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  1. Can you check whether the pause screen is showing up behind your other screens? You can check this if you initiate the pause screen and then alt-tab to check whether it's one of the tabs. On another note, you could try and check the option "Forceful pause screen Activation (enable this if the pause screen is not showing)", which can be found in LaunchBox, Tools > Manage Emulators > [edit the emulator you are having issues with] > Pause Screen
  2. Hi @Rob_G. The sorting of the Platform Category in both LaunchBox and BigBox should be identical, both being alphabetical by default. I do know that you can change the sorting in LaunchBox by inputting a Sort Title name into either a platform or playlist, but it doesn't sound like that's what's going on here. WIthin Big Box are you seeing this behavior when browsing through your Platform Categories filter? and which theme are you using?
  3. Click the Contact Us link at the bottom of this form and send an email to support.
  4. That's really awesome @Huntsmiester. Thanks for sharing.
  5. Like what @Belgarath said, just based on your response, you are using the Battle.net edition and not the original WarCraft II Tides of Darkness DOS game. Pretty sure this is a windows game, probably was originally made for Windows 98.
  6. Hi @Aiwer. The latest version of LaunchBox is currently 12.1, so I assume this is the version that you are on. Are you using the COMMUNITY Theme Creator to create a platform marquee view or did you delve into the code and add a video to your platform marquee view?
  7. Tried this specific game and was able to install it. Let me know if these steps work for you: In LaunchBox select Tools > Install DOS Game Type in the name of the game a select Next Select "No, I have the installation files or media for my game" Select "Inside a CD Image ISO or BIN/CUE files" Browse to where you have your BIN/CUE files and choose the CUE file, select Next Use the default game location or choose your own, then select Next Choose "Yes, automatically mount the CD (recommended)" Choose "No, do not copy to the destination folder" That let me mount the game properly and get through the installation steps. Hope that works for you.
  8. As @C-Beats mentioned. You can choose the opposite filter so that it shows the games that are not installed (instead of the ones that are). Then you can select them all and choose delete. That will remove the games that are not installed and keep the ones that are.
  9. Hi @hadokenpower, Do you remember which theme you were trying to run in your screenshot?
  10. Version 1.0

    175 downloads

    Marquee Example was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. Marquee Example There are 2 files that you can download to help learn about the new Games Marquee view that's available from LaunchBox 12.0, which can be used freely for any theme developer to use as a starting point to learn how to build their own fantastic Marquee screens. Marquee Example - 1.0.zip - The contents can be used to load up into the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and is free to add to any of your themes. GameMarqueeView - With Comments.zip - This is the same as the default GameMarqueeView with added comments to help you understand how the view is built. You can use this file as a guide while watching the first part of the live stream video, for educational purposes. Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vojvY0qLLuk Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA
  11. Marquee Example - [Theme Workshop] View File Marquee Example was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. Marquee Example There are 2 files that you can download to help learn about the new Games Marquee view that's available from LaunchBox 12.0, which can be used freely for any theme developer to use as a starting point to learn how to build their own fantastic Marquee screens. Marquee Example - 1.0.zip - The contents can be used to load up into the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and is free to add to any of your themes. GameMarqueeView - With Comments.zip - This is the same as the default GameMarqueeView with added comments to help you understand how the view is built. You can use this file as a guide while watching the first part of the live stream video, for educational purposes. Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vojvY0qLLuk Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA Submitter faeran Submitted 10/12/2021 Category Big Box Custom Themes  
  12. Hi @starfiretbt. Depending on how the BIN file was created, they usually get created with a secondary CUE file which is needed in order to tell a program exactly how to read the contents of the BIN. What kind of game are you trying to install?
  13. Hi @Colorman3605. While this is not possible in the current default theme, a custom theme could be made to accommodate this. Kind of curious, any particular reason why you would want this functionality?
  14. This should be easy enough to fix. I would just need to click on the button that will force a 16:9 screen ratio. I'm guessing the theme itself is set to stretch instead of forced. If you don't want to wait for my update, then you can go into the theme's folder: \\LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags Find the file called: ThemeSettings.XML, open up in a text editor and change this line to "true". <Force16X9AspectRatio>false</Force16X9AspectRatio> <Force16X9AspectRatio>false</Force16X9AspectRatio>
  15. Just to add so you know all three scenarios: 1. Remove a playlist from appearing in Platform Filter in Big Box In LaunchBox, right click the playlist on the side panel, choose Edit. In Details Tab, uncheck "Include this Playlist with Platforms" 2. Remove a playlist from appearing in Platform Category filter in Big Box In LaunchBox, right click the playlist on the side panel, choose Edit, in Parents tab, uncheck all the boxes (this is also how you can place a playlist anywhere within your Platform Categories' hierarchy) 3. Remove the playlist from your library In LaunchBox, right click the playlist on the side panel, choose Delete. This will remove the playlist but not the games. The games will still be found in their platform.
  16. It was some kind of issue with the font itself, which is what I was theorizing on the stream. I loaded it into FontForge again and played around with more of the settings and generated a new font that actually worked.
  17. Version 1.0

    409 downloads

    GenesisMini was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. GenesisMini This was more of a experiment and POC to see how well a Genesis Mini theme could be ported to the Big Box environment. This is not a fully fledge theme, but only 2 views, a basic platform view and a wall games view. The theme was designed using the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, along with some manual code changes with the wall view file in order to utilize the new wheel CoverFlow features not yet currently in the Theme Creator. Educational Information: Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zRxpBOKjA Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ The GenesisMini image files were sourced from the following Github https://github.com/Arcanthur/Sega-CD-Mini, author Arcanthur Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA
  18. GenesisMini - [Theme Workshop] View File GenesisMini was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. GenesisMini This was more of a experiment and POC to see how well a Genesis Mini theme could be ported to the Big Box environment. This is not a fully fledge theme, but only 2 views, a basic platform view and a wall games view. The theme was designed using the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, along with some manual code changes with the wall view file in order to utilize the new wheel CoverFlow features not yet currently in the Theme Creator. Educational Information: Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zRxpBOKjA Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ The GenesisMini image files were sourced from the following Github https://github.com/Arcanthur/Sega-CD-Mini, author Arcanthur Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA Submitter faeran Submitted 10/08/2021 Category Big Box Custom Themes  
  19. Give this one a try: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/3.1 Make sure to download and install the .NET Desktop Runtime 3.1.19 (x64 version) - (the middle of the right column) Also, make sure that your Windows is up-to-date.
  20. If you can't solve the issue with your configuration, I'd recommend a new thread in the troubleshooting section. Hopefully, can get a bunch of suggestions there with more visibility.
  21. Hi @Asano, Right click your playlist and choose Edit. Click on the Parents tab and uncheck everything in there. That should do it. Also, within the Details tab, you can make sure you have unchecked "Include this Playlist with Platforms", if you don't want it to appears while in the Platform filter.
  22. Hi @javjavjav123, Yes, LaunchBox Themes are a premium feature.
  23. Hi Everyone, 12.0 beta 3 is now out with the following fixes: Fixed: Removed mouse over effect on transparent textboxes (introduced in 12.0 beta 1) Fixed: Setting a real-time filter would incorrectly set the number on the Selected Sidebar item (introduced in 11.18 beta 4) Fixed: Real-time filter menu wouldn’t update with game changes (introduced in 12.0 beta 2) Fixed: Can now once again scroll in menus (introduced in 12.0 beta 1) Fixed: Corrected copy/paste menu not showing in other note fields (introduced in 12.0 beta 1) Fixed: ListView rows were slightly cutting off text (introduced in 12.0 beta 1) Fixed: Add/Edit Emulator platform name auto-complete and dropdown corrected (introduced in 12.0 beta 2) Fixed: Add/Edit Emulator did not correctly identify missing cores (introduced in 12.0 beta 2)
  24. Hi @Hollingsbee. I've never done it before, so I'm not sure if it's an easy process, but sounds like you want to change the Windows boot logo. You should be able to google it and see what the process would entail.
  25. faeran

    Neptune

    Thanks for the comments! There's actually a couple things going on here. There is a color that goes overtop the main background image. The change you see is the game's background image (if you have this turned on in the options). There's a blur effect that a user would also control for this image within the options as well. The only thing the user cannot control here is the color that goes overtop this image. This can be adjusted within the theme files itself. This is the same effect as in the default theme. When you see it "brighten" it's a white color that goes overtop the image to make your mouse over selection stand out a bit more. There may also be a Black color over the rest of the images to dim them out a little, but if there is, it would be very slight, and just for a little bit of color control. This is a tough one. Remember that any parent item can also be independently selected from its child. Therefore, how do you tell exactly which item you are selected if multiple items look the same? There's a possibility here for some changes, but would have to think on how to best handle that. Good idea, although I probably won't be including this in the main version of the theme. I'd be glad to help you out with doing this in PM. This should be controlled by a user's image priority setting and not theme specific. The theme itself is just telling it to put a background image in that spot. Go into Options > Background Priorities and deselect anything you don't want to see, like any of the box images. I usually try and put all the different Background images and a Screenshot - Gameplay image in there. The video will scale to the size of the window, with a max height, so it doesn't overtake the rest of the content. That max height can be adjusted in the theme files. The theme would not actually be controlling this. My guess is that either your Screenshot image priorities includes Cart images, or that the Cart image is mislabeled as a screenshot. A little investigation should clear that up for ya. Send me a PM and I can do my best to guide you through adding a new Tab in Game Details.
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