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The scanning tool will scan the files listed in your Game folder and import any new ROMs it finds. Right click your platform and go into Edit. Then click on the Folders tab. You'll find it there. The next major release of LaunchBox (currently in beta), we will set this path for you automatically based on the first file path we find during your import. This feature will not work properly if you spread out games for a given platform into multiple different folders, but it works great if you keep things nice and organized.

No need to create a new post, I've moved this one for you.

lol, Thanks man. This update was definitely a long time coming.

CoverBox has now been updated to version 4.0, and it's a big one. The theme has been completely ported to the COMMUNITY Theme Creator (a year in the making). This means you can now load up the Theme Creator files into the CTC and make any changes you would like. 9 Brand New systems have been added (most are thanks to phelix01 for his initial designs). This brings the total number of supported systems to 46: Microsoft Xbox Nintendo Switch SNK Neo Geo Pocket SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color GCE Vectrex 3DO Interactive Multiplayer WonderSwan WonderSwan Color Revamped Platform Wheel 1 Brand New Text Filters View Overhauled Text Games View (this is the fallback for when there's no platform specific view) Images of the new platforms:

Does this happen if you use the Default theme?

I did notice some oddities with these hot keys when using them in some views in Big Box. While some views work just fine, others do need to be fixed. It is on the list for us to get done before next release. Just note, when building a theme, you can affect those hot keys by adjusting the "Page size" property on the wheel. You can find info on what each wheel property does in the Documentation.pdf file located in your LaunchBox\Themes folder.

If I remember correctly, I do believe I gave 2 different solutions. If there are any specific questions regarding either of them, can always reply to the PM and I'll be glad to help.

You can always Add a game manually or edit a game you already have, and set the Platform to Meta Quest (or whatever you'd like to call it. It should add it to your Platform and Platform Categories area. You can then Edit the Platform and make any changes to it you'd like.

12.7 added a new attract mode sound option under: Options > Sound > Attract Mode Master Volume Check to make sure that is not set to 0%. If you've verified that the setting is at an appropriate sound level, and you still don't hear sounds, you can provide the files that @C-Beats requested.

You can drag and drop any kind of file over LaunchBox and it will import it. You'd want those files to be named after the games you are importing to make it easier for scraping.

Glad your excited, but they are minor changes that include the ability to move the hamburger menu to other views and a property for the VirtualizingTilePanel that will attempt to uniform rows with dynamic box sizes while in image view. Thanks. These will be fixed for the next beta. Are you are referring to going into Edit Game > Media and trying to delete the clear logo from there? If so, it sounds like some kind of permission issue there that I haven't been able to replicate, but we'll see if anything can be done.

Just to clarify about this a little more. I mentioned that, as a user, you can download your own theme videos. However, theme creators could also package videos in with their themes if they want, which would bypass a user's theme videos and use those instead. Users could also use this to their advantage, if they are wanting certain theme videos to only play when using a specific custom theme.

Couple things based on what you are explaining: Big Box is separated into Platform views and Games Views. There are many different types of views that you can choose as a user. Hopefully you have set up your Switch View mapping, then when you see that "Wall View" you can hit your hotkey and you will be presented with a list of views that you can pick from. Press the hotkey on a platform view and you will be presented with available platform views, press it on a game view and you will be presented with available game views (each theme creator can use as many, or leave out as many, views as they want). Custom Themes can be created any way the author of the theme wants. They can add, or omit, any information they want. This is why you see different information in different themes. In LaunchBox, you can go to Tools > Download > Platform/Playlist/Category theme videos. There you can download theme videos that some themes (like Unified) will use. If you don't have a theme video, the fallback is to play a random game video. Hopefully that can get you started.

Your screenshot is showing a wheel with your platforms, so based on the screenshot it looks like you are on the platform filter view. Are you wanting to see different items within the wheel? I would explore the system menu. You will find all the different filter views, you can switch between them so you get a basic idea of what each does.

Welcome to LaunchBox. Sounds like you are in the All Games filter. Back out into the Options menu and switch over to the Platform filter, or Platform Categories filter (You'll also notice a bunch of other filters you can go into and check out what they do). You can set your startup filter by going into Options > View > Default Startup View. You can also set your default Platform and Games views there as well once you get the hang of all the different views a custom them can have. Would also be beneficial, while you are in the Options menu, to set yourself up some keyboard or controller mappings. You'll most definitely want to set one for Switch View and Switch Theme.

StationEmulation CTC - [Theme Workshop] View File StationEmulation CTC was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. StationEmulation CTC This is a port of viking's port of the Station Emulation default theme. The benefit here is you can now load up this theme inside of the COMMUNITY Theme Creator. How to load into the COMMUNITY Theme Creator Make sure you already have a copy of the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and you have it set up (link below) Download both Unified files Extract the COMMUNITY Theme Creator files into your COMMUNITY Theme Creator\My Theme Projects folder Open the Theme files zip, go into the Fonts folder and install all the fonts in there. Open the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, you should now find it in the dropdown list of themes Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6TsR25CkXU Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ Rincewind's awesome character graphic's pack is included (at a much reduced resolution) Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA Submitter faeran Submitted 02/11/2022 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

The LaunchBox 12.8 Beta thread is now open and can be found here:

We have not been able to reproduce this on our machines. 12.8 beta 1 is now out. You can try and update to that and see if that makes any difference for you.

Hey everyone, Our first beta for 12.8 is out now, and it's a big one. We have overhauled our entire media download process and you should see a significant increase in how fast media is downloaded. Whether it be during any of our import wizards, using the Update Metadata and Media wizard, or Adding/Editing an individual Game, we can really use your help with testing. If you do help test this, please let us know your results below. Here's the changelog for beta 1: Improvement: We have changed how media items download. LaunchBox with now downloads several files at once instead of using several threads to download one item at a time. This results in significantly faster downloads Improvement: Title text on the image view can now be toggled via the Show / Hide view menu Improvement: Show/Hide view options are now context specific Improvement: Added several new tools that LaunchBox theme developers can use when creating themes Improvement: You can now set the "Extract ROM before playing" option per-platform in the Edit Emulator window Improvement: Added logic to help determine what platform is being imported during ROM imports Improvement: LaunchBox will automatically add the platform you're importing to the emulator you select during import if it isn't there already Fixed: The Edit and Delete buttons in LaunchBox's control bar were not refreshing when changing side bar filters Fixed: Controller Support section of the Add/Edit Game window would sometimes clear new entries before saving occurred Fixed: Rare error when logging into an Epic Games account via Google sign-in Fixed: Added logic to help process images with corrupted color profile information Fixed: Corrected rare threading issue related to marquees Fixed: Rare occurrences where the scrape as value would not save during an import Fixed: Multi-Version badge was incorrectly identifying the primary application path as an additional version (introduced in 12.7) Fixed: Added logic to help resolve file in use errors when saving a game Fixed: Adding an emulator via the import wizard wouldn't pre-populate associated platforms correctly when first opened Beta 2: New Feature: Inside of the MAME Full Set importer you can filter games by CHD requirement and input type (Poll Item #4) New Feature: Inside of the MAME Full Set importer you can prioritize 2 or 4 player variants New Feature: Inside of the MAME Full Set importer you can create playlists for games that require a CHD as well as vertically orientated games Fixed: Right-Clicking a game in List View will now select the game before displaying the context menu (introduced in 12.7) Fixed: Issue where pressing OK in Edit Game would leave the controls view buttons disabled (introduced in beta 1) Fixed: Changed the time-out of EmuMovies media downloads from 5 to 10s (introduced in beta 1) Fixed: The total number of media downloads being displayed should now be more accurate Fixed: The Download Media string was incorrectly changed (introduced in beta 1) Improved error strings during downloads to make it more clear what caused the error Beta 3: Improvement: Games that need installed by the Epic Games client will now take you to the installation options when played (instead of an error screen) Fixed: The ROM Import Wizard was not updating the emulator page when going back to change the selected platform Beta 4: Improvement - A few extra theme developer tools were added for LaunchBox Themes Fixed: Incorrect suffix could be applied to media files Fixed: Media limit setting was being bypassed under certain conditions

Based on your screenshots, it looks like none of your games have metadata. If that was unintended, you may want to download metadata for your games. You can always use the Old Default theme, which still uses the old Game Details view. To create your own custom theme: Make a copy of the Default theme folder in: LaunchBox\LBThemes Rename the copied folder to anything you want Edit the files in your new theme folder If you'd like to grab the old default's game details: copy GameDetailsView.xaml from LBThemes\Old Default\Views into the same location within your custom theme folders.