SentaiBrad

Yea Jason and I have been discussing this for a while actually. We would love to to provide video, but Bandwidth and ruining our relationship with EmuMovies are certainly two of the bigger concerns.

Yes we should reject extremely blurry images for any section, except for Front Box Art because that may be all there is, and in which case... what are we gonna do? Screenshots have no room to stand on. Even if you didn't want to resize them. Open RetroArch, turn on the Pixellate x5 shader, make the window x4 or x5 and start taking screenshots. 4:3 games (pretty much everything from the GameCube era and back, with the exception of late in that generation) should not be in widescreen anyways! These games are not 16:9. So screenshots have seriously no excuse. GIMP and Irfanview are free with Nearest Neighbor scaling. Let's not forget a lot of users have Photoshop too and that certainly has a Nearest Neighbor scaling. Forgetting that, taking screenshots is super super super super easy and you can do that with a clean crisp look at any 4:3 resolution, given your monitor is big enough.

That is a good idea, it could be changed from the Edit Platforms menu. Is there a ticket for it?

A chat and comments system will be coming. Jason is currently working on the ability to add and remove games. Remember he's only 1 person.

Oh you can also enable favorites from the Game Details bar if you use that. Click a game then the heart at the top of the details pane.

I might have to enable the controller from time to time because that selection changes, but when I change to it the controls are the same. I would try creating a new config and in the new config edit the controller settings then make sure you save them. The WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color tutorials (week before last) I cover them specifically if you need help creating them.

Right now Favorites is the closest thing to a Playlist or using the Series field and sorting by that. Playlists have been requested before though. I am sure there is a ticket for it.

Black Screen's usually mean (from experience) missing cue sheet, bad disc rip or missing BIOS.

Personally I would prefer if it were a remake to be a remake as the original artwork was. However maybe it would be best to have a Front and Back Box Art - Custom for re-created or completely fan created Box Arts? This way both get preserved. Our original intent is to try and preserve history. As much as I hate bad quality images I still say the original box should probably be the main one uploaded.

Ah yea, you meant real saves. :P Core Options is your best friend to check for a lot of stuff. Sometimes cores have no options, sometimes they have lots.

angelobodetti said Anyone know how to save games in Mupen64 for RetroArch? I was using Project64 with USB Nintendo64 controllers, but it got annoying that almost every time I plugged them in I needed to reconfigure them - So now I am just using Mupen64 with the XBOX 360 controllers which seems to map well. Thank you. I go over how to create custom configs for cores in some of the tutorials and how to load them in LaunchBox, it's an extra command, and you can keep your USB N64 controller settings just for the N64 core. I know how bad it is playing N64 on anything other than an N64 controller. I love my PS4 controller, but it doesn't quite work there. PS3, PS4, 360 and Xbox One controllers automatically map based on the drivers too. As for saving, F2 is Save State and F4 is Load State. Under the Input menu in the RA settings is an item call 'Input Hotkey Binds', you can change that there if you want. Just probably shouldn't get rid of F1.

Yea that would be tough. Will it happen? Sure eventually everything will happen. When the feature was first rolled out there was an issue with users who need to launch cue sheets for PS1 and Saturn where it's required. The feature at first would rarely launch the game or it would launch not from the cue sheet. We never had someone test PS2 games because we honestly suggest users don't archive Disc based games for load time reasons, and even then I don't think any of us launch our PS2 games from cue sheets. So honestly you're just the first person to have this specific issue.

Right, I think LB is prioritizing cue sheets for systems that require the game to be launched from it. Without waiting for an update to that functionality I would either make the iso's CSO files or remove the cue sheets from the archives. Something about the cue sheets PCSX2 is trying to launch them differently.

Re-reading your post, don't run the cue sheet. I don't even have cue sheets for my PS2 games, they're all in CSO format to save space.

Where it says CDVD, click the dropdown and select the null plugin, or with that Plugin selected hit configure and make sure the Source Drive says @ (no disc). https://i.imgur.com/sBb1Lw3.png

CADScott said Another issue I am seeing quite a bit is people changing the release date to be the North American release date, from the original Japanese release date, which is most often earlier. Unless there is a way in the database to have all different regions release dates, I feel the date should be the first date of release anywhere in the world, rather than for a particular county. Yep that is in the guidelines, and there will be regioned dates in the the future, but for now yea I've been denying those for the first date. If the first date is N. American, then so be it.

Disable the DVD plugin in the plugins menu and it should work fine. Edit: You only need it if you have real discs in your PC.

Jason Carr said SentaiBrad said Updated the guidelines. Ha, beat me to it. Thanks, Brad. :) Yep. :P

Updated the guidelines.

Yea fanart needs to be something someone created, either with logo's and screenshots, renders or drawn etc. Something someone made. A straight screenshot should just go in to the screenshots. It also obviously needs to follow the other guidelines. 720p is probably smart in the long run too. It just depends, I approved screenshots of the Dragon Ball Z anime for a DBZ game, but I would deny those real shots of the planes that we had the other day. It just kind of depends I guess... It needs to be directly related (though I denied those Terminator screenshots), 1280 x 720 at least, follow the other rules.

It is open to the public, but only edits can be made as well as adding images. Adding games entirely will be available sometime this week hopefully. If you need more help check out our LaunchBox Games Database subforum, there are threads in there.

Oh yea the options doesn't change BigBox, but you still can disable the auto-playback right?

The performance problems may not lie in RAM but rather CPU. That said, you can turn off video's all together in Options, there is a Video tab. At the top of LaunchBox, View then go down a bit to find Autoplay for Music and Video.

Go in to the settings and enable the option and select your controller. However LaunchBox proper has limited controller support, BigBox is entirely controller oriented. That said, I would probably still keep the mouse and keyboard close by for when you need to use Windows, add or edit games, or change settings in LB. Otherwise BigBox would be the way to go for full controller support.

RetroArch would be simple to set to full screen too if you wanna use that.