Drybonz

Yeah, I gave up on it pretty quickly. Just just wanted something I could test out that would make use of the wheel logos and so on, but I have too many other projects to put a lot of time into it, unfortunately. Thank you for the helpful comments, though... I appreciate it.

Thanks for the reply... yes, I have them extracted properly. I tried another theme other than Clean Hardware last night and it did work. There were elements missing... I assume I have to supply backgrounds, etc... However, neither of them affected the platforms screen at all. It still has the default, generic look.

SentaiBrad said Every theme should work. I use the Clean Hardware theme myself too and it's working just fine. Sorry for the obvious questions, but did you extract the Theme folder from the package and change the setting in BigBox? You may even need to restart BigBox. Yeah, I did extract the folder and change the setting... I restarted it multiple times... I'll try to mess around with it some more. Is it possible I got a wrong version or something like that? *edit* These do go in the "theme" folder in the launchbox dir, right?

Thanks... I use Display Fusion and actually just set up a profile for this.

Hey guys... I tried the Clean Hardware theme because the screenshots looked great... didn't work for me at all. Are there any themes that are tested and working, just drop it and and it works? I just want to test this feature out to see if I like it in BigBox... don't want to invest too much time in it yet. Thanks.

Is there a way to start BigBox on your second monitor? If not, this would be a very helpful option to add.

Jason Carr said As best as I can tell from the server logs, there should be no bandwidth issues since we upgraded to the gigabit connection. We are indeed allowing more bandwidth to go through, and things seem performant from my end, so not sure what might have happened there @Drybonz. No worries, Jason... I did finally get that beta downloaded... just wanted to send a heads up that the site has been dragging a bit vs. other sites that I visit. Also, is it possible that you can add a "pinball" platform video and image? I know there's a few guys (and me) out there launching their pinball stuff with Launchbox and I thought the silverball could use a little love. *edit* I should add that today's beta download seemed to be back to normal speeds. Looks like there was a MS .Net update for anyone who hasn't got it yet.

Yeah, I had a weird pop-up error with games I think was related to a recent RL update... I need to check and see if they fixed that. I thought it was Launchbox at first, but I don't think it was.

Seems like the site must be getting hammered. Has been really slow lately. My beta download has been sitting on around 30% for about a half hour.

sagaopc said Jason, pls put option to add adicional aplications to all games, because I want to use nomousy and I have to choose game by game to config... It's very painfull! This would also be great for setting up things like .bat files as launchers, etc...

Yeah, you just have to press the button on top of the Dolphinbar and change the settings, 1-4. I don't have my Dolphinbar set up right now to check, but I posted the solution in another thread.

I think the generally accepted approach is: -Ask the original authors if you can use them any time it is possible to contact them -Credit the original authors if you know who they were, or at least credit "the original author" -Don't sell the images If you guys decide you don't want to do that... that's ok, but the original problem remains... how to fill the gaps in the wheel logos, for which people are going to want for every game in their theme. One alternative is to find some artists here on your forums and set them to work... but that means your database is not going to be good to go for a very long time. So that is where the decision lies, IMO.

Thanks, Jason... I didn't realize you had removed those intentionally. Oddly, I had them in "screenshot - gameplay" and they weren't showing up, then moved them to "screenshot" and they are showing up.

So, being that people are probably going to want full sets of the wheel logos for Big Box themes, and there are huge gaps in the logos on the LB games database... the reason that I brought this up is so that we can think about a solution. If our solution is to, as individuals, go download a set from another source like the Hyperspin forums, etc, which is easily done... then the LB games database seems to have a lot less value. Would another possible solution be finding a author who has made these and getting the ok to upload them to the games db? Another obvious solution would be make an entire new set for the LB games db, which would take as long as it took to make the existing ones floating around out there... literally, years probably. I don't know what the best solution is... just throwing this out there for discussion.

Title screen

I'm trying to straighten out my media file problems from the last couple betas, but I'm really confused about what the proper path is for "snap" and "title" images. It seems like there are a bunch of unused media folders now. Anyway, if someone can tell me the correct file path for those image types, I really appreciate it. *edit* Also... it seems like the buttons to add and delete images are gone from the "edit game" dialog in the most recent beta.

Great job to everyone who has been involved in getting the new LB games database up and running. You guys are doing a great job. One thing that I was thinking about is that with the BigBox themes the wheel logos are going to be pretty important, as a lot of themes are probably going to use them for the game selection. It looks like there are a lot of gaps in the database where there aren't available wheel logos for a game, and I was wondering if there were more available that haven't been uploaded yet, or if we had run out of sources? It's probably not a very big deal yet since the BB themes are so new, but I think people will be wanting, eventually, full sets of the wheel logos like they might have for their other frontends. I was just curious if they were readily available. Thanks again.

Jason Carr said @Drybonz I'm still planning on adding that "scrape as" option, thanks for the reminder. I'll see if I can sneak that in this coming week. Thanks, hopefully "scrape as" and "find media folder names as"... that would be awesome and add a significant amount of "ease of use" for all of us guys... appreciate it.

I think that is great news... I've been interested in the "other project" since you first mentioned it and it seems to make perfect sense to have them integrated since they can work so closely together. :) *edit* The cabinet style art preview is great.

Antropus said I tested the Maximus Arcade exporter and everything went fine. A .LST file was generated in the very same folder from where I dragged the .txt from. I think you will need to investigate your setup, because seems like you are having trouble with processes that create files in your computer or at least in this hard drive. Permission related, anti-virus related, something like that. The fact that you could not even generate the listxml was pretty telling, now you cannot convert the txt. Not sure if I can do much from my side at this point. If someone else could run the same test, like, generate a Maximus list and convert it, that would be a good test to see if it happens in other setups as well. I know it's been a few days but I was able to get the converter working. It turns out it was not a problem with my system, but some kind of glitch with the converter. I went to the Maximus Arcade forums and read some people saying that the converter would not work unless they had it in the exact same folder with the .lst or .txt file they were trying to convert. So, I moved my converter into the same folder as the lightspeed.txt file and it worked perfectly the first time. So, that is all straightened out now.

Drybonz said All images were missing for platforms I had renamed previously. I had to move all images to different folders. My original suggestion to fix this, some time ago, was to not tie the name of the platform to the folder name. In other words allow the user to change the name of the platform as it appears in the sidebar, but continue using the original platform name for folders and metadata lookup. More problems along these same lines... because LB only allows one level of sorting, I have made two arcade platforms, "arcade - horizontal" and "arcade - vertical" so that I can separate screen orientation and still do further sorting. The problem is... because I have made custom names for these platforms, I can not download metadata or images. I have most of my images sorted by Lightspeed... however when I get a custom BB theme set up I am going to want wheel logos for my games. I don't currently have those... but I can't get search the LB games db for them because it won't recognize my platforms. Renaming the platforms causes them to get mixed together, etc... I'm bringing this up again because Jason asked for more information about the problem, above. Having your platform name tied to the media folders and metadata search causes problems. I'm trying to illustrate here some of the problems so hopefully Jason can come up with a solution. Thanks for reading.

I don't see any change in the behavior of the background image in beta 8. This is on the LB side.

All images were missing for platforms I had renamed previously. I had to move all images to different folders. My original suggestion to fix this, some time ago, was to not tie the name of the platform to the folder name. In other words allow the user to change the name of the platform as it appears in the sidebar, but continue using the original platform name for folders and metadata lookup.

In beta 7, if I uncheck all back ground images (as in, I don't want any background image), it appears to create a new "blank" background checkbox in the options, which I can't deselect, which appears to be a random background maybe? Basically, I can't figure out how to make the background just my default image with no other background image when I highlight a game in the list.

I just noticed the "image type" dropdown... I really like this feature. Nice to be able to change the list images on the fly in LB. My images for the platforms I had re-named are again missing after this beta... were there more changes made to the folders?