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  1. bundangdon

    3D boxes

    From my experience of using LaunchBox/BigBox for the past 5-6 years, there's no way to automatically apply a uniform/universal setting for the 3d boxes, as the box-art representing several platforms come from many different sources, although the mods who gather and upload the artwork do try to keep it pretty consistent. My advice would be to choose "3D Boxes" in "Image Group" for LaunchBox and then find the 3D boxes which don't suit your preference, and then make the necessary changes. Time consuming and a bit annoying, yes, but worth it in the end
  2. No worries! If you wouldn't mind, I could throw something together with the Community Theme Builder that could use a text list instead of clear logos. That way, you could keep the theme as you prefer, and anyone who wants to adjust anything can just do it themselves, in this case - me
  3. This is pretty cool and I certainly like the idea of having a theme exclusively for music videos. However, the main problem I'm having is that it requires logos for each title? I must be missing something, because it just uses giant text for each video title, which doesn't look very attractive. How were you able to get those jukebox labels in there?
  4. Here ya go: Community Theme Creator for BigBox - Third-party Apps and Plugins - LaunchBox Community Forums (launchbox-app.com)
  5. Or, what you could do is use the same artwork from Nostalgia and CoinOp to put something (similar) together with the Community Theme Creator, which will obviously take some time and effort but a lot easier than having to manually code another theme
  6. I'm not totally sure, but you'd have to keep most of the installation files and folders because it's built into the executable (LaunchBox.exe and BigBox.exe), but stuff like games, images, videos, sounds, themes and configuration files within the LaunchBox folder can be interchanged (kept) with either version.
  7. Just to chime in as a long time user of this theme and even a fork of this theme which I put together, I can tell you that it's been broken ever since version 10 (-ish?) of LaunchBox/BigBox. So, I'd advise you to keep your old installation if you want to keep using Nostalgia until the author of this theme applies a fix or update to get it working with the most recent version.
  8. Sure, count me in! I'm not sure if my system qualifies as "old" but I built it about 5 years ago. And I have about 50 or so platforms set up within LaunchBox/BigBox
  9. Yep, I think the "95%" claim may be correct in that the games do run, but not all that well. I tried it out and there some very noticeable graphical glitches in a few of the Jaguar games. Hence, it is indeed a colossal turd and will probably remain that way for quite a while
  10. No worries! Glad you found it
  11. Keep looking and you'll find it. I just checked now in the "Retrofresh - Glass 1.51" file, and opened up the TextGamesView.xaml file which is contained within the "Views" folder and it looks something like this: So in this case, you'd change that "80" number to a lower number to make it less blurry or put a "0" to remove the blur altogether
  12. Coincidentally, I asked that same question a few years back and found the answer here RetroFresh - Big Box Custom Themes - LaunchBox Community Forums (launchbox-app.com) Basically, you have to change this part of the code in the .xaml of whichever view you want to change: <transitions:TransitionPresenter.Effect> <BlurEffect Radius="80" RenderingBias="Performance" /> </transitions:TransitionPresenter.Effect> Give it a try and see if that works for you
  13. Yep, there's a lot of jumbled up stuff out there unfortunately. While it's most often virus-free, it's also a big mess and I've had to find various fixes for nesicaxlive and teknoparrot games as a result. It's quite a hassle, but sometimes worth the effort
  14. I've wondered the same thing. The only annoying thing is that Windows Defender will often quarantine these files, which makes for a pain in the a** but other than that, I haven't noticed anything wrong. Although I've heard from various sources that these are indeed false positives
  15. The only thing I can think is that the names of the games don't match up somehow, but I think I've run out of ideas. And when that happens, I usually start from scratch and try to find the answers from the very beginning. There's a few tutorials out there, and this one may help: Philips CD-i - LaunchBox Tutorial - YouTube It's important to note that (in the video) he mentions "MESS" but MAME can be used in its place. And there's another thread which talks about the same topic in great detail: CD-i emulation - Emulation - LaunchBox Community Forums (launchbox-app.com)
  16. I wasn't referring to the Retroarch core, as I don't use that one for MAME either. In the mame folder, there should be a mame.cfg file which you may or may not have already. If not, look in the "ini" folder and there should be a cdimono1.cfg file which looks like this when opened: As you can see from the example above, the "bios" folder and games folders are referenced in "rompath" and "swpath". Hope that helps
  17. I was curious about that issue too and did a general search and found that the mic may not be working with the "desmume" core, according to this post DesMume core,microphone simulation not working? - Libretro / Cores - Libretro Forums But you may have better luck using the "melonds" core. I'll check it and see if there's any options for a microphone also Update: I just checked the melonds core and didn't see any microphone options. However, I've noticed that the desmume standalone (non-retroarch) program has plenty of microphone options. It can be found here: Downloads « DeSmuME
  18. Okay, then make sure you have the correct bios in the appropriate folder also. I think it's cdimono1.zip. And MAME is a little picky about folder locations for bios files. In my case "cdimono1.zip" is in the "bios" subdirectory of MAME with the MAME.cfg looking like this: # CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS # homepath . rompath roms; bios
  19. You might want to ask for help about that issue in the appropriate forum from people who are more familiar with retroarch and that particular core. Try here: Libretro Forums
  20. Certainly not an expert on the CD-i in any way, but I managed to get it working after finding some information here and there. If you're using MAME as the emulation (which is the only real option at this point), then you need to put "Phillips CD-i" as an "Associated Platform" of MAME and then add the following to the default command line parameters for that associated platform: cdimono1 -cdrm
  21. Great work as always! Looking forward to the next release
  22. Just wondering, do you have your fanart in the appropriate folder? For example (NES) the images should be placed here: ?\LaunchBox\Images\Nintendo Entertainment System\Fanart - Background\
  23. No problem! Glad to hear you got it working. As for Colecovision, there are better options out there. Try using Mame or Retroarch with it instead
  24. Yes, that looks right. I've only tried Jaguar and 3DO so far, but it probably works for Colecovision too.
  25. I just tried it now and got it working. Just make sure to set the program to launch "_Phoenix_Rom_Launcher.exe" and leave the default command line blank in the LaunchBox settings. It should work but I'd rather use Retroarch for 3DO games and only use this for the few Atari Jaguar games that won't properly run. Another important note is that (as far as I know) Project Phoenix won't run .chd files, so you'll have to use .cue instead for 3DO games.
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