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I can get there pretty easily if I forgo Windows Steam games. BigBox is by far the best front end for retro stuff. But this NUC has enough horsepower to play some decent Windows games after upping the RAM, replacing the system drive and attaching an eGPU. The tradeoff seems to be accepting some jankiness when switching between retro (BB) and Windows games. It's easy to feature only one vs the other, but to have both seamlessly swap between each other with no mouse or keyboard reaching seems like a lofty goal that is, mostly, unattainable. I can do it easily with my Shield 2019 Pro, but then Windows games become dependent upon Sunshine/Moonlight. Doable, but native is better. And BB for Android is great, but the Windows version is far superior and I can build it out such better hardware.

Same here. I've been chasing this white whale of a Windows based device that looks, feels and plays like a high powered console, on and off, for a few years now. I always end up in the same spot in the end. But then I get a new device to connect to my tv and I start all over again. There are always obstacles and headaches and it never really feels ready for primetime.

Thank you

I'm curious if anyone has a truly smooth, consistent experience with this, or is it a unicorn? I sometimes waffle between using BB as my primary launcher and starting my Steam games from there, or vica versa where I use Steam Big Picture as the primary launcher and add BB as a non steam game. It seems no matter which method I use, there will be issues more often than not. For example, games will exit to a black screen and will require me to reboot or any subsequent games will run slowly at half the usual FPS. Or in other cases, BB will minimize to tray and be unuseable, etc. Are there, perhaps, some tips or tricks or clues or best practices or whatever thtat maybe I am missing? At this point, I get so frustrated I just created a folder on the desktop and put all my steam games shortcuts in there and a BB shortcut. I run Controller Companion at startup, so I can use the sticks to act like a mouse (this is an htpc build, btw) Hopefully someone has a reliable setup for toggling between Steam games and BB and can maybe point out some common pain points or something. I feel it should be better than it is, but maybe it's the way I am doing, or not doing, something. Thanks For reference, my htpc build is: Intel Nuc13 (highly upgraded) Intel Core-i7 1360p (Windows 11 Pro) 32 GB of DDR55 2TB SN850X Radeon RX 7600XT eGPU

Fresh install of Windows and BB. When in BB the Dpad and the stick do double inputs. So if I want to scroll games, for instance, it goes up and down two at a time. I googled and found a thread here but it's from 2021 and it mentions options in Steam that don't seem to exist anymore. Has anyone here had this problem and maybe found a resolution? Thank you.

Hello, I have a NUC 13 with an egpu (rx 76600xt) that I am using an htpc. I have added Plex, Kodi, Controller Companion and Moonlight. All of them scrape into the Windows platform easily. But they kind of stand out of place sprinkled amongst my Windows games. So I made a custom platform and called it "Utilities". I can't seem to figure out how to add these apps to that platform. Am I doing it wrong? Should I use a playlist instead? EDIT: I'm guessing playlist is better. I created one and added the apps fine. A couple of follow up questions: How do I now remove and/or hide the apps in the Windows platform? Can playlists have cool icons like platforms, and if so, where would one find some? Thanks!

Yeah, I just checked and Retroarch is the only emulator in my install.

I didnt do a mame import, per se, I dont think. I just pointed the importer to that folder and selected Arcade as platform and Retroarch, pretty sure, as the emu?

Currently doing a new build on an Intel NUC 13. I am not sure how best to handle only a small number of mame roms. There are really only 20-30 that I care about--mostly just 80's classics that I am familiar with. What I do is put them in the Arcade roms folder and let LB do the rest. This doesn't really seem to work. The game will start to launch but then just kinda sits at a white screen or some other such unuseable state. I don't want a huge install, so I don't want to import an entire fullset. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Thank you! That worked! It was driving me bonkers for a while now.

My apologies, you said BigBox. I was looking in LB for that option.

Thank you for the response. I have looked through the Options, but I can't seem to find that. Would you recall which section?

I usually create a small handful of playlists with every LB install. I then have them show up in the platforms category in BB. I downloaded some clear logos from here and used one in a playlist and it looks and works fine. I tried adding one to a different playlist and I just can't get it to work. Out of frustration, I tried the one "known working" logo on the second list and it worked. But now, no matter what I do I just cannot get any other logo to work on that list. It just keeps displaying that one "known working" logo in BB. Even if I remove all images from that playlist, it still show that same logo as the first list is using. So I don't really think there is anything wrong with the other logos after all. Does this sound strange? Any suggestions on what I can do? It really breaks the visual experience when browsing on the tv with BigBox to have playlists in the platform wheel with either no image at all, or duplicate image on any custom playlist. Thank you

Thank you!

I purchased a new NUC to run some stuff, including Launchbox, and did a fresh install yesterday. I've been a very long time user of LB/BB and have it running on my laptop as well. I noticed, however, that the BigBox starting page seems to be quite cluttered now? Things like Feeling Lucky, Recently Added, etc, etc. I do not want these and they don't appear on my laptop install, so I'm a bit puzzled. Could someone please point me to how I can get a lean, quiet BigBox staring page back? Thank you.