Jason Carr

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.

Hahahaha. Cop out. :P

Thanks all. Wanted to say thanks to @Cebion, @FistyDollars, and @TheTabman for their incredible dedication to moderation today. @HardcordHubz and @CADScott aren't far behind. Here's the current running after our first day: 1. Cebion 2. FistyDollars 3. TheTabman 4. HarcoreHubz 5. CADScott 6. wkLeon 7. Darklesh 8. donarumo 9. SentaiBrad 10. BilH12 Thank you all! There's three more weeks to go, of course, so it's still anybody's win.

Very cool @CriticalCid. That's actually genius, the concept of using videos as themes...hmm. Thanks a million for that feedback. That's probably the most genius feedback I've gotten this year. Let me ask you guys this...what if, for themes, we offered video backgrounds that could be customized per platform (or per list). Then we could allow other simple tweaks like the locations of the lists and details, etc., but it seems like it would make the incredibly daunting theming task much, much simpler. Any thoughts? I've got goosebumps, Cid. Seriously, thanks for this. Platform videos are definitely a great idea as well and planned; not sure if they'll be a focus for 6.0 yet.

Thanks guys. Yes, I do plan to enable platform changes.

I think this is actually because we don't search the platform name, only the game title, overview, developers, publishers, and genres. Obviously we probably should search the platform names as well. Thanks for the ticket.

That's a really odd one, @Antropus. I've never seen or heard of that happening, so maybe it's a really strange formatting issue or something of that nature; I'll have to dive in and run some tests to reproduce it. If you can create a bug ticket for it I'd appreciate it.

Thank you guys. I ended up implementing adding new games first after all. I do plan to come back to this soon, though to add the fields I discussed above. @Samer, that makes sense. I can add those as well when I add the other fields. Alternate titles are interesting because it's not always associated with a language; sometimes it's associated with a region. For example, some games are named differently in Great Britain than in the US. I like your Media field idea, @M-6502, so I'll add that as well. Manuals we'll probably add eventually as well, but probably not at this point.