the safest thing to do would be to switch to WMP for video playback. Then if it still happens, we know it's the VLC music playback.

And here's the new thread for 7.7-beta-3: Thanks again all. And goodbye 94-page thread of despair.

Hey guys, new beta is out. In the live stream we figured out that VLC had a bug in the 2.2.3 version that we were using with MP3 playback, which very well could have been cause for some of the errors and freezes. Just put out a new beta with an updated version of VLC; we'll see how it goes. Also in this new beta, I've wrapped up the Additional Applications screen for all the new fields and some new functionality. For example, you can now select a particular emulator for each app. Next steps will be of course to modify the import process, though there's one thing I'm currently not happy with: the name Additional Applications. It doesn't really seem to fit for ROM versions and such. Anybody have any ideas there as to what to call them going forward?

Thanks @DOS76 and @Zombeaver. So this thread is getting a bit unruly. I don't mind the length of it, but I'm going insane trying to follow all the different topics at once. So I've created a new forum here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/forum/83-beta-testing/ I will be creating a new thread for each beta release going forward. Gonna create a new one for this beta release as well. If possible, if you guys could create a new, separate thread for any outstanding issues you're having (including anything I haven't answered yet in this thread), I'd really appreciate it. I think I'm going to go ahead and close this thread for my own sanity. Going forward, you will probably want to subscribe to the entire Beta Testing forum, so that you get notified when I put out a new beta. You can do this by clicking the Follow button in the upper right of the forum page I linked above. Thanks for bearing with me on this everybody, and sorry for the sudden change of heart lol.

Gotcha; that is almost certainly the cause, I would think. It would be nice to get it fixed but I'd need the device to figure it out, and sadly I can't order 100 different Chinese knockoffs for testing.

Hey guys, new beta is out. In the live stream we figured out that VLC had a bug in the 2.2.3 version that we were using with MP3 playback, which very well could have been cause for some of the errors and freezes. Just put out a new beta with an updated version of VLC; we'll see how it goes. Also in this new beta, I've wrapped up the Additional Applications screen for all the new fields and some new functionality. For example, you can now select a particular emulator for each app. Next steps will be of course to modify the import process, though there's one thing I'm currently not happy with: the name Additional Applications. It doesn't really seem to fit for ROM versions and such. Anybody have any ideas there as to what to call them going forward? I'll go back through this thread here shortly.