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Hi, Every time I choose the type of images to let LB grab using the wizard, I ask myself the question, "Hmm, check wikipedia also? Hmm, prioritize Emumovies over Launchbox?". I don't want the result to be a zillion files, but I want something for every game possible. If you check the same type of box art for both (like Box Front), is the result that you will have twice the amount or more of image files, or that you just get Emumovies if it exists and if it doesn't you get LB images? I have no idea here. So far I have just chosen to prioritize Emumovies over Launchbox. Is it better? I guess I just assume the images from Emumovies must be better, haha, but no idea! If on your first inexperienced run of getting images, you choose every single checkbox and then later decide you only really want a couple (say gameplay screenshot and box front), can you re-run the download images wizard to just get the ones you want and it will remove all the files you got before when you chose everything? So, anyway to do a cleanup? Or would it be best to just run a command line to delete all files inside every folder recursively and run the download image wizard again to just get what you want? Lastly when choosing the menu Tools->Download Metadata and Images, does that apply to your entire collection of platforms or only the platform currently showing? Assume ALL. Thanks.

I try to stay away from installing codecs. Do you think L-Lite codec pack is safe?

add platform additional apps > Was this ever added? This is what I would really like to see. I don't see it in 6.8 unless I just don't know where to look.

I did not know about. Very interesting. But I already have Xpadder setup. so not sure I have any reason to switch?

Wondering if you got anywhere on this? It's killing me that I can't use VLC. I have a lot of video files that don't play with WMP.

Thanks Jason, I'm pretty sure that's what I chose because I simply didn't know which selection would be best. I'll remember that. Currently I fear the "Download Metadata and Images" wizard !! I dare not go there. Hahahahaha. I'm not sure what the best option is in the wizard if I have lots of images and videos already but want to add some more for new games or I simply check more image types to download. Which setting is safe in this case? Seriously, little things like this are not a big deal to me (especially since there are ways to fix it) and I'm overly impressed by forum responses. I'd rather see you focus time on making emulators and imports as easy as possible for all types of users. I'm feeling massive controller/keyboard/x-arcade pain all over the place, but I don't know if there is much you can do on the LB side. This has got to be the best 20 bucks I have ever spent!

Seems things might be ok. Same issue launching SFIV directly from RL. So maybe I just need to figure out what this particular game is doing on my Win 10 PC. I do see every time I run it that the Windows app compatibility popup comes up asking about allowing changes on startup and exit. Might be related. So I think my LB setup is actually correct and that was pretty easy to do.

I got it working! Only problem is that after exiting the game (with my usual Escape key), which also exits Rocketlauncher as expected, I come back to LB with no mouse pointer and only way I can get out of this is to use the keyboard to logoff Win 10 and then log back in. Ugh. I assume Rocketlauncher did something with the mouse and did not restore it. But I don't have that problem if I run the Taito Type X games from Hyperspin. Hmm. Anyway, I setup LB like this: - add a game with lower right + Add button. - for rom file field, browser to the game's batch file - for emulator, choose Rocketlauncher and set the same default command line parameter in associated platforms as i have for other platforms that go through RL

Hi, I have a lot of games in LB running through my RocketLauncher "emulator" and it works fine. But for the Taito Type X games (which all run fine from Hyperspin and Rocketlauncher), I have no idea how to add them to LB? Is there a simple way?

indeed it only found 1 game to import. cool. I wish it would be able to pull in the steam video since it has a checkbox for this, but that seems to never work and I have to add one manually. Launchbox should remember your Steam ID though and repopulate that part (but still allow it to be changed). Would be nice. Thanks!

So, I already imported all my Steam games in using the Steam URL and all, but now I just bought a new game and want to know the best way to just add one new game. Do I need to go through the whole import steam games process or maybe just drag and drop shortcut? Not sure what is best.

i also recently created a new platform called "Tools" and put two apps in there (one to kill Xpadder and one to start it back up). If I edit these two items they indeed show platform Tools but they only appear in Bigbox inside "Windows" so now I have a Windows with actual windows games and another duplicate Windows platform with these two tools. But inside regualr LB, they appear properly in the platforms list. Odd.

maybe this issue is similar to the issue i keep hitting where i have all my games in MAME platform but sometimes (maybe after recscraping for images) it divides them up between MAME and ARCADE!! only way i knew of to fix was to just copy all the images from the unexpected platform images folder to the expected on and then mass edit the ones in arcade to really be in mame again. so now i'm always afraid to rescrape for images when it comes to my mame games

holy smoke i think it's rebuilding the entire image cache folder again because it's climbing from a very small folder size compared to the many gigs it used to be.

ok, actually i think i got it working. after making sure priority for box front had screenshot under it AND refreshing the images, it works! sweet. initially i just couldnt understand why there would be non box front specific selections in the box front priorities since htey each have their own priorities. i think i understand how it works now.

i just tried going into options images/box front properties and moving up screenshot gameplay just under box - front. in LB i chose drop list image type "boxes", but still nothing but box art shows for games or blank games when there is no box art but there is screenshot gameplay. i find the whole art config and priorities a bit confusing.

yes i have premium. i'm not sure what should be set. almost every game i have has either a box or gameplay screenshot and each game shows this when clicking on each platform inside of Platforms view. but i have never seen it show say screenshot if a box art is missing, probably because there is what appears to be a global view in LB where as far as i can tell you have to pick one or the other.

Hi, When I use custom filters and combine multiple platform games into one single group, I have a problem in that many games have no art. In the normal platform view, I may have the Image Type set to Boxes and in some others I have it set to Screenshots. Is there any way to show the screenshot if there is no box image or vice-versa? This way I won't have artless game selections in my custom filter view. Thanks.

@polymorph77 - thank you!! that worked great and allows me to use either dpad OR the left analog. perfect! i was actually considering to not use RA anymore if I can't get my controllers working as well as I have them with Rocketlauncher and stand alone emulators. Now I just need to find out how I can set the keyboard keys to what I want so I can use controller or x-arcade. Having a terrible time trying to find this googling and yet it seems like some people must have an x-arcade setup with RA...

oh 4x is much better now that i turned on OpenGL hardware instead of default software!

found a setting 'internal GPU resolution' and set it to 4x but things were slow. then tried 2x and looks much better now.

all this time i was not going into the quick menu. found shaders now that i finally noticed that. i thought just F1 put you in the "quick" menu. so i tried the dual analog again but in there. still no luck. ha

unfortunately i did all that to no avail. i wonder if others have this issue. must be a setting somewhere causing this. dumb question, how do you set one of the shaders you mentioned?

just added a second xbox 360 usb controller and dual analog doesn't work for user 2 either. =/