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What does the rest of that page look like?

We will be looking into this before the next major release. It's possible it's just RetroAchievement API end points being down or changed, but it's hard to tell before we do our deep dive. At least just know it's nothing you can currently do at this time.

Definitely a cool idea. Another way you can currently implement this is to create subgenres instead of tags. Within the genre field you would put a forward slash in-between a genre and subgenre (genre / subgenre). LaunchBox would then recognize the second genre as a sub genre and would help with things like the related games feature and it would display accurately inside of the on-the-fly filter button (This is similar to how a MAME fullset would be handled when importing it into LaunchBox). Official support for this stuff on the LaunchBox Games Database would be nice, and is definitely somethin we've internally discussed many times. No idea when something like this would eventually make it into the database (it's on more of a very, very long term internal roadmap), but it would be cool to see and just know that it's on our radar.

Are both your monitors running at different resolutions or scaling? What happens if you match both screens to the same resolution and scaling?

What do your display settings look like? What happens if you place your marquee monitor to the right of your main monitor?

I'm kind of curious if it's a platform or playlist issue. One thing you could try is to first completely close LaunchBox. Then head into your LaunchBox\Data\Playlists folder. Temporarily move everything out of this folder to a safe location on your PC. Now, open up Big Box and see if that made any difference at all. Don't forget to do the reverse to get your playlists back.

LaunchBox and Big Box is designed to take up as little resources as possible during gameplay. Try out the free version of LaunchBox and see how it feels when you launch a game. I'm pretty sure Big Box takes up less resources than LaunchBox does, so if you are okay with LaunchBox you should be good with Big Box.

One thing you could try is removing your EmuMovies credentials, saving out of the Options menu. Then editing a game that you know has media to download from EmuMovies and signing in from there. Just note that EmuMovies doesn't have every game on their server, so make sure you are choosing a game that you know has something available for the best test. If it still isn't working, you may need to reach out to EmuMovies to see if there's anything going on with your account on their end.

Are you able to post a screenshot of what the keyboard looks like?

That's definitely a strange one. Not really sure why the update would cause issues like that as not really much was touched that could have affected this. One thing you can try is downgrade to the previous update and see if it works better for you. If it does, then it could point to something in the update, if it still doesn't, it could point to something external that happened (like an OS update). You potentially have the previous apk file inside of your LaunchBox\Updates folder.

Beta 4 is out with the following: New Feature: Added StarRatingGrid, MediaPreview, MediaList (For theme devs) New Feature: Added ability to set details min height/width from theme Fixed: Issue with Images View while using certain short Image Groups Fixed: Rare crash in LaunchBox when selecting a platform with a large amount of playtime Fixed: Starting into ListView wasn't loading headers properly Fixed: Issue where certain actions while in ListView would throw a threading error Fixed: Some times you couldn't interact with the content view after a refresh This should fix the remaining issues people have reported with the image view.

If you mean having it rotated to the left spine side by default for the 3D Model that's located on the home page, that's a coding change you'd have to make to the theme. If you click on it, it allows you to move it in any direction you'd like. This would be another coding change, but it should be possible. I won't be adding the changes to the main Big Details theme, but anyone is free to do so and create their own version of it

If they are just games on your hard drive, find the game's file to open the game anddrag/drop it overtop LaunchBox to start the import wizard (you can do this for multiple files at the same time). Alternatively, you can go to Tools > Import > Manually Add Game... to do things one at a time.

This wouldn't be planned for a future update, however, there is nothing stopping you from creating a custom theme doing the changes you want to see. It wouldn't be too hard, but you will have to make some design decisions on how you would want it to end up looking. For example, the clear logo would be a much larger height than just having the title there. Another thing you may want to consider is what happens if one of your games does not have a clear logo. If you want to attempt it yourself, make a copy of the default theme and give the folder a new name. It's in: LaunchBox\Themes\Default Open up the following file: LaunchBox\Themes\[theme name]\Views\GameDetailsView.xaml Somewhere close to the top, you'll see something along the lines of: <TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}".... Replace that whole line with something like the following: <coverFlow:FlowImage ImageType="Clear Logo" DataContext="{Binding SelectedGame}" MaxHeight="{Binding Converter={StaticResource ScaleConverter}, ConverterParameter='40'}" Stretch="Uniform" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Visibility="{Binding TitleVisibility}" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality"/> You can change the MaxHeight number to get the height that you want. Good luck.

Try to look under Big Box Options and turn these on: Marquee Screen > Ignore Theme Marquee Views Marquee Screen > Stretch Marquee Images to Fill the Screen

Are you able to provide a video of what you are seeing?

Assuming you are using RetroArch, delete the following files in these folders: RetroArch\overlays\GameBezels RetroArch\config\[platform]\ (if you made any game, game folder, or core overrides, you may want to watch out what you delete in these folders)

There is, but it would require that you make changes to the code of the custom theme. Based on the theme you are showcasing there, it's probably a bit of an extensive change to make, code-wise, but it's definitely possible.

You can do this by creating two Playlists. One called Arcade and one called Racing. Then bulk add all the games you want to see under Arcade, and do the same for Racing. Place each playlist within the root of the Platform Categories filter section. You'll also want to remove all other items from the platform categories filter as well.

It looks inside of your game folder to see if you have a pdf in there that it could set as a game manual.

The LaunchBox 13.4 beta thread has been opened, and can be followed here:

Hi Everyone, LaunchBox 13.4 beta 1 has just dropped with the following changes: New Premium Feature: The LaunchBox game details pane can now be popped out into its own window (custom themes do require updating) Improvement: LaunchBox image views have been optimized and will now load faster Improvement: Images will now appear more gracefully when scrolling with the mouse wheel inside of LaunchBox Improvement: Badges in LaunchBox will now dynamically update themselves without requiring a reload of the view Improvement: The game details view will now reload after leaving a game to accurately reflect new play time, play count, and achievements updates Improvement: The LaunchBox import wizards no longer act as if they're locked up while parsing the games to be imported Improvement: The MAME arcade full set import wizard is now much faster Improvement: MAME prerequisite files have been updated to allow for a better import experience with newer versions of MAME Improvement: MAME import filters have been adjusted and will now include less non-games by default Improvement: The LaunchBox sidebar filter button will now better adapt its values when used in conjunction with the search bar Fixed: A rare memory leak that could occur in some situations due to the VLC video playback engine Fixed: A rare theme bug when launching Big Box from within LaunchBox Beta 2: Improvement: Clicking either the primary LaunchBox window or the Game Details pop out now brings BOTH windows to front to make it easier to use the app in that configuration Fixed: LaunchBox image view not displaying correctly when using arrange by feature to arrange by anything other than title Fixed: Issue with boxes being added and not being displayed in the row correctly Fixed: Error message displayed in some themes while using arrange by feature Fixed: Issues with scrolling stuttering in LaunchBox Image View (especially when scrolling up) Fixed: Issue with the Image View not returning to the top when selecting a new filter value Fixed: Videos weren't being paused before popping in Game Details causing audio to play but not video Beta 3: Fixed: Several arrange by groups of a single item were causing the rows to render on top of each other Fixed: Last item in a row wasn't always resizing the row correctly Fixed: Pressing a string of keys to jump to a game (pressing M to jump to first game starting with M for example) wasn't scrolling to the correct position Fixed: After manually adding a new game the grid wasn't jumping to that game Fixed: Crashes related to using an arrange by setting other than title that some themes were having Fixed: Issue related to deleting the last item in the Game Details carousel preview Beta 4: New Feature: Added StarRatingGrid, MediaPreview, MediaList (for theme devs) New Feature: Added ability to set details min height/width from theme Fixed: Issue with Images View while using certain short Image Groups Fixed: Rare crash in LaunchBox when selecting a platform with a large amount of playtime Fixed: Starting into ListView wasn't loading headers properly Fixed: Issue where certain actions while in ListView would throw a threading error Fixed: Some times you couldn't interact with the content view after a refresh Beta 5: Fixed: Details Pop Out wasn't rendering correctly on startup Fixed: GOG Credentials incorrectly being flagged as changed when scanning for achievements in Options Fixed: List View not scrolling to the correct location after certain events Fixed: Scrolling up from the bottom of boxes view would sometimes hitch making scrolling difficult Like always, thanks to everyone on the beta channel helping us solidify it for the next release.

Normally, this is caused by it being wrapped in a parent element that doesn't adhere to alignment properties. If you need more help, send me a PM.

You'll want to open the following file: LaunchBox\LBThemes\Big Details\Views\GameDetailsView.xaml Find the following line: <Viewbox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5 0.5"> Change the following: Grid.Row="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" That should give you an idea on how you think it looks.

Lots of ways, however, all of them would require you to dig into the code and move it to where you want. If you want to adventure in, I can try and help guide you in how to do it.