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It allows you to add emulators that are not listed. Unfortunately, with the way Android works, it does require that you know certain pieces of information about the emulator that may be hard to find.

Hi @Drivin33. Which theme are you referencing?

SNK Neo Geo AES can be a bit confusing, as it's not as simple as other rom sets. The ROMs could have been pulled from a number of different sources, so if you don't know exactly which set your roms are from, then you'll have to do some trial and error. You'll probably want to start with opening RetroArch up, download different arcade, fbalpha, fbneo cores and try to load games directly in RetroArch until you find one that works. Once you find one, you can do the following in LaunchBox: During the import of your ROMs, you'll want to make sure that you select "Use MAME Metadata (for ROMs with MAME-Style shortnames)", then uncheck "This is a Full MAME Set" and import your games. After import, go into the emulator settings, make sure that "Extract ROM Archives" is turned off. Set the correct version of RetroArch and the Default core that you know will work

This sounds like you'd want to use the Audit tool for this. The audit took will show you a list of games, along with each images you have for each image type. It's designed to allow you to fill in the gaps of your media. It also has a column for LaunchBox Games Database ID, allowing you to easily find which games didn't find a match for metadata and media. You could also use the Games Missing Media filter in the side bar dropdown filter. Either way, you would identify the games missing a certain image type, highlight them and then run the Download Metadata and Media wizard tool, like C-Beats mentioned. The scan tool is used for when you want LaunchBox to identify if you added or removed ROMs from your ROM folder.

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