Jason Carr

Just added game videos support to Big Box. Should have another release out tonight.

Hey guys, it's been a bit, I know, but I did put out a new release last night. Still focusing on implementing more settings. The goal for the official 5.0 release (at least Big Box-wise) is to fill out the settings, get better platform metadata in there, show icons instead of metadata where appropriate, and then I think we'll shoot for the 5.0 release. Before that, though, there are a few things I want to tackle in LaunchBox itself as well.

Wow, yeah, I see. In the states building computers isn't really profitable anymore either; neither is computer repair. It's incredibly difficult to make a profit competing with all of the big guys, even though the big guys do suck at what they do.

Figures. I would contact them but I have so much to do development-wise that unfortunately I really don't have to time to play a cat and mouse game with anti-virus companies. Unfortunately I doubt I'd have any luck getting to someone useful anyways.

Thank you @scree! Thank you a million times over! I have the data and I'll be integrating it soon. :)

Hi @Cabirus, welcome. :) These features are indeed all planned. I'll try and increase the priority of them.

Otherwise, maybe you can post it here?

Odd, didn't receive it, not sure why. Hmm. Maybe try again? Try sending it to admin@launchbox-app.com?

Ha, that's pretty great.

Ah, I see. That makes sense. Yeah, a centralized location to pull a user's game data would be pretty useful. It's interesting that they're able to do that too...I wonder how difficult it would be for LaunchBox to do the same thing...

Wow! Very cool Stimpy. I'm jealous of that experience. I've done pretty well in the software world but of course nothing even close to that cool hardware-wise. It'd be really neat to learn those ropes. I'm a big fan of Corsair, so I trust that case would serve you well. I really love my Thermaltake Soprano, but it serves a slightly different purpose (it's really quiet running fans, but doesn't have a side window to show anything off). Every few years I think about going liquid cooled and then chicken out. ;)

Ah, I see. Okay...honestly didn't know you could do that. ;) I'll add it to my list.

Yeah, I like that power to dollar ratio as well, absolutely. I was an AMD guy for a long time too. What unfortunately broke me away from AMD had little to do with AMD. At one point back I bought three AMD motherboards in a row, three different models from different companies, Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte. Every single motherboard I bought had chipset issues. Drivers didn't work, network connections would randomly disappear in Windows, etc. Eventually I did some research and found serious issues with pretty much every decent chipset for that generation of AMD CPUs, and jumped the boat. I miss the power to dollar ratio, but thankfully the stability has been great since my jump to Intel.

Jealous.

Yeah, indeed. Game developers are definitely getting lazier. This has been going on for ages. But as a programmer, I can reflect on a few things: - Often times, faster load times = larger file sizes. Not always, but it's often a trade off. - Being able to be lazy takes the focus off of having to constantly fix annoying bugs and worry about a million different things, which allows programmers/designers/etc. to focus on other things, like new features, better design, and just making a better game. It's no secret that everyone has a budget, and everything is run by money. So unfortunately, there's often a trade off between increasing frame rates and making a better playing game, otherwise. - Regardless, there's absolutely no excuse for a heavily bugged release. If a game comes out bugged from the beginning on a vast number of systems, it either wasn't properly tested, or they knew about the issues and released it anyways. I would imagine the latter is a lot more common. The developers say "it's not ready" but the business executives release it anyways is probably most likely.

Indeed, I've learned to love Retroarch.

@bd00, yup, indeed I do. :)

Hi @scree. Send it to jasondavidcarr at gmail dot com.

Thanks @Shades2585, I'm not really familiar with the keymapper ability, can you explain what you mean?

Thank you @airbikecop! :) Yes, a list view is definitely planned. There's a lot to do, so don't hold your breath too hard (just came out with the Big Box beta), but it is definitely planned for development. Thank you and welcome!

Hi Shi9k, can you explain? I'm not clear on what integrating with http://isthereanydeal.com would gain us.

Hi @jpaparone, sorry for the trouble. Download the latest beta here: http://api.launchbox-app.com/DownloadBeta.ashx Then just install it over top and let me know if it fixes the issue. If not, I can fix it.

As of late, my favorite PCs are massively powerful, tiny, and silent. Thankfully the Intel Haswell CPUs finally made that possible in the last few years. I built mine a couple years ago (though I did upgrade my video card recently), but it fits behind my monitor and no one even knows it's there. Runs GTA V on max beautifully. ;)

Ah, I see.

Ugh, that sucks. How'd that happen...Rocksteady knows how to put out amazing games. :/