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right. got it. yeah i didnt realize it was so neatly coded. i can just look at the game i need and see if its screwed up or not. okie doke. thanks bro

ok thank you

alright so i need to go to before the metadata update and manually put in each backup file for each system. is that right?

specifically the genres. right? so that would mean all of those on the 14th are probably the updates i dont want. look correct?

im hoping the answer is yes because then it looks like it was on the 14th that i updated the metadata for everything. (being that all of the files are there) so everything before it should be good to go. problem is if it doesnt and i just load those files in, im going to lose certain things i wanted updated. itll still be better than having to redo all of the genres. that was painstaking and super tedious

maybe a better more pointed question would be... do any of these backup files, or any other backup files contain the genre info that i had saved for months before i idiotically updated everything and ruined everything

i scrolled down a bit. all the "settings" backups are on the top meaning from today. all in date order btw. so theyre useless

I looked around the forums and didnt find anything like this. Ive been spending the past few days making big box look prettier. that neon deluxe theme is dope. so for a change ive been using big box. While on there i realized that there were certain problems with the metadata for some of the games. across multiple platforms. so i stupidly hit the update metadata button for my entire collection, forgetting that i took hours upon hours updating the genres for almost 3,000 games. making sure beat em ups are actually beat em ups. separating shoot em ups from regular shooters. point is, it took forever. i changed so much in the genre department that i want back. It totally reset. anyone that has a mame set knows how dumb the genres are on there. so i started changing some back and realized that there might be a backup file somewhere. problem is, all of the settings backups are from today, and im not actually sure what day i reset the metadata. i think it was 2 days ago. so i do have some backup files from that time period, but they are platform specific

good call my friend. works pretty well

so as far as an android version. Im a thousand percent down with that. currently i use DIG for a frontend and mostly retroarch for older systems. hooked to a 8bitdo snes pro with a phone clip attached to a galaxy s10. it does the job, but it would be so awesome if there was an android version of launchbox and/or bigbox. especially if theyre integrated somehow. particularly with a theme feature. those Mr retrolust launchbox and bigbox themes look amazing. another thing ive been hoping for is something like steam link. something that basically remote accesses your computer and just streams bigbox to your phone using the bluetooth controller to control everything. but im assuming that would be really hard to pull off. ive actually tried it using steam link and just bypassing their UI and opening big box but its super clunky. not to mention if i open something that isnt through steam it doesnt read the controller properly.

well adding feature to manually change it would fix some of those kinds of problems. I almost never navigate through the emulator to get to another game. Launchbox works quickly enough that i can always just exit out and open up something else without any hassle. I think the only one i tend to do it with is ppsspp because when you hit exit it gives you a list of games in the directory (i know not the only one that does it).. but idk. just seems like moving around while inside of retroarch or whatever emu kind of defeats the purpose of launchbox.

Idk if this would be possible. but maybe an app that you can do it from a phone (coupled with viewing the collection. possibly launching them). the framework for ios and android for speech recognition seem solid. Although idk if it works similarly to windows so yeah. maybe thats not feasible

Yeah id hope the voice command feature comes back even if labeled as experimental. It really was a good feature. Lets face it, we probably all have monstrous setups and could use some super lazy JARVIS setup. Yo computer. play "insert random obscure game we cant remember what system its on" . PS i always feel weird complaining about something here because this program is so amazing. i use it daily and ive been nothing but happy with mostly every new addition. You guys made a great thing here.

Wouldnt it be easy enough to have it work in tandem with the minimize launchbox option or the new startup and shutdown screens? Basically start a timer when launchbox minimizes and then stop it when it restores. Or time how long it takes between startup and shutdown screens. (or using the internal windows clock) I wish i knew a bit more coding because i would really like this feature. Even if it was semi broken. Maybe for the broken ones you could have a reset option or manual input to override it.

what about for launchbox.next? I actually prefer that to big box for the most part.

So ive noticed that with the new setup there isnt an easy way to rig a select random game button. In the old version i had a keyboard combo that was something like alt+T (tools)+R (select random game) all mapped to one key or controller button. There doesnt look like thats possible here being that i cant drop down the menu with a key stroke. Are there any hotkeys for opening menus? And for that matter. Is there an updated Launchbox.Next hotkey list for everything else? Would it be possible to create a theme that has this? (i brought this up before but i wanted to create a thread to get see if anyone has found the workaround)

yeah but in the release it wouldnt change the spacing. i had a tiny font but still wasnt showing everything.