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  1. At 60 hz, Big Box runs pretty smooth. I tried 75 hz on my monitor and surprisingly, it ran pretty poorly. It still functions well and is definitely usable, but animations are much jerkier. Any reasons for that?
  2. I actually found a way to get splash screens when waking from sleep. You need to make an event in task scheduler "on an event" trigger with a custom XML event filter. The XML code is: <QueryList> <Query Id="0" Path="System"> <Select Path="System">*[System[Provider[@Name='Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power'] and (Level=4 or Level=0) and (EventID=42)]]</Select> </Query> </QueryList> Then use VLC after setting it to minimal view and disabling the cone and create a .bat file that opens the file with VLC. You may want to use an additional installation of VLC portable or something so you don't have to mess up your main video player if VLC is your player of choice. Then set task scheduler to use the .bat file you created (the .bat file is so that it shows up fullscreen) The .bat file should look something like start "VLC" "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" <path to video splash screen> exit It would be cool to integrate this directly into BigBox, but right now, this workaround works well if you don't mind putting your PC on Sleep instead of powering off.
  3. Actually, the splash screen is not as important, since it's pretty easy to just use sleep or hibernate instead of shutting down (duh, should have thought of that) but skins would be an awesome idea. Actually, splashscreens can actually work better with sleep mode/hibernate since BigBox can detect when the PC enters a suspended state and queue the splash screen for when it's woken up. That would make the true illusion of it being a console. I would say however that skinning would be the top priority though.
  4. Oh, seems like I could just put it in sleep mode instead. Why didn't I think of that earlier, duh.
  5. I use bigbox on a dedicated gaming PC. One feature that would be awesome would be to use task scheduler to launch a custom BigBox Splash before logging in. This could mean adding something like the Xbox or Playstation boot sequence as soon instead of the login screen with auto-login (ofc not changing the boot animation except maybe making it all black like what I did in winaero tweaker, because that would cause too many problems). Then skinning it could allow the interface to look like a bootlegged NES or look like a game menu. I love the Bigbox design, but I would like to be able to customize it further to look like whatever console we like. I would love the PC to have as close to that seamless console boot as possible.
  6. Yeah, though launch box can solve the gui problem to some extent though. Still needs a lot of work though.
  7. Actually, there is a windows port of reicast now as a development build. Here's a link: http://builds.reicast.com/
  8. I have a dedicated gaming pc and use bigbox to start the moment I power on my PC. I fixed Explorer Taskbar focus problem by running a bat that starts launch box and then closes right away with task scheduler, but the one thing preventing it from being the ultimate console experience is when steam starts up, it takes away focus from launchbox. I already have steam set to silent, but the moment that notification comes up, it ruins everything. Sure I can simply not have steam run at startup, but then when I select a game on steam, it takes much longer to actually start it due to steam having to load up first. Do you guys have any solutions? Thanks! :)
  9. Thank you for this offer. I have a gaming pc hooked up to a TV and it would be awesome if it boots to big box.
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