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@Jason I have another idea to implement in the default view and I am not sure how hard it would be to implement for bigbox. I wish I was good at photoshop and I would create it for you. Here is a video by a guy over at the hyperspin forums that has made the gamecube boxes a kind of animated and I think this would be an awesome feature for bigbox for all the game boxes to flip from front to back automatically. I know you can flip the box in the second game selection screen but I rarely go into that second game launching screen at just launch my games from the first screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCBySfMwyoU Also gameex has a feature that is similar to that with the mame games that has some high quality actual arcade cabinets pics of the game does a 3d animated spin. I think that would be a great alternative to the arcade flyers is to have a high quality pic of the actual arcade cabinet, for example (pacman) do a 3d 360 animated spin.

Thanks for the new beta Jason! Some things I notice with the new beta is that when I go into options and then hit esc to back out it seems very stuttery almost like its struggling with a fps drop or something and my speakers sound out a little poping noise for a slight second. Kinda hard to explain and it seems to only happen with the options menu. I have a very beefy pc so I know thats not an issue. Also coverflow seems very sluggish,maybe it needs time to build a cache or something. I agree that alpha numeric definitly needs to be implemented in these new views. As it stands coverflow is very plain right now but does have potential. Right now I am still liking the default bigbox view the best still. I think a lot of people that use bigbox want that arcade type feeling view mode especially those that are coming over from hyperspin or maybe will be using it on an arcade cabinet and coverflow seems more like something for an htpc. I think that once we get that view mode nailed down whatever that may be thats gives the arcade type experience even more hyperspin users will be coming over here in droves. CriticalCid has some great ideas especially in that other thread that he linked to up above.

I tested the new letter jumping feature and everything seems to be working great thus far. This is a great feature that I have been waiting for a long time! Thank you @Jason

Awesome idea...I am really looking forward to the system videos and you got some really great ideas there!

The original Legend of Zelda for the NES.

Very nice work indeed, and I agree, this has got to be the best mame tool out there that does all that it does and is very easy to use also and it just keeps getting better and better!! Sounds awesome!!

@Jason The new changes to the mame importer are waaaaay better than they were before! I imported with it last night and it got rid of 95% of the junk that it used to leave before. I can also tell that the quality and quanity of the flyers improved also. There are still some games that either don't have flyers or are displaying "hyperspin" game theme screenshots for the flyer or is showing a screenshot that has nothing to do with the game. I am sure that is because there are no quality flyers out there for certain games or something to that effect. I am sure us as a community can work together to fill in some of the missing flyers or wrong ones and get it corrected. Me for one,I do not like to see an empty space with the launchbox logo. Even if there is not a flyer for the game I would rather see maybe a pic of the actual arcade cabinet or maybe a nice screenshot of the game. Thanks for the update!

That would be a cool feature to be able to give the platforms a custom name before importing as I like mine to be called Arcade as well. I actually would like if all the Capcom CPS 1,2 and 3 where all together in one platform called Capcom Classics or maybe Capcom Arcade Classics. The main reason why I like it this way is I have BigBox on an arcade cabinet and when people come over to play it they don't know what MAME or CPS is. BTW: The wizard GUI is looking awesome!

SentaiBrad said Replace the Sounds in the sound folder. In your LB Root folder is "Sounds", that is what Big Box uses. Yes, I know where the sounds folder is, I was just wondering if they need to be in a wav format? I assume they do because when I tried to put a mp3 file in the sound folder and rename it to "move", when I restarted big box it just recreated the move.wav folder. The only way I could get it to work is to convert my mp3 file to a wav file and rename it to "move" and it worked in big box.

I generally like the sounds that are included with bigbox which is the back,move and select sounds. But over a period of time they can start to become a little bit overbearing and kind of annoying especially the "move" sound when scrolling through a large list of games quickly. I know you can turn the sounds off but I would like to be able to change the sounds to something a little bit more subtle. Do the sounds have to be in a wav format or can they be in mp3 format and what details do you reccomend the bit rate and etc. to be at for optimal quality? Not bashing the sounds but sometimes my ears can become overly sensitive

I am really looking forward to it since I just set up my arcade with new led buttons!

Thank you for that,it seems to work great!

I did notice something else as I only wanted the mame and neo geo platforms imported so I only put check marks in those 2 boxes. I wanted the cps1,cps2,and cps3, included in with the mame platform but I noticed that none of these games got imported because I unchecked the boxes. I think cave and the rest of the platforms did not get imported either.

Thank you very much for tracking down that problem for me as the new version works great! You have some great talent creating this importer tool and are an all star!!

I am on windows 10 and I tried to send the xml thru pm but it will only let me send up to a 2 mb attachment.

So I tried it again after getting a fresh clean latest set. Also the newest standard mame and I have the roms in zip format only along with the chds that are not zipped of course and it is still corrupting the xml file. I have tried everything I can think of in different configurations, andlike I said before if I copy a few of the same roms to another folder and not the complete set,it does not corrupt the xml file.

The xml got corrupted with the barebones xml file also. I have tracked it down to it has something to do with my mame roms folder. When I pointed the importer to another rom folder with only a few games in the folder, it imported fine and the xml file did not corrupt. At this point I do not know what in my main mame rom folder is causing the xml to corrupt but I do now know it is something in that folder. Maybe there is too many files? I have an up to date full split set. I will run the set through clrmamepro again when I get home.

Yes I have changed the paths to the correct ones and I am on the latest beta.

I just tried to import mame with the importer and everything seemed to go smoothly until I tried to open launchbox and a popup came up and said my xml file had been corrupted. Thankfully I have a backup xml. I wonder what could be wrong as I kept the importer tool at default for the most part. I put in my mame exe,rom and launchbox xml paths. I then unchecked include chds and changed the videos path and checked off mame and neo geo for platforms to include and checked off all the filters except imperfect and playchoice and then hit GO. I wonder what might be going on as I tried it twice without success?

I was wanting to ask that after you import everything,can you change the name of the "Mame" platform to "Arcade"? Would it mess anything up or can you change the name of the platform before you import? Thanks in advance!

The bezel feature is awesome! There are some guys over at the rocketlauncher forums that have created some awesome looking bezels like this one. Makes it feel like you are playing on a real arcade machine with a bezel.

nyny77 said Hi, My name is Tony (France) It's possible add video system (intro) ? Ex : http://hpics.li/b6f4296 Thank you very Much It is a great idea and one of the more requested features over at bitbucket that I hope gets implemented. Please feel free to add your vote. Here are the links. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/313/add-videos-for-platforms https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/242/system-video

My first ever console was a Sega Master System. Next in line I got a NES and then a Sega Genesis,Sega CD,SNES and etc. I have probally owned about every console over the years except the super expensive ones like the 3DO,Neo Geo and etc. My first computer I cannot remember but I do know that my first computer game I played was Kings Quest. Ah Great Memories!!

Thanks for pointing that feature out niglurion! I had been thinking the whole time I would like the one click feature as well to select a game and the option was there the whole time,just need to remap some buttons

SentaiBrad said They are new I believe. I thought they were,the shutdown button is going to work great in my arcade cab!