[FullScreen Game Theme Videos?]

Most themes have multiple views, one of them being showing videos fullscreen. You need to change to that view by pressing the change view button. You can assign it to a key or a button in the options menu in Bigbox.

Also, remember to check "Prioritize Theme videos" in the "Videos" section.

[10.2-beta-1 Released]

When going back from "all games" on BigBox, it takes you to a previous selected filter (Like regions or publisher)  instead of the options menu. Is that the intended behaviour?

[Updating roms to use game theme videos?]

Video themes are only for BigBox. Make sure you put them under the right folder and you set BB to prefer video themes over videosnaps.

Video themes name must match game's name and must be placed in a "Theme" folder inside the video folder of the platform.

[Games that make you angry]

Games with unskippable cutscenes, specially before a hard boss.

[Games that make you angry]

League of Legends. I could write a 100000 words essay about the things that frustrate you about that game.

[Are there any PSDs available for game media?]

For templates, your best bet is to search for them in Deviantart and VGBoxart.

[Can't find metadata that definitely exists.]

Something similar happened to me with the new Resident Evil 2 on PC: when two games have the same name, the scrapper only finds the oldest version . You can fix that by searching using alternative names, In my case "Resident Evil 2 (2019)".

I'll add the alternative name "Home (2019)" to your game so when it's accepted into the database you can find it by searching that.

[Rocketlauncher + Launchbox\Big Box]

I have RocketLauncher on my LB setup working perfectly but only for a small number of games, notably Gamecube games like Resident Evil 2 and 3, using an old Dolphin emulator for audio compatibility and bezel reasons, plus a handful of 3Ds games that use both screen during gameplay requiring bezels and some Daphne titles that can run with bezels.

I guess I could remove it and won't lose much but since it just works and took me years to make it function at the current level, I see no point in removing it.

[Best Dreamcast Emulator for Windows?]

Redream is pretty good overall, you can't upscale unless you buy the $5 license though. Demul is the most compatible but it's kind of old and clunky in my opinion. The Reicast core for Retroarch it's also a decent option, I use it myself for everything Dreamcast related that it's not WinCE (gotta go with Demul for that).

[Add Save State to Pause Menu?]

Try this:

Open LaunchBox, go to Menu -> Manage Emulator. Double click your emulator (Mupen64 Plus in this case) Click the Pause Screen Tab -> Pause Screen tab -> Save State tab. Add the following  in the text box:

Send {F5}

Make sure you do the same in the Load State tab with the appropriate key to be able to load state in the pause screen.

[Add Yuzu game to LaunchBox]

On 1/19/2019 at 10:26 AM, steve1977 said:

Ok, seems XCI is then the better way to go... No parameters to be set for fullscreen or any other parameters?

NSP it's the better format since it's smaller than xci. You can run nsp files directly without having to install them first.

If you're already using a frontend like LaunchBox I don't see the point of installing NSPs into Yuzu.

[Moderator Guidelines and Contributor Rules]

18 hours ago, Thanatos_Prime said:

I found this ESRB conversion table, I was hoping to find out if anyone disagrees with any part of this:

Just search in ESRB's website and put what's there, if the game is not found, it's "not rated".

[Where can I get some 1080p Retroarch flat borders?]

Some NES games and emulators have a black border no matter what. Make sure your emulator's overscan and aspect ratio settings are properly set.

I use and recommend Zaazu's Bezels, their black and grey color scheme make them not too intrusive, focusing the screen on the game, not the border.

[Launchbox PCSX2 Error]

7 minutes ago, Xyb0t said:

Some interesting stuff here, seeing as one of my upcoming tasks will be to play around with PS2 very soon. I apologize if this is seen as derailing, but it might also be too lame to start a new thread about it

Packing with 7zip: Some of the games are kinda huge, like 4GB. Does the "unpack before run" not take some serious time at every game startup?

Packing into cso: This idea intrigues me, since i do the same with PSP games. I didn't know this was possible for PS2 also. I read somewhere that PCSX2 will take gzip-files if the emulator indexes the file beforehand, but that seems kinda tedious. So, should i just use the same tool for both PSP and PS2 to end up with cso-files?

I had trouble with the cso compressor for PSP. I'd recommend you use maxcso to compress PS2 games, you can batch convert them all with it (just drag and drop).

The marginal benefit of gzip over cso is not worth the trouble of needing a cache file. CSO it's your best option for PCSX2.

[9.10-beta-1 Released]

46 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:

There are only image groups for boxes, 3D boxes, carts, 3D carts, screenshots, clear logos, and Steam banners. Back images never show up by default (you can't view the back images for all games together anywhere), so there's really no point in adding default images for them.

I was thinking about being able to flip carts and discs like we do with boxes. since all backs of media are most of the time all the same, it would be cool to just have one default for all of them using this new feature.

[Which controller do you use?]

I use the Xbox 360 controllers I bought years ago. I might buy Xbox One gamepads when those stop working.

I also have an Arcade Stick (Hori Rap V for Xbox One) mainly for fighting and other Arcade games.

[9.10-beta-1 Released]

I like the default image idea!

Can you please add default images for "cart - back" and "fanart cart - back", since those usually look the same for all games it's a good idea to just have the same default image for all titles of a platform.

[Accidentally submitted game without filling in info]

Just wait until is either rejected or accepted, then add the missing info or submit it again with more info.

[Fixing the Database]

My only wish is that they fix the delete bug that makes cleaning duplicates and other images a gamble.

[9.8-beta-1 Released]

On BigBox 9.8 beta 5, The shutdown screen fails to appear and put you back to BigBox. When you close an emulator, you are stuck in a black screen. alt+tabbing or clicking on the startup window in the taskbar seems to fix it.

This happened mainly with Retroarch and MAME (Arcade64 flavor) and not all the times, sometimes you go back normally, other times this happens.

[Stop backgrounds from stretching....]

What are Skapers mix images?

Ask the creators of those themes if they can help you. I guess that if you edit the themes you can make the background images to not fill the screen, but you'll end up with either awfully stretched backgrounds or black bars in the sides.

In my opinion, the alternatives are worse than what you're getting now.

[Theme Videos and Video Snaps for Sony Playstation 3]

2 hours ago, The_Keeper86 said:

Awesome upload! Do you take any requests?

Feel free to post what games you want next, I'll consider doing first highly requested titles.

[Theme Videos and Video Snaps for Sony Playstation 3]

Theme Videos and Video Snaps for Sony Playstation 3

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Sharing some theme videos and video snaps I made for this console. I might add more as soon as I make them.

How to add to your LaunchBox and BigBox:

• Download the zip files.
• Extract to LaunchBox's root folder. Content will be extracted to its proper folders.
• Done! Video snaps will show up in the game details panels and theme videos will appear on BigBox themes' views that use them.

List of Video Themes:

• Catherine
• Demon's Souls
• Diablo III: Reaper of Souls: Ultimate Evil Edition
• Earthworm Jim HD
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Final Fantasy XIII-2
• God of War HD
• God of War II HD
• God of War III
• Lollipop Chainsaw
• Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
• Mirror's Edge
• NBA Jam: On fire Edition NEW
• Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
• NieR: Replicant
• Persona 5
• Red Dead Redemption
• Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition
• Resident Evil Code: Veronica X HD 
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
• The Last of Us

Details for Nerds:

• Theme videos are mostly 1080p60, encoded with HEVC for optimal file size. Video snaps are usually 540p, some lower resolution, some higher up to 720p60. Encoded using x264 for compatibility and performance.
• Theme videos' audio is 160 kbps aac, video snaps 96-160 kbps aac.

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• Submitter
  Suhrvivor
• Submitted
  03/24/2019
• Category
  Sony Playstation 3

 

[BigBox & Shadow of the Tomb Raider]

On 3/9/2019 at 3:22 PM, ubermoc said:

Anyway to make it play the game and not go to the pop up box?

 

Tried out autohotkey and doesnt seem to work so i bound enter to ps button and that works fine.

If you're launching the steam version, you can disable the launcher by finding the game in Steam, right clicking and selecting properties. in the general tab press the "Set Launch Options" button, add -nolauncher and click the OK button. This also works in the first Tomb Raider (2013) and Rise of the Tomb Raider.

[9.6-beta-1 Released]

The file size of the preview images of the theme manager are ridiculously high, takes too much time to load some of them. There's no need for them to be full resolution png when a high quality jpeg would look the same but it will be dramatically smaller in size. They only fit a small portion of the screen yet some of them are 4K 6MB png images.

Is it be possible to optimize those images to make the navigation lightweight and faster?