Jason Carr

Actually I'd rather keep images in the forums, Martin, though we can certainly link to forums articles from the Wiki. Didn't realize the root page was locked down, sorry for that. I'll jump on fixing that right away. I'm out of town so I've been back and forth with Internet access. Your list looks like a great start, @bd00. Thanks for that. :)

Thanks Brad. I want to create a Retroarch Wiki for all these types of details.

Yeah, I have kids ages 6, 4 (almost 5) and 3. You forget how hard it is, especially for little kids, to learn how to use one of those things lol. My oldest (6) does great with them now, and can actually beat me at racing games, but it took him a lot of effort to be able to do that. In fact, he became proficient at gaming with a keyboard much quicker than with a 360 controller. My 4 (almost 5) year old is just now interested in picking up the controller. She's still working on it; she's pretty useless at it for the moment. ;)

I'm with you, ps4. Society today, especially American society, gets everything wrong. From parenting, to diet, to healthcare, to security; there is little that is done well. I tend to believe it has something to do with a society run entirely by money, but that's just a hypothesis.

I think you're right; I don't think it's possible to edit the categories without an admin account. I'd create them but I don't really know what to put in them, so I think at first at least we'll just ignore categories. Thanks a ton for your help with this. :)

Thanks, Mark. I did a bit of restructuring. The plugin I'm using for the wiki isn't completely customizable, so I can't do everything, but this should help. Now, the Wiki link takes you to the LaunchBox Wiki page, which seems to work a lot better. Everything can go underneath that page. Per the sidebar, I'm working on removing it. Looks like it'll take some code, surprisingly, but yeah, I agree; it needs removed. For tags, yup; they're comma-separated. Thanks again. :)

Hehehehe...I believe that lies in the terrible ripoff category, bd. :P

Ah, sure. :)

I just added the Wiki guys. Potentially we could move this kind of stuff (including the emulator settings thread into the Wiki). There should be a new Wiki item in the menu at the top. The structure and everything is up for the discussion. I believe anyone with a forum login should be able to edit the wikis. You can create new sub-wikis inside the two wikis by clicking the Create New tab. Let me know if you think this is a good direction, or if we should just keep using the forums (and/or how it's working for you).

Very cool @bd000. I'll take a look at them. At least a couple of them ring a bell from before, but probably worth a second review.

And we have a Wiki! There should be a new Wiki item in the menu at the top of the site. My understanding is that anyone who is logged in to the forums should also be able to edit the Wiki. I created wikis for LaunchBox and Big Box. We can discuss if we should change this structure. I believe everyone should have permissions to create sub wikis under these two wikis by clicking the Create New tab on top. Let me know how it's all working for you guys. Looking forward to seeing it populated. :)

Good to know. Thanks, @Bil. More performance improvements there would probably be ideal.

The LaunchBox site itself gets plenty of traffic, so yeah, I agree, it would be best to do it directly on the LB site itself. I am travelling today; I'll see if I can find a good wiki solution. I'm sure WordPress must have a good one. I know we looked a while back, but there wasn't enough interest to really continue it. Though now, I think it's probably about time. So I'll try and get the frame for it started, and leave it to you guys to populate it.

Oh man, back when I originally implemented controller support, I tried for days to make that happen. Apparently that darn guide button is some kind of trade secret or something. I think they make it difficult to do on purpose. I eventually found a way to do it, but would have had to create a separate app in C++ just to make it happen. I didn't try AutoHotkey at the time, though. Let me know if anyone figures it out, I'll integrate it into LaunchBox in a heartbeat. I want that for my own personal use. The other thing that would be nice, is being able to use that as the "hold button" for other AutoHotkey functions.

Oh, does it?

Glad to have you back @bd00.

Indeed. I definitely have plans for that. :)

Oh no, don't do it. You'll ruin my masterplan.

Lolololololol...am I not moving quick enough @bd00? ;)

Seriously. Listening, Namco? Unfortunately they're probably the only ones who could legally do it, without making it a terrible ripoff.

Good idea, Bil. That's a new one, but I can see it being useful. Can't promise it any time soon, but it is added to the list. :)

bd000 said Yeah that's what I meant, no hdd activity, but cpu activity. It's OK now, it miraculously started working again and completed the last bit in no time. It definitely stopped for a while though. Cheers Glad it worked. It can take a very long time. There's actually more CPU usage needed than you think in the process. I might see if there's anything I can do to speed it up. Rest assured that it should never be "stuck".

Bil said With the images now reorganized and spit by platform folder (thank you btw)... it has made my rather large collection much more manageable in adding or changing images. Do you have any plans to split the LaunchBox.xml to help with performance, for the upcoming version 5 of LB? I just wanted to ask and hope Unfortunately not for 5.0, but hopefully shortly after. However, I have not proven that splitting the XML file would do anything to improve performance (it could possibly make it worse), so that's only one possibility of many.

Awesome guys. Would love for a wiki to be put together. I can put it directly on the site if it works well.

Hi Martin, that already exists via the AutoHotkey features.