Jason Carr

I botched that setup guys, it works but there's extra crap in it. Give me a few.

Hey guys, beta 2 is out. I'm hoping it fixes the errors with pins; I wasn't able to reproduce them but I put in safety checks, so let me know. I also fixed the Sort Title issue that Nathan noted. I also finally got around to changing the default game title sorting to ignore "the", "a", and "and". :)

Hehehe, thanks guys. It's amazing how much a little optimized SQL can fix things up. :)

We will probably make becoming a moderator more difficult once we have a good base of moderators. For the moment, though, we can use all the help we can get. Right now we have a total of 27 moderators who have at least moderated once. Obviously we're going to need a lot more in order to keep up without wearing you guys out. We have 76 contributors so far, so hopefully some of them will jump to moderation soon.

Hahaha, very cool @AutumnSounds. That's awesome. :)

Hi @wirtual82, that'd be wonderful! Sorry for the delay in my response. It will take me a bit to get a Polish translation package ready, but I'll put that on my to-do list for this week. :)

Hi @XoRRoX, this sounds like an odd issue that is probably related to your specific controller. What model of controller are you using? Apologies if that's further up in the thread. Unfortunately nothing is really making sense as to why any of that would be happening, based on your description. A video might help, but it's still probably going to be hard to follow without the controller in hand. Unfortunately this is probably gonna be a situation where the only way I'll be able to fix it is if I actually have that particular controller.

Great to hear, Scott, thanks. :)

Sorry everyone missed this, @gamerforhire. Unfortunately a search function does not yet exist for Big Box, largely because of the complication of building a search without a keyboard. I just put out a new beta today that adds alpha-numeric navigation, though.

Agreed. Once we implement the LaunchBox stuff in 6.0 we can look into that.

I smell a spammer.

I'd say I'd rather lean towards being more accepting with this stuff, though we do indeed need to be careful with copyrighted images, as that could land us in hot water. A picture of earth from space is probably a stretch, but obviously Michael Jordan for a Michael Jordan game is less so. I'd rather keep the name "fanart", as that's what it should indeed primarily be.

DOS76 said First try at using the Alpha numeric navigation caused BigBox to lock up and become unusable Crashed the second time too. So far it only crashes on the Atari 2600 games (unknown if that is because the size of the library) when I tried it with my Lynx games it worked perfectly. Tried it again and it only crashed so far with Atari 2600 games which maybe the only roms in this setup that are on a network drive and not a local disk that is the only difference that I see between any of the files. Odd, must be something in that list of games that is causing the crash. Can you send me your current LaunchBox.xml, Derek? jason@unbrokensoftware.com

Platform modifications are on my to-do list. :)

Cool, Cid. Thanks for that. I'll be jumping on some additional view options shortly, but it will probably be a while before I'm able to jump on video backgrounds and platform videos and such. The videos look great but not sure if it's possible to record them in 1080p (or even widescreen). That'll be one challenge with using background videos, different aspect ratios.

Hey all, just fixed some performance issues with the moderation. Let me know if anyone is still seeing any delays or errors with the moderation process. As of right now, here are the top moderators: 1. FistyDollars 2. HardcoreHubz 3. Cebion 4. CADScott 5. Darklesh 6. TheTabman 7. wkLeon 8. wobblyrampack 9. SentaiBrad 10. donarumo Thank you all! :)

Thanks @FistyDollars, hoping I have this pretty well optimized now. It's loading in a second or two for me. :)

Well, it seems to be getting better, but I'm still not happy with the performance. I got it down to 10 seconds so far. Anyone still seeing error messages?

I'm guessing I just have some optimization I need to do. Looks like it might be getting slower as you moderate more and more records. On it.

Sorry, I see the "20-30 second wait times". Still wondering, though, does it work eventually or are you stuck?

Hey guys, some questions. When that error comes up, how long are you having to wait for the page to load? Are you able to resume moderating if you refresh the page or are you guys all dead in the water?

Hmm, good point lol. I think you should be able to use relative paths to mount the file, yes. I think you'll want to make the path relative to the LaunchBox root folder. :)

New beta is out! Added two new features to Big Box: alpha-numeric navigation for long lists (just go left) and a locking mechanism with a pin to keep guests in read-only mode. :)

Hi @AutumnSounds, you might not be able to use the wizard for that game. A batch file won't work for the application EXE, but what you can do is leave the application path blank, and then put the custom commands in the DOSBox configuration. When you edit the game, in the DOSBox tab, you can create a custom configuration for the game. Then when you edit the configuration, under the DOS tab there is an Autoexec section; that's where you put in the commands. Keep in mind that the CD should already be mounted, assuming that you've added it to the mounts tab. As for swapping discs, you can add both discs to the mounts tab under the same drive letter. Then there's a keyboard shortcut in DOSBox to swap discs; I don't remember what it is but a quick search should find it. :) Let me know if you need more help and I can answer your questions.

Thanks @FistyDollars, I didn't know this was happening. I'll review.