Jason Carr

No idea really on the site. I ran a DNS check around the world and everything seemed to be working fine. Do let me know if you happen to find some good sounds that are royalty-free, @CliveBarker. :)

Ugh...that's not good. No, I haven't changed anything on the site. Anyone else seeing that archive.org thing? Ick. Good to know on the intro sound. Wonder what I can do about that one, hmm. You can actually already personalize the sounds just by overwriting the wav files in the Sounds subfolder.

Ah, I see, sure. I assume this is because you've configured the games to be borderless?

Lol. Another new beta is out. I think I've finally addressed the remaining stability issues; please let me know if anyone runs into any additional crashes or errors. Also, still need feedback on the sounds. I'm off to add the updated translations.

Thanks, @Karura. Sent it off again. Let me know if you don't receive it.

No one really cares, Brad; they only like me for my software. :P Just put out a new beta with sound effects. You can, of course, turn them off in the General options. I'm not sold on these particular sound effects (other than the startup sound I created). If anyone finds anything better, please speak up. Of course we can't use it unless it's royalty free. The sound effects can be replaced just by overwriting the files in the Sounds subfolder. LaunchBox already needed DirectX for game controllers, but now Big Box uses it for the sound effects as well. I'm thinking I might need to put that requirement into the setup, as well as the .NET framework. It feels less portable that way, but oh well. Also, unfortunately, I've been noticing crashes come up around once a day or so. They're heap corruption errors, which are a royal pain to resolve, and they don't give you any kind of error information. Has anyone else seen these? They seem to be happening primarily on slower systems or when the system is busy doing something else while in Big Box.

Hi @Karura, absolutely; we'll get you your license. However, I can't tell which payment was you. What's your first name?

Awesome, Clive. Thanks. Display is on the platforms form, right? It means the type of display for that platform.

Lol, maybe I should refrain from posting at 1:00 in the morning. Sorry for that @Haelstrom; I was just kidding.

Oh, I forgot to tell you guys. If you run LaunchBox on Windows 10 your hard drive will crash.

Hi @LJKO, per Big Box, I intend to make it as flexible as LaunchBox is filters-wise; it just might take me a bit to get there. However, I don't intend Big Box to ever be used for significant editing. That will always remain in LaunchBox itself. Per the pop-up idea, we certainly could use a better interface for playing different versions than the right-click menu. I don't see us moving away from the additional applications approach, but it can always be presented in a better way, like your popup. However, I don't think that will solve the entire problem for you, as it sounds like you want the ability to connect a single game to multiple platforms. That would be quite a structure change in how LaunchBox handles game data. I can see the benefit of it, but I'd also be worried about the interface becoming too over-complicated. We could implement a "related games" (or similar) feature, though, that might get us closer to what you're looking for. The challenge is to keep things simple enough for complete newbies while keeping the collectors happy.

Most often you can completely disregard GOG's configuration. The easiest thing to do is just to use their links, but otherwise you can tell LaunchBox to use DOSBox and then point the Application Startup Path to the DOS exe. You can use the config files in the DOSBox configuration tab if you want/need to. You shouldn't need to use any emulators or command line parameters.

Thanks guys.

@CliveBarker, how are the Spanish translations in Big Box? Are they all working properly?

Actually, curious to know if anyone else is seeing any stability issues. I just realized my system was on the fritz because Visual Studio was eating up all my RAM for some reason. Windows told me it was out of RAM...odd. So I'm not sure if the freeze that I saw was valid or not.

New beta is out to fix the issue with the automatic updater. Automatic updating is broken with the last release in Big Box, so you'll need to update from LaunchBox instead. Also, just to note I'm seeing some stability issues that are showing up since beta 35. I think I know what is causing them but I'm still working on a solution.

Ha, it can get overwhelming. Generally, I do a mixture of the most requested things, the things I personally want to see the most, and the things that are most immediately feasible.

Yeah, I need to do a better job of keeping it up to date, though. Right now I have a long text file of things to add.

Sure, makes sense. The easiest thing would probably be to support .NET DLL plugins. So C# and VB.

Sure, I'll add those items to my list. Unfortunately, improving the editor here on the forums isn't very high up on my priority list.

Sure, that's cool. Though I'd rather it just...work. I'll see if I can get it to start cleanly with the fade feature.

I see that error now, guys. Not sure how I missed it before, but hopefully I can get it fixed tonight. @bookw, I do maintain a public list here: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox Unfortunately right now it's a tad bit out of date, but it is the master list.

Haelstrom said Heya. First, I'll note I have a pretty big collection in LaunchBox, and it's always ran a little bit slow until that performance optimization a few betas back - now I can scroll through my platform libraries pretty smoothly either in LaunchBox or in the BigBox mode. Reporting a positive success there. (Win10 with my LaunchBox/collection on SSDs, 7,000 titles.) Now for my greedy suggestion. I really like adding music/movies to each file in BigBox, but I was wondering if there was a way to do that with platforms (and the "front page" of BigBox mode) as well. Example: You select Nintendo 64 in the scroll menu, and then you can have a general N64 trailer or whatever playing. Having that (with an option for a default soundtrack to play in the background while navigating BigBox until you select whatever) would make for more of an arcade experience, IMO. Unless this is already doable to some degree. Then I'm blind. Much obliged on the program in general, I've messed with a lot of different frontends for years and this has been the best by far. Thanks, @Haelstrom. These are planned for platforms but I admit that I didn't realize I should do it until I saw it all together. I probably won't have this in before 5.0 but hopefully soon. :)

Interesting. RL looks/sounds really promising but I haven't really had a good initial experience. The interface was oddly and unnecessarily difficult to figure out; now that I finally have it figured out, it doesn't seem to be doing what it promises (was hoping for true no-artifact/distraction emulator startups and shutdowns). I tried Dolphin and Nestopia and they both had ugly startups and shutdowns...is that working for anyone else?

Good point, should be easy enough. Added to the list. :)