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Oh, so there is a horizontal one? That is what I was asking.

I'm not sure if I've been understood. Horizontal games are not in the vertical playlist - that makes sense of course! I'm presuming that the vertical playlist is a list of all the MAME games that used a vertical monitor orientation. I would also like a similar list but for horizontal games. Why would you have one without the other?

Also looking for the Genesis/Megadrive 3D box template.

It seems that some thumbnails aren't generating properly in the latest beta:

MAME playlist for vertical games, woo! More importantly, will it make one for horizontal ones too?

Good stuff. The "maximise" option in the top right doesn't seem to work properly; when pressed, it maximises too much so that the bottom of the Launchbox window is off the screen.

What's the best source for these kind of components currently?

Thanks @bundangdon - I'll look into that when back home. Is there a reason that those 2 things aren't set as defaults in the default theme?

Hmm...."open image folder" seems to be missing from the context menu when in the image section of the edit game menu? I think it used to be there, and would be a helpful thing to have. Another issue; I don't know if anyone else notices this, but the green border around a selected game in the main window is very thin, and sometimes it's difficult to see from that window which game is selected. It might be helpful to make this border a bit thicker. Also, when auditing the arcade platform, there are many image types listed, but perhaps the most important one - advertisement flyer - is missing. Another potential bug - when selecting a number of games in the Aracade platform, and bulk downloading the advertisement flyer - front images, they don't all seem to download. If I go into one of those games manually, then I can download it and it appears.

I just deleted all Arcade videos and am scraping Emumovies again in LB, selecting only "very high quality" videos, and so far no issues with any black bars. If I find any, MP3tag should do the trick.

That seems to work, for some. I think many of the videos have the black bars as part of the actual video though.... However, it does seem like Emumovies now has some updated videos, so maybe emptying the Arcade video folder, doing a fresh grab from Emumovies and then removing all covers in bulk with MP3tag is the way to go!

Is this what you meant @Retro808 and @Mr. RetroLust ? If so, could you suggest any third-party tools? Does it still apply to my use case as outlined above - the black bars do not appear in VLC?

Hmm...I thought I had fixed the "black bars at the sides of the video" issue by setting Previewbackground to "transparent" - that seemed to work and bars at the sides disappeared. Now I am noticing that for some video snaps, there are black bars at the top and bottom. When I open the video in VLC, these don't seem to be present, so I don't think they're part of the video. Is there another setting in the XML that needs to be changed to get rid of these bars?

@dreamy - you had asked about the release date also, hence my reply. The source field does seem to be missing, but I suppose you could add it to the view manually if you know what you're doing. But it may just be an oversight on @faeran's part and might be fixable.

@dreamy I can see the release date at the top in your screenshot. The view could be edited to move it down next to the other data if necessary. @faeran - does it make sense to have the "overview" tab heading when there are no other tabs present? Obviously when other tabs are present it does, but when they are not then it may be better to remove it as it seems a bit redundant

I just noticed that some of the thumbnails in the carousel seem to be very low quality/resolution. For example: You can see that the thumbnail for this screenshot is very blurry, but the actual image is fine. Is this expected? If so, could the resolution of the thumbnails be increased somewhat?

Yes, you cannot edit the default theme, and so you need to make a copy of it and switch the theme to that in the Launchbox settings. The only problem with this is that you won't see any updates to the theme (i.e. with new Launchbox releases) unless you're using the default theme.

Thanks @C-Beats - just double-clicking is a bit easier and quicker. But I can live with the above!

@faeran understood - it was just an issue raised by @Mr. RetroLust and myself. My view would be that the PreviewBackground property should be transparent by default in order to not have those black bars appearing, but I'm not a coder and maybe I'm missing something! Regarding the fonts, you can change the colours in the Launchbox menu but I was referring to having custom metadata a different colour to the rest, which requires the xaml to be edited. Edit: obviously I'm missing something, as changing the PreviewBackground="Black" to a different colour doesn't make any difference to the black bars. Also, it's not possible to edit the xaml to increase the margin above the carousel thumbnails? Yes, this works, thanks! It would be nice if double-clicking in image in the carousel caused it to go full-screen (rather than having to move the mouse to the image window and double-clicking there).

Thanks @faeran, but the black bar issue seems to still be there with Beta 5.

Great to see that the game details view is being progressed @faeran! I see that you haven't gone as far as the fully tabbed approach that you used in your own theme, though instead have a kind of hybrid model where you separate the MAME high scores into a separate tab, but have the images as a carousel. I quite like the underlined game details and the left/right justification - much clearer. You know me however - some feedback on the new game details pane: I would echo what @Kevin_Flynn mentioned (and what I had spoken to you about regarding your own theme) - having an image appear behind the game title/platform/release date and video/screenshot area makes it look too busy and cluttered. The text no longer pops like it should; I actually missed the "overview" and "high scores" tabs for a while because of this. I would either add a lot more fade to the image, or remove it altogether As @Mr. RetroLust mentioned, the black bars on the sides of the videos that are not the expected aspect ratio need to be removed. Also, this problem exists for screenshots too (both vertical and horizontal screenshots). I would add a bit more space between the image carousel and the main video/image display area - they currently visually blend into each other due to a lack of separation, reducing the impact of both. I would also go further than this and separate the two altogether, as mentioned below. This is maybe more related to Launchbox than your theme (and is perhaps something I have mentioned before), but it would be nice if all game images appeared in the image carousel, not just screenshots and the front box Given that you've implemented a tabbed approach for the High Scores, I can't help but think that it would be slicker to add the images into their own tab rather than have the carousel where it is. I hope you find this feedback useful! PS. I managed to remove the background image (and also the rectangle behind it) by editing the xaml, though can't seem to find any reference to the items within the carousel other than its overall margins and scroll bars (lines 347 to 443) - is it not possible to increase the margin above the carousel thumbnails by editing this view? PPS. Here's what it looks like with the background image removed, as an example. I have also made a few other modifications: Background image and background image border removed Font size of game title increased a little Platform and release year greyed slightly to make the title pop Custom metadata appears in a different colour to standard metadata; everything in the same colour looks a bit like one long list. I went for orange to match the rating star colour.