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    Genre video and clear logos

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Just now, neil9000 said:

    You can just create a auto populated playlist for the genres, then they will show in with playlists and you can add art/videos.

    Good tip, and probably the best option. But then, what's the point of having a Genre View at all? :)

    Genre video and clear logos

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by proghodet

    I can't even change the view in my View Genres to display clear logos, banners or whatever, so I don't think so. I don't want to use playlists to display genres. In my mind they are separate, even though many uses playlists for that. 

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    Genre video and clear logos

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Is there a way to add a genre video, and a clear logo? As of now, my genre view seems very dull, but I would love to have a logo and a video for each genre, much like the playlist view, or the platform view. Tried adding a folder called genres, and adding a clear logo image for a genre, but no luck :)

    Flash Games in BigBox mode

    in Noobs

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Scriven said:

    Thanks for the tutorial. I am been doing some research on how to generate screenshots of the title screens. Didn't have much success yet but there seems to be a way with a tool called swfrenderer. Maybe we could get this to work to add at least some screenshots.

    For any screenshots on pc I always use lightshot. (https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html)

    Just press print screen on your keyboard, select what you want to screenshot, and press ctrl+s to save it as a png :)

    I'm happy I could help!

    Flash Games in BigBox mode

    in Noobs

    Posted · Edited by proghodet

    Ah, my bad, I should have tested it :)
    Below the second line, add "return"

    So all put together: 

    sleep, 500
send {CTRL DOWN}{f}{CTRL UP}
return

esc::
{
 Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}
}

     

    Web Browser platform

    in Contributions

    Posted · Edited by proghodet

    Stumbled upon the Web Browser platform, and saw multiple Flash games there. Should those actually be two different platforms? As we know Flash used to reign supreme in the browsers, but are not really that popular anymore. When end-users stop using it completely, you'll have to use an offline player in order to play flash-games on your computer, while games written in javascript will be compatible with any browser for a long time to come.

    On the other hand, it may prove a high task to expect the db contributors to know the difference between a game created using flash, or written in javascript.

    Flash Games in BigBox mode

    in Noobs

    Posted · Edited by proghodet

    First, download the Flash Player Projector from this page (scroll down a bit, to the Windows section)
    https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html

    In LaunchBox, go to Manage Emulators, click "Add...". Give it a name, and browse to the .exe file

    image.thumb.png.f844c24efb2bf75ad2950222a25df6b7.pngIn Associated Platforms you can set it to Adobe Flash. Edit: Actually, set it to Web Browser :)
    image.thumb.png.15e85f52c50d688b92e7cd68e1d08444.pngIn order to get it to start up full screen i added a short AHK-script, like this:
    image.thumb.png.9cc127972cc36ad44504d8391eb38654.pngAfter that, just press Ok and Close.

    Import your flash games as you would with any other emulator. Be sure to check that you have only included .swf files, at the last stage of importing.
    As far as I know, none of these games in the LaunchBox database, so you'll have to add most of the information manually. If you do, consider adding it to the database as well so other users can benefit from it.

    If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

    Edit: After writing the post I saw that some flash games have indeed been added to the database, but as "Web Browser" games, not Flash games.

    Getting 3DNES to Launch individual games

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Sure, it takes an initial effort to get done. If you focus on one system at a time, and just keep checking that everything works while you're setting up, it shouldn't be too overwhelming. Also, do more copying than cutting of files initially, so you don't break anything by accident. That way, you can always go back to the working copy. Regarding save games, I have all mine pointed to a cloud drive (google drive), which syncs with my phone.

    You can copy your whole launchbox to another directory entirely, and have seperate installs for LaunchBox, which is very nice if you want to experiment or learn how things work without the risk of messing up your main installation :)

    Getting 3DNES to Launch individual games

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    With my LaunchBox setup I try to work together with the system, rather than trying to re-invent the wheel, so i keep the emulators inside the emulators folder, all games within their respective systems folder within the Games folder, and so on. Having everything self-contained within the LaunchBox folder also helps if you ever want to make it portable :)

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