Jason Carr

Me too @DOS76. Me too. :)

Thanks, Nathan, agreed. :)

Nope, no ads! LaunchBox gets a lot of traffic, but not really enough traffic to make any kind of significant money off of ads. At least not near enough to make it worth annoying everyone. Plus, I hate ads, so... And yup, it's awesome. The community is constantly growing. We get between 50 and 100 new LaunchBox users every day. :)

DPI scaling is used to increase or decrease the size of all of the items on your screen, as compared to their standard pixel size. This is typically used both for retina screens (because there's twice the pixels or more) and TVs (where everything needs to be bigger to see it from afar). Fun fact, before every major release I test everything with 4 different DPI settings.

No @DOS76, don't lose your faith in the scientific method! It must have just been an unidentified variable! ;)

You're getting confused with me now, @DOS76. ;) Glad you're all set @eric.

@DOS76, that blasted LaunchBox freeze was actually an issue with the AutoHotkey implementation (had nothing to do with Demul). I struggled with that bug for days, but I just finally got it fixed and put out a new beta. Let me know if that fixes the issue for you. :)

Hi @sansa, I do have that feature planned, but it isn't there yet, and it might be a while, unfortunately. As Brad mentioned, I'm sure it could be done with additional apps, but doesn't seem like it'd be easy. So, hmm. I'll see if I can't bump it up on my list a little, at least.

Thanks @shock66, though unfortunately the issues are still bigger than just the window size. Let me know if this latest beta I just put out tonight helps any; I did tweak some things. Good to know about the compatibility settings. :)

Alright, I've been killing myself trying to resolve this bug, so big win tonight. I was getting nasty crashes occasionally when starting and exiting games; turns out it was related to the new AutoHotkey implementation. No one had reported it, so not sure if anyone else was seeing the crashes, but it sure was driving me nuts. Let me know if anyone sees any crashes in Big Box or LaunchBox with this latest beta. Now I think I can *finally* get back to this list view... ;)

Yup, you get newer features faster in exchange for being a guinea pig. Sometimes things are broken in the betas. You can turn on beta updates in Options.

New beta is out, but it still doesn't address the background bug above. This beta mainly just addresses the multiple selection bugs from previous betas.

Hey guys, the Big Box screen corruption (window sizing and painting issues) still shows up from time to time with certain emulators. I do really want to get that fixed. It really is Windows fault, but their ought to be something I can do. I'm gonna be putting out a new beta tonight that I hope at least improves that issue; please let me know if you guys keep seeing it anywhere with beta 10, should be out late tonight.

Hi @sylandro, I accidentally butchered the multiple selections with the latest betas, whoops. I'll have a new beta out tonight to fix. I'll add the Notes filter to my list too. :)

Hey guys, doesn't look like we ever updated this thread. However, the download has been updated with a new version that should fix the problem. Let us (me and @Syriacn) know if you have any other issues. :)

Hehehehe, yup. Never before has Mario made you want to cry. ;)

Probably not as I'm currently working to squash bugs. A number of more difficult bugs have shown up in these later betas, and I need to address them before getting back to the list view. The list view will probably be the last thing I finish up before the 5.3 official.

Thanks, Martin. There are a number of glitches due to my attempted performance improvements for selections in LaunchBox; I'm working on them. That one I didn't specifically notice, though, so thanks.

Hi @Talantyyr, welcome. We actually do have a solution to close out of emulators via a combined button press like that (using AutoHotkey), but we haven't added save/load states. The good news though is you *can* add that functionality yourself with the latest betas using a custom AutoHotkey script, if you're decent with scripting. Every emulator has a custom script that is run.

Once again, big thanks to @mathflair here. I've pinned this thread, so hopefully it should already get some decent traffic. @mathflair, once you're ready and confident with everything, I would like to feature the tool on the home page. :)

Thank you @sselph! Really great to have you here. Great to hear about the C++ versions as well. @mathflair has already built an external tool that I believe uses the scraper, and just hooks into LaunchBox via XML. Here's that thread: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/features/launchboxannotator-tool#p6576 I believe there have been other related threads as well, but that's the new official one. I do eventually plan on building scraper hashing functionality directly into LaunchBox, so I really appreciate you chiming in. :)

Hi @shock66, yeah, I do have those items on my list. They can't really be automatic, because the user needs to know what's going on, but I'm planning to add prompts when deleting platforms, or changing default emulators to ask what to do with the games. :)

Welcome, @bjwest. :) Feel free to post in Features or Troubleshooting, depending on where it seems like it best fits. We're not picky, though; we don't get our kicks from power tripping new users into following stupid rules. ;)

Yeah, so this is just downright amazing. Do yourself a favor and watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySPsmFcz_AE I'm really enjoying Triforcefilms lately. :)

Thank you @mathflair! :)