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Sorry, I don't want to confuse you. I wasn't talking about keyboard mappings. In the last screen shot of the original post, those settings are ... image transitions.. kinda. Like does the box art just disappear, or does it fade or does it shoot off the side of the screen etc. You can turn all of those off, and it might help with the scrolling through games. In bigbox, in order to clear a button mapping you would select the mapping and instead of mapping it, press "Esc" on the keyboard. That will set the button mapping to none.

Glad you got it working. Thanks for posting the solution.

You can try turning off all the transitions as well. Having all of them set to "none" may help with scrolling. I have a higher end PC and I still keep them at none because it doesn't look any worse to me that way. Oh, and I seem to recall there is a way to slow down the scroll speed? If so, that might also help.

One more request. Indie steam game The Cat Lady:

As someone who also uses Rocketlauncher, PC games have always been problematic with fade. Even games launched in the same way (IE Steam) can produce different results, not to mention launchers and windows alerts (oh my!). With all of the options for fade available in Rocketlauncher, and still being unable to execute every fade seamlessly, as a fellow layman, I'd say in general it will probably get better but don't expect perfection. Again, as a layman, I'm pretty sure this would be possible, but as I understand it, the startups are themed. You could try asking in the theme section if it's possible and maybe someone can whip one up for you, or you can try to create one yourself that just doesn't call to any artwork.

That actually solved the issue for me! Thanks!

Can confirm a similar issue with Retroarch PPSSPP on Final Fantasy 1. When trying to access the in game save menu, the text is broken. Same Rom works fine on stand-alone PPSSPP. It's very strange, the game itself seems to work fine in RA, though I didn't go too far into it, but messing with the saves menu produces jumbled up text.

You should have no problem deleting a steam game. Either this is a bug, or it has something to do with your personal setup. I just tested deleting a steam game from my windows platform and restarting Launchbox and it works just as intended, so I don't think it's a bug. Are you using the latest version of launchbox? Do you have multiple installs of launchbox? Whats your launchbox directory structure?

I can't speak to the loading times on NAS, but I've heard other users say they use it with no problems. I have a launchbox setup with 60k games on an internal sata and it takes about 5 seconds to load. You should never download anyone else's builds. It makes is impossible to troubleshoot.

For your setup, you may also be be able to utilize "Favorites" to a similar (but not the same) end. The way Favorites works in Bigbox is that you select a game and make it a favorite, that game will then show up in the beginning of the system's game list (ignoring alphabetical). So them kids could favorite their favorite games and at the beginning of each system game list, they'll all show up, and everyone will be able to scroll through the family favorites.

You can already do this. If you select a game in Bigbox, there will be an option for "add to playlist" on the launch menu. Not only that, but you can create new playlists using just the controller. After you click add to playlist, you can then select "create new playlist" (or an existing one) and if the former Bigbox will bring up a virtual keyboard. It's pretty awesome.

Do you have the correct PS1 bios in the correct RA folder?

I don't think there is anything Launchbox could do on it's end to make this work, it would be on the App end. Having said that, you can launch Launchbox or Bigbox through steam, so I'd be surprised if it didn't work (I can confirm LB/BB work through Nvidia Gamestream, for instance). Controller support though is another matter. Would have to test. Edit: They really need to get a better marketing team. Why would you name this "Wireless Display App"?? CastBoX. There, can I have a job now Microsoft?

I don't know about the second half of the question, but I have gotten that same error extracting archives more times than I can count. As long as the file comes out alright, it isn't a concern. It may have something to do with whatever program was used to zip it. If the file doesn't unzip properly (error or not) obviously you either got a bad archive or it didn't finish downloading completely.

This is an awesome plugin, but it's inadvertently making me go on a tangent haha. So I must play games SUPER slowly or something. Like I'm putting more than "Completionist" time in every game, and I am far from a Completionist. Took me over 100 hours to beat the Witcher 3, for instance, and I skipped a bunch of quests. Says 50. But that's a free roam game, so of course time will vary. But even more linear games like Bioshock, I'm at least doubling the reported time on like every game I play. This is true for me replaying old truly retro games like Super Mario World and ps1 titles too. Took me twice the time to beat the Resident Evil remake. For My Time at Portia, I already have more than triple the hours in that game and I'm not even finished the main quest. What's wrong with me? No wonder I barely ever beat games anymore. ?

I was noticing the same thing, I think. More than that, the hardware renderer for ps1 lets me ramp up to like 8x+, but it introduces some glitches to my favorite game. The software renderer, I can barely squeeze out 4x but it pretty much looks the same to me either way. It's a tad bit sharper at 8x, but at a certain point, that doesn't do much. Desktop resolution at 1080, but the TV is 4k. I'm just glad to confirm that I don't have to stress on pushing it passed 4x so much. Thanks!

Can you explain this a bit further, about diminishing returns? Is this true for all systems, ps1, ds etc?

You're always going to run into a game that hasn't had artwork done, yet. You will also run into entries for which the Art does exist but hasn't been uploaded to the Launchbox database yet. It's just a fact of life. Every stitch of this hobby from the emulators to the logos is community driven. But to answer your question, yes, you could google the missing art, or create your own, and further contribute to the community by uploading it to the LB database so the next person can download it on import.

Glad you got it sorted.

Also, in the same menu as the above screenshot, make sure you didn't set anything for "Enable Hotkey". If you set a controller button or keyboard key to this option, none of the other hotkeys will work unless that button is pressed. This would be my guess as to why you lost the functionality of the buttons. So for instance I set Enable Hotkey to left stick on my controller. The ESC button on the keyboard won't work unless I press the left stick on my controller.

Did you set up a controller hotkey button? Or just set the "enable hotkey" button to a key on the keyboard?

There is currently no way to compare your collection to what it in the Launchbox Database. However, you can compare you collection against official dats unrelated to launchbox using other software like Clrmamepro and I think romcenter.

I don't know how any of this stuff works and I appreciate you all tackling this! If I could make a suggestion, it would be awesome if this would call to a video folder named exactly like the rom first, nested in a directory named after the system. So for instance, if you launch Super Metroid: It looks in Startup Videos/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Metroid/ In the absence of a game specific video, it would then look directly in the system folder: Startup Videos/Super Nintendo Entertainment System This would allow users to do both Game Specific Startup vids for particular games, while utilizing System Specific Vids for the rest. So you could have: Startup Videos/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Metroid/gamevideo.mp4 Startup Videos/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Systemvideo.mp4 Just a thought. Thanks!

Try Fatmatch, I think it will do exactly what you're looking for. Its the only program I know of that will let you name files based on a fuzzy match of the names of other files.