Jason Carr

Lol, you were one of the "SEVERAL PEOPLE". Lols. :P

Not that I know of, unfortunately. Believe it or not, very few people have attempted or asked about the mapper files, so I guess we haven't made any easier way to do it. Feel free to put in a ticket using the Report Issue / Feedback link above. :)

Thanks for that @AladdinSane! Any chance you could screenshot the emulator settings for Rocket Launcher and post them here?

Thank you @Viperstrike; I think we do have a ticket somewhere in the issues list about nested sidebar filter options.

Not bad ideas at all. I've had several people mention merch recently. Think it'd be worth putting together some LaunchBox merch?

Great idea, Clive! Sometimes the wackiest ideas turn out to be the greatest.

Great backgrounds, too @alexis524. I'm hoping to get that feature in before the official next version.

Nice! Those sure are pretty...I still need to implement a way to include/create different theme packages.

Thank you guys! I do really like that idea. I haven't researched either feature; I assume it basically just shows random game videos as a screen saver? That's not difficult at all so sounds like a great feature to implement. If one of you wouldn't mind, would you create a ticket for it (click the Report Issue / Feedback link in the header)? Thanks!

Hi @pjburnhill, it does seem that the Steam Link requires XInput. I'm in the process of seeing what it would to add XInput to LaunchBox.

Believe it or not, @WhiteGoblin figured it out: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/troubleshooting/big-box-doesnt-see-controllers-connected-to-steam-link#p9215 Apparently it's simply DirectInput vs. XInput. Seems silly that the Steam Link would only support XInput for games, but that seems to be the issue. I'll look to see how difficult it would be to get XInput added.

I get the impression that Moby changing hands is reason for some of the past drama there, but it's hard to trust what you hear on the Internet, so who knows. I'm in agreement that Moby combined with a good arcade database (that we can include) should be the first priorities. I did include a MAME database (which is used for the new MAME features) in the last couple versions, but it doesn't have everything and I'm guessing isn't as complete as the Arcade-History database. Hopefully going forward we can integrate that data instead, while we wait on the Moby API. I'm not overly familiar with GiantBomb, but I'll review it once we get to that point. :)

Ah, that makes sense @Zombeaver, per the LaunchBox controller support. Per the controller code being different between LaunchBox and Big Box, both LaunchBox and Big Box use the exact same code, pulled from the exact same library. So there's literally nothing different. It's not even duplicated code, so there's zero chance anything *could* be different. The only thing I can figure is that something else in Big Box is interfering with the Steam Link's ability to use the controller. It's pretty odd. One thing to note is that LaunchBox uses traditional Windows Forms as the Windows technology behind it, while Big Box uses WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), which is a more modern technology than Windows Forms, but it's still been around for quite a few years, since Vista came out. So that could be it, but why the Steam Link wouldn't support WPF is beyond me. My only guess is that there are window focus issues when running Big Box over the Steam Link. Neither LaunchBox or Big Box will take game controller input when the window isn't focused, for obvious important reasons (otherwise Big Box would be doing things while you're playing games). Since Windows Forms and WPF are slightly different technologies, that could be it...maybe, idk.

Sigh, that figures. I didn't have much hope. I'll take a look at some point again and see if anything makes sense. @cejpe, LaunchBox works with a controller all by itself. It's not the best thing in the world, but it does work decently well.

Agreed, yes, can't have too many APIs. Obviously that's a crucial part of LaunchBox, being able to easily import data on your games. That's probably one of the biggest selling points, and with the stability issues of TheGamesDB, we definitely need more.

I'm guessing with a little bit of trial, error, and experimentation, you can probably open LaunchBox.xml directly in Excel. ;) Just don't save it back as it's likely to wreak enormous amounts of havoc.

Hi @NefariousJoe, the AutoHotkey script does run before launching the game, so you could indeed use that to send a key stroke. @DOS76's suggestions might solve your issues though; I'm not sure.

Hi Daniel, welcome indeed. I've definitely appreciated your help on Bitbucket; thanks for that. :) We've gotten a lot of traffic from Simply Austin's video recently, so yes, we absolutely have him to thank for some decent growth. He's a really great guy and it's been awesome getting to know him, even if only through emails and YouTube comments. ;) Also really looking forward to new LaunchBox videos of his; I know he plans to do more soon. Thanks for saying hi, and glad to have you @CriticalCid. :)

Ha, very interesting. So those were the "better" ones. I've never even seen any FMV games that *didn't* require the 32X then.

A new beta version is out that only changes one thing...it allows you to disable the Big Box startup splash screen. I added this mainly to hopefully fix issues with game controllers over Steam Link. Been getting quite a few people trying that out lately so I just snuck it in.

Hehehe, @fromlostdays, I know that about Hyperspin and Rocket Launcher, guess I just didn't say it right. This is extra funny because I've had another project lying in limbo for over a year (LaunchBox takes priority and I've got plenty to do). It's voice recognition software that talks back to you... ;)

Hehehehe, thanks Stimpy. Whether it ever works out or not, I do really appreciate it.

Yeah, it makes sense because they were trying to do FMV through a medium that really wasn't big enough for it (CDs). That, and they had to do it with Genesis hardware. Pretty crazy; it's a wonder they were able to do it at all.

bjwest, that's right. I almost forgot lol. The sooner we can get *something* going, the better, because there are a lot of Hyperspin users who are transferring over and need the Rocket Launcher functionality.

Hi @jking3, welcome. Unfortunately LEDblinky support has not been added yet. I just added a ticket for it here: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/337/add-ledblinky-support I'm not really sure the timeframe as to when it will be added, but it is planned. I am doing my best to implement the features with the most requests first. Feel free to vote up that ticket at that link.