Drybonz

I know this has been mentioned several times, but want to bring it up again with the upcoming Launchbox.next replacing Launchbox... the image caching and cache rebuilding is slow and clunky... the user has to scroll through all the games and wait for them to cache instead of the cache automatically rebuilding in the background... it's been discussed and Jason has acknowledged it. The reason I'm bringing it up again is that new users, etc... that are seeing Launchbox.next as the main element for the first time are probably going to be turned off by this problem, as it is very, visually obvious. Thanks for considering.

Open in MS Paint and "save as" .jpg to your desktop or something... see if that fixes it. Alternatively, rename as .png before you open in MS Paint, then save as .jpg.

Was I the only one that had this error? Maybe because I have some custom categories? Dunno. Anyway, I did some quick and limited testing, but it seems to be all worked out as of beta 11. Thanks.

I was just changing between categories in "arrange by" and got this guy: The root Visual of a VisualTarget cannot have a parent. App: LaunchBox Version: 8.3-beta-10 Type: System.ArgumentException Site: Void SetRootVisual(System.Windows.Media.Visual) Source: PresentationCore There's a bunch more to it I will report the error through LB.

One note on the platforms sidebar... I have a good bit more room that I could reduce it in size past the "minimum" size. I'd like to suggest removing the minimum size restriction so that we can make it even more narrow, if we prefer, as this might allow for another column of game thumbnails.

lol... things to check before going on a three page forum rampage...

Yes... I made a post about this previously. It would be nice if LB could pre-cache the thumbnails so you don't have to scroll through all of your games to prompt it to create thumbnails. Also, it seems to need to re-build the thumbnails, as you said, frequently.

Yeah, you should be able to do it with Lightspeed, but it doesn't work with new versions of LB if I recall correctly. I have my data files from an older version that I set up with lightspeed and it still works fine. The amount of info, etc that you could import with lightspeed was way beyond what LB can do for MAME.

Ok, sounds good... I actually haven't had a num pad on a keyboard for some time.

It seems like the keyboard shortcuts for zoom in and out aren't working, unless I'm just being dense and clicking the wrong buttons somehow.

Now that there is a hide games missing "x" artwork feature, I would like to mention a request I made ages ago... maybe it's closer in reach now. It would be great if we could "show" games missing "x" artwork... this feature would make it super easy to find games that need artwork added to them.

I tried again today and the whole thing downloaded. For the game details... I agree with Lordmonkus, it looks cleaner and more symmetrical in the original style. I would move the slider/scroll bar for the games area to the right of the game details. It looks weird wedged in between the two areas (or maybe just some blank space between the game thumbnails and scrollbar). Another note... it would be nice if Launchbox would pre-build the thumbnail cache so that any time it needs rebuilt, you wouldn't have to scroll through them to get them to build as they scroll onto the screen, but would already be built so you could just cleanly scroll through the images. It seems like it needs to rebuild them frequently.

The beta download is stuck at about 30% for me.

Does the "splash screen" option in the main preferences affect that?

I noticed, just now, that if you are using LaunchBox.next is doesn't prompt for the update. When I switched to regular LB I immediately got the prompt.

Got it all working now... Saturn emulation at full speed is a beautiful thing.

It sounds like there are some glitches with it... like it won't override certain settings, etc...

Thanks, DOS76... I asked about it on the RA forums and they said that the error comes from not having any content (a game) loaded in the core when you try to save the override.

Ok... thanks again for the help.

Ok... I just enabled "load content specific core options", but still get the error saving override.

Thanks for the advice. I tried doing a core override earlier but it gave me an "error saving core", so I thought that must not be it. Does the standalone Mednafen have the gpu syn option? I haven't tried it in a while. I can run it full speed in Retroarch without the gpu sync on.

Hey guys... how do you set up a core to have different video settings than your default settings? For instance, I have hard gpu sync set to "on" for my default settings... however, in Mednafen Saturn core, it's just too much and causes some lag... I want it set to "off" only when playing Mednafen Saturn. I think I used to have it set up this way, but it's been a while since I have used Retroarch and I'm getting everything set back up properly. Any tips are appreciated.

I also like being able to see the game count in the side bar. It's convenient. Nice touch.

Thanks for the answer... I see what has happened. I used to have a license for LB pro and I let it expire after a year because I wasn't happy with it. This is one of the pro features, so now I'm stuck with the logos and backgrounds unless I delete them all. Thanks again for the reply... I appreciate it.

Thanks for the answer... I see what you are talking about... this would take forever. There needs to be "one field change" for the entire images folder. Thanks again for the reply.