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I noticed a big performance increase with Beta 19 when scrolling through games and my collection is under 5,000 games. Awesome job!

@Jason Carr It has been happening with WMP and VLC for me and totally random. Never had that problem with OG LaunchBox or Next for that matter up until recently.

Same here..seems like it has been happening more lately strangly. Sometimes when I start a game the video sound stops and sometimes it doesnt. I have turned autoplay videos off for now in LB Next.

@Jason Carr One thing I just noticed with LB Next is the difference in volume with VLC and WMP. For instance if I keep my main PC volume at 12 and I have LB Next volume knob set at 25% I can here no sound from the videos with VLC but I switch to WMP and I can here sound from the videos at that low of a level. So if I am using VLC as my video player in LB Next I have to turn the LB Next volume knob up a lot more to get the same sound output from WMP at a lower level. Not a big deal but wanted to point it out.

@SagaXIV You can scrape pinball just like the rest of the systems but unfortunately at this time there is not a lot of pinball tables on the games database. You can also get some media and videos from emumovies but you might have to get them from there ftp server if you have an account. Better pinball support was on the top 10 list on the latest LaunchBox poll so it should be coming sometime in the near future.

@Ranthalion75 Yes we are actually discussing it right now over on the beta thread. See my latest post.

@Jason CarrI did a little bit more testing and it appears that if you are in game platform and you are at the very top of the games list in that platform and you add a game manually, LB Next does indeed automatically scroll and highlight the game you just added. But if you are somewhere else in the games list such as in the middle for instance, LB Next does not automatically scroll up or down and hightlight the new game added as regular LaunchBox did.

Kinda having the same issue as @MadK9 I added some games manually a few days ago and I had to scroll to the new game added as LB Next did not automatically show the new game as regular LaunchBox does. I thought I remember a few betas ago that you put in some fixes for that but it appears to still be happening. On Windows 10 as well.

@harperj I had a similar situation with my I-PAC Ultimarc I/O and my Ultrastik 360 joysticks inside of BigBox. I have still yet to track down the root of the issue. You might want to reach out to Andy over at Ultimarc to see if he has any insight on the issue. I still don't know if it's how BigBox sees the I-PAC's or something to do with the ipac firmware but my up direction would move up every so often without me touching the joysticks.

@dragon57 That looks great...thank you very much!

I was wondering if someone talented with these logos could create a Fix It Felix wheel for me in the silver ring style as I have it on my main platform wheel? It would be much appreciated☺️

@Mr.Laor Look for these lines of code in the PlatformFiltersView in Notepad : <!-- FADING WHEEL --> <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)" Storyboard.TargetName="FlowControl"> <EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:0.0" Value="1"/> <EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:0.8" Value="1"/> <EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:1.9" Value="0"/> </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames> Change where it has 1.9 as the default and increase the number to whatever you would like it to be such as 5.0 or whatever value you want then save in Notepad and it will increase the time before the platform wheel fades out.

Confirmed that the Incorrect counts in the status bar is now showing correct counts.

@Jason Carr I am not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet with Next, but the total game count at the bottom with all games selected appears to be incorrect and it is correct with regular LaunchBox.

I really like the additions that you did especially the rounder wheels....it looks great!

I have been having a similar issue as well with my arcade cabinet when I have "Use all controllers checked"as far as lag. I have two Ultrastik 360 joysticks on my cabinet and an Ultimarc IPAC Ultimate keyboard encoder. My joysticks are connected to USB though and not the encoder as I just use the ipac for the buttons and not the joysticks. Sometimes when I am scrolling through the wheel game list it seems like it is frozen or crawling and other times it doesnt. I do not think it happens when I do not have "use all controllers checked" but I like having it checked because player 1 and/or player 2 can both control BigBox and scroll through the wheel. When I pull out my Logitech wireless keyboard I never experience this issue,only with the joysticks. One thing I tried just to test, is I hooked up my joysticks to the ipac keyboard encoder to see if the issue went away and it did as it was now simulating keyboard inputs and not joystick inputs.

@Rombo Deadfish Just requoting this that @CriticalCid posted a few pages back in order to remove the weather and time information from the Unified\Themes\Views folder. Just open up the Views xaml in notepad and remove the posted above info and be sure to make a backup first

Yes,it works perfectly fine with BigBox as I use it in my arcade cabinet. Its not ment to be used with LaunchBox though.

Yep...loving the new volume knob with the sound being seperate from windows control. Very nice touch @Jason Carr!

Yes it closes the process and is not in my task manager and LaunchBox Next exits.

@Jason Carr With the newest beta 3,launching into BigBox from LaunchBox Next is not working at all for me. It works fine from regular LaunchBox.

@Jason Carr I know you are probably knee deep in code with other things but wanted to bring a couple issues to your attention to put on your list.? I have been using BigBox and LaunchBox Next quiet a bit lately and getting everything dialed in on my new arcade cabinet and have noticed a few issues that has happened multiple times to me. 1. LaunchBox Next does not always close out completely and sometimes I have to ctrl-alt-delete and kill the program. It seems like I notice this more when I enter into BigBox mode from LaunchBox Next as sometimes LB Next does not close out and never enters into BigBox. 2. I get a black screen with audio still 2 or 3 times out of 10 tries (totally random) with startup videos with VLC or WMP (Sorry, I know you don't want to hear this one as VLC has been a pain in the past with videos)? 3. Attract mode - I have my attract mode set to activate after 20 seconds of inactivity. Sometimes after exiting a game, attract mode starts back up immediately almost like the timer did not reset or attract mode is still running in the background while playing a game. Attract mode will also startup immediately sometimes after the startup video if it is a longer than normal video.

@avaris These are the platform logos Codeman is using in the video.

I noticed one feature that is missing when I add a new game in manually via the "Add" feature in Next. When I close out of the add game menu,Next doesn't automatically show you the added game as I have to scroll to find it where as regular LaunchBox did. I liked that feature as it was a quick visual to let you know the game was added correctly.

@Jason Carr Are you planning on adding in the top right corner or somewhere, where you can click on BigBox mode from LaunchBox Next without having to go into a submenu? I miss having that feature.