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Is there any way currently to lauch a particular game NOT from the gui?
I run home automation software, 'smart' stuff etc, and I would really love a way to, for example, have a particular game lauch when I get up on a weekend day, or when i get home from work on a weekday.
a rest api is the usual method for this, but i could see how a plugin might also work here.
have I missed something already available in LB/BB?
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just to put this thread to bed, I've had bigbox running now for around 24hrs with VLC backend and default theme. No memory leaks, no problems.
as of this date, 10.x and the 'Refaktor' theme are not stable together!
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i've studied the theme manager are of bigbox, I have Refaktor in the 'installed' list, and not in the 'available' list, so yes it is highly likely i installed it from the forum and forgot! sorry Jason my bad :-s
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oh dear. it's just gone down on me again, with VLC and Default Theme. I'll do some checking of the system and pull some logs together.
Cheers Jason
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understood.
Is the reason Refaktor is available to me in themes manager because i'm accepting beta updates of the software then?
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nice one @Jason Carr , top quality info!
BigBox has just gone down as I write - a lot quicker than usual, no doubt thanks to WMP! I'll switch to VLC and default theme, and see how we go.
Can you advise on any 10.0 fully compatible themes? I don't see anywhere in the theme manager relating to compatibility (other than the updates section, but that isn't quite the same...). I've become spoiled, and used to using BigBox daily with the fantastic community themes!
ps thanks so much for the continuing work you put into LB - i'm a <5.x user, and love how the app has stayed relevant and grown whilst keeping the community engaged and heard. with the feature polls etc. Closed source at its best :-)
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Hehe I'm using a combination of skins - Refaktor as the main menu, mostly retrotastic for platforms, with unified on a couple of platforms. I've been with this skin combo throughout the 10.x beta program without issues, but am happy to test with default if you think the the themeing may be responsible.
As i was already on VLC, i've switched back to WMP to see if there's any difference - i'll keep an eye on the memory usage...
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thanks @Jason Carr for the response - I will check which video system i'm running - hopefully it'll be the issue you're already aware of. i'm running W7 as my OS though; the problem may not be limited to W10 as you suspect!
Edit - i'm already running VLC as the video backend ? is there anywhere else in Launchbox that VLC/WMP can be switched out which i may have missed?
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upgraded to 10.0 yesterday (shortly followed by 10.1) and I get a massive memory leak after about half an hour running BigBox, filling up my physical ram, causing system unresponsiveness. i have to kill BigBox to get back to normal. All was well even with beta versions up to this release...
1. Is this a known bug?
2. is there a clear/simple method to downgrade to an earlier version, maintaining all settings etc?
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30 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
I agree that it would be best add it in (the drop downs for the filter values). It's on my list already, but I'll see if I can move it up a bit.
Brilliant. Thankyou :-)
37 minutes ago, alnyden said:Once there is the option of different views, there will be more motivation to solve the problem of creating the artwork
Yes Yes. If you build it, they will come...
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thanks @Jason Carr for giving this thought. I can't tell you how safisying/impressive it is to know that the developer cares about the users and community to actually be active in the community!
i agree that the lack of images/banners etc may make the initial layouts of these views quite sparse. i've been making images for some niche platforms/playlists (super scope/menacer titles for example thanks to a recent purchase of aimtrak guns) and had committed to the idea of doing more of these banners for developer and genre. maybe other community members would help in filling the void. i accept that would likely be a slow process.
another thought however - how simple would it be to have the 'value' field in playlists and filter autocomplete, or have a drop down menu of all the options?
currently i have to back out of the playlist maker to check the syntax of genre/play mode values, before entering them. it's pretty tedious, and as you say anyway making playlists for every value would be impractical.
however, with autofilled entries/drop down menu in the filter field for 'value', i could dynamically choose what to filter very simply indeed - with no extra theming, playlist making or icon making at all!
the live filter view seems to be a very powerful tool indeed after spending more time with it since posting this - but not knowing whether a game is genre'd 'sport' or 'sports' or 'sport game' makes the value entry process very hit and miss. a drop down menu there would be amazing the more i think about it!
thanks for making a great front end!
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thanks @Jason Carr for pointing me to playlists. i've had a play for a while and wonder if i'm missing something though...
take genre as an example. the main menu 'show genres' presents a list of the individual genres, of which there may be multiple similar - driving, driving sim, racer etc - and let's say a total of 50 genres. would i have to create a playlist for every genre to get it listed in the main platform list? would i have to do the same with developer/publisher?
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discussed here:
and a little here:
Is it possible to theme the alternate views present in the main menu? Genres, Play Mode, Developers, Publishers, etc? Only the default text-list view is available. I've looked through a few themes' folders and there are never any xaml files for these views.
I've been setting up a 4 player cab running BigBox in a busy-ish area in the house, and it's getting some action :-) For would-be players not familiar with the esoteric platform names though, they often stick to the big name systems. I've found that going in via play mode and picking (for example) two player simultaneous, or going in via the genre list and picking, say, a racer or fighter brings up a list of titles not limited to particular platforms :-) It seems good to be more game-focussed plus it's cool to have access to all the ports of a game next to eachother. PSX/DC/N64 Tony Hawks Shootout anyone?! Anyway, Delving in to the library via these 'other' menu lists have given me access to, and i've ended up playing, titles i may never have got around to using the platform view.
But the platform view looks beautiful. @CriticalCid your Unified Theme is smoooooth. It feels a shame that when such deep access to the library is only accessible via the practical yet uninspiring text-list layout, so many themers great work is sat there ready to rock!
@Jason CarrDo these menus work differently in a way that prevent them having alternate view layouts?
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@neil9000 thanks for the info.
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i may have missed the feature so thought it best to ask.
is there a way, whilst scrolling through a platform list or playlist, to simply favourite a title, without having to go into game details, up/down to favourite, select, then back out to the list
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thanks for all the info everyone :-)
@SentaiBrad - Wii, PS2 & Gamecube games play smooth as butter off the network. I wouldn't compromise the launchbox experience ;-) if you consider the technical limits of CD and DVD media, even reasonably well set up wifi will wipe the floor with optical media in terms of bandwidth and (especially) access times.
I can only fit one drive in the PC case, so I need to get it right. I use this case:
http://www.antec.com/product.php?fid=5022033&id=706714&lan=nz
the drive needs to be an ssd because of the lack of mechanical noise. the Launchbox PC is currently 0dB, and i like it that way!
It seems like the file sizes are pretty small for these videos - @wize - nearly 12,000 game videos under 60 gig? nice!
@DOS76 - considering 12meg as a 'big' video file (excluding HD) gives me something good to work with; thanks.
on the subject of pesky relatives hogging your precious gaming bandwidth, I have found DDWRT and QOS very useful ;-)
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Thanks@DOS76
Yeah I know that total video collections size will be proportional to game collection size ;-)
Your 55gb of vids, would you guess you're in the hundreds, or thousands of videos?
I guess my question really is:
What's the average file size of video, and what's the average number of videos per rom.
I want to upgrade to a drive which will be capable of holding all the videos (available) for all the platforms I use.
Thanks again for the response.
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My launchbox PC is pretty much a thin client. silent, small, and lean
I run all my roms off the network, and even big isos work pretty well.
I keep all images, banners etc on the PC running launchbox becasue I want them to cache quickly. They don't take up too much space, and my 120gb SSD has plenty (ish) of room left.
I haven't got space in the PC for a second drive.
Upgrading the SSD to accomodate the videos is my next step, but i don't know how big to go.
Can anyone advise, roughly, how much space a given collection of videos take up? I want to pick up and install the drive before subscribing to EmuMovies, so i have no idea how big their video files are.
Running the videos off the network is also an option, but i feel like it may be a step too far... Does anyone do that sucessfully?
Thanks peeps,
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HI,
Is it possible to lock BigBox, but still be able to add favourites?
Locking BigBox is a great way to prevent exiting to desktop, or someone accidentally shutting down the pc, and so I use it permanently. i see it as a shame however that when i find a new game and want to favourite it, i have to exit to big box menu, unlock, enter the pin, go back to the game, favourite it, then lock big box again. Quite a large number of steps!
if i've missed something and the feature is currently possible, please let me know!
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CXBX Reloaded - Help using "Extract ROM from Archive" feature
in Emulation
Posted · Edited by danpow
FYI the Archive Cache Manager almost works for CXBX Reloaded.
When extracting and playing, you invariably get an xbe header error on emulator launch. However, if then you choose 'select rom in archive', and choose the 'default.xbe' file, it all runs fine.
when setting the plugin up and adding CXBXR to the list of supported platforms, I tried adding 'default.xbe', rather than simply '.xbe' as a priority file extension. Reason being there are other .xbe files extracted from the archive, I wondered if it was simply picking the first one and failing. This hasn't helped.
Thanks @fraganator for the plugin - do you have any idea what might be going on here?