Jason Carr

Thanks @AFaustini; I have that fixed, so it'll be in the next beta.

I couldn't sleep, so here, have another one. I added an option to emulators to "attempt to hide console window on startup/shutdown". This works great for emulators like Retroarch and MAME/MESS. It makes for a much cleaner experience, especially for Big Box. I also added some new default emulator settings for VisualBoyAdvance-M (Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance) and Kega Fusion SG-1000.

Just put out another new beta. This has all the new updated platform metadata and platform images, proper language for Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish in the setup, a fix for mouse clicks in the Big Box updater, and fixes for the links in the About box for Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. 5.0 is starting to feel real...

After adding Martin's platform metadata, here's what's left: Android Atari 800 Atari Jaguar CD iOS Mac OS Microsoft Xbox 360 Microsoft Xbox One Nintendo Wii Nintendo Wii U Ouya Sega CD Sega Mega-CD Sega Model 1 Sega Pico Sony Playstation 3 Sony Playstation 4

Thank you Martin! Got the XML. I'll get it added. :)

Hi Brad, I'd rather just include them all to make people happy. That way it's easiest for the user (and I don't have to develop a whole customized system to choose which platform name you'd like displayed).

Thanks Martin. For now though I'm keeping the default images included to be for true game platforms only. When we open it up to other types of media officially, we'll look to add images like those. For now, it should work fine to add it manually through Manage Platforms, of course. :)

FYI guys, I added all the new platform banners and clear logos from @bd00's repository to Big Box. The new beta should be out tonight.

That'd be awesome @Maddoc1007. I added some to the list: Android Atari 800 Atari Jaguar CD Capcom CPS1 Capcom CPS2 Capcom CPS3 Capcom CPS Dash Crystal System iOS Mac OS Microsoft Xbox 360 Microsoft Xbox One MTX Namco System 22 Nintendo Wii Nintendo Wii U Ouya Sammy Atomiswave Sega 32X Sega CD Sega Mega Drive Sega Mega-CD Sega Model 1 Sega Model 2 Sega Model 3 Sega Naomi Sega Pico Sega System 16 Sega System 32 Sony Playstation 3 Sony Playstation 4 Go ahead and upload the file here @Maddoc1007 or email it to jasondavidcarr at gmail dot com and I can add them. :)

Yeah, I'm just concerned that it might happen again, or to somebody else, or to lots of other people lol. ;)

Hmm, could they possibly be Thumbs.db files? Windows creates those automatically. But looking at the code, I still don't see how that would happen.

Thank you @CliveBarker! I have the setup updated for the next beta. @AFaustini, the trouble with something more simple like INI files is that there's a *lot* more complication involved in the translations than just the text. Every form/window needs adjusted to fix overlapping elements, sizes, etc. for each language. I've used the standard approach for .NET Windows applications in order to allow for all of that without horrible complications. I realize that it's not the easiest thing in the world to work with, but I do think it's a good compromise. Changing it up to use something more simple like INI files would be a ton of work on my part, and the end result would be problematic. So my apologies that it's not easier to work with; I do really appreciate all the work you and everyone else is putting in. :)

Hi @scree and everyone else; I've updated all of the alternate platform names for all of the platforms. We now have 84 platforms with 288 alternate names. I'll get the updated metadata in a new beta sometime today. Thanks to @scree, we have metadata for 70 of the platforms, so the vast majority of the work has been done. However, there's still 14 platforms that could use metadata: Android Atari Jaguar CD iOS Mac OS Microsoft Xbox 360 Microsoft Xbox One Nintendo Wii Nintendo Wii U Ouya Sega 32X Sega CD Sega Mega Drive Sony Playstation 3 Sony Playstation 4 Let me know if anyone is interested in grabbing metadata for those platforms. Keep in mind that some of the above platforms are semi-duplicates (such as a different name for the same machine in different regions), so you might be able to duplicate some of what is already there in some circumstances. I'm just not an expert on it all so without research I don't know the details of all that off the top of my head.

Maddoc1007 said @Jason dont know if this helps you but i went on one of the games right clicked, then edit, i then went to one of the images that wasnt there and tried to save it to desktop. it looked like it was saved but nothing was placed on desktop. however if you look at the name for the non-existant image it finishes with an -01.db see enclosed image Ah, I see. So it looks like LaunchBox is somehow finding ".db" files in your images folders, and for some reason it thinks they're images. Can you confirm and see if those files do actually exist? I'm guessing that something on your system is probably creating them (they are very possibly system/hidden files that only show up if you turn off hiding system files in Folder Options).

Good things to check, @SentaiBrad. The only other thing that comes to mind for me is a possible interrupt conflict, or something of that nature. Those happen very rarely, but I have seen them on modern machines, and they can cause some really weird things to happen. I would try swapping out hardware left and right, to see if you can narrow it down. Try switching between a PS/2 and USB keyboard, removing the game controllers, trying different game controllers, different mice, etc. You probably already know all that stuff though. I'd make sure absolutely everything is disconnected from the back of the computer, and test things one at a time. If that doesn't fix it, then it probably comes down to pulling out all hardware inside of the machine, swapping RAM, video cards, etc. Finally, one thing that always helps me out is booting onto a Linux live CD to see if the issue is hardware or software. If it happens in Linux too, it's probably hardware somehow. If it only happens in Windows, it's probably software- or driver-related.

Lol, one more thing guys. If you have a translation under way (you're in the process of translating and have an outdated set), don't worry about updating it if it gets updated here. You can go ahead and finish that set, and then I can merge in the changes, and then afterwards you can download a new set and fill in the holes. We just need to make sure that once you submit translation files to me, we'll need to wait until I have them integrated and a new download is ready before any further changes are made, to make sure that nothing is lost/overwritten.

Oh, and yes, the links in the main post will be the updated ones. However, the links won't change; I'm only updating the downloads behind them (I set them to never cache so hopefully that won't be a problem). Also @CliveBarker, did you see my post a few back about the new setup? :)

No problem, Clive. Thanks for following up; it's good to provide clarification on that stuff. I just updated all of the translation packages, so they are all currently up to date, with all new translations for 5.0. There's a lot of new stuff this time because it's a rather large release, especially with Big Box. The translation packages will be updated with every new beta, so if you want to, you could update after every new beta. But in general, that's probably *way* too much work and it's mostly unnecessary. I think the best approach will likely be to wait until we're close to ready for the actual release, and then they can be done in batch. Things change quite frequently between betas, so what I will do is notify everyone when we're close to ready for a release, and then we can update the translations. How's that sound? We are indeed close to ready to release 5.0, though, so now would be a good time to go ahead and do the 5.0 translations. I don't think the languages will change much (if at all) before 5.0 hits.

Alright guys; I've done a lot of work in the past few days to help automate the translations. There was previously far too much legwork required, so hopefully this will help. Below are the latest translation packages. I also added this list to the beginning of the thread (that is what I will update on a regular basis). Basically, every time I deploy a new beta, these downloads will be automatically updated. @Afaustini, unfortunately it's too much manual legwork to have to move all of the translated text out of this thread and into the translation files on a regular basis, so I'm hoping that this is a better solution. @CliveBarker @cyanjiang @AFaustini @davyfreeman @Klamp @Wattoo - The important thing is that we make sure to download the latest translation packages from the list *before* updating them, so that we don't lose any changes. Thank you guys so much. Latest Translation Files Downloads: Spanish Simplified Chinese Brazilian Portuguese German French

@Maddoc1007, thanks for that report. Obviously something I need to figure out. I'm having trouble understanding what you mean though; sorry for that. Can you try and explain it to me again?

Hi @Kasdar, I just issued you a refund. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

Oh, one more thing, @cyanjiang and @AFaustini. If you find any typos or issues in the translations, I'll need to send you a new set of translation files so you can fix the updated ones instead of the old ones. Otherwise, we'll lose the visual placement fixes that I made.

Just put out a new beta; I've fixed the issues that @cyanjiang found with the Simplified Chinese translation, and added @AFaustini's Brazilian Portuguese translation. :) Also, the new setup I've built is localizable as well, which is great. Can you guys translate the following for me so I can fix up the setup? WelcomeLabel1=Welcome to the [name] Portable Setup Wizard WelcomeLabel2=This wizard will install [name/ver] on your computer.%n%nPlease note that LaunchBox is a portable application; the installer will not touch any files outside of the destination folder.%n%nStart menu icons will be created if not deselected in the wizard. ClickNext=Please click Next to continue, or Cancel to exit the wizard. ExitSetupMessage=The setup process has not completed; LaunchBox has not been installed.%n%nYou may run the setup again at another time to complete the installation. Do you wish to exit the setup? LicenseLabel=Please read the following license agreement. LicenseLabel3=You must accept the terms of this agreement before continuing with the installation. SelectDirLabel3=Please do not install LaunchBox into your Program Files folder; it will not function properly. SelectDirBrowseLabel=%nLaunchBox is a portable application and must be installed to a location with full write permissions for your user account.%n%nIf you use Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive, we would suggest installing LaunchBox there.%n%nOtherwise, your user folder (default) or your Documents folder are good options.%n Website=%1 Website Forums=%1 Forums Wiki=%1 Wiki CreateDesktopIcon=Create &desktop icons Ignore what's to the left of the = sign; that's just the ID of the string. As always, thank you guys a million times over. :)

Great to hear @GatoSoft. I just put out another new beta, mostly focused on the (now two) new translations thanks to @AFaustini and @cyanjiang.

The first time I discovered that I was giddy with joy. ;)