faeran

Yes, which is why I would encourage all theme developers to utilize the available visibility bindings, although realistically, it's the theme developers choice on whether they want to use them.

Yup, that's just theme specific. You could always just grab the BoxesContentView.xaml file from the theme you like, and replace the one within Default Plus.

Ok, so basic metadata. Within the default theme, this is controlled by the user within the Game Details options menu. The theme uses visibility bindings to determine the choice the user made within that menu. Any theme creator can choose to utilize those visibility bindings to allow the user to choose, or not use them, and force the user to see the metadata they choose.

When you say Categories on the Game Details panel, what are you referring to here?

This theme is essentially identical to the Default theme, in this regard, and does work. The setting you are referring to will place text overtop the box on all boxes, like this:

Not sure I fully understand, but to have users adjust what is displayed in Game Details from the options, that is controlled by individual visibility bindings set on each item within the code. Removing the visibility binding would force that metadata to show regardless of the user's options.

When you close LaunchBox, it does a bunch of closing process behind the scenes. During this time, you'll see LaunchBox still in the task manager. Once it leaves the task manager, then all the things it needed to do was successful. This includes saving the filter you were last on, like being on the Favorites section: If that is not happening, you may have something fishy going on within your LaunchBox\Data folder.

LaunchBox will save the last filter from the dropdown filter list you are under upon a successful shutdown of the program. However, are you referring to the dropdown filter options, the on-the-fly filter button, or Arrange By Favorite option?

View File RetroMags - Pocket Edition RetroMags - Pocket Edition is a port that is loosely based on my Big Box Theme of a similar name. Retro Magazine inspired, each Platform is represented by their own custom magazine cover. It utilizes custom images, including a platform background, character, and controller. It also has a repository of platform slogans, used for the tagline on each magazine cover. Add/Change Custom Images If you would like to change or add any custom images you can do so at the following location (each image should be named after their respective platform/filter): Backgrounds - LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags - Pocket Edition\Images\Backgrounds Characters - LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags - Pocket Edition\Images\Characters Controllers - LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags - Pocket Edition\Images\Controllers Add/Change Slogans If you wish to change or add any slogans, open the following file: LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags - Pocket Edition\Filters Views\Horizontal Mags.xaml Close to the top you'll see a list of slogans within the resource dictionary. Make a copy of ones of the lines and adjust the platform name (name must match the name of your filter or platform), and replace the slogan. Here's an example of one of the lines: <x:String x:Key="Atari 2600">Have you played your Atari today?</x:String> Note: This iteration of the theme currently only comes with a filter view. There is currently no games view, however, I do plan to create one sometime in the future. What's Included Horizontal Mags filters view - Wheel based, horizontal navigation Installation Instructions Extract the [theme folder] from zip file (Make sure you do not create a second folder while extracting, creating a [theme folder]\[theme folder]\files situation. Place folder on your Android device, inside of the LaunchBox\Themes folder. In LaunchBox for Android, navigate to intended View and click on the top-right menu button and select Change View, and choose the correct theme view Submitter faeran Submitted 10/21/2022 Category Custom Themes  

ah, hmm.. yeah, that's a possibility. This theme is not really made for that type of platform, since it's supposed to mimick a game's boxart, but it wouldn't be the first time I implemented something like that.

Next time I do a CoverBox update, I'll probably be adding Xbox 360 and PS3, and maybe a few others. As far as an Android version... it's possible, but it would be extremely limiting. This theme was built with 16:9 aspect ratio in mind, and most Android devices don't conform to that. It would be a lot of work to get this theme ported over to Android, forcing a 16:9 aspect ratio. If I were to attempt to convert it to allow it to work in all the different aspect ratios and orientations required, it would most likely be insurmountable.

Yeah, unfortunately, it's from a very old version of CoverBox. It's essentially just a copy of the Wii theme, so it's easy enough to set up following my instructions.

If I'm reading this right, you are creating platform-specific view files for your platforms, and now you want to create view files for specific playlists? Or are you wanting elements within one view to dynamically change properties depending on the game's platform?

To be honest, it's possible I didn't port that one over with the new version of the theme. I would personally consider WiiWare games just a playlist of Nintendo Wii games. However, you could get the same kind of look by going to these following folders and making a copy of the Nintendo Wii.xaml files in both locations and giving them the name of your Nintendo WiiWare platform. LaunchBox\Themes\CoverBox\Views\TextListView D:\LaunchBox\Themes\CoverBox\Views\TextGamesView

So, the answer unfortunately is no. The LaunchBox for Android app needs to be pre-configured with core options. However, in saying that, if you are referring to your TurboGrafx-16 example, all cores are already listed in LaunchBox, they are just listed under the file name, so they only seem different than the ones listed in RetroArch, but they are already there. mednafe_pce_fast_libretro_android.so = NEC - PC Engine / CD (Beetle PCE FAST) mednafen_pce_libretro_android.so = NEC - PC Engine / SuperGrafx / CD (Bettle PCE) mednafen_supergrafx_libretro_android.so = NEC - PC Engine SuperGrafx (Beetle SuperGrafx) You can correct me if I'm wrong here, and if you do find a RetroArch core that doesn't exist in LaunchBox for Android, you can make the request here in a post and we can look into adding it in a future update.

Unfortunately no, there's no way for LaunchBox to gain access to another app's information to tell what's installed or not within them. On Windows we can do this, but on Android we can't. There's a list of preconfigured options in LaunchBox for Android with the expectation that you then need to download the emulator (and core when dealing with RetroArch) yourself.

A Black Screen indicates that RetroArch is missing the core that you configured in LaunchBox, or it's missing some kind of required system file. This is normal. LaunchBox has set configurations for certain cores, but you still need to go into RetroArch and download the cores. In your example of NEC TurboGrafx-16, In RetroArch, go to Online Updated > Core Downloader, and download the 3 cores that start with NEC PC Engine... LaunchBox lists them as their file names (mednafen...), RetroArch lists them under core names (Beetle...). Download the right core (or all of them), configure LaunchBox with one of cores you just downloaded and you should be good to go.

My bad, in Big Box it does use chromium for a more seamless controller support. I don't believe that's currently changeable.

Sounds like you may have forgot to refresh your image cache. You can either: Highlight all your games (CTRL+A), and hitting F5 to refresh Or click on: View > Media > Refresh All Images

Yeah you can. In the CTC, you would place an image there, and most likely you would want to have it fade out at the same time the other stuff fades in. Alternatively, if you don't want any of the animations, you would just have to go through all the elements in the CTC that have animations associated with them, and remove them. Once you have made the changes you like, you simply publish the theme and you'd be good to go.

It's under Options > Views > Default Startup View

That's true. If you want to trick it, replace your game title screenshots with your gameplay screenshots.

Pretty sure LaunchBox just uses whatever your default pdf viewer is in Windows. So, you should be able to adjust that in your Windows settings and you should be good to go there.