Jason Carr

nyny77 said Magnific with the wheels ! thank you Videos system shortly ? Congratulation @nyny77, do you mean platform videos?

DOS76 said I have a strange occurrence with BigBox while using the new Platform view and the Coverflow the letter picker isn't working but only when I'm on the Game Boy Advance platform everything else is working fine so for only one platform not to work is very weird. It scrolls normally through the individual games but once I try the letter pick it goes back to the 1st game I have that uses a symbol in the title and no matter what letter you put it on it only displays the one box. Thanks, Derek, as usual I can't reproduce. Hopefully I can though if you can send me your LaunchBox.xml file. jasondavidcarr@gmail.com Thanks!

d3cyph3r said The wheel is absolutely stunning! Only issue I have is that some platforms have generic names instead of wheel art. Is there a place I could put my old HS wheel art in for the missing systems? Hi @d3cyph3r, you can use Tools > Manage Platforms in LaunchBox to specify the Clear Logo image for each platform. Then you'll need to refresh the images in Big Box under Options > Image Cache > Refresh Platform Wheel Images.

Thanks all, new beta is out with a bunch of Big Box bug fixes and performance improvements. Also has an updated French translation thanks to @Wattoo. Also added an option to allow exit while unlocked (under Security in the Big Box options). And options to clear the various image caches (under Image Cache in the options). I specifically addressed some of the issues with the VLC video playback engine. Both performance and glitches (like the videos still playing if you move too quickly).

Hmm, that's an odd error @gizmo. I'm guessing that somehow the permissions in your user folder got messed up. Is this the first time you're installing on this machine? You can try running the setup as an administrator, but I'm afraid if your permissions are messed up it might have an issue in LaunchBox as well.

You can manually add images via Manage Platforms.

Thank you Ricky; I have the first couple of issues fixed; streaming live right now. The VLC video playback engine issues are proving to be a royal pain to fix, but I'll be coming back to those soon. For now you might be able to switch to the Windows Media Player video playback engine to help fix the issues. Thanks! Jason

Thank you all. Just put out a new beta with the Hyperspin-like clear logo wheel view for platforms (as well as the new options for coverflow opacity and image quality, etc.). Going forward I'm going to take a break from the new views for a bit to focus on fixing bugs and downloading updated metadata in LaunchBox. There's still a million things that can be done yet with the views; we may or may not get back to them before the 6.0 release. I'm hoping to accelerate that release a bit just to get these new Big Box features out.

Beta 6 just went up. :)

Hi @dimercu9, thanks for the purchase and sorry for the trouble. Have you received the emails yet? I'm looking at the email logs and it appears that they all were sent. Email me at jasondavidcarr@gmail.com and I can re-send again if you need. :)

"Best" is subjective. As far as I'm concerned, if you can't trust the results that an anti-virus program gives you because it gives you too many false positives, then your anti-virus is worthless. These anti-virus companies aren't held responsible for false positives, so many of them try to find everything under the sun and scream at the drop of a hat. Like the boy who cried wolf, users will end up accepting too many false positives and not even know when they have a real virus.

How could I forget!? Sorry guys. And the winners are... 1. @Cebion 2. @FistyDollars 3. @HardcoreHubz @Ruester, you were number 4, but you put in such a great effort, I'll go ahead and give all four of you a forever license. Please send an email to me at jasondavidcarr@gmail.com with info on who you want the license to go out to (name and email). Thanks! :)

Awesome to hear guys, thanks. I started the process to enable donations on YouTube but Google's system was crapping out on me. I'll revisit soon. :)

Hi @anyany, send me your LaunchBox.xml to jasondavidcarr@gmail.com and I'll look into what the problem might be. Thanks! :)

Yes, there will be pirates. I've chosen not to cripple the software with DRM and just deal with them. I did take some extra measures in 5.8+ to help prevent people from cracking the software, but other than that I do not plan to wage war on the pirates. We continue to gain the respect of the community, pirates and non-pirates alike, by choosing a DRM-free approach, and many would-be pirates have actually purchased the software due to our decisions. That said, cancer is cancer, and pirates are pirates. However, I know better than to believe I can ever truly eliminate piracy, and I know better than to waste time trying to, all while pissing off paying customers due to crippled DRM-laden software. Thanks for the report though, @anyany. As far as I know, no one has cracked or released any version past 5.7.

Hi @ptoleary, email me at jasondavidcarr@gmail.com with the email you used when you purchased your license and I can re-send it out. :)

Thank you @dukeemu! I can get an Italian translation package out for you soon. Hopefully before the end of the week. See Brad's translation thread link above for details. :)

Hi reddingmyst, email me at jasondavidcarr@gmail.com and I can re-send out your license file. The download email should work fine but every once in a while the email provider takes longer than it should. Let me know if you still haven't gotten the email.

2 years!? Holy crap lol. Maybe it's time we started a new thread. ;)

FistyDollars, we've actually only been using the local XML database ever since we moved away from TheGamesDB.net. I've just been updating it from the live data every time we put out a new version of LaunchBox. Fixing that is the first order of business next week when I get back into LaunchBox development (still on Big Box). Basically, I plan to provide a daily metadata update from the live data instead of constantly searching the live data directly, because it's just so much faster to do it all locally.

Hi guys, believe it or not, the data in LaunchBox isn't yet coming live from the LaunchBox Games Database. It's all local in the local XML database (sans for the images, which are downloaded from the site). I've been updating the local XML from the site when I put out new versions of LaunchBox. When I get back into LaunchBox development next week (currently working on Big Box stuff), I'm first going to implement a way to batch download/update all metadata from the LaunchBox Games Database, so you can use the latest data in LaunchBox. Having the metadata all locally significantly helps to speed up the import/update processes, so I plan to keep this approach going forward, but will be providing an automated way to download daily updates. Hope that makes sense, let me know if not.

New beta is out with the fruits of the live development session yesterday (and of course some work today as well). Both new views have alpha-numeric navigation and there's a new option to switch between views with a hotkey (you'll have to configure it in options because it's blank by default). As typical this early on in the beta releases, all is still up for discussion. I plan to spend the rest of the week on Big Box development and then get started on LaunchBox Games Database integration with LaunchBox itself next week. Obviously there is lots more development to do from all fronts before we drop 6.0. I will also be developing live on Twitch tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 9:30 AM PST. Yesterday's live session went really well so I'm excited to do it again. :)

Thank you all. I like the idea for CoverFlow reflection opacity options, and @shinra358, I love that view idea. Hopefully I can tackle something at least similar to that before 6.0. We'll see how things go. :) @Drybonz, thanks for the video. What video playback engine are you using (sorry if you've already answered that)? Do you have the same problem if you switch engines?

Hi @tibic, try changing your video playback engine. If you're using Windows Media Player, it may be that you need a codec installed as well.

I'd be willing to bet that particular user was confused. I've scanned everything up and down with Windows Defender and it found no issues.