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I managed to get Big Box to crash one other time after the last post in PC Enigine CD, but could not get to crash at all after that (even after opening and closing Big Box 4 more times). I scrolled through several platform categories (including the ones where BB typically crashes, like SNES), observed no crashes, closed Big Box, re-launched and scrolled through them again, spending no more than half a second on each game and it has not crashed anymore for me. Just before my last post, I managed to get 3 crashes in a row in the MSU-1 category almost immediately. I'll keep on scrolling and try to find a rhythm to it

Just the Prioritize Soundtrack over Video Audio. Attached are the Sound and Video settings I'm using. I don't use VLC because sound for the Platform videos won't play at all (I don't use MP3s for any platforms), but it still crashes in the Games View just the same (music plays fine if I keep the "Prioritize" disabled; just to note). In any case I tend to prefer WMP (I know!) since video seems to load up much quicker than with VLC anyway. This may sound silly and uneducated, but is it possible that something else unrelated is causing the crashing? I ask because it seems that Big Box only crashes in a SNES category, so far. I have Super Nintendo, Super Famicom and MSU-1 platform categories (which is just SNES) and I get consistant crashes in all of them. MSU-1 only has about 5 games and it crashed on me 3 out of 3 times the last times I just tried it (still no error log). However, when I scrolled my Hacks & Fan-Made category (which is a mix of platforms with no default emulator set for it because of that), it never crashed; has about 35 games and I scrolled the list 3 times. Maybe something weird with having a default emulator set? I don't recall ever getting a crash in my Windows or Amiga category either and they don't use default emulators either.... I'll have to keep testing that theory, unless it's too whimsical a thing to chase after... I know jack squat about coding anything

Just had a crash scrolling through the SNES category (background music enabled), but only a generic Windows has stopped working message. On the latest beta.... BUT it is less crashy overall! I was just scrolling through the list at a slow enough pace for both the video and audio to kick in; took about 30 - 45 seconds of scrolling before it crashed.

You can put videos anywhere you want, but LB won't automatically find them if you aren't keeping them in the default folders. You could move LB itself to a different drive on the PC that has more space (but you'd have to fix paths for all of your emus, etc.), but if you don't mind manually updating the video paths, you can: 1). Move the videos to where you want them to live 2) In LB, Edit the game, go to the Other tab and in the video field, click the button to navigate to where the video is. Unfortunately, you can't bulk edit this (unless all your games use the exact same background video), but that is how you can do it. Same goes for music and manual files.

Taito Type X Bezel View File This is a vertical, 16:9 bezel I made for Taito Type X (mainly for Giga Wing Generations). I've attached the JPG (needed for GWG; filename must stay as is too. The orientation is also necessary for GWG), as well as a PNG version. Submitter CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT Submitted 01/17/17 Category Game Media  

@eatkinola I have an idea that you might consider for a future update. While I was checking out the latest version of the theme, I noticed that box art in the recent games list kinda fades out on the right-hand side and it got me to thinking that it would be cool if it did the same on the left side too. I was imagining the box-art being on a wheel and it already kinda has that 3Dish effect when you scroll through that list, but it would be pretty cool if that list were a 3D belt-type wheel. Attached an image for reference. Not sure it's reasonable or possible, but wanted to pass it along. And, once again, I love this theme

For Nestopia, go to Options, then Preferences, then check "Switch to Fullscreen on Startup", then click on "OK"

I noticed encoding MP3s into the videos helped too... just a very time-consuming workaround. I've never had it crash in LB though, but that's a good idea for why Attract Mode doesn't cause any crashes. Hopefully it'll get fixed soon!

Probably the particular view you are using in the theme. Every theme supports multiple view options for Platforms and Games. You can set a keyboard key or controller button to being able to switch the current viewing mode. Go into Options -> Controller Buttons and then map a button on your controller to "Switch View". If you prefer using a keyboard, just do the same thing under "Keyboard Mappings". I use the Options button on my PS4 controller for this. After that, go back to your Platform list and cycle through the options by pressing that button until you see one playing a background video.

Hacks & Fan-Made platform with @eatkinola's Minimal-AO theme:

My settings are attached (video player doesn't matter; you can use VLC if you prefer). If you don't want the Platform videos to play, then just untick the second option (or delete the videos).

I also get the crashing using Windows Media Player. The crashing has only been a thing for me since the ability to have background MP3s was implemented. I have noticed that if I don't transition from one game to the next too quickly and sit at each game a couple of seconds, it will generally not crash on me. The only way I can consistently prevent BB from crashing is to either turn off background videos and only have music or turn off music and only have videos; the back-end player doesn't really seem to matter and seems it will crash more often the more music and videos you have for a particular platform. Example: SNES has roughly 225 games and all games have videos/music and BB will crash almost 100% of the time while scrolling the list (sometimes as soon as I load into the list and try to even scroll to the next game below/above it). However, Wii has 30 games and videos for everything, but I have only added music for 5 games so far and BB never crashes when scrolling it's list. I have also never had a crash when letting BB run in Attract Mode (even for SNES), which seems really weird to me. It's been pretty frustrating because I want to use both options. I suppose I should also note that I'm not using full soundtracks or even multiple MP3s per game. Each game only gets one MP3 :).

Not at home at the moment, so I'll have to check later this afternoon for the specific video settings I use. I'll chime back in later today if someone else hasn't already or if you don't figure it out before then. Pretty sure you need to keep the setting you disabled, on though.

Yep, there is a setting in Big Box that will allow gameplay clips from games in that platform category to be shown in the Platform view. It's how mine is setup for the platforms I don't have theme videos for.

Brilliant! That was it! Thank you!

Hi All, I use Mednafen (standalone) for PC Engine/TG-16 and Saturn games. For PC Engine and TG-16, it automatically save states when exiting the game and I don't want it to do this. Is there any way to disable that in Mednafen? It doesn't do it with Saturn games, so maybe it's a feature of the console (not sure; didn't have one growing up). Tried googling and looking on the Mednafen website, but couldn't find anything mentioning it.

You have to track that manually in Launch Box (there isn't any place to tick that in Big Box yet). If you edit the game, there is a box to check that you completed it under where the game's version info would be. This make an icon show up in Big Box as well (next to the rating icon) in your Game Details view. I attached a couple screenshots, as well

Filename was the culprit: changed to sgb.boot.rom and it worked! Thanks! Must be more than one way to skin this cat; it was just the filename.

Hello All, I've decided to add Super Game Boy as a platform as an alternative to playing Game Boy games in Retroarch. I have followed Brad's tutorial on getting it setup, but I can't get it to work. The game I am using to test with is Metroid II and using the gambatte core, it boots up and plays fine as a standard GB game. However, trying to launch it (or any GB game) with the Super Game Boy, nothing at all happens. If I remove the --subsystem sgb, Retroarch boots to a black screen. I'm using the bsnes balanced core, but also tried it with the standard snes9x core, just to see. My emulator config for this is attached. I have tried with both the Super Game Boy 2 and regular Super Game Boy ROMs (the boot image I was able to find (sgb_bios.bin) is for the original SGB and when I searched or one specific to the SGB 2, someone had dumped it, but would not host a ROM for it; only provided the code edits that would need to me made to the original SGB and checksums to verify with, but I've never compiled a ROM and no instructions were given for how to go about that, but the author did say there is a 1 byte difference between the regular and SGB 2 boot images). I did rename the file I found (256 bytes in size; no checksums were provided for it) to sgb_boot.rom and put it in the system folder in Retroarch, but no dice. Does anyone know how to get this puppy working?

Yeah, definitely a light blur or darkening would be ideal. Also, I'm digging the inclusion of the white noise flicker when "turning the dial" between videos in this version. It's a cool touch for sure.

It's probably early to mid 80s. Definitely needs to have a rabbit ear antenna

I'm interested! If you decide to do any of the arcade systems, it would be cool if the tv were replaced with a close-up of the cabinet (with art that references the machine: Neo Geo, Tatio Type X, etc) with the background looking like an arcade from that machines era. This is really cool, either way though. Oh, and if you do any Atari 2600, etc., for the tv, something like the attached would be awesome:

I really love this theme, but I would like to be able to have my fanart backgrounds be used in the Game Details menu. I have all the settings in LB/BB enabled to do this, but with this theme, they don't show up. I attached a screenshot showing where I'd like to have the art display; squared around the area in yellow (I would want to keep the left-hand side-bar using the theme background). If there is some way I can make this work in the XAMLs? I'm willing to make those edits, just not sure where or what to edit. Hopefully, this is possible or could be added as a feature in future updates, if possible.