Jason Carr

Very nice, @garbanzo, that looks awesome. :)

Sorry, what did you install/play first?

Now THAT I can afford! ...

Holy crap, that's a successful Kickstarter. Where do these people come from!? ;)

I really wish I could be content with one of those Retron 5s. Thing is, the emulation on them is far from perfect, so it's no better (probably worse) than playing the games with an emulator on your PC, I can't justify it. I need all the old consoles though, haven't yet found one that isn't too highly priced.

How'd you burn it in? ;)

Nice, congrats. :)

Lolololol.

Awesome, @Bedwyr. Thanks much. :)

Unfortunately this might be a difficult one to solve. Using the built-in Windows codecs has its advantages and disadvantages...one disadvantage is if your system is configured with a broken codec plugin, bad things can happen. My guess (it's hard to say for sure) is that there's a broken codec installed somehow or other. Yes, I would try installing a codec pack as Brad suggests. Do be careful about malware with them though; I'm not sure which ones are safe these days.

Yes, that would definitely be an issue in calculating game times accurately and consistently. Even Steam struggles with that sometimes, though, so it wouldn't need to be 100% perfect. It's still a challenge, though, of course. In rudimentary form, it's really not that difficult to detect when a game opens and closes, but there are some bad caveats, and we'd have to make some assumptions that would likely be broken here and there. For example, if you loaded up Retroarch to play Super Mario Bros., but then loaded a different ROM from inside of Retroarch instead of exiting back out to LaunchBox, the time would be reported incorrectly. There's lots of other potential related issues as well, such as some games using a launcher EXE; that would pretty much break the feature for that game. That said, it may be time to implement this soon, regardless, at least in rudimentary form. I honestly don't think it would be worth the time and effort to integrate with every single game, emulator, etc. in order to do it properly, but it wouldn't be that difficult to do it generically, even though it would probably be fairly inaccurate.

Actually, I did some quick further research. The CPU usage thing is partially caused by the RAM cache, so turning that off might help. But what is happening likely isn't the RAM cache, it's a background process that caches the images to disk at the right sizes so that performance isn't horrible in the list. Once the process is completed, though, CPU usage should go right back down to a minimal level, so you should only be seeing high CPU usage while the cache is generated. The cache generation may take a while, but it should only have to run once. Going forward, only the updated images will regenerate. However, the Refresh All Images option under the Tools menu will force the entire cache to regenerate again. I don't think the process should really take very long, maybe an hour. But just to be sure, try leaving LaunchBox open over night and see if CPU usage is low in the morning.

@MeioTodo it's hard to tell exactly, but my guess is this is happening due to the image cache. The image cache runs in the background and works to cache all of the images to disk so that scrolling is faster. However, after the caching is completed, CPU usage should go back down to a minimum. Try turning the image cache off and see if the CPU usage goes back down.

Looks legit. ;)

Me neither till I started watching way too many Retroware / Game Sack / Game Chasers / Flea Market Madness videos on YouTube. I've been ruined.

Hahahahahaha. Straight to the friend zone.

Actually it's a toploader official NES console. They're treasured more than the traditional NES consoles these days because the toploading mechanism reduces/eliminates the issues with the carts not working (cart-blowing issues). And that's awesome. Imagine trying to play Mario (or any game for that matter) with a friend, and not being able to jump when *you* wanted to jump. Lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_(Model_NES-101)

Sure, but do you think maybe I might get a smile? From a girl?

Nice. These days, ever since the Haswell CPUs came out and eliminated the heat issues, the HTPC mini-builds are the way to go. Mine is silent, and no one even knows it's there behind my monitor. It also packs a wicked punch. I love it. I used to have more than I knew what to do with too, then I had three kids. Now I need more. ;) To be fair, we don't need more anything. A computer in the kitchen, a computer behind the TV, a computer in the game cabinet, a computer in the bedroom, a computer in the living room, a computer...we're all gonna die from radiation.

Hahahaha, really I'm just trying to convince myself that I don't want it. But you know I do.

NICE. If I got one do you think I'd actually be cool?

Yummy! Looks that that'll be a really nice box. What case are you getting?

Lolololol. That one raises a bit of a... why? ;)

Yeah, some great ideas there. The way it currently works is it will only update empty fields from the web, unless you tell it to overwrite. But obviously Plex's solution is superior. I don't see many people "updating" their metadata from the cloud at this point, so that hasn't really come up yet. Out of curiosity, what types of file names are you having trouble with, @AladdinSane?

Yup, ditto Zombeaver. :)