damageinc86

So, you have to either use one of their emulators from that site, or retroarch? Damn,...none of which I've gotten into. Looks really cool, but I use mednafen for most of my systems. It would be cool if integrating this into an emulator could become a more standard thing codewise for devs to talk to each other about. So it can be applied to more emulators.

I think the ease of creation is what a nice little themeing program could bring. I know I really enjoyed being able to spend like 15 quick minutes to make a simple theme in hypertheme for a hack or dos game nobody had done yet. Or for platform themes nobody made, or I didn't like their version. Drag n drop, nice little effects, I think it's the one and only thing I miss from back then. As far as videos being better for ease of use, definitely. This is why themebox should have the export option so you can choose which video format you want to render in. Having these vids are cool! But you still have to rely on another fe's theme program to even have the ability to capture them. LB just needs its own now.

I like it so far. Only thing that looks off to me is the platform logo hovering at the top of the game clear logo list. Maybe use some other area of screen space to show that. Great work though!

I run dos through defend reloaded and never have to type anything after the initial GUI setup. Might be worth a look.

How is this USB encoded? What brand ?

Well crap, I guess that DOES make sense!

It still hasn't worked correctly for me, but I was also under the impression that if it was, it would load BB as soon as the video finished , if BB was already done loading, which sounds like it is in this case.

8 standard config buttons, and then one is for beer dispenser, one for nacho cheese dispenser

Oh yeah I did just do that change too. I was getting an error about it being /b, and it would just hang on the dolphin message box. I only found out to do the dash version by adding dolphin in launchbox, then launchbox auto-populated with the common settings and I noticed the dash version was there. That got me thinking that maybe the /b they were talking about needs to be changed, and voila. Worked again.

I have the latest nightly build of dolphin and An old RL module, mine works just fine. I would suspect it might actually be some module setting you have that is expecting something different than how dolphin is actually launching. If you go to the modules tab when you are in your GameCube system and select the dolphin module from the list, then click either or both gear wheel icons just above the list, for system wide settings and module specific settings. Then you can check that out and maybe find something out.

Must be something in the module. You could try updating RL and see if that helps. Or if dolphin isn't acting normal underneath them RL just sits and waits for it .

Yeah maybe scraping the screenshots folder and getting it that way would be easier, with just instructions on how to take a screenshot for mame and Ra since those are the most widely used ones. Still have to have a team that sifts through it though I'd guess. Unless there's a way to do an ocr type thing in order to "see" which score is in-line with the hiscore text line.

for playlists? if you don't mind having borders then you could always download the crylen's psd file I uploaded here, and slide in your own logos.

Yeah, we used to do screenshots in MAME and then upload those to the thread, and I think that would really be the only way to do it unless there's some way for launchbox to get into mame while it's running and see what the score was at the end? Probably not huh. Or maybe there could be instructions on how to take a screenshot at the end of your game (I think it was just F12 or something), and then launchbox could scrape those screenshot folders that are I think named after the romname in the mame folder structure. For retroarch I think you could still look at a screenshot folder for mame games right? Then if you hit submit screenshot, then launchbox runs through that and uploads those to somewhere to be looked at. Don't know if you could make the sifting process automatic, that's another big one, they'd have to be looked at somehow.

In the vein of the retro-achievement feature, I was thinking back to my hyperspin days and just remembered that on their forums they have a Hyperscore challenge that lets the community compete against each other on whatever arcade game was chosen. This was a really fun way to engage each other, so what if Launchbox could do this in-program? Maybe do it bi-monthly, or every week, or monthly, depending on what feels best. When you start up launchbox maybe it could be in that news/info window that pops up?, or since that can be disabled and people might not see it, maybe it could be in a small status bar/ticker at some spot in the window. For BigBox I don't know, something selectable somewhere to quickly jump to details about the challenge. Since the program can't read the scores (can it?) there would have to be a submission system of some sort. This might be the hardest part. But anyways, just an idea that might be fun to try to pull off someday. Then you could also get your retro-achievement for high scores/placements in the retro-challenge also.

ok so yes my bigbox takes about 23 seconds to start up with and without videos. So that makes sense as far as the black screen taking up the rest of the time. I still wonder why bigbox would still cut off videos longer than that, because it has time to completely load while a longer video plays. Also, i can't interrupt any video with any button or keypress from anything. They do nothing. But all controllers and keyboard still work movement once in bigbox, they just do nothing during videos. Maybe there could still be some settings added for this option? i dunno, its weird. but luckily the vhs retro vid is almost exactly the amount of time to cover the normal startup time.

Ok good idea I'll try that

@neil9000 yeah but what I don't understand is ok it would take time for bigbox to load after any video is done sure, that makes sense. But the black screen it's showing is taking up the exact amount of seconds to make up to I think it was 18, then big box loads. Shouldny big box only take a few seconds after any video plays for it to load? Or no matter what length of video, it is going to either cut or hold the black screen up until the allotted time has passed? It seems odd to allow different length videos if bigbox will just wait a certain time no matter what

@Jason CarrWell I can test that I guess by pressing a key to stop it ahead of time. But If it thought a key was being pressed on a short video, why is it leaving the screen black after the video is done playing, and waiting the same exact seconds for bigbox to load? Why would it add a black screen to the end of a short video if it thinks a key has been pressed I mean. Shouldn't bigbox load whenever the video is done playing, and not add time to a shorter video?

@Jason Carr well in my feeble non-programmer brain that sort of shows that no matter long or short video, bigbox is waiting until it's loaded to do anything. Cuts off long vid when loaded, and extends time of short vid to wait until it's loaded. Of course I don't have enough insight to form any thoughts past that. But that's the behavior.

@Jason Carr I also just tried some shorter videos from the downloads section, like the neo geo intro and the neon sign one, plus like 4 more. While of course they don't get cut off since they are short, bigbox doesn't load until the normal time that BB would usually cut off the longer videos. It just stays on a black screen until BB loads like it usually does.

@Jason Carr I would try the unplugging thing, but I have almost 10 genuine controllers plugged in and don't want to have to remAp them all just on the off chance that's it. I can live without startup videos until it's figured out. But just wanted to bring it up since it is some sort of issue now. I am doubting it's picking up a phantom press because like @neil9000 said it's stopping it the same time, every time, right when BB is done loading.

Yeah sort of a similar idea that I had. My bitbucket issue has a screenshot I edited in photoshop to show what the sidebar might look like when it slid over to show the filters/playlists for that platform. https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/2578/feature-request-filters-sidebar-in-bigbox

Are you talking about being able to call up a platform specific playlist/filter within the platform you are in? I put up a bit bucket request back when it was still called filters, to have a little menu overlay slide over the top on one side of the screen and show you all the filters you had made that are specific to that platform. Then when you would select one you'd go right to that list and then when done you could go back to the parent platform. Most useful for arcade platform but also might be nice to be able to call up the "top 25, 50, 100", or certain franchises that you'd like to see specific to the platform your in. It can get old always having to go to the playlist category and scroll through all your playlists when you just want to see which ones you want from the platform you were in. Still keep the playlist category to be able to find lists that's span multiple platforms, but just add a little feature for a sub-menu within your current platform.