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FYI this has been possible since February 2025, but I have not seen this mentioned anywhere. Note: you do need all BIOS (both DS and DSi) + NAND files for this to work. How to do it: 1) Create a DSiWare subfolder in your DS games folder (or anywhere else really) and move all DSiWare games there 2) Copy 1 normal DS game and put it into your DSiWare folder (so you can access Quick Menu) 3) Load the normal DS game from your DSiWare folder. Once the game boots, go to the Quick Menu > Core Options > System and change Console Mode to DSi (experimental) NOTE: If you never successfully booted a DSiWare game before in Native Mode, I would also suggest changing Boot Mode to Native to ensure the core sees all your BIOS/NAND files and can load DSiWare games to NAND as shown in this tutorial. This is the previous way we all had to play DSiWare in Retroarch, but if you can't do that properly, Retroarch will crash in Direct Boot Mode and you won't be able to get back into Quick Settings without manually editing a .cfg file. 4) Now choose Close Content in Quick Menu and Load Content with a DSiWare game in your DSiWare folder. If you did everything in Step 3 correctly, you should see the DSi boot menu and the game should be loaded in NAND (the gift box icon). 5) Once you can boot a DSiWare game the 'old' way in the previous steps, change Boot Mode to Direct and restart Retroarch from Quick Menu. The DSiWare game should now direct-boot automatically! 6) Lastly, after you've achieved the previous step, go back to Quick Menu after the DSiWare game has direct-booted, and choose Core Options > Manage Core Options > Save Content Directory Options You should now be able to direct boot all DSiWare games in your DSiWare folder, AND your normal DS games in your normal DS folder without having to change any settings ever again. After checking that this all works, you can delete the normal DS game from the DSiWare folder. Unfortunately there are no DSiWare videos at EmuMovies. I personally use Stacher to make my own from existing YouTube gameplay videos.

Thanks a lot, I took advantage of that! For some reason I can only get DMK files to load in TRS80GP, the DSK files just hang. Is there an extra command I need to load DSK?

Same problem here, my Atari 800 roms are in a single directory, and my 5200 roms are in a different single directory. 'Save Content Directory Override' does not currently work, RA will just keep the last system setting regardless. Maybe this is either a core bug or RA bug? EDIT: solved! The solution was 'Save Content Directory Options', not 'Save Content Directory Override'

I used the VLC compressor for this. Some starting settings can be found here: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-movies-that-are-really-quiet-then-really-lo-5920290 Mine are quite different because I try to maintain a consistent volume between Big Box, Spotify & Kodi. (also running a system-wide multiband compressor on top).

Bringing this topic back from the dead: I'm having an issue where LB will not autoplay WebM files. I am using VLC as the player (+ have k-lite installed). If I doubleclick the 'video area' in LB, the video will launch fine with VLC externally. Renaming the file to .mp4 fixes the issue, but I'd prefer not to take this extra step every time I scrape a WebM video! Is there some way to solve this without having to rename the file?

I would also love this feature. I just discovered the Steam Scraper plugin, which can help do this manually. However, it would be better if this functionality was somehow integrated into Launchbox's auto scraper.

I was having the same issue, which is what prompted me to comment here. I'm a bit confused. If the context menu only says "add new images to", are we supposed to choose that if we only change something else? I mainly downloaded this plugin to add additional genres/max player info without having to deal with the db website.

Friendly bump wondering if this will be updated for current builds?

Just a quick thanks for making this theme, it's basically everything I could ever want! I downloaded a few themes from the new Theme Manager but I love this one so much, I didn't even bother checking out the others. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to make this theme what it is! Looking forward to the update when it reaches the Theme Manager.

Update: I removed the Cortana search bar and it's much better now! You only see a shorter flash when first launching the add-on. Before, you would see the longer line flash on three occasions: 1) launching add-on before startup video 2) between startup video and Big Box launch 3) after Big Box exit, before Kodi relaunch Now it's only seen the first time, and less visible. I think this is as good as it will get.

It's still an improvement from before, thanks again. Taskbar was already set to black, but yeah I'll switch to regular Kodi if I get too annoyed by it.

Cursor issue fixed! Taskbar flash still exists, but if I understand correctly, you didn't change anything there.

Understood, thanks so much for your contribution! If I get bothered enough by the look, I'll switch from UWA to the normal install.

Flashing is still there, but the busy cursor/mouse pointer behavior is actually better. Now the cursor only flashes in the top right at the same moment/length as the taskbar.

@CoinTos Wow thanks, it's almost perfect! I enabled the new setting and the userscript updated. It's much improved, but there is still a flicker of the taskbar starting to draw before it cuts out (like a flash of a horizontal line at the bottom of the screen). Is there any way to make it hide earlier?

@CoinTos I began to use startup videos, and I'm now seeing the taskbar and mouse pointer for a moment on launch and exit. I'm using the UWA version of Kodi, I wonder if this has something to do with it? I had auto updates checked in LB, but have now disabled that and re-installed your add-on after reading your warning. I double checked the AHK script in my external directory and the version in your latest .zip and they appear to be the same. Anything I could be doing wrong?

Working fine here, thanks so much @CoinTos!

@CoinTos has apparently not been active for over a year on this forum. Perhaps someone else might be interested in adapting the addon for Kodi 18? This addon was actually the reason I decided to pay for a LB license, it would be a shame for this addon to cease being useful now that Kodi 18 is in regular use.

Thanks very much, noob mistake.

Apologies for necroing this thread, I'm having a problem with Altirra not launching on 'Play' but launching on right-click 'Launch With'. I have Altirra set in LB as the default/only emulator for Atari 800 and 5200, any idea what I could be doing wrong?

Not sure if this is bad etiquette or not to revive a dead topic, but just want to add another vote for this.

Another new user here who just discovered LaunchBox recently. Thanks and happy holidays!