Jason Carr

No kidding...I keep having to add switches. No thanks, Google. Take your ugly new logo and go home. :P

Wow, those are awesome photos Stimpy. I will say, I love California but Colorado competes pretty well. My brother's near Denver so I get to visit every once in a while. Sorry to everyone else, but I don't want to live in your states. I tried, and they suck. No lol, but really, I grew up in Illinois and I've lived in Ohio as well. That's just not a good idea. Don't live in Illinois or Ohio. You'll regret it. Trust me.

@sagaopc, not sure if you'd be willing to help in this area, but long-term I want to come up with AutoHotkey scripts for most emulators that we can distribute with LaunchBox, that do a few helpful things: - Ensure that Escape works to close the game/emulator - Ensure that the game is immediately shown fullscreen without any windows showing up or any other distractions before the game is shown - Ensure that the game is closed without any windows showing up or any other distractions I know that HyperLaunch does this pretty well, but it's configuration is so convoluted; I'd like to be able to integrate these into LaunchBox so it all just works. It's an eventual goal. Just mentioning it because I see you're pretty knowledgeable with AutoHotkey-style scripting. :)

Thanks @shinra358, I get it now. Sorry I was confused; I keep thinking people are talking about Big Box instead of LaunchBox or vice versa. It's definitely more confusing to discuss now. :) I'll add that arrow key fix to my list.

tony971 said Any chance of folders being used as ROM destinations in 5.2? Or is that part of the "bigger changes/additions?" Hi @tony971, that unfortunately won't make it into 5.2. I've got a pretty long list of things to tackle, so sadly I can't make any promises as to when I can tackle that in particular.

Yeah, definitely. Sounds like a great product if it really does its job well.

Thank you @AFaustini! I'll have a new beta out tonight with the translations.

Ha, thank you @j4syn. Great to hear.

Hehehehe, that's hilarious.

Hi Liam, you have to set the hold button and then the button to use to close out windows. Then you can hold the "hold" button down and press the other button at the same time to close out windows; that's how the AutoHotkey stuff works.

Thanks @shinra358. Per custom filters, I can't reproduce; they seem to be working fine for me. Can you confirm 100%? Can anyone else confirm? Per the keyboard, I assume you mean I didn't make the response time faster like I did with the game controllers? Good point, I'll look into that. I'm surprised about the waiting cursor though; didn't know that was happening.

Yup; no problem at all @AFaustini. Thanks!

Whoops, thanks guys. Re-uploaded the setup, and downloaded it. Should be fine now.

Hey guys, planning on putting out the 5.2 official release this weekend. There have been some minor changes/additions that ideally need translated. The following files have been changed: Strings.resx OptionsForm.resx AddEditForm.resx MainForm.resx BulkEditWizardForm.resx ImportGamesFromSteamWizardForm.resx EmulatorForm.resx Some of these may not have any real changes; I just know that the files have changed since the last official release. Also, if you can, here are the release notes that could use translating: New "Hide" field on games allows you to hide games from your collection Additional support for emulators that work only by file name without extension (Sega Model 2 Emulator for example) Big Box can now be filtered by fields other than platform Thank you guys very much. :)

Put out a couple new betas today. Quite a few bug fixes, but no new features. I plan to release 5.2 official this weekend, barring any major bugs showing up. Then after the 5.2 release, hopefully we can make some bigger changes/additions.

Glad to hear it @leocrv. Thanks much. I'll promise one thing, LaunchBox will never have that #$@#$#% in the installer.

Looks like the command line options are detailed here: http://fms.komkon.org/ColEm/ColEm.html#LABI What command line options are you using? Should hopefully just be a matter of figuring those out.

Hi @leocrv and @wraslor. Big Box uses the Windows built-in media player functionality, which supports the same formats as Windows Media Player. That means that if WMP plays it, Big Box will. By default, WMP will not play flv files but I believe if you install a codec it will. I've had good luck with codec packs in the past, such as this one: http://shark007.net/index.html I have not reviewed that download lately though, so be careful about adware, etc.

Hi @mgtroyas, what you're likely observing is the disk image caching. If you increase the RAM cache, in theory, there should be less and less disk access. All those images will either take up a lot of RAM, or have to be repeatedly read from disk. There's unfortunately not a lot that can be done to remedy that. Running LaunchBox from a NAS is unfortunately not a supported scenario; there's just too much bandwidth required for the images. That said, I am aware of the performance issues with large collections, and I'm currently working on optimizing it all. I'm focusing on loading and saving with large collections, though, as that is where the biggest issues lie (saving a game, for example, takes far too long with large collections). Per loading all the thumbnails instead of only the ones shown, and generating the thumbnails, that is by design and can be disabled if you turn off the RAM cache. That's what the RAM cache does; it loads as many images as will fit into the cache size into RAM in order to improve the scrolling speed. Turning the RAM cache off should stop this from happening at the expense of scrolling speed, and you should observe significantly less disk access in this scenario.

Hehehehehe. The Russian mafia keeps begging me for emails, but I always do the right thing and turn them down.

For what it's worth, not sure if you're stuck with Project64 for some reason, but Retroarch works really great once you get past the initial learning curve. The latest version is a lot easier too. Sooner or later I think I'm gonna create a setup video to show how to get started with Retroarch and LaunchBox/Big Box. That is, unless somebody else wants to. ;)

Yeah, generally I have really good luck using Retroarch for as many platforms as possible, though obviously it won't do everything. That does help provide a certain amount of uniformity. Eventually I would like to integrate something like Hyperlaunch into LaunchBox, but make it "just work" instead of it being a configuration nightmare.

Hi @eric, this is just because every emulator likes to do it differently; it really has nothing to do with Big Box. When you use a controller, the built-in AutoHotkey stuff attempts to make it work for all emulators, but I don't have anything like this for the keyboard, as of yet (though it is on my list). I know some people have had good luck with HyperLaunch (I think that's what it's called). However, it's far from easy to set up.

Hehehehehe.

Thank you guys. Martin, ha, that's a good point. Yeah, I know all that; every once in a while someone just gets on my nerves and makes me want to curse them into oblivion. I guess what gets to me the most is that these people really think that I care *that* much about *them in particular* using the app that I would change everything just for them. They must think I'm desperate or something lol. No harm done, just shaking the dust off my feet.