faeran

Hi @scottyboy77. Did you install the theme through Big Box or via the forums?

This is actually the intended way BannerBox works. It will crop images that are too long, instead of bleeding them into the bottom portion of the banner, which contains the clear logo and other information. Nintendo Switch is definitely one of the systems that have long boxes where you will see this happening (other notable ones are 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Sega CD, and Sony PSP). You could make it so the images stretch to uniform, however, that would end up showing blank spaces on either side of the box. It does require some code changes to make happen though, and it's possible that it may affect other systems that get close to that cutoff point.

Once you add RetroArch back, you'll have to reassociate your games to the new RetroArch emulator. You can do this using the bulk edit wizard.

Dark and Gloomy - [Theme Workshop] - A Halloween Theme View File Dark and Gloomy was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. Dark and Gloomy A Halloween inspired theme with background ambience, theme-specific menu sounds, animated fog, and jump scares. Perfect for Halloween night. Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeo8-08AVFU Files Dark and Gloomy - Theme - Theme Files.zip - Drop into your \\LaunchBox\Themes folder to load into Big Box Dark and Gloomy - Project Files for COMMUNITY Theme Creator.zip - Drop into your \\COMMUNITY Theme Creator\My Themes Projects folder to load into the COMMUNITY Theme Creator 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 10/29/2021 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

Hey @Bedwyr. If you use RetroArch, you could point RetroArch's save folders to a spot on your OneDrive, on both your machines. In RetroArch it's under: Settings > Directory Change Save Files and Save States to a spot on your OneDrive folder. Do this for both your computers and you should be good to go.

Beta 4 has been released with the following: Fixed: RetroArch was sometimes failing to download for some users (thanks to @Hifihedgehog for pointing the way) For anyone that was having download issues, please let us know if you are still experiencing them with this release.

Here's a link to the games database: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/ You can also click on the GAMES DB link at the top of the page.

Hi @WillGr78. Which Neo Geo games are you trying to run?

Hi @ninochar. Are you seeing the MAME menu or the MAME disclaimer? A screenshot could clarify this. If it's the disclaimer then that is built into MAME. My understanding is that the only way to remove it is to use an unofficial version where it was removed, or remove it yourself and compile your own version. We do have @MadK9 who graciously posts the no-nag version of MAME in the downloads section. Most recent one can be found here:

Hi @d8thstar. With the way you have it described here, it's not currently possible in Big Box, so you can definitely go ahead and open up a request over on BitBucket. In the meantime, you could use the hide/unhide functionality in LaunchBox. There's a toggle in the Big Box options that will allow you to Show or hide hidden games. Myself, and other have also set up a separate copy of LaunchBox just for kids.

Sorry for the late response, but glad you figured it out.

Hi @GiSWiG. From what I've just tested, it does appear that if you use the fullset MAME importer, then the region priorities do take properly (I see 1944u as the main game), while if you are importing via ROM importer and using MAME metadata, I'm seeing what you are seeing. Will mark it down to investigate further to see if there's something that can be adjusted here.

Hi @Ritchardo. I've been unable to produce the same issues on my builds as you are seeing. Are you able to provide exact steps that makes you unable to save?

The duplicating your LaunchBox install, and then curating the copy to only include the games that you want your kids to play is what Jason was referring to. Unfortunately, there's no simpler way at the moment.

Changing back to Old Default does work, but I don't think this is what you are wanting to do. If you are referring to the colors of the windows, you can change those using the Dialog Theme options.

Right click any of your auto-populate playlists, choose Edit and click on the Auto-Populate tab. This will show you the rules it uses to determine whether a game appears within the playlist. You can also edit the rules to better suit your needs.

Hi @Gef. I'm not sure if this was your issue with the "Update Metadata and Media for Selected Games..." Tool, but a few things to keep in mind when using this tool: That you are actually selecting all the games you want to download Media for before running the tool. As an example, you could choose your platform, select a game and then press CTRL+A on your keyboard That when you get to this window below, you select the middle option of "Yes, but do not replace any existing fields or media (recommended)

Hi everyone, Beta 2 is now out with a few fixes: Fixed: You can now clear the Scrape As value of a platform in Edit Platform Fixed: Select audio was playing twice on occasion when navigating Platform Categories in Big Box Fixed: Corrected several issues related to the Bulk Edit Wizard (introduced 12.2 beta 1) Fixed: Refresh All Images has been added to View menu (introduced 12.2 beta 1) Fixed: Reduced the time it took to switch pages in the various wizards (introduced 12.2 beta 1) Thanks for your continued help with beta testing.

Closer to the first part of the year there was a discussion and this sort of integration was deemed possible. So we added it to the summer Community Poll and it ended up being popular with you guys. For this first phase of the integration, we chose to focus on stability of the feature, and the stable version is as good as it gets. But it's good to know that you would be interested in a nightly option and we will keep that in mind for future phases. This feel unrelated to this current beta. However, we will keep this in mind during the next time we work on a performance update.

Yes, this is definitely one way you can accomplish this.

Hi everyone, 12.2 Beta 1 is now out with the following changes: New Feature: RetroArch can now be automatically downloaded and installed via the ROM import processes (if it's not installed already); this makes it super easy to get up and playing just by running the ROM import wizard and doing literally nothing else New Feature: RetroArch management options are now available under Tools > Manage > RetroArch; there are options to automatically update, update cores, and install or reinstall Improvement: The Arrange By menu can now be used in ascending or descending order Improvement: The menus in LaunchBox have been organized for easier navigation Fixed: Correcting a rare error when saving an emulator without a command line (introduced in 12.0) Fixed: In Big Box, the Launch With option in Game Details no longer shows for games that don't use an emulator Fixed: Incorrect download count when processing multiple EmuMovie queues Fixed: FlowVideo control was not always updating the HasVideo binding correctly Fixed: Add/Edit Emulator will now once again let you add two different cores for the same platform when editing RetroArch Thanks for helping beta test LaunchBox.

It should move the images to the appropriate folder. You could also click on the LaunchBox ID link (next to the game name) and check the database to see if the image type is mislabeled, and if they are, you can put in a request to correct it.

Never seen that before. I'm assuming other custom themes don't have this issue for you? You could try: Right click the theme's zip file and choose properties. Make sure you Unblock the file before extracting. Double check you didn't extract a folder within a folder (it shouldn't be Themes\RetroCRT\RetroCRT\, it should be Themes\RetroCRT\) Check to see if the images actually exist - They are looking for them in Themes\RetroCRT\Media\Theme\