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You’re going to get people who love and people who hate all of these features (particularly bezels).
My opinion is that you should absolutely build the functionality which would please the people who want it and will use it. The ones who utensils it, simply won’t use that feature - which keeps them happy. Not building the functionality at all takes away personal choice and will disappoint half of the people.
The only way to please everyone is to build Bezel, Fade and Pause functionality allowing people to use or not use those features how they please.
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2 minutes ago, neil9000 said:
Yeah, personally i dont notice a difference between windowed or full-screen myself, but i know others do. Its a personal choice one has to make.
Same, I’ve never had performance issues with or without bezel in or out of window mode.
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1 minute ago, Jason Carr said:
I think you're contradicting yourself here, but I think I get what you're saying. Still, as bezels can be implemented using MAME and Retroarch, I would think that there's fairly few systems that actually need external support, right?
That was a typo. Bezel IS very important.l because it changes the look and feel of the entire arcade.
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1 minute ago, Jason Carr said:
That is correct; if the bezels are implemented by the emulators themselves in the same process, then exclusive fullscreen mode can still be used and there is no performance degradation. The issue only comes into play when bezels are implement by Rocket Launcher or an outside application, because it requires the emulator to not be in exclusive fullscreen mode.
I have no had any performance issues at all using rocket launcher and I have bezels setup for all 150 platforms over like 25 different emulators. Including PCSX2, Dolphin, and many others that don’t have native support.
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Great news that you are working on bringing all of that into LaunchBox.
I personally only use rocket launcher for fade, pause and bezel. I hate that I even use it all all because it’s overly complex and never gets updated. But it’s a necessary evil because of fade, pause and bezel.
To me bezel isn’t very important because it changes the entire look of the game and arcade. It keeps things beatific from start to finish.
Its obviously an opinion thing, but I would stick with rocket launcher if I can’t get bezels in LaunchBox.
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Just now, Jason Carr said:
I'm guessing this is probably a relic issue from a beta or something of that nature. See if you can find the playlist in your LaunchBox\Data\Playlists folder and delete it while LaunchBox is closed.
It was because I already had a playlist named "Nintendo Entertainment System Favorites". So I just edited where that playlist sits.
False Alarm!
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Downloaded new version and am going to add Platform Playlists.
My question is - What are the "In XXX Sub Category" options. I understand LB will create a playlist called All Games, another called Genres, another called, Play Modes, etc... But if I check the "In Play Modes Sub Category" what happens, does it create another set of playlists for single player, cooperative, etc?
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@RetroHumanoid all the new sub categories look great. I look forward to adding to my build.
Do we need to wait for an updated refried or will it all work now? I know i saw some random threads with issues and I see that a new official release came out.
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Look great, is your theme working with the bested auto playlists? I thought I saw people, and Jason, posting it needs to be updated?
welcome back by the way!
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On 11/15/2018 at 6:35 PM, DOS76 said:
Retroarch now has per directory settings that would easily allow you to set separate bezels for all the systems the Genesis GX Plus covers.
Thats good to hear - So that would handle a good chunk of my collection - would still use RocketLauncher for the others. RocketLauncher isn't being updated often and while ti is easier for some emulators (like pinball) it's a pain in the ass for others. I would love to have to same beautiful look of fades, pause, and bezels only in LaunchBox.
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Mine has always worked and I didn't need to change anything.
Are you using the right theme? Use the "plugin" version of the theme. It has the individual backgrounds that the base does not.
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Hi All - I just added 3 requests to Bit Bucket - Feel free to up-vote if you agree with them:
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Search Playlists and Platforms by Letter: Issue #4616
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It would be nice to search at the platform level by letter - similar to how within a platform you can press right and the letters pop up to scroll by. I have hundreds of platforms and hundreds of playlists, which become cumbersome to get to the one I want because there is no way to jump to a letter.
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It would be nice to search at the platform level by letter - similar to how within a platform you can press right and the letters pop up to scroll by. I have hundreds of platforms and hundreds of playlists, which become cumbersome to get to the one I want because there is no way to jump to a letter.
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Add "Platform Category" to Auto Generate Playlist Criteria: Issue #4617
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I would like to see "Platform Category" as a criteria in the Auto Generate Playlist function. I am using this feature to build out playlists automatically, but I would like to exclude entire categories - like "Computers" or "Pinball" but right now I can only do it by the platform itself and not the Platform Category. That means I need to remember all of the specific platforms and build each "is not equal to" individually.
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I would like to see "Platform Category" as a criteria in the Auto Generate Playlist function. I am using this feature to build out playlists automatically, but I would like to exclude entire categories - like "Computers" or "Pinball" but right now I can only do it by the platform itself and not the Platform Category. That means I need to remember all of the specific platforms and build each "is not equal to" individually.
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Bezel Support: Issue #4618
- I know you are working on Fade (Loading) and Pause Screens which is great - I would also love Bezel support. This would completely eliminate the need to use RocketLauncher. Right now Retroarch is the only emulator that natively supports Bezels (that i know of), but it is 1 bezel per core, so where you have a core that supports a handful of platforms you can only use 1 single bezel - for example, Genesis GX Plus supports Game Gear and Genesis - As you can imagine those bezels wouldn't be the same.
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Search Playlists and Platforms by Letter: Issue #4616
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6 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Let me know your PC specs as well.
OK beta 10 improved the lag VERY much. Now it seems it only did it for extended periods of time (15 - 20 seconds) the first time up and down the category wheel - almost as if it was caching each platform and it's settings.
I will mess around the next few days and see.
PC Specs:
- Intel i7-6700 3.4GHz
- 16GM RAM
- Geforce GTX 970So not the most powerful PC but certainly shouldn't be the cause of any BigBox lag.
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12 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Beta 10 is out now. I've fixed a few minor performance issues and focused on Big Box performance.
@angelobodetti Testing with your collection, I was seeing some split-second delays while moving through the categories, though nothing significant. This beta does get rid of those little delays for me, so hopefully it will for you as well, though I don't understand why they would have been so long on your machine.
Thank you. I will download and test now. Definitely more than a second, it is literally 30 to 40 seconds from when i press down to when the screen changes or from when the wheel changes to when the video changes. I will record my screen and post if it still happens so you can see.
I have not changed any hardware or software configurations on my PC, so it is definitely a self contained issue.
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3 hours ago, Jason Carr said:
Yeah, sorry. Your LaunchBox\Data folder.
Great, just sent it to you. I tested with Beta 9 and i have the same performance issues:
It seems to be at the Platform Category level and it takes a very long time to jump between categories, if i select a category and go into the the platform lists, it is much faster.
I am also noticing that some category videos are loading faster than others - it seem as though the categories with very few platforms (pinball and favorites) load normal speed, but the others are very slow.
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21 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Okay, please PM me your data and I'll investigate.
What data? My data folder?
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On 11/5/2018 at 1:12 PM, Jason Carr said:
@RULLUR @angelobodetti @Brandito Please confirm what version you guys are running, and whether you're seeing delays in LaunchBox and/or Big Box. The latest beta should fix a lot of those performance issues, so I'm surprised you're still running into them.
Keep in mind that you may see performance issues once for each category/playlist, and then they should go away, even after a restart. If you have a lot of playlists or a slower system, populating the initial cache for each item might take a short while.
Currently on beta 8 and I still have performance issues in BigBox. LaunchBox runs well.
Using latest unified refried theme.
Worst performance is at the Platform Category level. Once you’re at platform or inside a platform it seems to run well. But even scrolling down from within platform category view could take 30-40 seconds to change.
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1 hour ago, RetroHumanoid said:
ok..I will add them to the to-do list...but,for now,yes,you can copy/paste a background,and name the copy after your system
Awesome, no rush as I am sure they are not very common. I went through every single platform and playlist and here is everything that was missing:
- Doujin Soft
- Locomolito
- MSX 2+
- Nintendo 64 HD
- Philips VideoPac Plus G7400
- Ball & Paddle Genre
- Maze Genre
- Multigames Genre
- Angry Video Game Nerd Collection -
I'm literally going one by one right now but I have hit a couple so far (again they aren't the most widely adopted platforms)
- Doujin Soft Games
- Locomolito Games
- MSX 2+
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Theres a few random platforms that I have that don't have a background.
How would I go about adding a background for a specific platform? Can i just copy/paste a platform theme of yours, rename it and swap the background image? Or is there more too it than that?
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Hi Guys - Is anyone else's BigBox crawling? When i go from category to category it seems incredibly slow. Sometimes 30 to 45 seconds between the correct video pops up. Once i am in a category or platform it seems closer to normal speed.
Checking to see if this is a common issue or not with the beta.
I am running Unified Refried Theme.
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Thanks @Jason Carr! Beta 2 resolved the missing category bug.
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Am I the only one who’s playlist platform categories disappeared?
@Jason Carr per your request I messaged you a zip of my data folder.
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I’m on betas.
9.1-beta-1 Released
in Beta Testing
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Are auto generated playlists "live"? Meaning if i have an auto generated playlist for "Sega Genesis Favorites" and then 2 days later I favorite a Gensis game, will it automatically end up in my playlist? Or do I need to delete and then recreate the playlist?