Jason Carr

@eric, unfortunately there's no windowed mode, as of yet. But yes, Martin's right. LaunchBox is probably the best way to edit images and such.

Good thoughts, Nathan. I did plan to add similar box-art based views soon, but I hadn't thought about it to that extent. I think that's a great plan. :)

Nice @eric! Excited to see the pics! Maybe I can feature your cab on the home page?

Wow, great idea, Nathan. That's a new one too. Added. :)

Hi @tony971. I'm not familiar with Higan myself, but do a search on Higan here on the forums. There are other topics that address the issue already I think. I know one good option is to use Retroarch with the bsnes core (as apparently bsnes is Higan).

Sorry for that @orac31, caught the issue right after I deployed it last night.

Hi @Xlembros, I'm pretty baffled here still lol, because I didn't fix anything. So...hmm...

Hi Stimpy, in theory, all of the images that didn't move are no longer referenced by LaunchBox (and can be deleted). Usually these are due to old versions/copies of games. We have seen some odd scenarios pop up, however, due to glitches in older versions of LaunchBox. So try moving them out of the folder first, and then refresh your images.

Good to know, @toe_head2001, thanks. I'll add that to my list.

Welcome @polygonslayer. I think anything inside parenthesis or square brackets is ignored; however, I don't think it includes curly braces. I can probably add that into the next beta.

Hi @orac31, your best option is something like Crashplan. I gave up on RAID a long time ago because it's simply not reliable for backups. If a hard drive dies, fine, but what if the RAID controller dies? What if the RAID controller's software is faulty and fails to recover after a drive dies? I've lost data because of both scenarios. RAID sucks for backups, so I would advise against going with a NAS solution. RAID is the technology they use to prevent data loss. Crashplan is basically an online backup service. Assuming you don't have metered Internet or anything, there's no better solution. Backs up everything to the cloud, gradually over time. I've backed up over 12 TB (yes, that's 12 terabytes) to Crashplan and I've had to restore hundreds of gigs over the years due to failed drives. Never had an issue, saves me every time. Restores do take a while, but in an emergency they can ship you a hard drive with your data for $$$. Of course it's not free, but they have an unlimited storage amount per computer. You pay per computer, basically. It's worth every penny.

New beta is out; fixes the issues with recent and favorites and the custom filters (hopefully for real this time). Also added proper support for Sega Model 2 Emulator.

Hi @Xlembros, please explain the process you're using to import the ROMs. I don't really understand how it could come up with no ROMs to import. Are you adding a folder or the files themselves?

Ha, whoops. You're right, I'll have a new beta out tonight. :)

Hi Stimpy, with 5.0 the images were reorganized. The proper image folder paths should be something like this by default: LaunchBox\Images\[Platform]\[Type]\[Game Name].jpg For example: LaunchBox\Images\Nintendo Wii\Front\Sonic Colors.jpg Do they show up there?

Hi @Xlembros, have you tried the latest beta?

Thanks @orac31. @firecraft, the easiest thing to do is to use the EmuMovies downloader to download them all against your list of ROMs. Then all you have to do is put them in the right folder (LaunchBox\Videos\[Platform]) and they'll show up in Big Box.

Cool, @shinra358. Per resembling the PSP, I do plan to add multiple views, styles, themes, etc., but we'll probably need to wait until we get to that point before we make all those changes. Some good points with the left/right; I'm not really happy with that piece of the navigation either. The only hesitation I have there is how should you get to the recent and favorite games? Secondary category selection I can see being useful as well, and the delay before showing images and/or videos is probably a good idea too, as is the time/date/battery. I'll add those items to my list. :)

So apparently my fix for the custom filters was incomplete...whoops. ;) Martin, hopefully I can get a fix for that recent and favorites issue in tonight as well, thanks for detailing that out for me. @DOS76, must've just had another instance of LB stuck or hung for a bit, I guess. It happens; glad the setup told you about it at least. :) @raven_rvz01, you mean to just remove the Big Box splash? Should be able to run Big Box from Steam without issues already.

Hi @samfisher5986, welcome. The videos from my example video are from the EmuMovies collection (emumovies.com). It's not free, but EmuMovies makes it really easy to automatically download videos for your all your games. I'm in the process of working with EmuMovies to see if we can get the videos freely accessible for LaunchBox users, or if we should look into other options. Right now, LaunchBox in itself does not automatically grab videos for you.

Lol, very cool. Very surprised about the Intel thing though...do they have any self respect? Lol.

Hi @orac31, the last beta had an issue with custom filters not working. I've fixed this and put out a new beta tonight. :)

I suspect that date was maybe date modified instead of date created, but not sure. Honestly, I'd be very surprised if that extra folder was created by LaunchBox, because I haven't coded anything like that. But I've seen weirder things happen, so I could be wrong. I guess we'll just have to keep a watch out for it and see if it ever happens again.

Yeah, apparently this affects more people than I expected, so I'm bumping it higher up on my priority list.

Hmm, do you have the auto-play music options enabled?