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On 11/18/2023 at 1:02 AM, Taamo said:
I'm on Windows 11
I more mean as a convenience option, while it is true I can technically use virtual desktop or Windows + D for example, I often have many other programs open, not just Big Box, since I have multiple monitors and use different things. As far as I can tell, both of these options essentially minimize all the other programs and things I have open, and for virtual desktop, creates a new one with none of the things open, but I can switch between the two
Those are great options and I appreciate the suggestion, I will use them
But convenience wise it would just be great to be able to minimize the program and bring it back up as an option itself or from the taskbar with right click options, so that it doesn't effect anything else I'm doing or have running. I do not know if Big Box runs in exclusive fullscreen, but maybe a borderless fullscreen option would work for this? I'm not sure what would need to be changed for an option like that myself
Its just an option that would be great if its not a massive undertaking to create, I wouldn't know if it is or not thoughBig Box is already in a borderless fullscreen mode. Sounds like an ALT+TAB or Windows Key+TAB would work for what you are wanting to do, if all you are wanting to do is switch to another app while Big Box is running.
If instead, your request is wanting to specifically use your mouse to minimize Big Box while it's in focus, then that would be a feature request, which can be submitted in the top menu under Help & Support > Request a Feature.
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This will be fixed in the next beta.
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18 hours ago, legolas119 said:
thanks, i confirm that it works with EDGE. i have the issue with Acrobat only. But i'm absolutely sure that in the past it worked with acrobat too...i don't know it the issue appeared from a specific LB version...It is really strange...
thanks!
This would more likely be caused by a change to Windows, Acrobat, or another program that adjusted your PDF file launching settings.
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The first two things that pop into my head is:
- Make sure the manual still exists. Edit the game and check the manual path. Check file explore that the manual file is still there.
- If it is, then it could be your default PDF viewer. LaunchBox just tries to open the file and it lets Windows choose what to do with it. It's essentially the equivalent of trying to open a pdf file directly. Check your Windows pdf default app setting.
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Make sure you went through the registration process here first: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/account/register
It's a different registration process than the forums.
If you did and you still don't receive a verification email, hit the Contact Us link at the bottom of this page and reach out to support.
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14 hours ago, tuturu said:
yes so yesterday i created an account for launchbox (in the attachement , you can see that i created an account for LaunchBox community edition and did recive both of email the 5th of november, and the other launchbox mails is newsletter)
and did not recive the email in both spam and main after 1 day, and even when i reset password it doesn't show up, so please help me
It's a bit unclear what your issue is here. Are you having issues registering for an account somewhere?
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3 minutes ago, dasd said:
All other screens work just fine. Its just game gear that doesnt work at all.
That's the text games view. If you were hoping for a different view for Game Gear it probably means you have turned on in your options the ability to have separate views per-platform. Set a mapping to switch views (if you don't have one already), then when you are on the game gear view, press the switch view mapping and choose the view you are wanting to use for Sega Game Gear.
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12 hours ago, dasd said:
@faeran any ideas? my game gear platform page just doesnt take the theme correctly...
Do you have a screenshot of what that view looks like to you?
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2 minutes ago, neil9000 said:
This may sound controversial, but couldnt a game be "locked in" at the point of acceptance, and at that point need a far higher accepts to rejects to "unlock it" so to speak in order to change important aspects like platform?
Yeah, we've talked about it internally, but that requires a good amount of dev time, and then time to brew and see how it plays out. Then probably a good amount of tweaking.
That may be one direction we want to get to eventually and is definitely on the table for future revisions of the database.
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1 hour ago, neil9000 said:
Ah, good catch. Yeah ideally that would be in Arcade only, i see there is a separate entry in the AES platform as that was the home console version, so no issues there. I'm assuming the same game entry cant be in two platforms correct? so it couldn't be in MVS and Arcade at the same time, it needs to be just Arcade?
Yeah, one game one platform.
Could just manually duplicate the games between them, since it's correct for them to be in both platforms, but I don't think that's the smartest answer, but it's one the community could do in the meantime. We'll discuss internally how we can more handle this situation better so things don't just break down due to a decision made by the community.
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At first glance it looks like something may have happened to the Metal Slug game entry that used to be under the Arcade Platform. The one you are linking to @neil9000 seems to be under the SNK Neo Geo MVS platform, which would break future scraping of this game for anyone importing into the Arcade platform. It's possible someone moved the game to the different platform at some point, which would break scraping in this way.
We'll investigate this and see what the best way moving forward will be.
In the meantime, @Zodiark12, you'll need to switch the Platform to SNK Neo Geo MVS, then do the Title lookup. Once you link the game up with the ID, switch the Platform back to Arcade, and press OK.
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Based on what we are seeing with those, it looks like it's just taken that long for your change to get enough approvals. Maybe a slower month than normal, or potentially more skips than normal.
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20 hours ago, bbweiners said:
Hi Faeron,
I guess it would be nice to know both answers.
For my specific issue, it's inside of a wheel.
Thanks!
For inside of the wheel, check out CustomImageType inside of documentation.pdf
For outside of a wheel, you would use a binding like the game's title or the game database ID, and use that inside of an image binding, combined with stringformat to point towards the location of your images.
something like this:
<coverFlow:FlowImage ImagePath="{Binding ActiveGame.Title, StringFormat='LAUNCHBOX_THEME_FOLDER/Images/Games/3D Cart/{0}.png'}" />
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1 hour ago, dasd said:
Is it possible to edit this theme in the launchbox community creator?
It's not. At the time this theme was created, it wasn't possible to create themes like this inside of the CTC.
You'd have to dive into the code to edit it.
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19 minutes ago, bbweiners said:
Hi All,
I'm trying to create a theme that uses 3D Cart Images. I want to use custom ones that only the theme I'm creating uses.
What is the path necessary to place the custom images and have my theme use those images?
I've tried --
ThemeName/Images/Games/Games Cart3D
ThemeName/Images/Games/Games Cart 3D
ThemeName/Images/Games/Games Cart - 3D
I know @faeran did it with his Vision theme for fanart using
Vision/Images/Games/Games Background
It depends on what you want to use the image for. Do you want them inside of a wheel, or just displayed somewhere on the screen?
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11 hours ago, Thanatos_Prime said:
Since the updates earlier this year that randomized the moderation queue things have taken longer and longer to get moderated. I currently have several items that were submitted on 10/27 in the early morning still awaiting 3 votes. There are zero rejections on these items, but still they wait. I have plenty of other submissions since then that have been approved. It feels like some part of the process has broken down.
Are you able to provide specific examples of changes you feel are stuck in the system? We'll take a look and see what's up.
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1 hour ago, Drakorex said:
Is there any way to identify games that only came out in a specific region?
If your files are marked with a region, LaunchBox will import that data into your library, and you can filter by it in a number of ways.
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3 hours ago, Kalime said:
Such a pity, still no news on the custom playlist feature with the latest update.
do you have any ETA or idea of when you are planning to work on this feature? Many thanks for your work!
No ETA at this time, but it's on a long list of items to internally discuss and eventually tackle.
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13 hours ago, Lucoshi said:
It happened again!
Not quite again. It's still on our long list to tackle, along with other database related items to clean up. Just know that it's not as simple as removing it. Work will have to be done to make sure there's no unexpected consequences.
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1 hour ago, snarfo67 said:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but just a question about the import functionality. The only storefront I'd be likely to add would be Steam (assuming it only adds locally installed games). I also use standalone installers and just add shortcuts to Steam. For instance, the games I buy from GOG I just shortcut into Steam instead of using GOG's launcher (which I like, but it's just simpler to have one unified launcher). Would the Launchbox auto-import also grab games I've manually shortcutted into Steam? I could see how scraping errors might result if a game is an exclusive to another gamefront like Epic or whatever, but that would be easy to tweak after the import.
In your specific scenario, you would want to set up Steam in LaunchBox and make it import installed games. Then take your Windows shortcuts, or the game exes from other sources and drag/drop them into LaunchBox. Just make sure the files are named in a way LaunchBox can consume them: Game Name (other information)
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14 minutes ago, ricktn1 said:
I've not used Launchbox in a while, today I noticed premium was due for renewal several weeks past.
Now, when I go to renew today, I'm told it will run up to 13th Oct 2024, is this correct or is this an error and I'd get a full year from today?
It's an error. You'll end up getting the full year.
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If I remember correctly, then the difference is mostly seen in the Platform Categories section. Imagine you have the following tree:
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Sega Genesis
- Action
Platform Name would read: Sega Genesis Action
Nested Name would show: Action
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4 minutes ago, Goobis said:
Hello! Love the theme. Wondering if anyone could help point me to where in the code I would go to edit the following parameters? I’m trying to condense everything as much as possible in order to get the most out of my display by removing ad much dead space possible. Thanks!
Check inside of BoxesContentView.xaml. It should all be in there somewhere.
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3 hours ago, SolarisSpell said:
Hi, it's me again
I'm replying here in order to not open another topic.
Can you have multiple banners for a single platform?
I know that in the desktop version, if you have multiple images (with -1, -2, etc...) one or the other is selected randomly.
Does that work here? I have created two PSone banner but it only shows the first one always.
Thanks
This is not currently possible in the Android version.
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13.9 Beta Thread
in Beta Testing
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Welcome in. You'll want to either create a separate thread, or go to the high scores thread to ask these questions. This wouldn't be beta related.
This could also use its own thread, where you can do some troubleshooting. This wouldn't be beta related.