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I really do hope it passes SSF on its quality as SSF is such a pain to setup.

Liking the new dark theme option...great job Jason!

Yes the speed increase is awesome!!. I am going to have to get used to unread content up at the top as well. It would be cool to have a button at the top also that says View New Content so it shows the newest forum post but I guess the unread content button does something similar.

I feel like Royale-Kurozumi looks the best as well. I do think that it looks best with integer scale turned on although I cannot stand loosing that extra screen space. Crt Easymode Halation looks good with integer scale turned off but Kurozumi wins out with me always in the end. I am curious if you guys use Kurozumi with integer scale on or off?

Voted for this one as well, I think this is a must have and surprised no one has mentioned it before.

I was going to request this option also as i can see this becoming very useful in the future as i am thinking about changing my rom paths and it would be nice to be able to do this in bulk.

The controller issues seems to be resolved with search in the newest beta. Thanks for pointing out that search is also on the alphabetical index as I didnt even realize it was there. Great work Jason!!

I am getting this error when using the new search function with my xbox 360 controller but this error does not happen when I use my keyboard. Also are you planning on adding a feature so we can map a key to be able to pull up the search menu so we do not have to go into the options menu in order to search for a game? I am already loving this new search feature but being able to map it to a key to pull up the search on screen keyboard would be awesome!!

These sound packs are amazing...I just had a chance to try them out and they are awesome!!

Drybonz said kmoney2315 said I have not seen any issues with mame ini while using the plugin as of yet and I have been playing several mame games lately. What kind of ini issues are you having and have you set the path to your ini file in the mame module settings in rocketlauncher? This is the error. Never used to happen. If I launch directly from MAME it doesn't happen. Hmmmm....very strange, I have yet to see that.I would try posting this issue over on the RL forums and someone will probaly be able to help you out.

Drybonz said Jason Carr said Hi guys, unfortunately I think we're going to have to wait until after the 6.3 release to tackle these Rocket Launcher issues. I recently started getting MAME .ini error messages when launching MAME games. It doesn't happen when I just use MAME, only when launching with RocketLauncher. At first, I assumed it was a RL problem, but could this be related to the RL plugin in LaunchBox? If so, is it possible, Jason, to completely remove or disable the plugin until you have time to work on it? The plugin comes with rocketlauncher so you would have to disable it within rocketlauncher. I have not seen any issues with mame ini while using the plugin as of yet and I have been playing several mame games lately. What kind of ini issues are you having and have you set the path to your ini file in the mame module settings in rocketlauncher?

I can confirm that the videos restarting are working great also with RL without have the loading option enabled. Also with the newest beta everything in BigBox feels snappier and smoother also. Great job Jason..your dedication to making this frontend the best is unmatched!

@Jason I have a bit of good news with my videos not starting back automatically after exiting a game with rocketlauncher. After Jazzphone was stating that his RL and BB setup his videos would start back up as long the loading game message was enabled in options. However on my setup my videos would still not start back with that option enabled. The problem was something in my Rocketlauncher must have been corrupt even though everything seemed normal. I downloaded a fresh copy of RL and set everything back up exactly how I had it in my previous setup with the same settings and now my videos start back up automatically using RL. I still have to make sure the loading game message option is checked in order for the videos to start back automatically but that is fine for now until you get a chance to fix the bug of having to have that option enabled in order to get the videos to start back automatically. So it turns out it really had nothing to do with RL other than something was corrupt in my RL folder. That was definitely a head scratcher especially when everything else seemed normal even with other frontends.

Welcome aboard...we have a great community here!

Jason Carr said Hi guys, unfortunately I think we're going to have to wait until after the 6.3 release to tackle these Rocket Launcher issues. I'm hoping to put out 6.3 before the end of the week and still have a number of other bugs to resolve. That said, I do want to tackle this stuff. The issue is that Big Box waits for the EXE that it's running to close, and then expects that the game is closed when that EXE returns. It looks like Rocket Launcher doesn't work that way; I'm not really sure yet how I'll solve that but we'll figure it out one way or another. I understand...we can wait a little longer on the RL issues,we def need to get all this bugs ironed out first for the 6.3 release.

knewlife said I don't know if it was already mentioned but for those with problems with Rocketlauncher + BigBox I did this and works fine (I don't use Game Videos, just screenshots): Update RL to the last version. In RocketlauncherUI create a new Front end in RLUI settings: Name Launchbox, path Your bigbox.exe path (no launchbox.exe), Plugins Launchbox In RocketlauncherUI, Main Settings: Set Hidefrontend an SUspend frontend options to True. Restorefront end False. In Launchbox, all your emulator CMD lines for RL have to look like this: -f "..\..\LaunchBox\BigBox.exe" -p "LaunchBox" -s "American Laser Games" -r Rocektlauncher takes a long time to load (compared when using with Hyperspin) because of the many checks needed to find all LB media. During this time BigBox will operate normally (until the RL fade screen appears) because I suppose BigBox expects that the launched application take the focus and return it to Bigbox just once tha game/app as been closed. RL don't do this right away... hope there is some mode to make BIgBox "Know" when ROcketlauncher is running and act acordingly. Yes I have all those same settings but those are not working for game videos starting back automatically. You are definitely correct on rocketlauncher takes longer to load because the plugin is looking for the Launchbox media and then you combine that with loading shaders from retroarch and rocketlauncher bezels it takes a couple of seconds longer for rocketlauncher to come into focus. Its not a lot longer to load we are just talking about maybe 2 seconds more. Launching games through LaunchBox with Rocketlauncher, everything works as expected,just having some focus issues with BigBox. I think the way Jason has BigBox setup is to have BigBox perform a screen refresh when you exit a game to get the video to start back up. As you could tell in my video I think BigBox did a screen refresh before rocketlauncher even got started because RL takes a couple more seconds to load. He said today on the live stream he would be taking a look at this.

@Jason I just downloaded a fresh copy of Launchbox for some test and here are my findings with the video issue: In the test copy I am not even using Rocketlauncher and just using Retroarch as an emulator and my game videos still did not start back automatically when exiting a game until I did one thing. I enabled the option in BB to Display the "Loading Game" message and then the videos started back automatically when exiting a game. But even with this option enabled while using Rocketlauncher the videos do not start back. I am wondering on your setup if you disable that option for the "Loading Game" message will your videos start back automatically after exiting a game? @Jazzphone Thanks for confiming this with the Loading Game message option checked, strange that even with this option checked in my setup with rocketlauncher my vids still do not start back. But either way its some kind of focus issue.

Jazzphone said kmoney2315 said Jason Carr said No problem @shinra358, thanks for clarifying. :) @kmoney2315, that's odd. In the video it looks like window focus isn't properly returning to Big Box after the game exits. The start menu is showing up over top of Big Box which isn't typical and should be avoidable if focus is properly returned. It probably does have something to do with Rocket Launcher; I'm gonna have to get a good setup of RL going in order to address that. Are you using the latest version of RL now with the LaunchBox plugin? I am using the new plugin for Rocketlauncher and I did notice that the start menu popped up over BB. The start menu doesnt pop up every time but it did happen in this video but the video doesnt start back automatically either way. I have been using Rocketlauncher for years and with the new Launchbox plugin it makes it even easier for new users to use RL with LB. Watching your livestream and seeing your videos start back automatically I noticed one thing with your setup is when you press the button to enter the game the video paused immediately and the game started. My setup when I press the button to enter the game my video continued on for a second and actually did a full transition to a screenshot and then the game started. So maybe its something like Rocketlaucher takes a second or so more time to start to enter a game and then when you exit a game it takes a second or so more time to regain back focus of the frontend. Do you have issues with auditing your games with the new RL plugin in RocketLauncher? It seems to be sticking to the first system I audit for all systems. Yes I am seeing that as well with the game audits. Hopefully the RL guys are taking a look at it. Are you having any issues that I mentioned above when using RL with BigBox with the game videos not starting back automatically when exiting a game?

Jason Carr said No problem @shinra358, thanks for clarifying. :) @kmoney2315, that's odd. In the video it looks like window focus isn't properly returning to Big Box after the game exits. The start menu is showing up over top of Big Box which isn't typical and should be avoidable if focus is properly returned. It probably does have something to do with Rocket Launcher; I'm gonna have to get a good setup of RL going in order to address that. Are you using the latest version of RL now with the LaunchBox plugin? I am using the new plugin for Rocketlauncher and I did notice that the start menu popped up over BB. The start menu doesnt pop up every time but it did happen in this video but the video doesnt start back automatically either way. I have been using Rocketlauncher for years and with the new Launchbox plugin it makes it even easier for new users to use RL with LB. Watching your livestream and seeing your videos start back automatically I noticed one thing with your setup is when you press the button to enter the game the video paused immediately and the game started. My setup when I press the button to enter the game my video continued on for a second and actually did a full transition to a screenshot and then the game started. So maybe its something like Rocketlaucher takes a second or so more time to start to enter a game and then when you exit a game it takes a second or so more time to regain back focus of the frontend.

Jason Carr said kmoney2315 said My dream has finally come true....platform videos!!!! Great job Jason....they look great! Using windows media player when you enter a platform from the wheels view while a platform video is playing and then exit back into the platform wheels view the video starts back automatically which is great! The issue I am still having is the game videos do not start back automatically when you exit a game until you select another game. Instead of the video starting back when I exit a game, a screenshot will appear that is in my image folder. @kmoney2315 Just fixed this in the live dev stream. Beta isn't out quite yet though. :) @Jason I watched the latest live stream on youtube and I really appreciate you looking into this issue and I see that it is working fine on your system but unfortunatly the game videos are still not starting back for me automatically when exiting a game with VLC or WMP in the newest beta.Maybe it is because I use Rocketlauncher and it is taking focus away from the video. I have tried several frontends in the past and have never had a problem with RL when exiting a game and the video starting back. I would also be interested to know if others are having this same issue especially those who use Rocketlauncher. Here is a vid showing my issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQwkCzmIpjQ

I found a new bug in the newest beta: In BigBox with Windows Media Player chosen, the platform videos show the correct aspect ratios for 4:3 and 16:9 but the game videos do not. They stay the same aspect ratio and do not change for vertical and horizontal game videos in for instance the "Arcade" platform games list. However I tried out the VLC option and the aspect ratios seem to be correct for vertical and horizontal games. Also I created a ticket in Bitbucket.

That is a bug in VLC. If you switch over to using windows media player the platform videos will start back playing automatically when returning back from the game screen. Although both WMP and VLC still both have the bug where when exiting a game or when exiting back into the games list screen the videos do not start back playing as it shows an image from your images folder instead. . Hope this helps!

If you ask me I think the hq videos do not look good either from emumovies when stretched out to fullscreen. I think all the videos from emumovies have a maximum of 480P quality which doesnt look that good when stretched out to fullscreen and using on a 1080p monitor. If we could maybe figure out how to put some kind of scanline overlay over them, they probally would look much better. Either that or we are going to have to make our own 1080p platform videos to look good in fullscreen but even then I think we need a scanline overlay over the videos.

My dream has finally come true....platform videos!!!! Great job Jason....they look great! Using windows media player when you enter a platform from the wheels view while a platform video is playing and then exit back into the platform wheels view the video starts back automatically which is great! The issue I am still having is the game videos do not start back automatically when you exit a game until you select another game. Instead of the video starting back when I exit a game, a screenshot will appear that is in my image folder.

I updated to the latest beta and when I try to import some games and call the platform a custom name, the scrape as does not automatically pop up. I have to uncheck the " show default platforms" box to get scrape as to pop up after I have already typed the custom platform name. If I go ahead and uncheck the "show default platforms" box before I type in the custom platform name the scrape as does not automatically pop up either until I check the show default platforms box and uncheck it again.