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Yay! As a long-time RocketLauncher user and someone who's been waiting for this functionality to be implemented, this discussion is right up my alley Here's my 2 cents worth 1. If the startups/fades don't cause a major hit in performance, I'd say VERY important and useful, especially with the larger disc-based games (PlayStation, Dreamcast, etc.) which can take several seconds to load up if they're compressed. It's a much better experience to have something to look at such as the game/system artwork while the games are loading. Also, some emulators like VICE look absolutely awful while they load up games, but look much more smooth with startups/fades to hide all that awful window opening/closing nonsense going on in the background. 2. Bezels are rather important to me and make the whole 'experience' feel more complete. Most systems are relatively simple to (already) implement bezels, with retroarch and mame having that function built in, so I can see this as being less of a priority in comparison to startups/fades. However, it would certainly be nice to have a 'universal' system where you could use bezels with any emulator, and having that as an option within LaunchBox would certainly be very attractive to the entire emulation community. 3. Startup screens would be the icing on the cake that is LaunchBox/BigBox as it's already fantastic. It would be nice to incorporate a fade-in/fade-out with the ability to customize the artwork on startup screen, based on the platform for those who just want a more 'general' startup screen (example: a large picture of the NES console) or based on the individual game for those who want a more specific startup screen, with fan artwork, game box, etc. Also, it would be great to have a progress bar which shows the percentage of the loading time for compressed games. 4. Although I've used RocketLauncher for a few years, I've never been a big fan of the pause screens. However, they're a very nice option for the more 'enthusiast' retro gamers out there and I'd certainly use them too if the features are handy. For example, it would be great to have the game manual/information (pdf), artwork (for viewing pleasure), and the ability to control some various settings such as volume, screen brightness, music settings, and so on. Having said all of this, I truly appreciate the fact that you listen so well to the users and community feedback and very much look forward to seeing these features implemented in the future. Keep up with the great work!

Great update! Thanks a lot for all the contributions to BigBox!

@RetroHumanoid Hey, I really appreciate all of your hard work on this great theme and I hope that you don't mind that I've put together a variation which combines this theme, mixed together with the artwork from one of the bedroom themes as you can see in the photo below. However, my only issue is how to change the size and location of the artwork (video, box) to make it fit in and next to the television. I've tried to modify the code without any success. Can you point me in the direction to where these artwork locations and sizes can be changed? Thank you again! Update: Okay, I figured out the video part and that's now taken care of However I'm still having trouble with the box artwork (location, size)

I've found that vice, ccs64 and hoxs64 are all very decent emulators, but lately I've been using hoxs64 more as it seems to run games a little more smoothly, at least from my perspective. For the "Default Command-Line Paramaters" I use the following: -fullscreen -quickload -autoload And so far I've had no problems, even with .d64 files. Give it a try!

I'd hardly call it "terrible" but it would certainly be nice to eliminate this middleware, especially since it hasn't any updates in an extremely long time

Thank you! It works great!

Thanks a lot for the fast reply! Actually, if you remove that part of the code, it also removes the box completely. However, I found a way to remove the effect and still keep the box-art, by inserting "0" for all of the values (Value="0"). Going forward, it would be nice if themes used the ListBoxScrollCenter plugin since it centers the text in the same way wheel-art is centered in other views. I've tried to implement it with this theme and other similar themes without any success so far.

@Jason Carr Not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I've been using this theme more (because it's fantastic!) and was wondering a couple of things. I tend to use the text-games list more than the others but there's a couple of quirks. First, I was wondering if I could use the ListBoxScrollCenter plugin where it keeps the selected game centered in the list? Also, the box dropping (effect) tends to become overwhelming after a while, and I was wondering how to remove this effect or change it to a more simple 'fade' effect?

Great work once again! From a personal perspective, I like this one a lot more than the attractmode build

Great work once again! Launchbox keeps getting better and better

Great work once again! This is a really valuable tool

No problem! Glad to hear you got it working

The easiest way is to start Vice and then go to full screen by pressing ALT+ENTER. After that, exit out of Vice by pressing ALT+X. Then, when you start Vice next time, it will automatically start in full screen. You'll need to use an autohotkey-script to exit properly, using the ESC key. Copy and paste the following code in the "Edit Emulator / Autohotkey-script" section: $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} } vk07sc000:: Send, !{F4} Return

Yep, that worked, after I saved each cartridge to .car format. Then I just renamed it back to .rom and it loads up properly. Thank you!

Just wondered, because in the main Altirra window, it always asks for a mapper (before starting the game) whenever I load Atari 800 roms, and I still can not figure this part out. What I'd like to do is insert the mapper into the command line for each game, so that I don't have to repeat this process every time

Just wondering, which command lines do you use for Altirra? As a stand-alone, this is probably the best 5200 and Atari 800 emulator, but I'm getting all mixed up with the command line through LaunchBox

Count me in too if you need any more people to test

Looks nice. With another frontend, AttractMode, I modified some of the code and artwork and made a very similar theme. Something like this in a BigBox theme, with this type of simple game-list would be great ?

Count me in too if you need anyone else to test this?

As a fan of your bigbox themes, I'm really looking forward to this! And with what I've seen planned/in progress so far, it could certainly make rocketlauncher become unnecessary?