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Marvel Intro Inspired Startup Video View File Two files included. One with sound and one without. Copy the one you want to the Launchbox videos folder and rename it to startup.mp4. Of course, you'll want to backup any existing startup videos first. Enjoy. Let me know if you find it useful. I also have a vid that says Arcade instead of BigBox if anyone is interested. Here is a demo. Submitter JaysArcade Submitted 05/13/2017 Category Big Box Startup Videos

Wow. Latest beta, everything feels so snappy. Switching between games in BB - transitioning between videos seem to be much faster than before. You're doing something right @Jason Carr! Keep up the good work!

I love the idea for more comics support. Either officially (not likely) or via a plugin. +1 for the first archive image as thumbnail idea. @DOS76, there is a way to extract the first image of archives as a batch via ComicRack and a user made plugin. Kind of a pain but a lot easier than manually extracting them when you have a large library. You can use these for the image displayed in Launchbox. I'll put a link to the forum page with the plugin below for anyone that wants to try it. From the download you have to edit a file called ExtractFirstPage.py to ensure the files get named properly. As is, the script names the images something other than the name of the archive itself which makes more work for us when trying to use them in Launchbox. See the forum page to see what line of the file that needs to be edited. Once that is done, open Comic Rack and add the plugin. Select the folder of comics and run the script. Works really good. Then use CDisplayEX as a comic reader/magazine reader in Launchbox as ComicRack sucks for actually reading comics on a cabinet. Link for the ExtractFirstPage_1_1.zip download. You'll also need the ComicRack software. http://comicrack.cyolito.com/forum/13-scripts/3052-extract-only-1st-page-in-archive-cover-page

Good to hear. Thank you!

@kriscraigs did you set Launchbox to point at FP.exe for those tables? You need to tell Launchbox that FP.exe is the emulator as opposed to the original Future Pinball executable. Sorry I'm so late getting back to you. I never got a forum notification about your issue.

Hey guys, I'm not sure what the Windows 10 issue is you are talking about. I created this plugin on a Windows 10 machine and its working here so it must be something in your setup. Unless it has something to do with the Windows 10 Creators update. Not sure about that one but I'm doubtful that is an issue either. It is a very simple script so I'm not sure how it could be broken from much of anything really. Can anyone else confirm if this is still working for them in Windows 10?

Me too, about 11 gigs for me. Taking a quick peek, I still see a few duplicate images in my arcade clear logos folder, but obviously something was cleaned out. Great work Jason! Below, are the before and after sizes of my images folder.

Wow, sweet. Can't wait to grab these!

Yeah it look s like attract is currently only programmed for two levels. Thanks for the sanity check you guys!

Correct. Or maybe I'm just wrongly assuming it should behave differently.

Thanks. Make sure you have platform categories enabled at start and see if it stays on one category or if it switches between them. Maybe its just my setup but I'd like to be sure.

And mine does switch between platforms, just not between platform categories.

Yeah I do. I also tried with it unchecked just to be sure.

I would think normal would be to flip through everything regardless of platform - but having a choice might be nice too.

Mine has gotten better with the crashing. At least it seems to run longer now before crashing. I can almost count on it crashing, just a matter of how long before it happens. No error other than Bigbox has stopped working message with Bigbox frozen behind the error message. For what it's worth, it would crash after running for only a couple hours before the latest release came out. Since the 7.9 release, I have let it run for almost 24 hours twice before it has crashed.

I posted this in troubleshooting but it has only gotten 10 views in the last 24 hours with no replies. I figure this thread gets more attention and maybe @Jason Carr will see this one. Has anyone noticed when leaving your system to run in attract mode for extended periods, that the randomization never leaves whatever platform category it's in? For example, if I am in the consoles category, walk away and come back in 3 hours, attract is running but it is still displaying games and platforms from consoles. Walk away again, go to bed, come back the next morning, attract is still running and everything looks normal, however it is still only displaying games and platforms from consoles. Its like it never leaves the category unless you manually enter into a different category at which point randomization begins again but only for the category you leave it in. Maybe I'm missing something or maybe no-one else has noticed this yet. Just thought I would throw it out there.

This just started with the 7.9 release, since we didn't have the platform categories before. I can go into a platform category, say handhelds, go to bed and attract is running in the morning but it is still in the handhelds platform category. At first I just thought it was a coincidence but it has happened too many times now to be that. It does bounce around in handhelds between platforms and games but it never seems to leave the platform category handhelds until I do it manually. I do have a custom category platform called media so not sure if that could be somehow causing it. I've noticed this happening now in the Pinball platform category, handhelds, consoles, and my custom category media. On the plus side, the random crashes that were happening when I left my system in attract mode for extended periods seems to be fixed, or at least a lot less frequent.

Got it thanks. I was looking at profile instead of acct settings.

I want launching an app like KODI or Jukebox from top level menu more than anything else. Hey, you're a mod, do you know if my username can be changed or am I locked in? I'd like to change to JaysArcade if possible. If not, no big deal. I just don't see a way to do it myself.

He just said it is already on the list so we'll see if it makes the official poll. He has a lot of ideas to go through.

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I just mentioned it on the stream. We'll see if he adds it to his list.

Mine are all lumped together at this point. Hoping for some more sorting options in the future before I mess with them anymore. I just don't have enough free time on my hands to give them any more attention.

Understood. We're getting closer to that kind of functionality but it definitely still needs some work. Sub categories/playlists and being able to launch an app as it's own platform or platform category would certainly help. Launchbox is already the most flexible in this regard but I hope it can be made even better. I have comics and I'd like to be able to separate them out by title, so I understand where you're coming from with the music example.

What do you mean? Like using Bigbox to launch more Bigbox windows? I've heard of being able to do that (out of necessity since there are no sub categories) in Hyperspin, but I'm not sure why you'd want to in Launchbox since we now have Platform Categories. Just curious.