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The proof of concept for the Pause screens is working fine for me thus far. I have only tried with Retroarch and MAME. Looking forward to seeing the progression!

Very nice feature...been waiting for this a long time. Looking forward to trying this on my cabinet

Excellent put together package. You can tell a lot of C64 love went into this!

Looking good!

Reading and writing to the vlc.cfg file seems to be working great with newest beta as well:)

I wasn't really planning on using opengl, I was just using as an example in doing some testing...lol

@Jason Carr I am not sure if LaunchBox VLC is reading the vlc.cfg file or not. For instance I changed Video output inside of VLC Tools/Preferences from Automatic to OpenGL and saved and I can see that it changed the setting when I open up the vlc.cfg file with notepad++. VLC wrote the change in the file but then I go back into tools/preferences and it is showing automatic again for video output instead of opengl even though the vlc.cfg reads opengl.

Thanks for clarifying the "easy and proper way" way to change settings within VLC that comes packed with LaunchBox so it gets saved to the correct settings file and not the one in VLC appdata folder.

Ok gotcha. There is an issue at the moment with the VLC that is bundled with LaunchBox that if you change a setting within the one bundled or upgrade VLC from within LaunchBox ,it changes the settings and the config version in your VLC standalone version to 2.2.6 which is the one that comes with LaunchBox. I am not sure if you have upgraded your standalone VLC to 3.0.6 yet which is the newest version but if you do so, do not upgrade from the one that comes bundled with LaunchBox. Also if you already have 3.06 installed,just delete the vlcrc file that is in your appdata folder and VLC will create a new config file with the correct version the next time you run standalone VLC. This may or may not fix your issues that you are having with VLC within BigBox but its worth a shot. I am sure @Jason Carr will look into fixing this issue when he upgrades to the newest VLC that comes bundled with LaunchBox.

@@Zaazu Curious if you open your standalone VLC config folder in C:\Users\%username%\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc with Notepad++, what version of VLC does it say you are using?

Those startup screens are looking so nice...awesome work!

Loving the new startup options with the new beta...seems to working great. I am actually really impressed that the startup screens have came so far in so short of an amount of time. Great job @Jason Carr!!!

The initial startup screens are looking great and have not really had any issues as of yet. I was looking through the xaml code a bit to see if I could change the amount of time the startup screen stays on screen before disappearing as it goes away so fast on my system. I am sure that feature is coming though?

@Lordmonkus Thanks for pointing out the new kurozumi shader. I am excited about trying it out as that scene from SOR 2 up above looks way better. There is a few scenes in Streets of Rage 2 that can benefit from this.

@Jason Carr How important is it to you for the startup screen to fade into the game? Is it worth the performance sacrifice to you while playing the game? For me I do not think it would be worth it for a performance hit as for me performance is #1 How important is it to you to use bezels? Are they worth the performance sacrifice to you? I like the look of bezels but do not use them during gameplay because they are too distracting although I do use mame bezels that looks like it would on the original game. What features are you most looking for with pause screens? I really like the way RocketLauncher's Pause screen looks and would really like to see save and load states added to the Pause menu as well as pdf manual and walkthrough viewing. Maybe use LaunchBox built in fanart for the backgrounds and have the games mp3 music playing in the background while in the Pause menu. Be able to view game artwork and mp4 videos of the game such as gameplay footage and tips and tricks videos and such. Would also be nice to enter the Pause menu to view the moves and special moves of a game such as Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat as an example.

Looking awesome especially with the marquees addition!

@Mile Panic I am not sure which antivirus software you use but you can also add an exception to BigBox.exe and LaunchBox.exe so those never get scanned by the software. Thats what I do with Windows Defender and I also add an exception to exclude the entire LaunchBox folder to never get scanned by Defender so it doesnt add any slowdown. Also have you experienced slowness with other themes or just Futurestate?

The video you are showing is for Hyperspin and not LaunchBox. You are on the wrong forum.

@RetroHumanoid Looking good!

You are correct as it is only happening with the top level items. I just tried it on another top level item and it happened as well as I did not catch that earlier. I also tried using another font using bold and the problem went away also.

@Grila I am getting a weird issue that I noticed today. When I click on Consoles on my platform category menu it blurs the rest of the platform names out a bit and kinda changes the font. Every other platform or platform category I click on the text and font is normal. I have tried changing opacity as well but did not make a difference. Here is 2 images and the first one shows blurred and 2nd one shows normal text. Any opinion on what might be causing this?