Hey everyone, this is my first post here on the forums, but some of you may already know me as your friendly neighborhood moderator over at EmuMovies. After spending the last month or so with LB, I have to say, this front-end is very user friendly and a breeze to setup and get going. I'm currently setting up LB on my new gaming PC and it's been a real pleasure in terms of set up. I can actually spend more time playing and less time tweaking and configuring my setup. I hope this is a trend that continues as new features are implemented. I like the fact that I've gone through my first update with LB and nothing got "broken" or had to be reconfigured. I have used HyperSpin with RocketLauncher for years and it always seems something gets lost in the shuffle or broken whenever a new update is released... it's become quite annoying. With that said, I have a few requests I'd like to see in future releases and I hope none of these have already been mentioned. I did spend some time browsing through the forums and I mentioned a few of them to Jason already the last time we spoke. However, I figured I'd post them here as well.
As most of you know, EmuMovies hosts a very large library of content and we're adding new content all the time. I noticed LB doesn't have support for system intro videos. I think these would be a great addition, as well as adding folders for flyers/adverts, and cartridges. I'm using most of the artwork I have collected for my HyperSpin setup already but it would be nice to make full use of everything I have in terms of art and having the correct folder in LB to store it.
Also, it would be nice to have a way to edit the layout of Big Box. I'm not talking "themes" like HyperSpin (Although having a way to use individual games themes would be nice as well) I'm simply talking about having a way to arrange the way the content that is displayed on the screen already... like if I wanted my video snaps to be displayed in the top left corner, or somewhere else on the screen. Being able to move things around so to speak. No need to get all fancy and go all out like HyperSpin does (and does it very well). The simplistic, clean look of LB is one of the things I like most!
My next idea was to have a integrated .pdf (or other file types like .cbr) reader. This would be great for those of us who want to add Nintendo Power or other retro gaming mags to our setups. I realize LB will use the default app you have in windows for viewing these file types already, but having integrated support would be nice and I believe GameEX has something like that.
And finally, .zip/.7z support for ROM files would be awesome! I know we can use RocketLauncher as a work around, but the thing LB has going for it is it's user-friendly setup! Bringing in another launcher for someone new to this hobby just complicates things more then it has to be so I think there should be something within LB for users who want to stay away from Rocketlauncher as sometimes it can be a fanatical program to use. I'm not knocking on RocketLauncher by any means, simply saying it's menu system and overflow of options can be a bit overwhelming for users just getting into emulation and want to just play games... not spend weeks with their hand on a mouse and keyboard configuring their front-end. Simple answer here is choice. It's always nice to have options, and RocketLauncher sure does have it's share. Others may want it for bezel support, etc. Retroarch is my go to emulator for most of the 8-Bit, 16-Bit era consoles and it's overlay options are quite nice so I see no point in bringing in RocketLauncher to use in my setup currently. However, I do realize Retroarch can't always do everything.
So, that's about it from me. LB is a great frontend and I've really enjoyed using it and setting it up! I want to thank Jason again for getting in touch with me and answering my questions.