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This will depend on the type of ROMs you have. They do come with the MAME full sets. If these are the ones you have, make sure you are using the ROM import wizard. Make sure you choose "Force importing duplicate games" and "Force using MAME metadata" when going through the wizard.

Yes, there's some fixes in the beta for this. @vaderag You can upgrade to the beta and see if that fixes your issue, or wait until it gets officially released.

Hi @Huckin The Dubz. Pulse is a custom theme that is forcing 2D Boxes to appear within its wheel. This is why you can't change the box using the Big Box setting, as it's designed to only work with a specific piece of code from the default theme that Pulse isn't utilizing. If you feel adventurous, you can dive into the View's code and make the following change. The files are located in: LaunchBox\Themes\Pulse\Views Looks like you are using one of the Horizontal views, open the one you are using and find the property: ImageType="Boxes" Change that to: ImageType="3D Boxes" Make the save and load up Big Box.

There are many themes out there, but each theme can only have 1 Game Details View. The Default theme that comes with Big Box has the code necessary to utilize the Background Fade option. If you are using a custom theme, it may not work properly. Looks like this: If you like the effect, I can help you alter the code within the theme that you are using so you get the desired effect.

You can try and remove the games from your library and re-import. All images should remain on your hard drive and they should re-associate with your games after import. Just make sure during the import wizard that you don't select any media to download. Just uncheck it all. It should re-import your games pretty quickly.

There's a couple options I can think of. In Big Box Options, go to Views and find Background Fade. You can increase this to fade out the background enough for you to read the text. If you just want the part behind the text to be darker, you would have to create a custom theme and add a background to the parts that display text. If you would like to go through route I could do this for you. I'm assuming you are currently using the Default Theme.

Neptune View File The newest version of this theme requires version 13.3, or higher. A LaunchBox Custom Theme I developed to help me understand the code behind themes. Because of this, most items within the XAML files are commented, which were added in order to help me keep track of what was going on. Sources of inspiration include the Lambda theme and GOG Galaxy. The notable item this theme accomplishes is the tab approach to the Game Details Page. Please feel free to use parts of this theme in your own creations. Installation Extract the Neptune folder into LaunchBox\LBThemes In LaunchBox, open Options, under Visuals > Main Window Theme and select Neptune from the dropdown. Submitter faeran Submitted 09/28/2021 Category Custom Themes  

Hi @Ble3azy. This doesn't appear to be a wide spread issue with LaunchBox itself, so I would check some of your security/firewall settings that you may have set up, local or remote, to determine if you have anything that may be blocking LaunchBox from connecting to the internet.

Hi @Mainiack, You can try to enable the "Show Hidden Games" option, under View. Hide all your games, and then turn that option off when you are done.

Hi Steve, Are you referring to LaunchBox or Big Box here? Also, if you could provide a screenshot that could definitely help with providing you a good solution to this.

If I'm reading the question correctly, you should be able to select all the affected games and use the "Change ROMs Folder Path for Selected Games" option, under Tools.

Yes, the theme was created as part of the old theme stream live streams. I do believe in the video it's shown how to generate your own images based on the marquee and screenshot images you have in your LaunchBox library.

RetroMags - [Theme Workshop] View File RetroMags was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. RetroMags A Big Box theme designed to look like the Retro Magazine's of old. The theme was designed using the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, along with some manual code changes in order to utilize the new wheel CoverFlow features not yet currently in the Theme Creator. This theme relies on 1 System Hardware graphic and 3 platform specific game graphics for each platform/playlist/category. I did not include a graphic for every platform out there. If people would like to help contribute platform specific graphics, PM me, or post in this thread and I'll add them to the main theme in a future update. Graphic locations: System Hardware: LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags\Media\Console Images Graphic 1: LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags\Media\Platform Image 1 Graphic 2: LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags\Media\Platform Image 2 Graphic 3: LaunchBox\Themes\RetroMags\Media\Platform Image 3 Please note: The COMMUNITY Theme Creator Project Files are provided for you to learn. If you would like to publish the theme, it will be missing the Platform Wheel and the 2 Wall View wheels. These would have to be added back manually to the theme. They can be found in the theme files within their respective xaml files. Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qe96FXHd3c Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYm7dVuDCIM 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 09/27/2021 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

Thanks for the report! I'm a bit curious about the video image fallback you are seeing, as that's not controlled by the theme at all. The platform textlist oddities will be fixed before the theme gets officially released.

Hi @huffyX0, Looks like you managed to solve most of your issues there. Yes, that LaunchBox image in your last screenshot is showing that you are missing artwork for that game. If I remember correctly, you should be able to download the COMMUNITY Theme Creator files and load them up into the CTC to generate your own images.

I've also seen Nahimic causing visual bugs like this in Big Box. You may want to check your system and see if you have Nahimic installed and the service running. If you do, google how you can remove it from your system.

Something you can try. Navigate to: \\LaunchBox\Images\Playlists Depending on how you created your Favorites playlist you'll either see a folder called Favorites or Arcade Favorites Inside of there, you'll see a Clear Logo folder. Replace the image in there with the one you want to use. Try Big Box again, you may need to refresh your image cache.

Hi @zombieromero. Just tested with the default theme and 3D Boxes are displaying as intended. Which theme are you using? Sometimes these can be a theme specific issue. You can also check to make sure that in Big Box your Game Image Type is set to 3D Boxes. This can be found in Options > Images > Game Image Type (changing this setting may require a clearing of the Image Cache and a potential Big Box restart)

Hi Everyone, Beta 4 has now been released with the following: New Feature: LaunchBox's game-specific background image can now be disabled (Found in LaunchBox Options > Visuals > Backgrounds) New Feature: You can now use the Clean Up Media tool for a single platform (Community Poll feature) Improvement: LaunchBox should more accurately determine a ROM's region based on its filename Improvement: EmuMovies downloads are now downloaded last to allow them to continuously download and avoid session timeout errors Fixed: Rare errors while downloading Steam media Fixed: Importing arcade games with the ROM Import Wizard was not always obeying the "Force Use MAME Metadata" option (introduced in 11.9) Fixed: On some systems, starting Big Box into a platforms or filters view was not properly playing background videos on first load Fixed: Rare error when editing the RetroArch emulator in LaunchBox if no cores were missing Fixed: On rare occasions, changing the selected game too quickly in LaunchBox would cause the game details loading to hang Fixed: The prompt upon completion of media downloads was sometimes appearing more than once Fixed: Steam games rated 17+ were causing errors with the import As always, thanks for the help with testing the betas.

This is entirely possible. You can take any theme (other than the defaults) and edit their xaml files. If you have a very specific example, I can try to help you out more.

Hi @heitorcr, There's 2 ways I can think of doing this: You can use the filter button, located the alphanumeric index to filter by Installed > Is True. This will temporarily filter your games and only show you the installed ones. In LaunchBox, you can create an auto-populate playlist that will automatically include every game that has the Installed field set to Is True. You can call the playlist anything you'd like and place it anywhere within your Platform Category hiearchy.

Hi @vince16, While I've never seen this issue before when using standalone dophin with LaunchBox, some google searching seemed to bring about a lot of info of different people getting the same error message. Since you seem to only be getting it from launching a game into dolphin from within LaunchBox (definitely confirm this, just in case), most may not be relevant, but worth a look: Make sure you are not running LaunchBox (or Big Box) as admin, this can cause a lot of issues, one of which is folder/file permissions issues. Some people seemed to indicate that it was their anti-virus program blocking their version of dolphin. Some people say it was their location of the Wii nand folder causing the error. Changing its location solved their issue. Could be related to a general folder/file permissions issue to where Dolphin places your user config files (usually in Documents inside of a folder called Dolphin Emulator). You could have file corruption issues within your Dolphin Emulator folder.

This is all planned. While we may take time to get there, we will eventually make it.