Jason Carr

Okay, will review.

Hi @bjwest, agreed, it would be good to have easier to follow instructions. I think that was the original intent of the wiki, but unfortunately it never really got populated with much data. Brad's right though, we're trying to make the YouTube videos easy to follow and also trying to cover everything eventually.

Thanks Dany. I actually did the same thing; the LocalDB in LaunchBox is a complete copy of all the metadata from TheGamesDB that I distribute with LaunchBox. That said, it would be great to have a mirror of all the images; obviously I can't distribute the images with LaunchBox. So yeah, definitely interested in that. :)

Sigh. Every time this happens I'm reminded why I keep wanting to build a database of our own. But @TracyPoff with MobyGames is working on an API, so hopefully we'll be able to move on from this stuff sooner rather than later. That can't happen soon enough.

Hi Darren, we've discovered a bug recently with the EmuMovies part of the importer. Every once in a while it seems to get stuck on particular games and give up. Try updating to the latest beta to see if it helps. Otherwise, for now you can uncheck all the EmuMovies options and it should work fine. We're working on getting it fixed.

Thanks @scree, I'll look into that, as well as the other issue above. The merch store looks like it's all fixed up finally guys. Probably open it up officially tonight or tomorrow: https://www.launchbox-app.com/merch I'm looking for ideas for custom shirts. Thinking maybe we should hold a contest for shirt ideas, and if we use your idea we'd just send you a free shirt. I'll probably make that official here soon, but feel free to contribute some ideas here in the mean time if you'd like. :)

Thanks guys, I'll take a look.

Ah, wow, good to know. Have you tried the latest beta from last night? Is it still happening with that beta? Thanks!

Hey, @Bedwyr, good to see you. Yes, it is certainly possible, which is why it's on the short list right now (per the most recent email I sent out). Hoping to get to at least give it a shot before the next official release.

Thanks @Dal, yes, that should work, though might be annoying to set up. Transparent PNGs are supported.

What I'd ultimately like to see is just to *include* the metadata for most systems with LaunchBox, so that it automatically recognizes anything you can throw at it and automatically has the metadata for it locally. We're a ways off from that, but that's the direction I'd ultimately like to take. Of course we can't really include images that way, though.

Yeah, still no response. Feel free to keep reaching out; let me know if you ever get a response back or find a way in. :)

Hi @Drybonz, certainly. Just a matter of checking the box in Options to "Update to beta releases". :)

Thanks everyone. Another new beta is out that hopefully fixes/adds the following: Options GUI for auto-play, show, etc. Now pauses on deactivate window (as well as on playing games) Restarts video on resume focus if paused Loops Full path no longer required? In addition I've added show/hide options for all elements in the sidebar, as well as the missing file name in the sidebar. I'll address the remaining issues (including the video scaling for low-rez videos) soon. :)

Thanks, @wirtual82; I'll give it a shot. :)

Hi @Drybonz, agreed, all good ideas. Feel free to add them to Bitbucket if you haven't already. I actually just implemented options to hide and show all the different text details; that beta will be out tonight.

Hi @franklb, are you getting any errors showing up in the list for those ROMs?

Great! Glad it worked.

Thanks, Mute. Good to know. Maybe there's an issue with switching controllers or something similar. I haven't ever really played with switching between several different controllers, so I'll see if I can trigger it with that.

Thanks @DOS76, just put out a new beta that fixes that and a few other issues with the videos.

Another new beta out. Fixed a few more issues with the videos including music/video conflicts and the issues with the videos still playing when switching to a game without a video. Also in this beta is improved error reporting for the EmuMovies imports disappearing issues. They should no longer just disappear but report an error instead (though at this point I'm not sure how useful the error will be). If anyone gets an EmuMovies error on importing, please let me know.

Nice. I actually really enjoyed Shadow Warrior (the reboot that came out a few years ago).

Wow, that's impressive. I'd love to see it in action with some other games than Breakout. That's actually really crazy. Lol...computational neuroscientist must mean an AI expert...I guess.

Can someone give me a crash course in Gamebase? I'd like to figure out how to download a system and view the data, but I can't seem to get it to load up a database.

FastFeet I am implementing better reporting for this tonight.