[Games disappearing from launchbox]

Hi all,

Has anyone else had this problem, you start launchbox and some games are missing?

I had it with some Mega Drive games a year or two ago and now today when we fired up launchbox to play some Super Mario 3D world, the game is not in the list of Switch games anymore.

I store all my games on a nas, in the 7zip format an extract then before playing.

Checking the folder on the nas and the game is still there.

In launchbox I tried scanning for now roms, but the game isn't added back. I then renamed the file and added it, no problem. The I renamed it back and scanned for removed roms, after that scanned of now roms but the game isn't added back to launchbox.

Any ideas to what's going on?

[Sorting MAME roms]

Hi,

Anyone know of a script/app that can sort MAME/FBA roms into folders based on the arcade system there from?

[Wrong tab]

Hi,

Is there a way to cancel a submission to the database?

I was updating some games, and clicked on the wrong tab, added info for the wrong game and clicked submit before noticing what I had done.

[January 2022 Server Updates]

I just wanted to know, how long have the servers been in the Netherlands before the move to the US?

[New Fields]

As proghodet said, https://howlongtobeat.com/ would be great. Maybe a howlongtobeat game-id field so the info can be scraped straight from them. It's nice to know before starting a new game if it's going to take 5h or 50h to complete.

My kodi skin surprised me when Halloween came around and it suggested spooky films and tv episodes. And then at Christmas it suggested family/christmas films. I really like the idea and think a field with this kind of information (mode/style) would be great so a bigbox theme can suggest games based off of this.

But most of all, I would like to see more rating systems added to the database. ESRB is great but I'd like to see PEGI added as I’m from Europe and this is what's used on games that I buy. And as I have a big Japanese only game collection, CERO is the only rating system used for those games. So having multiple ratings for all games and then in launchbox/bigbox having a priorities order just like for media, so for example I would have PEGI then ESRB and last CERO.
(more/all rating systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_content_rating_system#Comparison_table)

 

 

[Theme development questions, where to post them?]

Thanks, I'll do that

[Theme development questions, where to post them?]

Hi,

I'm working on a theme in the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and I'm a bit stuck. Where would be the best place to post my questions?

[Starting The Game]

Starting The Game

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This is my first startup theme that I’ve work on. I use Viking's COLORFUL Theme Dark for my Launchbox setup and I wanted a startup theme that uses the same colours, so I made this.

Features:
Big system logo on the left side
Developers logo in the bottom right corner
Load-bar and background uses the same colour as “COLORFUL platform video set”

Install:
Unzip the “StartingTheGame-Dark.zip” to your “..\Lunchbox\StartupThemes\“ folder. In Launchbox/BigBog select StartingTheGame-Dark as your startup theme and your good to go.

Updating:
If you are using 1.0 or 1.01 please close launchbox/bigbox. Delete the startup theme and install the new one. On future release it should be fine to just extract and replace

Platforms:

Spoiler

3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Amstrad GX4000
Amstrad CPC
Android
Apple II
Apple II GS
Apple iOS
Apple Macintosh
Arcade
Atari 800 *
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari Falcom *
Atari Jaguar CD
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
Atari ST
Atari XE Video Game System *
Bandai Sufami Turbo *
BBC Micro *
Benesse Pocket Challenge V2 *
Capcom Play System
Capcom Play System II
Capcom Play System III
Cave
ColecoVision
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga CD32
Commodore Amiga
Commodore Amiga 500
Commodore Amiga 600
Commodore Amiga 1200
Commodore CDTV
Daphne
Dragon 32 *
Fairchild Channel F
FM Towns *
FM Towns Marty
GCE Vectrex
Lutro *
Magnavox Odyssey 2
MAME
Mattel Intellivision
Microsoft MSX
Microsoft MSX Turbo *
Microsoft MSX2
Microsoft MSX2+
Microsoft Xbox 360
Microsoft Xbox One
Microsoft Xbox
MS-DOS Shutdown
NEC PC88 *
NEC PC98 *
NEC PC Engine
NEC PC Engine-CD
NEC PC-FX
NEC TurboGrafx-16
NEC TurboGrafx-CD
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64DD
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Famicom Disk System
Nintendo Famicom
Nintendo Game & Watch
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Color
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo Pokemon Mini
Nintendo Satellaview
Nintendo Super Game Boy
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii U
Nintendo WiiWare Shutdown
Othello Multivision *
PC Engine SuperGrafx
Philips CD-i
Philips Videopac
SAM Coupé *
Sammy Atomiswave *
ScummVM *
Sega 32X
Sega 32X (PAL)
Sega Alls *
Sega CD
Sega Chihiro
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis
Sega Hikaru
Sega Lindbergh
Sega Master System
Sega Mega CD (JP)
Sega Mega CD (PAL)
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Naomi
Sega Naomi 2
Sega Naomi GD-Rom
Sega Nu *
Sega Saturn
Sega SG-1000
Sega Super 32X
Sega RingEdge *
Sega RingEdge 2 *
Sega RingWide *
Sega Triforce *
Sharp X1
Sharp X68000 *
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Sinclair ZX81 *
SNK Neo Geo AES
SNK Neo Geo CD
SNK Neo Geo MVS
SNK Neo Geo Pocket
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
Sony Playstation
Sony Playstation 2
Sony Playstation 3
Sony Playstation 4
Sony Playstation Vita
Sony PocketStation
Sony PSP
Super Famicom
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (PAL)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System MSU1
Taito Type X
Taito Type X2
Texas Instruments TI-99 *
Triforce *
TRS-80 *
Watara Supervision *
Windows
Windows 3X
Windows 9X
WonderSwan Color
WonderSwan

* Uses the default colour, will be updated once it's added to the COLORFUL platform video set.

Todo:
Add more Dev logos. About 200 logos so far, so there's a long way to go.
Add more System unique startups.

Versions:
StartingTheGame-Dark.zip and StartingTheGame-Dark-NoLogo.zip are both meant for 16:9 screens. The NoLogo version has the clearlogo removed. And then there's the StartingTheGame-Dark-16-10, us this one if you are using a 16:10 screen.

Thanks:
@viking for his fantastic COLORFUL platform video set and COLORFUL bigbox theme
@Fry for helping me when I got stuck with the xaml coding
And everyone contributing to the COLORFUL platform video set

 

Please feel free to leave any comments or questions below.

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• Submitter
  Hazuki
• Submitted
  09/09/2021
• Category
  Startup Themes

 

[XAML Tips and Tricks]

Thank you Fry. So really its better if I just use values that match my resolution and have all images downscale from 4k. That actually makes it easier.

designHeight and designWidth, yee I should have figured that out, its in the name. ?

Anyway Thanks you so much

[XAML Tips and Tricks]

Hi all,

Yesterday I tried some xaml for the first time. I started working on a StartupTheme.
All was going fine so today I restarted from scratch and decided to up the resolution to 4K, I'm on a 1080 screen but why not make it in a higher resolution, if anyone ells wants to use it.

Anyway I set the res:
 

mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="3840" d:DesignHeight="2160" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"

And I have 3 rows and 3 column.
Now if I set them like this that don't scale to my resolution and I can only see the top left corner of the theme.

<Grid.RowDefinitions>
   <RowDefinition Height="371" />
   <RowDefinition Height="1418" />
   <RowDefinition Height="371" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
   <ColumnDefinition Width="920" />
   <ColumnDefinition Width="2000" />
   <ColumnDefinition Width="920" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

If I add a * to the values it scales fine but the images don't.

I've got an image with MaxWidth="2000" MaxHeight="1418" that goes in Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"
and then I want to add the fanart above that image:

<Image Source="{Binding BackgroundImagePath}" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" Stretch="Uniform" Margin="0,50,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Top" MaxWidth="1900" MaxHeight="1069" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Canvas.ZIndex="1"></Image>

The MaxWidth, MaxHeight and Margin now seam to be base off of my screen resolution of 1080 and not the 4K I was planing for. If I half the values of MaxWidth, MaxHeight and Margin, The fanart will be where I want it. But if I then remove the * from the Columns and Row, and try it the fanart is way to small.

So what I want to know if there is a way to make the MaxWidth, MaxHeight and Margin be in relation to the d:DesignWidth and d:DesignHeight??

Sorry for the long question and thanks for any help

[The LaunchBox 2021 Community Poll]

Just wanted to ask how the suggested games/recommended games would work.

Are they just from the same series? So if I play Super Mario Bros, launchbox recommends Super Mario Bros 2 & 3.

Or will this be based off of what others that played the game also played?

Or is this downloaded from the database? So users submit recommended games for each game?

[Retool: a 1G1R tool for Redump and No-Intro]

Thanks for the reply. That explains why I couldn't find the it. ?

My last 1G1R app deleted "Super Mario Bros. (World)" from the No-Intro nes dat and saved "Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt (USA)" and "Super Mario Bros. + Tetris + Nintendo World Cup (Europe) (Rev 1)"

So that's where I started my testing of Retool.
And the Retool dat saves all 3:
Super Mario Bros. (World)
Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt (USA)
Super Mario Bros. + Tetris + Nintendo World Cup (Europe) (Rev 1)

For me this is a much better option as deleting a game or two from my NAS is a lot less of a hassle then adding them.

Anyway time to head over to github and read through the change logs.

[Retool: a 1G1R tool for Redump and No-Intro]

Hi,

First off, fantastic tool. Have just been trying it out and I'll be switching to this for my previous 1G1R tool. Thanks you for this

Just one little question. I can't find any option for the "Compilations with no unique titles". Am I missing something or is this something I'll add as a Custom golbal/system filter?

[Adult filter? Parental stuff?]

I just wanted to say that I also want this feature. I like playing games like Resident Evil or Silent Hill, but I would prefer to be able to filter out those games until I enter my pin or confirm that it's me using BigBox.

This may never happen, and there may be other stuff that's more important to the majority of people, but if it's added I would be grateful.

[A little question about the Rating Systems]

I did not know that you could add your own rating system, thanks for letting me know. I'll be checking that out. I’d still like to see other rating systems added to the database as Japanese only games only have a CERO rating.

[A little question about the Rating Systems]

Hi all,

I just wanted to ask if there’s going to be other then North American (ESRB) rating systems added.

I’m European so for me I’d like to have PEGI as me primary rating system. But I also have a lot of Japanese only games, so CERO is of interest for me.

Checking with Wikipedia there are a lot of rating systems and maybe people like me want their local rating system if possible.

I voted on this a long time ago, but the "enhancement" is from 2016, so now 5 years later I just wanted to ask if this is going to be a thing or not.

Anyway if anyone else is interested in this, it would be nice to know. And if anyone knows if this is something that will be added or not, it would be also nice to know

[COLORFUL resources]

13 hours ago, clockw3rk said:

I'm testing the new MSX, MSX2 and Pokemon Mini platform videos, and there seems to be a mismatch between the background colors. Any suggestions to fix that?

It looks like these platforms haven't been added to the theme yet. You can do it yourself if you like, but keep in mind that when the theme is updated any changes you've made will be gone.

Anyway if you want to add them, navigate to:
LaunchBox\Themes\COLORFUL - Light\Plugins\Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_7a\AssemblyConfig

There you'll find 2 files that can be edited in any text editor.
Open Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_7a.dll.config and add the platform names.

<add key="Platform.MICROSOFT_MSX2" value="Microsoft_MSX2" />
<add key="Platform.NINTENDO_POKEMON_MINI" value="Nintendo_Pokemon_Mini" />

And in Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_7a-Colors.dll.config add the colour values

<add key="Platform.MICROSOFT_MSX2" value="#3547a1" />
<add key="Platform.NINTENDO_POKEMON_MINI" value="#36416e" />

I think MSX is already added, but with no value, so you only need to add the value for that one.

I've got my main games collection on another computer, so I haven't checked if the colour values for the platforms are correct. May be a bit off.

Hope this helped

 

[COLORFUL resources]

Hi all,

Hope you all are doing well

Viking, Any chance you can share the after effects (aep) file for the PreComp_Multi_Gameplay from Category_Playlist or Category_Favorite?
None of the videos needed just the project file.

Im making some playlist videos and 2 of the screens in my video seem a little off. Would be helpful to be able to compare them with the once in your project, if possible

[COLORFUL resources]

10 hours ago, viking said:

Here, the shadow cannot be generated by the DropShadow tool. You have to paint it imagining how the shadow will naturally arise. Or a can near.
Create an empty layer below and use the brush tool, giving it a very squashed oval shape and 25% opacity. Then paint the shadow. Don't hesitate to make plenty of layers for each area or effect. When you are satisfied, collapse all your shadow layers in one.

Thank you viking. This is just what I needed. I gave it a little try and it will take my some time to master, but I think it will look good once it’s done. I also found the GameCube resource files helpful.

Seeing the settings you use really helped a lot.

I’m a been under the weather at the moment, so I want be working on anything until I’m better, but once I have something new I'll post it here

Once again thank you

[COLORFUL resources]

Hi all,

Okey so I moved this to the right thread. Sorry about that.
Anyway Im working on 3 systems. Atari Jaguar CD, Casio Loopy and Sony PS Vita.

Im not really that good with photoshop (or any photo editing software), but I'll give a try.

Im not sure about the drop shadow on the Atari and Casio, so any advice or tips and tricks would be helpful.

And for the vita I'm looking for a better system image, but overall im happy with it.

Once the shadows are done I'll move on to adding some accessories.

[Silver Ring - ClearLogo Set]

it's been awhile since I've used Photoshop, but it was fun. Hope you like them

[9.8-beta-1 Released]

On 5/20/2019 at 6:22 PM, Jason Carr said:

Disc swapping is available on the pause screen, but it is still dependent on the emulator supporting it, and being configured properly for it. I haven't added explicit support for unzipping multi-disc games, so I don't expect that would work. I'll probably put a better solution for all of that on the next community poll.

Thank you for replay. Now i know that it's in the pipeline

[9.8-beta-1 Released]

Hi all. Haven't tried the new beta, but just wanted to ask. Is the disc swap accessible from the pause screen? And if yes, can I select a disc that is in 7zip and have launchbox unpack before exiting the pause screen?