Retrofrogg
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Lol, very poetic post. You're right of course, regarding it being impossible to play all of those games and it being more of a "compulsive completionist syndrome". You should head over to the datahoarder subreddit, or hang out in the RomVault discord - you'll see that collecting full sets for the sake of it isn't all that unusual. You can collect a large stamp collection, but you never actually use any of the stamps. Collecting for its own sake is not an unusual hobby. Me, I'm somewhere in the middle; I like to collect full sets, but I don't tend to import a new platform until the existing platforms that I have are "sorted" - i.e. everything is set up properly with the correct artwork, manuals, videos etc. And I play many of the games too -
I've noticed recently that after closing Launchbox, a Launchbox process remains active (as per the Windows 11 task manager), This persists even after putting the PC to sleep and waking again. When I try and start Launchbox I then get the message "another instance of LaunchBox or BigBox is already running".
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Interesting....looks like a vertical theme? -
I seem to be getting an error message when trying to log in to Epic Games with the latest beta:
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Well, I got it working in the meantime with some help of Viking and Neil on the Discord. I had to go to Win11 settings/system/optional features, and then remove the existing Windows Media Player legacy edition. I then had to reinstall it from the same window, and once fully reinstalled, everything worked! So hopefully that helps others.
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I installed the K-Lite Codec pack - it doesn't seem to make any difference; videos still don't play now.
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Videos are no longer playing for me in the latest beta? The video thumbnail appears in the game carousel, but the video doesn't auto-play as usual. If I press play then nothing happens. There is no sound either. Double-clicking maximises the video but it still doens't play - I just see a black screen.
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Yeah, Launchbox is still hanging. Just now it became unresonsive for about 40 seconds before working again.
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Seem to be getting some slowdowns in this latest beta. Hangs for up to 10 seconds sometimes when switching between platforms. Sometimes it hangs for longer. Didn't happen in the previous version. Edit: A restart of LB seems to have fixed it, for now. I'll keep an eye on it.
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Hi @Mock - same! It would be really nice to know what had changed/fixed it - in particular so we know if it ever comes back in the future! But in the meantime I'm enjoying stutter-free box viewing
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If I understand you correctly - yes, to edit Launchbox (as opposed to BigBox) themes you have to edit the theme .xaml files. Without any knowledge of coding it's possible to do this and to make the more straightforward changes, but there's a lot of time and trial-and-error involved! -
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There seems to be something up with some of the spine inserts (the black bits)? -
I wish! Unfortunately Dave has limited the theme creator to BigBox only - there is no equivalent for Launchbox at present. No, I just edited the .xaml files myself.
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Previously the game controller icon would show in the top right of the game details pane. In the latest beta (13.19-beta-3) and maybe previous betas, this no longer shows. Would be great to have this fixed, thanks. Running on Windows 11.
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Here is my Launchbox theme, imaginatively titled "Frogg". This is a rework of the default theme, as there were a number of things I wanted to change. See the second screenshot for a list of the changes made. Most of the changes were to the game details pane. I also removed the rounded edges from the boxes in the main grid view. The platform tree is the same. Overall I wanted to maximise the use of available screen area and show as much metadata as possible, minimising the necessity to scroll. Some scrolling is still required to view the retroachievements and related games, but for general game browsing often no scrolling is required to see the banner, images, metadata and notes. The very latest default them has returned to having the related game in a separate tab; I might update this theme at some point to incorporate that (now done with version 2 of this theme). I have an ultrawide monitor and this theme makes good use of the extra screen real estate. If your monitor isn't quite as wide you can resize the game details pane to your satisfaction. Also, I have a separate marquee screen on which the banner is displayed. That's why I kept the scratched arcade marquee aesthetic with the clear logo in the game details pane. It probably fits the theme better than the marquee anyway. A few things I'd like to change with updated versions (any help with these would be appreciated): - the height of the image preview area; videos fill the space well, though for the images it only uses around 80% of the available height. It looks OK but it's something I want to improve - I'd like to have Retroachievements in a separate tab, like "related games" has; same for MAME high scores
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