Mithrot

Hey guys- having a very weird issue- Unified Redux isn't finding any of my background images (video borders, fanart, etc) when I moved launchbox onto a portable drive. Nothing I do seems to fix it. What gives? An image of the issue is attached and yes- the fanarts are in the proper folder (LaunchBox\Themes\Unified Redux\Images\Theme\Background) with the proper format (.jpg). -EDIT- Looking into this issue deeper ... it seems like this only happens if you launch BigBox on a portable drive?? Slapping everything even onto a different PC will make backgrounds work again. I just don't even understand.

So it's been almost a month since I've reported my issue and I was still bummed out that I couldn't use this theme because IMO, Retro808 probably made my favorite StartUp theme for Launchbox. I decided to get my hands dirty with the code to see whats going wrong in the .xmal files, until I found this: <Grid.Background> <SolidColorBrush Color="Black" Opacity="{Binding BackgroundFade}" /> </Grid.Background> I decided to remove these lines of code and voila- the backgrounds were visible to me now! Granted I'll have to make this change for every platform, but now this theme is working great.

Nope, its all the way opaque on my end.

I can confirm that this is the case, yet the BGs are still not showing up. Just to be sure, I reinstalled the theme. Does the images require IEXPLORER.EXE by any chance?

The background images don't seem to show up at all for me. Anything I can do?

For me personally, I won't actually be using loading screens for emulators. I use Launchbox for PC games too. And certain Windows games on slower PCs (ex. Slay the Spire because of the Java Runtime) load particularly slowly. Having startup-screens "mask" the time between hitting the LAUNCH button and the executable actually booting into exclusive fullscreen would be pretty cool.

Hello @faeran. I've already uploaded my review of these themes, but the tl;dr is that they're all great, but suffer from design inconsistencies across platforms (some has video scanlines, some rotate covers, etc). For this post I wanted to propose a primary suggestion for this project: Uploading a 'general' theme. Something to use as a placeholder for systems without it's own custom theme yet, or those unlikely to have custom themes at all. I believe this is a good idea because it'll match people's less popular platforms with the rest of the project without looking too out-of-place. Maybe have it be some generic retro/pixel look or something. Otherwise, the only other suggestions I have are mostly a wishlist of platforms to add that are less reasonable to divest energy/time into, but I'll list them anyways in the off-chance they catch your attention: NEC TurboGrafx-16 Nintendo WiiU Nintendo DS Nintendo 3DS Sony PSP Sony PS2 And these are less reasonable because these systems lack actual "game covers" to design around. I feel that they fit better under the 'general' theme idea than having dedicated themes themselves, but regardless: MAME platform PC-Based Arcade Systems (Taito-X, Tekno Parrot, etc) Sega Model 2 & 3 MS-DOS Modern Computer Games (Steam/Windows/etc) Overall your project is great and I hope to see it updated to be even better over time. Thanks.

It was the reboot that fixed it.

Sorry about that, didn't realize there was a dedicated thread for that. Thanks! This seems to have fixed the problem for me. For whatever reason, Launchbox Next was completely broken after the update until I followed your advice. Windows were not selectable at all and graphics were broken. Hopefully anybody else who runs into this issue can easily resolve it now.

Updated LB today and my client became this: https://imgur.com/a/KqKIyiN Would someone mind pointing me to the previous LB beta download? Lost my local copy.

Hey there- love LB. I have a question regarding LB/LBN. Is there currently a feature-freeze on the "current" LB to help LBN catch-up?

Alright, thanks!

Hey Grila, nice theme. By far, this is the most performant BigBox theme on the GPDWin- even beating out EmulationStation. My problem is that the customizer lacks a "white" color for the banner. If I want to put in my own custom color, where would I go to do that? Thanks in advance.

You mean you're not our dedicated theme butler? Thats unfortunate- hopefully real-life stops kickin' mate.

Sooo its been a few months since the OP ... is this thing going to be released anytime soon?

Nope- my bad. Thanks so much!

Good to hear! We'd also appreciate looking into the black screen bug, as I can't appreciate my fancy Videogame commercials in fullscreen.

Yep- didn't work.

I thought it was just me. I appreciate the confirmation of these issues.

I apologize if I wasn't clear. I'm still trying to grasp my launchbox lingo.

>as you can see I have a f-zero video playing I see. I'm talking about "View Fullscreen Video" within the Game Details panel. I can see the video just fine like your screenshot in the Game List panel, but once I try viewing the video in full-screen it just shows me a black image. My options are already the same as the ones you've set in the pic.

Ah, my bad. I'm using Vertical Wheel 1 on EmulationStation. I don't think this issue is Theme-specific because it happens even on Default and CriticalZone. The background video option is unchecked. Tried all sorts of options with little success. Don't have WMP installed- only VLC.

Ah! I was looking at the options under BigBox, not Launchbox. BUT, I'm still unable to see fullscreen videos on BigBox.