neil9000

Was about to ask the same.

Actually that issue has been seen by some other users as well and is being investigated, it does seem to be a uncommon issue, but i have personally seen it myself as well.

I dont know what to tell you both, my performance is just fine, and i have lower specs than you both and have a bigger library of around 15,000 games, here is a quick video i just made showing my performance. Launchbox demo.mp4

Your patience will be rewarded.

It is being worked on behind the scenes, i can absolutely 100% say that a new version is being worked on.

Awesome, im pleased you are finding it to your liking so far with your limited testing. As you say there are great tutorials on our youtube channel, and if those still leave you with some issues or niggles just post here on the forums and someone will try to help you out and solve whatever the issue is.

You probably have the old installers in your Launchbox/Updates folder, just run one over the top of your current install. You will of course lose all the excellent new features added. This issue seems to be strictly tied to you though. As @Lordmonkus said above the new interface has been in beta for months at this point and know-one ever came forward in the beta phase with issues you are describing, in fact you are the only person to mention these issues since the official release was launched also. The new interface is a lot faster than the old one, so the fact that you are saying it is much slower just makes no sense to me at all, all the feedback we have had during the beta period was positive, of course there were issues here and there with bugs and crashes and such, but of course that is why we beta test, i don't recall anyone ever say it was slower than the old interface. For me though personalty i have been using the new interface as my primary driver for months now as it is just a quicker more attractive interface in my opinion.

Those specs should run Launchbox just fine. These are my specs i5 3570k 16GB DDR3 GTX 1060 6GB I have around 15,000 games in my Launchbox and performance is great for me, no issues at all.

That sounds like a issue on your end, i dont ever recall anyone else mentioning that issue before and i certainly have never seen it myself.

lol, no probs.

You sure you havent installed it to the wrong folder? I bet you now have a Launchbox folder inside your Launchbox folder, you need to install it a level higher.

Yeah, you just want the cityhunter folder, move it out of the cityhunter_2_.(theme.......folder to be in the themes folder.

Are you sure you unzipped it correctly and dont have a cityhunter folder inside the cityhunter folder?

Awesome, looks great @Grila i cant wait to check it out.

Yes.

They are added to the parent rom in the right click menu.

So what you would do is import the system and uncheck all the media downloads, then once its all imported you highlite all the games and initiate the metadata and images wizard and choose the option i mentioned above and it will just grab what you are missing if it is available.

Yes, you can add your current media to the correct folders in launchbox, which would be Launchbox/Images/name of platform/name of image type or you can keep them where they are and point Launchbox at the folders, however this is tedious as you will have to do it per platform and per image type, so will take a while. The easiest way as i said is just to copy them to the appropriate folder. Same for videos, just copy them to Launchbox/Videos/name of platform. When you initiate a metadata and images update in Launchbox you will get three options of how to update that info, the middle option there is "download media but dont overight existing metadata and media" that will just grab the missing stuff and leave everything else as is.

They all use demul as the emulator,so they are not needed for a MAME importer.

Those systems do not work in MAME, that is why there are no MAME playlists for them.

Well i know nothing about making themes, so you wont ever see me there.

Jason the dev is very accommodating in that regard, if you were to purchase a license and for some reason it was performing poorly for you, then you could ask for a refund, it would of course nuke your license at the same time though.

Launchbox and Bigbox come as one program, with two .exe's one for each UI. Launchbox is what you will use for all the setup, so adding roms, adding emulators, grabbing artwork and videos etc. Then Bigbox is the controller and cabinet/TV friendly interface, you can not do any of the setup in the Bigbox mode that is strictly done in Launchbox, but Bigbox uses allof the .xml files and images and such as Launchbox. Just think of it as one program with two different UI's, one mouse driven for setup and editing, and the other uses all that information but in a attractive controller friendly format. Yes you can just sync the Launchbox folder like you currently do. (as long as everything needed is contained within the Launchbox folder of course). Your Launchbox license allows you to install on as many PC's as "you own" as you want, so you only need the one license. I cant help with that specific question, i messed with hyperspin for a day or so before i found Launchbox and never went back to it, it was just such a pain in the arse to setup, and Launchbox was a breeze so i never looked back to Hyperspin, maybe some of our users who have made the switch will chime in here at some point.

Also thats a silly question to ask here. We have a lot of former Hypersin users here who made the switch to Bigbox. I dont think you will find many people if any on this forum saying they regret making the switch.