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21 minutes ago, C-Beats said:
CRT is a dying tech, which is why there are adapters being made... to help those refusing to quit it.
640x480 IS low resolution and has been for several decades.
4:3 is an aspect ratio (which is what themes target) not a resolution and IS supported just fine as you've stated.
You have several ways of accessing your LB data on another computer or monitor to make it possible to configure your machine.
I don't mind discussing the issue with you, but if you are going to be entirely unrealistic about the facts of the matter than it'd be in both of our best interest to just move on.No i don't have other computer and i other monitor.
You are not helping and not giving any useful tip. Thanks anyway, The only thing you are doing is making me realise I was right... you do hate CRT users... i'm not been unrealistic...unrealistic is thinking that you cannot fix a frontend issue on a programs pop ups that have huge blank spaces with nothing inside.
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7 minutes ago, C-Beats said:
We don't actively target such a low resolution because frankly a lot of the content just won't fit and be real legible on the majority of machines using that resolution. As many others have stated the amount of users touching resolutions THAT low are extremely small. As a business analyst I would expect you to be able to look at this objectively. We have a team of 3 and only one person actively developing LB/BB. The amount of time we can devote is a set number and any time spent on one item is time that can't be spent on others. To make the highest return on our time investment we have to take into consideration the amount of users affected by an issue as well as if there are feasible work arounds. This particular issue affects very few users, and there are several work arounds since the app is portable. I'd suggest you create a ticket on it so we can get a better understanding of how many users are affected by this issue, then can properly triage the issue from there. That being said you also have to take into consideration you're asking for development time on a hardware that is no longer in production (at least I'm unaware of any company still producing them) and will likely never be again, which alone is a pretty hard pill to swallow.
This is not true since there are themes for this resolution and aspect ratio and Big Box is fully compatible with that resolution and even lower. Production support for CRT has always been active and new hardware is been made every day to get real arcade/console resolutions on 15khz screens... transcoders, RGB mods etc.
Launchbox works perfectly well on that resolution too until you open a menu pop up, so...you are telling me that you cannot fix a HUGE pop up with dead space?... have you seen the screenshots? really?
There are no workarounds.
BTW, you can even set that "low resolution" on windows 10 with almost any current card... you don't actually need a CRT to test this. -
OK I can test whatever you may need, I can make the time to test everything and report it. I just want launchbox to be crt friendly again, this was not an issue in the past and Big Box does not have this problem... (well actually it does, but only in vertical monitors)
PS: I edited my posts a little to tone down the anger heh -
25 minutes ago, Headrush69 said:
Not to speak for Jason and the team, but it's likely just a tradeoff between designing and maintaining features for such a minority of users, not hate. Has the feature ever been submitted for the features poll?
For a set up with a CRT, i would think that most of the time it's going to be using Big Box, and LB only used for configuration. As a work around would a running VNC server on the machine and using LB through VNC be a workable and more pleasant option?
I work as a business analyst with frontend devs all the time, I know this can be fixed without any trade off for people using high resolutions. Using a VNC is not an option... why do that if I can just turn on the arcade and work everything very pleasantly? ... Bios, windows, dos, big box... everything works fine... launchbox is a complete disaster.
Come on man... almost 75% of these windows have just dead space with nothing inside... is it really necessary to make them so big? why can't they just fit inside a 640x480 resolution... i'm not asking for the devs to make it compatible with 320x240... 640x480 is very reasonable... any windows application works fine on that resolution, why can't launchbox be friendly with crt users? -
Also... this happens in ALL my 5 arcade machines ... in the vertical monitor one it's even WORST.
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5 hours ago, walter10h said:
Are you using window's scaling at all? Have you disabled high dpi for the application?
all windows options are at 100% (you can't go less than that), high dpi disabled does nothing at all, I checked launchbox for any options... oh wait, I forgot... i can't
Good look with that I guess.... -
Just look at this... why is this SO big? there is no necessity to be this big... you can't even resize it or move it... I don't even need to take pictures of the rest because ALL windows are like this... adding a new emulator? clearing your media? adding videos or images? all the same...big windows with a lot of dead space and imposible to see what you are doing... this was not broken on old versions... they started to break it in newer ones...
Please stop breaking the experience for us. This is an Arcade front end...it should be compatible with arcade resolutions / tv monitors / 15khz screens...j
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20 minutes ago, walter10h said:
My friend, there's no need for anger. Can you post pictures of your issue? I use Launchbox and BigBox on a CRT myself. I've made a couple of BigBox themes for 4:3 screens and even a startup video. There are other themes for 4:3 screens out there.
https://forums.launchbox-app.com/profile/66263-walter10h/content/?type=downloads_fileBig bot works pretty well... no issues there, the problem is launchbox, windows and pop ups are huge and most of them cannot be resized or moved around on 640x480i... you simple can't see what you are doing...even in the most important and basic options like... importing your roms, setting up emulators or downloading videos/images/themes.
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18 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said:
Just my opinion and certainly not the official opinion of Jason or any other staff but CRT users are a small percentage of users when it comes to emulation. Setting it up is a pain and finding good condition CRTs are getting more difficult with each passing day (I am glad I have the 2 I do have).
No it's not a pain, you can simply use an old video card with TV out and use 640x480i, it works right away with no issues and it takes 1 minute to set up... so no, it's not a pain at all... even if it were...there is no excuse to keep breaking the experience for crt users more and more. If big box supports 4:3 screens and low resolutions...why do they keep breaking the menues and windows on launchbox?.
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I have been backing up this project for years, payed 4 full licences... and after all these years I had to deal with the fact that Launchbox / BigBox has been forgetting about it's roots and is not CRT friendly anymore (big box is, but launchbox is not)... each "update" is a testament that this is true... on each new version something that was working on low resolutions does not work anymore and it gets impossible to work with a CRT monitor/TV.
Everytime I have to download new themes, videos, images, clean cache, or manage my big collection in anyway...even installing new versions or anything is a BIG NIGHTMARE... Launchbox menues look great and they fit perfectly on a 640x480i resolution... but god forbid you to click on any kind of menu...it will open up a window SO big and imposible to resize or even to try to move it...that it will render whatever you were trying to do futile.
You end up pressing tab, enter and hoping that you "guess" what you are doing...
Please tell me WHY the best arcade front end has forsaken CRT users with 15khz resolutions?
WHY?
PS: Sorry about my bad english.Martin.
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Thank you, most common resolution for windows on CRT monitors is 640x480 interlaced. If you use a video card with TV output sometimes it let's you use 800x600 or 1024x768, but those resolutions are a lie because the TV output in all video cards from that era will force 640x480i and scale inside those resolutions others bigger...resulting in a very horrible and difficult to read desktop, so the majority of people with CRT TV or arcade CRT will stick to 640x480 on desktop / launchbox / big box.
Btw...that television is not tiny, it is a 33" crt XD it's a monster. -
When I'm managing my collection I use launchbox instead of bigbox, the problem is that some menus, like the options for each platform are so big that they cannot enter on the screen resolution rendering them imposible to use. Is it a way to implement scrolling bars to these menus? Launchbox should try to at least fit them inside the resolution and give scroll bars to navigate them.
This is a very big problem for everyone with arcade machines using crt.
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Oh! nice, that should be on a sticky, it is a very nice trick to install a working version when you cannot get inside launchbox/bigbox! Thank you!
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OK, I think I fixed it, please someone tell me if I did right and if I should copy another thing...
I downloaded the last stable version from the website.
I installed it in another directory.
I made a copy of my current non working launchbox directory, everything but the images and videos folders...I dont have space to back up that.
I copied the new launchbox stable release over the non working launchbox directory.
I started launchbox and it seems to be working...I see all roms, images and videos but all emulators are not working.
I copied the data folder from my backup and overwrited the new launchbox copy.
I started launchbox and everything seems to be working. I think it is fixed, i-m now in an older version, 11.15...it just asked me if i wanted to update to lastest beta, i said no.
Do I need to copy anything else? Am I missing something? -
I cannot get inside launchbox or bigbox, the crash happens on loading screen and then it closes. All folders are there, I deleted some fan art folders that i never used to make space. I done this before...manually deleting media downloaded...i even did it a few days back when i discovered a lot of duplicated videos and deleted and re downloaded them .... everything was working just right until this crash happened...out of disk space... then boom...now i have plenity of space and launchbox doesnt want to start... i tried renaming some xml to xm_ but same issue... i do not know what to do. I was about to finish. how can i fix this if i cannot get inside launchbox?
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Version is beta 11.16 beta 1
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I just want to cry and die...after 4 weeks of having the Arcade turned on downloading media and all data for all the collection...it crashed at the very end when downloading media for Nintendo DS due to a out of disk space error... I just lost 4 weeks with the arcade in the middle of the room connected to the internet... kill me now.
This is the error:
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After tinkering with this for 5 hours straight... I discovered that when you create a profile for Logitech g25, you can tell the PC wheel to emulate keyboard keys instead of joystick buttons...without using any kind of third party software...just logitech gaming software. So I did this for some buttons on the shift gear, the d-pad and the buttons above and it works!
So the solution so far is creating a profile with the very old logitech gaming software and transforming all digital buttons into keyboard keys and use that for bigbox...keep the pedals and they wheel as they are since this will affect mame too and you want those analog controls. I don-t know if this solution will fix the problem for people with g27, g29, g920 etc....
Oh by they way, configure your mame to use multiple keyboards. -
Well @Jason Carr this is going from bad to worst.... now i tried to use a generic usb joystick (playstation 2 style) and the same issue...big box detects the joystick but when I try to map the buttons nothing happens...sometimes it detects a button and sometimes it does not...and when it does, it is not the button I pressed....
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Issue stilll happening on the last bigbox version.... on my logitech g25....build a cabinet to discover this issue... i'm so pissed off..
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I Just discovered something funny, If I press Pedal it takes it like ENTER, if I press button 1 it takes it like ESC.... neither of those buttons are configured on bigbox.... they are all in "none" So...the controller IS working on bigbox, but with some default configuration and I cannot seem to change it.
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Just tried to test it, it works.. I guess I'll have to use another front end...
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I said the controller is working on mame and windows...it is just big box that even recognizing it is not accepting inputs. No need to test it there.
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I created an arcade machine for racing games using a core 2 duo windows 7 pc, logitech g25, and a television with rgb... everything works perfectly... GroovyMame works fine with logitech g25, big box even detects the wheel logitech g25....but when I try to map the controller to control big box the controllers menu does nothing when i press a key to detect it... what is happening? I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate with all the patches until 2021... everything is working perfectly...it's just big box that is not wanting to cooperate.
I'm very frustrated...after all this work, getting a cabinet, fitting logitech g25 inside, making the rgb work with the tv set... the most simple thing is not working.
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Launchbox / BigBox not CRT friendly
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No, sorry no options for anything above 640x480i, 640x480p is a 31khz resolution, 800x600 and 1024x768 are also 31khz resolutions.
I cannot scale too. not an option on crtemudrivers.