Jason Carr

Thank you guys, yes, there are some issues here that I am working with @circo to fix.

Thank you guys; this would be relatively easy to do. Can someone put in a Bitbucket ticket for it using Issues/Requests?

There are a couple other options; you can use the Delete key at the end of the Steam import wizard to remove the games you don't want. For non-Steam games you can also just manually add them one by one and point to the application's EXE. Not the quickest though I know, so monkus probably has the best solution.

Ah, I see. I'm sorry, I was confusing the FilterDetailsView with the GameDetailsView. I get it now; so hmm, I guess the best solution would be to not use the FilterDetailsView at all and manually add whatever data you want using the new data binding features. Would that work?

Thank you @Styphelus!

Thanks @Evil_Orko; I believe we do have a ticket for this in Bitbucket.

Hi @alesego, unfortunately I haven't added searching yet for changes status, same for making changes once they're in the queue. Still a lot to do on the LaunchBox Games Database, which is why it's still Alpha.

Great to hear, @McSquid. Thanks for the update.

Hi @xmas unfortunately that is normal for the moment. I still need to add support for those extra axes.

Hi Bonoscot, moving the LaunchBox folder works fine if you keep everything inside the LaunchBox folder. Switching drives can cause problems though if you have games and media outside of the LaunchBox folder.

Agreed @DJQuad.

New beta is out guys with voice recognition; that's why I've been MIA for the last 2 days.

@Drybonz Naturally it's easier to focus on Big Box because that's what people are most excited about right now (and also what drives sales). LaunchBox has a lot more features still currently than Big Box as well, which is another reason for the focus. I'm doing my best to implement the most-voted features on Bitbucket primarily, which are also leaning towards Big Box. There's no way I'm going to forget about LaunchBox; that would be ridiculous, but I will continue to implement the most voted tickets and the most important features first, and I don't see that many crucial features to add for LaunchBox currently. What are you hoping for us to add? @Zombeaver The scrolling text getting cut off bugs me too, but I didn't have much luck quickly coming up with a solution that works for all monitor sizes, etc. I may just make it work best for 1080p though and adjust it some. @CriticalCid With the release dates, you can use specific formatting codes directly in the XAML in order to display the dates differently. I think there's an example of this in the PDF, using a format of "d" or something like that. You can look up .NET date formats and that should help. @wallmachine I'm always interested in ways to improve performance. However, I'm doubtful that Hyperspin's code would have any good ideas, to be honest, as everything is drastically different between Big Box and Hyperspin. I wish I had access to your machine in order to test specifically on your machine to determine what the problem was. Remind me what kind of performance you're seeing? I know we've back and forth on this for ages. @RetroArcade and @polymorph77 This is still baffling me; I haven't been able to reproduce disappearing emulators or changing cores. Let me know if anyone has any more details on this.

Sounds like this confusion is all just because the platform names are sometimes changing when downloading metadata updates. If you use custom platform names, be sure not to overwrite metadata in the update wizard. Currently, when changing platforms, media does not move to the new folders, so unfortunately @crimsonnight it's just a matter of moving the media (images and videos) from the old folders to the new folders. I plan to fix both of these issues very soon.

Ah, sure. I think you should be able to modify the FilterDetailsView to hide Notes there. Does that work?

Merged sets would be a major challenge, because it goes against the way LaunchBox sets everything up. But I agree that that would be a great thing to add.

Hi @crimsonnight, look under the Windows platform. Are they there?

That is definitely planned, @mattsoft, should be soon.

And another new beta is out. It was a very productive live stream this morning; we implemented region priorities and then finally got scrolling text working thanks to @silvusvalentine's ScrollingTextBlock control. Region priorities will allow you to prioritize the image regions to make sure that the correct region's image is shown. It will also show the correct image based on the Region field of the game. The scrolling text is now available for the game notes, game details, filter details, and platform details. They can be turned on or disabled in the Game Details, Filter Details, and Platform Details sections in the Big Box options. Lastly, I updated the custom themes documentation to show how to integrate the scrolling text into custom themes.

Not sure for Lightspeed, but the LaunchBox importer uses the LaunchBox\Metadata\Mame.xml file. Sorry if I was misleading earlier; I had forgotten that we were using a separate file for the MAME metadata.

Thank you @wallmachine. I think it's happening sporadically. Will review.

We're working on this slashguns. Should have it all fixed for VLC before the 6.9 official release but it might be a while. I recommend using WMP until we can get the issues squared away.

Alright, it's been quite the night. I was seeing performance issues with Attract Mode after I added all the extra custom themes options, and it took me forever to track it down, but I finally have it fixed. Beta 7 is out with the fix. @Riffman81, yeah, I think we'll be adding that at some point. There is already an option to turn off switching between platforms, though, so that it will always just stick on whatever is selected. So you could just manually select whatever you want and it will stay there.

So I apparently botched the Attract Mode with beta 5 (whoops). Just put out beta 6 to fix that issue. @CriticalCid ReleaseYear is complicated; I need to look into how it works. It's possible that it's a relic that isn't being used. If it is used, it's only populated if the full date is not available, so I can see how that would be confusing. I should probably change up the documentation there somehow. There is a way to show the correct rating banner, but naturally it's complicated and I'll have to look at it. Added both those things to my list.

@shinra358 I still have that on my list. @CriticalCid That's great to hear. Hopefully it eliminates a lot of the confusion.