Jason Carr

Alright, I bit the bullet and installed Crapersky. Apparently my compilation process sometimes triggers it, and sometimes doesn't. So I just get to lovingly rebuild and rebuild and rebuild until Crapersky is satisified. It seems entirely random, sigh. This just shows how horrible their detection really is. If you trip their anti-virus, just rebuild your application and it'll probably work next time! Facepalm. So at least it looks to me like the issue is fixed now. I'm not really going to enjoy having Kaspersky installed (nor am I going to enjoy paying them for their crap software), but I guess I'll have to just deal with it. /rant

Alright, I tweaked the setup just a tad and re-uploaded it. @Antropus can you scan it and let me know if it triggers anything? I'd appreciate it. https://www.launchbox-app.com/download?g=c579577b-5705-4be6-b791-bc012195c2ca

Great to hear; thanks for following up @Scoremonger. :)

What's particularly odd about this is that almost nothing was changed between the previous beta and this release. Were you using the previous beta @Antropus?

Well that's good to know, thanks. So sigh, how can I fix the installer. Hmm. Sorry if I was short with you there; nothing irritates me more than this particular problem. I've dealt with it in the past and it makes me want to burn all the anti-virus companies to the ground. I'll play with the installer to see if there's anything I can do.

Antropus said Jason, the latest stable version is being detected as malicious software by Kasperski: HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic The update cannot proceed because Kasperski is deleting it every time. I will try to run a web scan on it. Probably a false positive. -Kris Lovely. That software is crap (but I don't know of many anti-virus apps that aren't, frankly). It's not the first time we've triggered a false positive and it certainly won't be the last. Nothing I can do about it unfortunately. You may be able to report it to Kaspersky as a false positive, not sure.

Thank you @Izzy! :)

Wow, very nice @SagaXIV, and thank you. @Wattoo does an excellent job, but he may appreciate the help. I'll leave that up to him. :)

Awesome. Thank you @Antropus! :)

Might not be this week. Depends on how quickly I can get the add new game and field modifications in.

I'll take a look at the Sources bug. My guess is that there are no games in your collection that have a populated Source field, so it's choking. Still, it shouldn't crash in that scenario so I'll review. Thanks. :)

Hi @Dal, a couple things. Try switching to the Windows Media Player video playback engine in the general settings. You can also disable animations which may help to increase performance. Also some questions for you: - What are your system specs (CPU, RAM, video card, etc.)? - How many games total are in your collection? If your system was old enough to be running XP, unfortunately it may just be too old to run Big Box smoothly. A decent modern CPU and video card are required in order for it to run smoothly.

My apologies, @Lmagnus87, but that's about as priority as cleaning the bathrooms in my house.

Absolutely. Eventually we'll add full editing for developers and publishers, and I plan to add merging functionality for games, developers, and publishers as well. We'll get to that stuff once I get the Add New Game functionality implemented this week. :)

Bah, we were typing at the same time. That's a good point; I'll change the title. :)

Hi Manny, thanks much for chiming in. My personal preference is to indeed keep it PG-13 as well. We do have some users who want the ability to upload stuff that isn't, but at this point the rules are that nudity is not allowed. Before we ever allow nudity we will implement an age gate and an option to hide those games. We are in the process of discussing and coming up with the rules here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/games-database-news-and-updates/moderator-guidelines Thanks!

Great ideas @Cebion. You reminded of a few things too. Are you good with my plan for Multiplayer Modes? We should definitely add most of the fields you've listed above eventually, but of that list I think alternate titles are probably the most important. So that is planned and should be implemented first before the rest. I probably won't try and tackle all of those all at once.

Hi everyone, I'm going to close off this thread so that we can move all discussion over to the new LaunchBox Games Database forums. Feel free to start a new topic there if you have something to discuss. Also, I'm looking for feedback on new fields here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/games-database-news-and-updates/new-fields Thanks!

Thanks again all for all your help and support. Looking for some feedback on new fields here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/games-database-news-and-updates/new-fields

I'll be adding new fields soon to the database. I want to add all new fields in one fell swoop so I figured we should discuss it first. Open to ideas and suggestions about new fields to add. First off, one field I want to add is Series, to match the Series field that we have in LaunchBox. Beyond that, I want to better handle the description for multiplayer games. Right now we have "Max Players" and "Cooperative" but that doesn't quite cover all the details. At first I thought about replacing Max Players and adding a new "Play Mode" field to match the one in LaunchBox with options like "2-Player Alternating" and "2-Player Simultaneous", but with online games these days I'm thinking that would get unruly fast. So my current plan is to keep "Max Players" and add a new field called "Multiplayer Modes" with these options: Alternating Simultaneous Cooperative Online Split-Screen This would eliminate the Cooperative check box (we can move the data over to the new field easily). Also, of course you would be able to select several of these options at once. Looking for feedback on the above and also any new fields you think are important to add. Thanks guys! I'd like to nail these down before I implement the last major piece, which is adding new games.

New beta 7 is out with an updated Spanish translation. Planning to put out the official tomorrow; thanks again everyone for all your help. Speak up if you find anything new or if you are still seeing any bugs in this beta 7 release. Thanks!

Thank you very much, Clive. New beta 7 is out with the updated translation. Still planning on putting out the official tomorrow. Any testing you guys can do with your translations would be greatly appreciated, just in case we introduced a bug or two. If we find some bugs, I can put off the release. Thanks!

I'm not an expert on the matter, but I've been marking any box with PEGI as Europe. We may need to change our region list; right now it's basically just continents. If anyone has concrete details on that stuff, let me know. I quickly reviewed a few other sites and came up with what we have.

Awesome to hear, thanks @orac31.

Hi @Izzy, I'll be adding that this week. We're opening things up one thing at a time as I can develop them. :)