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I was wondering if there was a way to properly import the Sega Model 2 games only into its own platform with this tool?

DOS76 said Every time I update LB which is frequently on multiple computers I get an error message about LB currently running From observing this over and over I think that the update installer tries to start before LB has a chance to close so you get this message if you hit ok fast enough you can get the message to pop of numerous times sometimes but if you pause for a second or two it will only appear once. Is there anyway you could add a small delay to when the installer begins after the update is done downloading through LB and give it time to close LB before running. Do other users experience this? For me it happens across all computers and all LB instances. Yes this error has been happening to me also in the last 5 or so betas.

@Jason I did another test on the image priorties in BigBox and switched to all the different game views in BB and my 3D Front Box images that I have set as a priority show in every view except the game wheels view as it just shows the flat front box images. Thats why I was not seeing them before because I use the game wheels view as my default. So every view is working correctly but the game wheels view.

SentaiBrad said Did you clear the BigBox cache in the options @kmoney2315? Yes, several times. I cleared it in Launchbox and BigBox.

imdavid555 said kmoney2315 said The new image priorities seem to be working good in Launchbox. I wanted to ask if this was going to be implemented into BigBox soon also? As it stands right now I have to put my 3D front boxart in the Box Front folder in order to get it to display. If not I can continue to do this, but I was wanted to ask before I start moving all my 3D front box images all around as I prefer the 3D boxart on most platforms. Those image priority settings not only effect launchbox, but also BigBox. They seemed to be working correctly for me yesterday night. Were they not for you? Not on my end as it only affected Launchbox. In BigBox the front images stayed the same even after doing a image cache refresh.

The new image priorities seem to be working good in Launchbox. I wanted to ask if this was going to be implemented into BigBox soon also? As it stands right now I have to put my 3D front boxart in the Box Front folder in order to get it to display. If not I can continue to do this, but I was wanted to ask before I start moving all my 3D front box images all around as I prefer the 3D boxart on most platforms.

I am not sure if this was introduced in the newest betas or not but I am trying to import Sega Model 2 into LB and put a checkmark in the Force MAME metadata box and it did not find any games. I even tried to trick it by importing the Sega Model 2 roms as Arcade platform then checked the Force MAME metadata box and it still did not find any games and yes all my files are named correctly.

I noticed that in the newest beta I cannot download fanart through the metadata and images bulk wizard. I erased all my fanart on a few platforms so I could start over fresh in case some new fanart had been added or changed in the database. I only put a check in the fanart box in the wizard and unchecked everything else and when the wizard had stopped parsing all the games in found no fanart in a few systems even though there is fanart for some of the games because I seen fanart on the database. You are able to get fanart through the edit game in LB for an individual game just not through the bulk wizard. I was able to get fanart a few days ago through the wizard before the newest beta.

Jason Carr said @kmoney2315, it should have kept *some* of your customized folders. For example, the folder for Box - Front should be set to your previously used folder for Front box art. Let me know if that's not the case. Unfortunately there's just too many assumptions involved if I tried to reorganize the folders outside of the LaunchBox folder. Not to mention if anyone was using the same folders for various different frontends, there could be some serious issues there. Thanks all, let me know if you run into any other issues. :) That must be what happened to me as i have all the images and vids stored in my HS media folder as I never transferred them over to LB to save on disk space. Even the front box images also stayed at the default LB image folders. Its worth it in the end anyway even if I have to re point LB To these folders again because of what you are planning for the images.?

I just downloaded the new beta. I keep all of my box art,wheels and videos outside of the Launchbox folder. So now I have to go back into each platform and point to these folders again as by default with the new beta it pointed to the image folders inside of Launchbox. It's not that big of a deal but I was wondering if you had considered that scenario? Thankfully I don't have many platforms inside of LB yet so it should not take me to long.

SentaiBrad said kmoney2315 said SentaiBrad said There was a similar report of this recently, but it had to do with Intel Integrated Graphics and the Anti Aliasing option being turned up to 16. Do you have some sort of system wide Anti Aliasing turned on in your Graphics Control Panel by any chance? I use a Nvidia mid end graphics card and my Anti Aliasing is application controlled. Have you tried replacing the image at all and does it come back? No I have not tried replacing any of the images and its totally random what image it may happen to. I can go for a few days and noy notice any lines and then one day it will just appear on a random platform or game clear logo. All my clear logos that I use are the ones I get from Hyperspin. Like I said its not that big of a deal and it might be a bug thats hard to track down since it is random. I just wanted to point it out to make Jason aware.

DOS76 said Where did you get that Arcade Classics Logo any chance you could add an image of it here so I can grab a copy. Sure I just posted it on the platform images thread. https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/features/new-launchbox-platform-image-collection-thread/page-6#p19068

Here is a great clear logo that was not created by me but looks great for the MAME platform wheel.

SentaiBrad said There was a similar report of this recently, but it had to do with Intel Integrated Graphics and the Anti Aliasing option being turned up to 16. Do you have some sort of system wide Anti Aliasing turned on in your Graphics Control Panel by any chance? I use a Nvidia mid end graphics card and my Anti Aliasing is application controlled.

I noticed a bug that creeps up every once in a while. Its not that big of a deal but sometimes in the clear logos with the platforms and game wheels a very light line will show up under the clear logo as shown in the pic under Atari 5200. All I got to do to make it dissappear is exit BB and restart BB it and the line will be gone. It doesnt happen to the same clear logos everytime as it is random. I am using the latest 6.2.

The wheels view on BB is definitely better looking than the ones on HS without a doubt. For one they are a little more spaced apart and not jumbled together which is easier on the eyes when looking for a game. Also they are cleaner and clearer looking being that BB supports higher resolutions. The hyperspin artwork over on there site, most of it is top notch with the wheel art being one of them. It is a shame that HS does not support higher resolutions. I actually think that BB being able to use their wheel art in higher resolution is actually doing justice to the great artwork that many members have contributed and put there time into making over on the HS forums.

Very nice it will be a great feature indeed!

I was wondering if there is currently a method to match for example all the fanart and box images for the snes platform against what you already have in your collection with the games database? For instance I know a lot of the images on the database are getting changed daily to better quality images and things like new fanart is being added. I would like to be able to sync a platform in bulk against the database and it adds images that I don't have or downloads better quality images against what I have. Is this currently possible or is this feature coming in the future?

Congrats on the 6.1 official release. Everything is running very smooth and great added visuals as well. BigBox just keeps getting better and better all the time. I really love the direction it is going!!

Nickjs said Jason Carr said Thank you all; @Nickjs my guess would be that it's because the clear logos have blank space in the images themselves. We'll be looking to tweak all those images going forward (most likely we'll pull the Hyperspin images).> . In the original beta when the wheels were introduced the logos were the correct size. In my particular setup its the Neo Geo and the Neo Geo Color logos that have shrunk Did you already try to refresh your image cache in the options menu?

I just wanted to chime in to say that on the last few betas I have no black bars on the sides in either wmp or vlc in BB. I use to have them in vlc but not anymore since Jason implemented the new vlc version. As of right now I cannot really tell a difference between the two except that wmp might still be a tad faster in switching between videos and transitions.

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/files/ Go to the search section Type in Wheels where it says Find Words Where it says " Search in section" Click on Downloads only Then click search now button This will take you to the downloads section and will show you only downloads with wheels

I got this error while surfing through BB. After I took the snapshot and closed out of BB I realized that you could scroll down this error report so I hope this screenshot helps you.

Jason Carr said kmoney2315, what is the aspect ratio of your monitor? Is it a 4:3 CRT? Wondering if that's why images are being cut off. Cancel that issue Jason. The strange thing is I only had the issue with the SNES game wheels. I must have had some bad clear logos or something with that platform because I deleted them all and re downloaded a good known set and refreshed the image cache and all is good now. I had tried refreshing the image cache 3 times before I deleted the wheels so that was not the issue. And the original clear logos that was there before I deleted them also looked good outside of BB and hyperspin with nothing cut off the sides. BTW: I am using a 16:9 1920 x 1080 monitor. All is good now so no worries

Also I have attached a pic to show that some of my clear logo game wheel art is being cut off at the beginning or the end.