Jason Carr

Hi Shady, my apologies for the trouble there. I'm finding that it's very difficult to find a good option to use in this scenario; as of yet I'm not really aware of a feasible option for people without credit cards outside of the US, sadly. Bitcoin should work but I'm not an expert on how it all works, other than I do know that you would need to purchase a partial bitcoin in order to get $20 worth. My apologies, I'm still researching to try and find a better solution. Let me know if you know of anything and I'll see if there's a way for us to implement it.

Thanks Blugost. I'll review the ticket here soon. I think using a video would definitely be the best approach, but of course videos can't be transparent. You can of course make your own elements, but how to do it depends on what you're trying to create. For time and date, I'll probably have to add controls for it.

Or use Tools > Manage Platforms in LaunchBox.

Me too @polygonslayer! Thanks again @smallsbig.

Yeah, such is the typical approach for a community-moderated database. I am working on a way to batch upload things, though (or at least I have that on my to-do list), but that will only be available to me and possibly some other trusted people.

Hi tribe, first off, try upgrading to the latest beta version, as I suspect that it will solve your problems.

Thanks @kmoney. I remember having trouble finding a simple but perfect shader like that. Makes sense that you had to tweak one. Why doesn't one come exactly like that? Lol.

Woah, I missed a whole page, sigh lol.

Lols. Awesome video @dovella. Put that in the new Videos section if you can.

Hi @elborra, there is what's considered the "correct" platform name for each platform and we use alternate platform names in order to match them up as best we can. We also have the "Scrape As" option so I agree that it would make the most sense to change this to support those implementations. I'll see if I can tweak this soon.

@kev25b I don't really know of a good way to fix this, as Big Box just behaves the way standard Windows apps should behave when dealing with focus issues. If another app is stealing the focus, I'm not sure if there is a good way to fix it.

Thank you @snarfo67, I really appreciate your kind words there. Made for really good prep for the live stream here. @Mute64, hmm, that's interesting. I very faintly remember something about that from a long time ago. Certainly isn't by design, so I guess we'll call it a bug. I'll have to look into it.

What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. Romans 8:31-34 (NLT) Lord, be my direction, my guide, my will, my hope, and my focus today. Your love is endless and amazing, and I will worry about nothing since you are guiding my path. Your mercy knows no bounds, and your grace is more than enough for me. I want nothing more than to follow you today.

Specifically though, I hadn't seen what could really be done with 1080p video snaps and shaders, and man oh man, I love the way @kmoney's video looks with the scanlines. By the way, what shaders are you using @kmoney? @Riffman81, just caught your edit. That is very, very exciting. The thought of 1080p snaps for all the games makes me giddy.

Killer! Sounds great @Riffman81. I know @circo was doing some awesome work on the 3D platform videos; I'd love to see some more of those as well.

Very nice Cid. Hopefully I can get that wheel in this coming week.

Sorry guys, I botched the update process. Sometimes I just move too quickly in putting out the beta updates. It should be fixed now.

Makes sense. I like @lordmonkus's idea as well. I'm thinking something similar to Cid's recorded Hyperspin themes stuff would work pretty well.

Hi @Lurkon, wow I didn't even know it was possible to display background images as videos. I suspect the distinction is because of the caching/resizing being done by WPF in order to keep things performant, but I am surpised to see that artifacting. I'll take a look to see if there's anything I can do to improve the quality. It's odd that I haven't noticed that with any other images.

Thank you @Blugost. Let me know if you or anyone else gets back to this and needs any additional theming features in order to make this happen. I'll be coming out with better documentation here soon as well as more tutorials, but the easiest way to add more features for theming is by request.

@DOS76 Do you have any light to shed on this? What is the current state of Lightspeed? Is it broken?

Great to hear. Thanks @Zsolan.

Hi @subatomic09, I never did implement this but I do have more advanced search features on my list. There's a Bitbucket ticket for it if you want to go vote it up.