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Best theme available for Big Box and possibly any emulation frontend, hand down. Thank you for your hard work, viking. Your talent and great sense of aesthetic is a gift to the emulation frontend community! Right now, I'm trying to edit it to make it suit my particular use case a little bit more. I have a couple of questions and one suggestion: 1. Is it possible to make a Text View that is just like the wheel view, only replacing the wheels with the text list? Text list is much snappier and faster than the wheels for very large collections, and some logos are kinda hard to read. Right now, the wheel view has more info about the game. Text feels a little bit incomplete compared. I personally believe that text view is better for large collections, and provide a better experience for "exploring your collection and finding hidden gems", because you can browse so much faster. That being said, without details like release date, rating, number of players and description, it becomes that much harder to dig around for the good stuff. 2. What values would I need to change to make animations start slightly sooner and/or go slightly faster? The way it is right now is very pleasant for an exhibition kind of experience, like attract mode for example. But on day to day use, if you just go straight to the game and select it as soon as you can, chances are you'll never get to see a lot of the animated content because it takes a little big too much time to resolve. You kind of have to purposefully wait if you wanna see the boxart or game info. I don't think the default values should be changed, but I'd like to dig into the XAML and change values for my particular setup. Or maybe just add a "quick animations" view as an option for next versions. 3. It was suggested already by user johnsanc, and I agree: a scanlines overlay for the video area would be great. Not even premium emumovies has video snaps that look any good when upscaled to 4k resolutions. Even very fake scanlines are great for hiding imperfections in low res content, because you distance the delimitation between visual pixels from one another, making the "staircase" effect less pronounced and blocky artifacts less visible. Thanks!

Description says "Use per-rom or per-emulator controller configurations that are automatically remembered between gaming sessions (without having to create convoluted Steam shortcuts for every rom)" How can I change a controller configuration per-emulator? It always seems to default to "Gamepad" the first time I launch a specific game. Trying to have a separate PCSX2 config auto-loading for its weird hotkeys.

Absolutely gorgeous theme. Just a question: is it possible to tweak the animation speed? I'd like the the game details that slowly show up on the left to appear a little bit faster, but keep the animation which is very smooth, just making it slightly quicker.

I have been testing my BigBox startup times with a chronometer, and after the last update I didn't notice any improvement. If anything, it's a few seconds slower (was opening in 23 seconds previously, now seems to be up to 28 seconds). I have skipped a few updates though and I guess the test depends on a lot of other factors. Now that we have separate XMLs, what might speed things up a bit is making BigBox read only the Main Platform xml on startup, and then reading other platforms on demand after you select them. Or even better, continue to load them on background after the Main Platform wheel is initiated.

Is there any way to know the filename of a particular game on Big Box? Maybe a way to add it to the "details" part? This is really useful in some situations where you have duplicate games. If you import your MAME collection for example, even with the LightSpeed Mame Importer and its tons of additional metadata, some clones are bound to have pretty much the same metadata value for all fields and there's no way to know which is which. If there's no way, the solution might be creating a tool for adding the filename as a custom field for every game. Launchbox Annotator tool does that IIRC, but only if you choose to bulk rename all your titles, which I don't want to. Edit: somewhat related, is there any way to show the "Version" field on Big Box game details? That could help.

Hi guys. I just purchased my license after watching this video: This view is what sold me on the frontend. However, after importing my collection, it seems that this particular view runs very slow on my PC. The framerate drops considerably, to a point where scrolling becomes very sluggish and nowhere near as fast as on the video example (I'm guessing it goes little bit below 30fps). I even tested with smaller collections, or collections that don't have any images, but even just scrolling the same default missing boxart image (the launchbox logo thing) over and over still makes it just as slow as if there are actual boxarts there. I'm running Windows 7 on an I5-2450m (2.50GHZ) cpu, 8GB of RAM, with a GT 650m gpu. I've tried setting the image cache size up the maximum value (4gbs) to see if it helps, but no dice. Any suggestions?