Jason Carr

Alright, new beta is out guys. You can now download platform videos from EmuMovies with either the import processes or the metadata update wizard. If all you want to do is download the platform videos, you can select all your games, run the download images and metadata wizard, and just uncheck everything except for the Video_System_Intro_MP4 box for EmuMovies. I still have plenty of bugs to fix and such, but thought I might as well put out what I got in there today. I did find a bug with the image migration process where the platform image folder paths end up looking like this: ..\LaunchBox\Images\.. So that's at the top of my list to address. I think it's been mentioned but for some reason I was dense about it when it came up.

wallmachine said Is there an option for Joystick Profiles? for programs like xpadder to remap keys "on the fly"? Hi @wallmachine, the best solution for this is to use Additional Applications. You can mark them to run before running a game which should work well for Xpadder if you get it configured correctly.

ALIE said Jason Carr said ALIE said i made a custom SNES system launch box has created a folder for it but when importing its not on the list? Can you give me more details, @ALIE? What isn't in what list? Ok i first created a new system called Snes EU Exclusives. I say scrap as SNES. This part I guess was done correctly since a new folder is made in my roms folder. Then I go to Import I find my folder with the European Executive's. And now when picking system I only see the normal Snes I can't pick the new system. Thanks Ali, fixed during the live stream. Beta will be out soon. :)

nyny77 said hi, how to change the position of the plateform video? Thank very much Hi @nyny77, you can toggle between the various platform views now (you'll have to assign a key or a controller button to Switch View if you haven't yet in the Big Box options).

kmoney2315 said My dream has finally come true....platform videos!!!! Great job Jason....they look great! Using windows media player when you enter a platform from the wheels view while a platform video is playing and then exit back into the platform wheels view the video starts back automatically which is great! The issue I am still having is the game videos do not start back automatically when you exit a game until you select another game. Instead of the video starting back when I exit a game, a screenshot will appear that is in my image folder. @kmoney2315 Just fixed this in the live dev stream. Beta isn't out quite yet though. :)

This is a beta release, and I specifically warned that users should back up their collections before upgrading to this series of betas. I'm sorry, we just don't need @sagaopc's negative attitude around here. I'm guessing that he just needed to go to Manage Platforms and check on the folders for the various platforms; I suspect that was the problem. The ban hammer has spoken.

Tony Hawk Bioshock DOOM GTA Max Payne Prince of Persia Quake Thief Tomb Raider Wolfenstein Half-Life King's Quest Super Mario Codemasters racers Portal And a million others I forgot. In no particular order of course... ;)

Thanks @Opaklopper, I'll take a look at those issues. For translation updates, always download the latest one from the first post of this topic before getting started. I put out updated translation packages every time I put out a new beta. :)

Ha, for the first time in my life I can say I'm happy where I'm at and wouldn't really want a game development position. That's pretty awesome (and crazy) because becoming a game developer was a dream of mine since I was 12. But honestly, I think I'm happier doing exactly what I'm doing right now. :D

Wow, that's a cool idea, Stimpy. Unfortunately I don't have any mechanism for gifting right now and it would take a while to figure out and set up. That said, if you want to send me the funds here I can manually send out the license email and name the license for whoever you want: https://plasso.co/jason@unbrokensoftware.com Just send me $20 or $50 for whichever license you want to send them and then you can email me their name and email address (jasondavidcarr@gmail.com) and I can send them the license. :)

The only disadvantage is the scrolling might be a bit slower that way. The RAM cache just makes it so that the images come from RAM instead of from disk when scrolling. You can try re-enabling it; it might have just been a fluke. 350 megs of RAM is normal, yes, and fairly typical these days.

Hi Hypnotoad, that's honestly not typical. Typically what LaunchBox does in the background is prepare an image cache, and while that caching system is running, it's normal for LaunchBox to use a small amount of CPU. But if you've really only got one game, that doesn't make any sense. Try disabling the RAM cache in the options to see if that makes a difference.

I actually think it's a great idea, in theory, but unfortunately in practice it would be much harder to implement. Brad's right that it would take a developer many hours in the code to get familiar with it before likely being very productive adding features from Bitbucket. It's also important to note that before anything can happen, first we have to find an interested developer who is good at what they do, which is surprisingly difficult to find, especially for a contract part-time position. Unfortunately development is also extremely expensive. It's downright amazing that I'm able to do this as my full time job, really. But most new feature tickets on BitBucket would likely be at least $300 to implement if we paid a developer $50 an hour to implement them. Some might even be more than a grand. So I like the idea, but sadly, I don't have much confidence that we'd be able to pull it off. The good news is we're starting to gain enough traffic and income to hire some additional help. I am currently considering some options there; one of them is for me to offload some of the publicity stuff and focus even more on development myself (so that I'm less distracted, ultimately).

Drybonz said Is there a way to start BigBox on your second monitor? If not, this would be a very helpful option to add. @Drybonz that is currently on the to-do list. However, in most cases you can trick Windows into starting on your other monitor by starting it from a window on your secondary monitor (for example, put an icon to Big Box on your desktop on your secondary monitor).

Thanks @imdavid555, there's no option right now to hide the platform banner images, but it would be very easy to do with a custom theme (probably as easy as just deleting a line). It's a good to add the option to fade the wheel in and out; can we add that to Bitbucket? :)

shinra358 By curvature do you mean the CurveAmount property?

shinra358 said After updating, the platform section does not show my edits. Which xaml file controls the platform wheel view now? Edit: Just tried to edit the curvature on every single file with platform in the name in the default theme and not a single one complied with the change. Thanks @shinra358, sorry I should have clarified. If you check the Default theme folder, you'll see some new items there, since I customized all the platform wheel views. The PlatformWheelImageDetailsThumbFiltersView.xaml file is basically the new version of the PlatformWheelFiltersView.xaml file. So I think if you rename PlatformWheelFiltersView.xaml to PlatformWheelImageDetailsThumbFiltersView.xaml you should get your changes back if you're on the right view. :)

Sorry for the trouble @Opaklopper and @m3TTwUrsT. I had an issue with the setup program. A new beta is out that should fix the issue. @Wattoo My apologies, I forgot to update the French translation for this latest beta. So I'll get the updated translation into the next one. :)

knewlife said BETA REPORT: Try to create a new platform named NEC TurboGrafx-16 scraped as TurboGrafx-16, the platform was created but when I try to edit it I get this error: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: La clave proporcionada no se encontró en el diccionario. en System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key) en (AddEditPlatformForm ) en LaunchBox.Forms.AddEditPlatformForm.LoadValues() en LaunchBox.Forms.AddEditPlatformForm..ctor(Platform platform) en (ManagePlatformsForm , Object , EventArgs ) en LaunchBox.Forms.ManagePlatformsForm.editButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) en System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) en LaunchBox.Controls.CustomButton.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) en System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) en System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) en System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) en System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) en System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) Thanks @knewlife, I'll look into that as well.

knewlife said There is some news in the LaunchBox-Rocketlauncher plugin? The guys at RL at bussy with a new update right now but you may know something Jason. I can do some work on the rocketlauncher plugin, don't know how the RocketLauncherUI plugin works, have to check that. I followed up with the guys a few days ago now, but haven't heard back yet. So I expect they got sidetracked for the time being. Hopefully they'll hop back on board soon. :)

ALIE said i made a custom SNES system launch box has created a folder for it but when importing its not on the list? Can you give me more details, @ALIE? What isn't in what list?

Opaklopper said It seems there is a problem with the update. If i change the language to german and restart LB, it's still english. My apologies for that @Opaklopper, I had a problem with the setup program. I tested the setup this time and we should be good to go now. :)

kmoney2315 said I updated to the latest beta and when I try to import some games and call the platform a custom name, the scrape as does not automatically pop up. I have to uncheck the " show default platforms" box to get scrape as to pop up after I have already typed the custom platform name. If I go ahead and uncheck the "show default platforms" box before I type in the custom platform name the scrape as does not automatically pop up either until I check the show default platforms box and uncheck it again. Thanks @kmoney2315, I'll take a look at this next week.

Drybonz said Seems like the site must be getting hammered. Has been really slow lately. My beta download has been sitting on around 30% for about a half hour. As best as I can tell from the server logs, there should be no bandwidth issues since we upgraded to the gigabit connection. We are indeed allowing more bandwidth to go through, and things seem performant from my end, so not sure what might have happened there @Drybonz.

spektor56 said you should show off this user created theme in one of your videos @Jason, it looks very nice: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/big-box-custom-themes/bigbox-user-create-theme-mega-thread-share-your-custom-made-themes/page-5#p20997 Agreed, that theme looks awesome @spektor56. Hopefully we can do a demo video on some more themes soon. :)