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Sure, makes sense. Sounds like a good solution for Amiga then.

Hi @dovella, I see no reason why not, but I have not tested it personally. But there's no reason that I can think of why it wouldn't work.

Hi @Enverex, I'm guessing maybe you hit the EmuMovies daily limits. Are you working with the latest beta?

Thank you guys, some good ideas in this thread. Thanks for the detailed explanation, @Short Fuse.

Hi @dovella, sounds like an awesome project; I'll look forward to the updates. I will be putting in some more effort to improve the performance of the animations and such at some point here, though I'm not sure if that will help with your setup or not. I do have performance improvements on my list though. :)

Thank you @arzoo, great to have you here. I'm the dev; I'll go ahead and email you shortly. :)

Hi @CriticalCid, I agree that the Hyperspin XML would definitely be a good resource. My only gripe that I've noticed about their approach is that it seems to often be missing various regions, extra versions, etc., which I don't personally care about (because it tends to have the best versions), but I know we're gonna get people complaining about that eventually if we stick closely to the Hyperspin data. I'd really like to come up with our own, similar to the Hyperspin data with all the missing data added.

Wow, great ideas everyone. My favorite two ideas are @jmdbcool's "You got LaunchBox" and @Cujo777's "Achievement unlocked" ideas, though they're fairly similar. The merch has been a bit of an experiment and has not really taken off at this point, but I agree with @jmdbcool; it might be more popular with a better approach, and it's certainly worth it at least with those two designs. @jmdbcool and @Cujo777, if you would please email me at jasondavidcarr@gmail.com and I can get you both a license, and hopefully move forward in making some shirts. Hopefully we can see how well the merch does with some better options and if there is interest then we can look into getting a designer to work with some of the other great ideas in the thread. :) Thanks again to everyone; I know I've certainly learned something with this and I've enjoyed all the great ideas.

Cadet Stimpy said Okay, since people in Colorado sometimes think 'differently' (must be the thin air ), I was thinking on these lines (for my first pass): You're looking over the left shoulder (a few feet back and somewhat elevated) of a cartoonish looking person in front of a screen that has BigBox on it, and the top of the Gamer's skull is missing, and instead of a regular brain, it looks like a LaunchBox mini-Rubik's Cube is their brain. And, of course, this Gamer will be wearing a T-shirt with that picture on it, so in theory, you'll get the 'infinitely smaller picture' thing going. Ha, I missed this at first Stimpy. I really like this idea too. :) Anyone got any primarily text-based ideas? That could be another good option.

Wow, I love both of those ideas. I wonder what we could replace the Pac-Man guy with to get around the legal issues. I think that's my favorite one.

Yeah, the merch, to be honest, at this point, has not (yet) been a hit. I'm not against hiring a designer, that's for sure. But it's hard to go to a designer and say "I don't know what we need but make something cool." Lol. To be honest, I feel like there's more value in an idea than a design. So if we come up with an excellent idea or two, I'd be very happy to go have it designed. More than anything, though, I'd love to come up with some hilarious, unique t-shirt *ideas*.

Very nice, @Despin! The badge looks really great. :)

Yup, that's another good way to do it @fromlostdays, thanks. :)

Yup, that's correct @DOS76. So long as you're filtered to only the games you want to delete, of course.

Hi @fromlostdays, the trick here is that deleting the platform does not currently delete any games. This is on my list to fix because it confuses a lot of people. The games are all still there, but have an empty platform. Try adding the "None" filter option to the sidebar and then filter on platforms None and then you can easily delete them all.

DOS76 said That is strange but I just checked from the start you can pin something to the taskbar and then if you hit shit + right click it offers you the option to create a short cut from there. Are you on the stable version or in the Insider Program? Is it Pro version or Core? I don't know if they would make a difference but I'm in the IP and have Pro version of 10 Good to know. I'm running the pro version of Win10, but not in the insider program, so maybe that's it. Man, that's crazy. It's really stupid that it requires a 3-step process. Facepalm.

DOS76 said How about a simple one Big Box written in RUN DMC style logo with the BjigBox logo as the dot over the i. Great idea, @DOS76. :)

Thank you Darren, this means a lot to us. We're very much looking for to growing the software and the community. :)

Odd, shell.AppsFolder doesn't seem to work for me in the Windows 10 run box.

Ah, okay. That's really stupid that you can't just do it from the Start menu. That would sure make it more straightforward.

Nice! That is an awesome idea. :)

Thank you Darren! :)

Hi @dhobo, I understand your point of view; we're not looking for professionals here, only for hobbyists to have some fun. Frankly, there's nothing wrong with that. If anyone views this as work, then please don't do it. For what it's worth, I don't buy the whole "NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR FREE" mindset. I am a developer myself (of course), and I've spent over 10 very successful years in the industry, which I am very grateful for. I still enjoy it and I enjoy screwing around with stuff like this from time to time. It is your choice to participate, and there's nothing wrong with having a little fun with it.

FastFeet, I share that passion. I would love for "perfect" metadata and images collections to be available for integration into LaunchBox/Big Box. If we can find a perfect set of data for a particular platform, then I can actually integrate it straight into LaunchBox eventually. Going forward, ideally I'd like to revamp the metadata engine to by default use a collection of the best metadata available for a platform that comes with LaunchBox, and then only use the scrapers as a secondary option. I know the Hyperspin metadata would probably be a good starting point for this, but it is fairly incomplete from what I can tell (it only contains NA region stuff for the most part, from what I can tell). That said, if anyone wants to put together a perfect list of metadata for any particular platform, I can work on getting that data directly integrated into LaunchBox. We could just use Excel or similar.

Thanks for this @DOS76. Is there any way to tell windows to create a shortcut file on the desktop or something similar for those apps?