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Yeah after installing the new beta, the retrotastic theme that i currently use, needs to be updated since it broke it and i get Systemview and platformwheelfiltersview error, and maybe other themes that i have that i haven't tested yet. Or maybe im doing something wrong, LOL.
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Hopefully this doesn't break @y2guruPASC CE editor, but I'm sure he can add in the changes.
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23 minutes ago, y2guru said:
As promised, here's the latest video update... major progress and coming together quite nicely.
You are amazing, @Jason Carr should hire you to make this an official theme editor for Bigbox. This will make Launchbox/Bigbox even better than other front-ends. Cant wait will you add more features like the wheel. btw, will you support spinning discs, and object transitions/effects, like making an image or object slide or fade or spin when changing platforms or a game?
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This program will great for people who have ideas for a theme, but don't know how to code like me.
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I would give it a shot, but i wish i new how to code a theme. One of our theme creators might be able to see if an Xbox one theme would be possible.
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5 minutes ago, Starbuck said:
Did as EA4492 and Jason suggested and it worked. Would it not be better if Launchbox remembered the drive and folder that you originally scanned.
Just a thought.
Thank you both for your help
that make sense that it should change the default Location to the folder or drive you choose, when you import games that are not in the Launchbox folder, and i also have my game in other folders outside of Launchbox folder.
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Just now, Starbuck said:
Recently started have an issue which very well could be something in the settings I've missed. I have my games on several different drives. When I import games from a drive that is not the drive Launchbox is on everything works great . If i go back and scan for new roms it finds no new roms even if I have some. If I do the same on the drive launchbox is on, both operations work fine.
Thats not an issue. Launchbox is set to scan games that are in the launchbox/games folder and not in any other location. you can change that folder, in under each platform settings, in the Folders tab you will see Games, and you change the location to your roms folder.
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3 hours ago, Jason Carr said:
This is what the Startup Load Delay setting is for on the emulator. Just decrease the value.
Yeah, since i noticed this as well, until i found that setting, turning it down to 2 second was perfect for me.
8 hours ago, RULLUR said:Has anyone else experienced some games or Emulators starting up and the Startup Screen doesn't pull away until at most maybe 2 seconds later? Like you'll hear the game and then almost 2 seconds later the startup screen goes away to show it. I think most of the time I dealt with this when it came to VisualBoy
You system might be different so i would lower the time until you find the right spot.
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Here is the video of the issue. Im using the Retrotastic theme and the game was loading from Retroarch, But it happens with any game/emulator. So you can see when you exit a game, the video starts up for a second until bigbox windows is in focus, then the video resumes back to where it left off. I know it does it when Bigbox windows is not in focus, because i did a test when exiting a game while another windows was in focus, and the video started from the beginning until i clicked on bigbox and it went into focus, the video resumes back to where it left off before like you see in the video below. Hopes this helps identify the issue.
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3 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
I have seen that before, but I haven't been able to track it down. It seems to happen randomly, rarely in my case. I might be able to just mute the videos to solve it maybe. Probably won't be easy though.
Cool. Thanks Jason. I was thinking it might of been the HDD since i was running bigbox off a 5400rmp HDD and i noticed bigbox would lag and slow down do to the slow HDD, but i moved my bigbox collection to a 7200rpm drive, and bigbox is noticeably faster but that issue still happens.
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One thing i noticed is, with the Startup screen(not the startup videos) when you exit a game, and it says game over, you can hear Bigbox and the game video is playing from the beginning in the background and then when bigbox comes into focus, the video loads from where it left off. Ill try to make a video of it. But this might just be a windows focus issue.
Thanks Jason for all your hard work!! Keep it up, and looking forward to what comes next ?
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This theme looks great but for some reason, the theme doesnt load for me when i switch to it in Bigbox, it just loads the default startup theme? Great work, keep it up.
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20 hours ago, Scratcher said:
Thank you so much
Right now I basicly working on all the NES Games that also have a theme in Hyperspin so I can delete the NES Theme Videos from my harddrive to create more space. After I am done with NES, I will start working on other Platforms and do the same there. Would be nice if someone else chips in on doing themes so we can get more backrounds faster.
I would love to chip in and help, but ive been pretty busy lately and dont really have time that i would like. Hopefully i can get some free time soon, since im also doing clear logos for another theme.
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On 9/24/2018 at 5:15 PM, Scratcher said:
Ok, I just uploaded the NES Backgrounds I made as Packs.
I went with the uncompressed versions of the Backgrounds, since compressing them sometimes are giving them artifacts that they didn't have in the uncompressed version.
I got a chance to use these backgrounds, and im loving your hard work, especially the ones that have animated gifs. It would be cool if more objects were animated. I cant wait till you do more games, and are you planning on doing other platforms?
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10 hours ago, Scratcher said:
Here are the next NES Backgrounds. I wanted to have different Backgrounds for Punch-Out and Mike Tyson's Punchout, so I redid fearan's Punch-Out background with some slight changes (for example changing the game logo to "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out) and gave it the Launchbox ID for the Mike Tyson Version.
Also I made 2 Versions of Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3 Backgrounds, one goes with the Artwork in the Game folder that come with Retrotastic and one Version if you delete the Artwork in the game folder.
Enjoy!
Punch-Out - 2016
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out - 17477
Super Mario Bros. 3 (for use with the Artwork in the "Game" folder that comes with Retrotastic) - 112
Super Mario Bros. 3 (alternate Version for if you don't want to use the Artwork in the "Game" folder that comes with Retrotastic) - 112
Super Mario Bros. 2 (for use with the Artwork in the "Game" folder that comes with Retrotastic) - 171
Super Mario Bros. 2 (alternate Version for if you don't want to use the Artwork in the "Game" folder that comes with Retrotastic) - 171
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 383
Ironsword-Wizards & Warriors II - 1331
Urban Champion - 1390
Super C - 1456
Super Dodge Ball - 1457
Town & Country Surf Design-Wood & Water Rage - 1461
Athletic World - 1622
Wario Woods - 2172
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Just finished 4 Backgrounds for Sega Saturn Games:
The House of the Dead - 6826
Astal - 10493
Virtua Cop - 11176
Resident Evil - 15266
I love your work. By the way, can you make these themes available as a download pack, it would make downloading these easy. Thanks in advance.
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On 9/8/2018 at 1:31 AM, MalachiMaverick said:
You forgot the rest of the sounds though. What about all the dings, whistles, and whatever other random loud sounds it makes as you scroll through the actual emulators, and games themselves?
Unfortunately, these are the only sounds you can use as of right now. Hopefully @Jason Carr will add the ability to use more sounds, like a sound pack for different wheels, like in Hyperspin where as you scroll, each item on the wheel plays a different sound.
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4 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said:
It's probably just not fast enough to move data in and out of it. Also the fact that his CPU is from 2007 and running Windows 10 on this hardware doesn't help at all. He's basically overloading the hardware.
True that could be his problem, since hes using pretty old hardware. But DDR2 shouldnt be that slow, but i cant really say, since i dont have a computer with ddr2 anymore, and my old computer has 8gb of DDR3, and my current computer has 16gb of DDR4.
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1 minute ago, Lordmonkus said:
He said it was DDR2 though which is extremely old at this point, current systems are now using DDR4 and DDR3 was the norm for the past like 10 years.
But it shouldnt matter if he has DDR2 since DDR2 supports up to 16gb depending on the Motherboard and the difference with DDR2 to DDR3 and 4 is the capacity and speed, but speed mainly.
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5 minutes ago, MalachiMaverick said:
6 GB of RAM is insufficient? Hell, I have 8 in mine, so is only 2 gigs more that much of a difference? I thought you even said that my RAM was pretty decent from my Windows 10 thread. o_O
if your collection is large and you have a lot of Logos and artwork, and videos, then 6gb wouldnt be enough for the large cache that BigBox creates. I have a pretty large collection and my computer has 16gb of ram so obviously i dont have any problems with BIgBox. Hope this make sense.
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11 minutes ago, Bodine Grunch said:
You were right. I still run AGP cards in a few of my computers and I knew this one was not using a white PCI slot. But, I had to open it up to check. Sure enough it's a PCI-Ex16. I'm a little mind numb still from trying to sort out this problem. I had just about convinced myself it would be a video card problem but that doesn't make sense as it works for everything else and has worked up until this new version of LB (and even it still works, it just craps out after each game). The theme problem happened and I threw up my hands and decided to ask for help hoping somebody had been down this road before.
*in case anybody was wondering why... I really wanted my arcade to have the analog warmth I remembered from the arcades of my youth. So, I'm using a 36" Sanyo CRT and to get the warmth I was looking for I needed a card with S-Video ( The Sanyo only has RCA and S-Video inputs). This was the newest old card I could find with drivers for Windows7 (which are equivalent to 8 & 10). The screen has been a real attention grabber for everybody who sees it and I've really been pleased with the set-up. Of course, it all still works but maybe I just won't be able to use LB anymore. Surely somebody has an idea. It's going to wind up being something simple that I just can't see right now.
Yeah, im sure your know who Linus is and what LTT is, but if not, you can search him and see a video that he did about building a custom arcade cabinet machine, and he actually used a Flat CRT that is used in old arcades and it the best screen to use for an authentic arcade feel, but those CRTs are very hard to find. I hope to have my own arcade cabinet one day since i have an old core 2 quad computer collecting dust and with newer cards, you can get a converter box that converts HDMI/DVI to analog Composite or S-Video to connect to an old CRT monitor.
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3 hours ago, Bodine Grunch said:
I'm sorry, the carriage return got dropped.... the NVIDIA is an AGP card and the 6GB is the system RAM system
Wait...AGP? I think you mean PCI since if im not mistaking, the old LGA775 core 2 series was PCI and not AGP was already fazed out, and i havnt used or seen an AGP card in a long time since probably when i had an old computer with an Athlon 64.
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2 hours ago, bbweiners said:
Yep, still alive.
so, any new on when your releasing the pause menu for separate emulators?
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@bbweiners Its been a while since ive heard from you and checking to see if your still here, LOL, Hope to hear from you ?
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On 7/24/2018 at 5:02 AM, bbweiners said:
@ea4492 Thanks so much! I actually have a dolphin version that fully works. I'll try to release it today or tomorrow.
Any news on when you will be releasing the pause menu for different emulators? Thank you.
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Thanks Jason. Keep up the awesome work.