[LaunchBox Beta Testing]

It's the best choice currently IMO and how I was planning on doing it until I found LB. I was considering doing a plex like architecture rather than the kodi style one though. Even if you want to switch to some other UI framework down the road it's relatively easy with the MVVM pattern anyway. At least its not silverlight.

[LaunchBox Beta Testing]

Yea, they spent a lot of time on the .net core and UWP stuff and finally got back to putting some work into WPF in the last few versions of .net. Not much you can do about the obfuscation stuff if you don't want it to be super simple to pirate it.

[LaunchBox Beta Testing]

Jason Carr said @wallmachine I bet I know what's going on. With every new release of Microsoft Windows, MS does a lot to improve the performance of WPF and related graphics on Windows. I've read a lot about it and there are huge differences between the performance of WPF (the graphics engine that Big Box uses) on Windows 7 vs. Windows 8 and Windows 10. So I can't promise anything, but I'm willing to bet that upgrading your OS would make a significant difference there. Otherwise, it seems like your system specs should be decent enough to run everything fairly well. Another potential culprit could be a slow hard drive, so an SSD upgrade might really help too.

WPF performance was a major focus in the .net 4.6 versions of the framework. Launchbox is obfuscated which can lead to decreased performance and false positives from antivirus software.

[Game magazine guides]

Would be cool if guides for the games could be uploaded (ex nintendo power). https://www.retromags.com/magazines/category/usa/nintendo-power/?sort_col=field_20&sort_order=asc&per_page=24#.V1HmdPkrJhE

[Tips and suggestions for Games Database]

Images should be in PNG format to begin with, its a lossless image format. Images should never go from jpeg to png because the file is already lossy at that point.

[Will BigBox run in one old pc?]

.net 4.5+ doesn't run on windows XP. Remote desktop and steam streaming is always a possibility.