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Perhaps wifi gamepads do not exist. Bummer. I could run a long usb cable to a usb hub in the other room and use a usb gamepad. I'm not sure if I should be concerned about potential receiver confusion. In the same room is a usb receiver for my Logitech universal remote. Would having two receivers like that in close proximity be a problem? I feel that wifi gamepads should be a thing. That would be very handy.

I recently purchased a new MSI GE75 Raider laptop. Which means I now have my previous one (MSI Dominator Pro with GTX980) lying around. I am trying to think of something fun to do with it. I already have a dedicated Plex server and since the GTX 980 won't transcode x265, there is not much benefit to moving that role to this device. I have more than enough file server space on my LAN as well, so I thought maybe I could make my older gaming laptop into a dedicated BigBox machine. It does sit in my home office right now which is behind one wall from my TV room. When I bought the house I created a small hole between the drywall for ethernet cables, so I could run a long HDMI cable from the laptop to my TV easily enough. I was hoping maybe to get some tips that anyone might have about doing this. Is there a wifi gamepad that is recommended for instance? I'd rather go wifi than usb if I could. Or any other general tips that people might have? Thanks

Same here. I would have happily paid 4x that amount. Android was sorely lacking in a decent emu frontend, and LB/BB is, by far, the best out there in my opinion. Seeing it ported to Android is something I have long wanted to see happen.

There is an Android version available now. It is, I think, $5 in the Play Store. I have it on my Shield TV. I haven't had too much of a chance to try it out yet--too busy with City of Heroes

I'd contribute.

I do have a Geforce GTX 908M in my laptop, so I could stream to my Shield, but that doesn't really interest me for some reason. I like being able to do everything I want to do using the game controller and (for the most part) not even needing to leave Kodi. I can add Android apps to the favorite bar in Kodi and just launch Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime, Arcbrowser, etc from Kodi and then when I exit those other apps, I return back to Kodi. Very wife friendly. Agreed, re front ends on Android. Not much to write home about. I tried about 4 of them, but settled on Arcbrowser. It's no Bigbox, but it's functional. I'd contribute to a Gofundme or something to get this started. Maybe Nvidia would be interested in collaborating?

Thank you for the update.

I know this has been asked before, but I was curious if your position has changed at all given that Android TV seems to be spiking a bit in popularity. I recently bought an Nvidia Shield TV and I love it, but I would love it so much more if I could use Bigbox rather than my current launcher, Arcbrowser. I have a license for Bigbox on my Windows laptop and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread, and I would happily pay more for an Android license. There just is nothing that compares to Bigbox and I miss having it on my HTPC. I switched to a Shield TV because going from Kodi to Bigbox, or Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc on Windows is a hassle. The Bigbox plugin worked better than the rest, but Windows/Kodi for HTPC is kind of a single purpose solution, imo. Doing much beyond just Kodi becomes a hassle. With the Shield TV I can do all of the above and with a built in game controller. If I could get Bigbox as well, I'd have the perfect setup!

Thank you very much! One other quick question if anyone knows the answer. Does scroll game details work? Nothing seems to happen when I select it. I saw a couple of other threads when I searched that seemed to indicate that the feature does not work?

Hi, I enabled remember separate view for each platform, but I cannot seem to figure out how to then actually create a view for each platform. I've scrubbed through all the options, and I don't see it. Thanks

I think I get it now. It's too bad, I was hoping I could save myself the trouble of playlisting each game and just make a playlist of out of a genre in a few clicks and then have that playlist appear under Platforms. Oh, nevermind. Was easier than I thought. I just held down the shift key and quickly selected all games in the Role-Playing category and added them to a playlist. Easy peasy!

Ah, I see. Thanks for the replies!

Sorry, I'm not sure we're on the same page. If we are, I apologize for the further confusion. What I would like to see is like this: Platforms>Genesis >NES >SNES >Custom Platform (all games from all platforms that match "Role-Playing") Is that what you understood me to be asking for?

Is it possible to take all role-playing games and have them listed as a platform so that I don't have to jump around between the views? I think that would be pretty awesome. Thanks

While not strictly Launchbox/Bigbox related, the issue is on my Bigbox PC. I recently rebuilt one of my desktops I used to use for virtualization into my new HTPC. It's been working great for a couple of weeks with KODI, Plex and LB/Bigbox. Tonight I moved it from the floor beside the TV to the cabinet next to it and now none of my usb devices (beyond a wired mouse) are being recognized. Even a generic keyboard is not working. In fact, there is no Keyboard section in Device Manager at all. So, my wireless kb, my wireless mouse, my Xbox 360 receiver, none of that is working. This machine is running Windows 7 ( I prefer it for htpc). I have tried removing usb root hubs and controller and rebooting. No change. Windows re-installs the same ones, but no keyboard, etc. I've been pouring over google and not really coming up with much. At this point, I would even re-install Windows, but I can't access the bios since I don't have a keyboard that bloody works. I thought I might put the question to this community. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Has anyone tried one of these? I saw one in Walmart earlier today. I think it will help my inability to get my wireless controller to exit an emu without freezing up. This will allow me to hit the escape key without needing my keyboard nearby. At least, I think it would. http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/surge-surge-quicktype-textpad-keyboard-for-xbox-one-controllers-sg40003/10534752.aspx EDIT: Oh, nevermind. Just realized it is for xbox one controller, not xbox 360.

I've recently decided to give Bigbox + couch + Kodi another go. My htpc died recently so I moved a quiet desktop from my lab downstairs to fill the gap. It is not as small, but has more power ( Core i-7, 16GB of RAM, discrete gpu [Nvidia GT420], 256 GB SSD). I was going to just go with Plex running on an ESX vm, but decided I might as well have the best of both worlds. I will have a VM that just does Plex streaming to my Android devices when I'm travelling and go back to Kodi directly attached to my TV with local media drives backing up to a Qnap NAS. So far so good. I have my xbox 360 wireless controller working great in Kodi and Bigbox. I tried the current version of the Bigbox addon for Kodi and what an improvement! This never worked for me before and now it is super smooth and reliable, it seems. The only real annoyance left is that when I try to use the controller to exit and emu, the input hangs. Sometimes I have to alt tab around a bit to get focus back and sometimes I just have to hit esc on my wireless keyboard. I have tried hitting my mapping for exit ( hold start + back) one more time, but that never does anything. I always have to use the keyboard to get focus back. I can see game description text scrolling still, so it's not totally hung, but it won't take input from my controller or my keyboard when this happens. Any suggestions? thanks!

I wondered about that. Last night I noticed a BigBox icon in my plex interface on the PS4. But when I select it, nothing happens. Latency for arcade or 16 bit games might not be a big deal. That is pretty much all I play on BigBox anyway.

Thanks for the response. That is what I figured.

My HTPC died this weekend. It was also running Kodi, but I saw the demise coming and switched over to Plex using a server in my basement. All is good and I love the Internet based streaming and the ability to use my PS4 for both my media and Netflix (something XBMC/Kodi struggles with). However, I am now missing a BigBox option. Would it ever be possible to stream from a BigBox server to a PS4? That would be so sweet. I love keeping everything in one place. It makes life much simpler. And it would save me buying a new HTPC for BigBox. Thanks

Thanks, it launched fine now.

Title pretty much says it all. It just started today for the first time. Launchbox just hangs at populating games and goes not responding in task manager and eventually I have to kill the process. This is on a core-i7 Skylake, SSD, 32 GB of RAM machine. Any suggestions? Thanks

DDR 4/2133 32GB is overkill for most gamers, but I am a network engineer and I run network modelling software like Cisco VIRL and the more memory and cpu, the better for things like that and for virtualization in general. Here's a link to my new baby :) https://www.msi.com/Notebook/GT72S-6QE-Dominator-Pro-G.html#hero-overview On a side note, if anyone is in my neck of the woods and wants a good deal on a MSI GT70, I'll be selling one. I'd let it go for $1,000 CDN I can include the Windows 10 Pro CD Key if needed. Intel Corei7-3630QM 16 GB RAM Geforce GTX 660M 256 GB SSD RAID 0 ( 2 x 128GB msata) 750 GB 7200 RPM storage drive. 17 inch monitor..

Just tried this on my htpc and it worked much better. About 80% of the games pulled down box art, etc. For some reason, my laptop behaved differently. I don't care too much as I just ordered a new MSI GT72S Dominator Pro G :) Skylake proc, 32 GB RAM, GTX 980M 8GB, PCI-e RAID SSD (2x128GB), G-sync monitor... Should be fun to play with!

SentaiBrad said The Platform is MS-DOS and not GOG right? Not that it should matter if they're already linked to a Database entry... which is the strange part. I'll pass this on to Jason. If they're linked to a DB entry and not downloading images that's bad. The platform is MS-DOS, yes. I imported them and just pointed them to my GoG folder. That is just what I call the folder, since that is where I extract all my GoG purchases to. They imported fine, with details and descriptions and stuff, and they launch fine, but zero box art at all.