[Zaazu's Bezels]

Remember that the background's text must be displaced so it's readable both horizontally and vertically. Look at the Sega systems for an example.

[Should we have any standards for images?]

Pixel perfect screenshots of old systems usually suffer from bad aspect ratio, if you don't resize them to 320x240 or 640x480 they won't look how they were intended to look on a 4:3 CRT TV or monitor; the target display for old systems.

[Restricted/Invalid/Non-English Characters for Filename/Game-DB-name]

10 minutes ago, Vloshko said:

Of course not

You already managed to change the names of most of the official games, please change them back to what they were. Fix your screwed up.

[Restricted/Invalid/Non-English Characters for Filename/Game-DB-name]

I don't have a problem if the devs of those games decide to name them differently, just put the name they chose on the db, just don't touch the names of the official games for no reason.

 

[Restricted/Invalid/Non-English Characters for Filename/Game-DB-name]

Colons are ignored when scraping, no need to remove them from the name. I don't see the point of the changes. The accent on the é and the colon is on every English database and official page of those games. 

Also, you're wrong, alternate names are used when scrapping names, that's the whole point of them. Just search "Project Zero" and you'll get Fatal Frame games every time. It's a bad idea to butcher the official name for ALL people in the event of a small number of users that have poorly named games.

I'm rejecting all those name changes.

[What playlist have you guys setup?]

I'm not a big fan of playlists so only have a few, the default ones that come with the Arcade, one for favorites, NES mini and SNES mini. That's it.

[10.8-beta-1 Released]

I've noticed that the game icons that appear when you hover over a game's cover are missing in this theme. Are they gone for good or not implemented yet?

[10.8-beta-1 Released]

New default theme? Thanks, I hate it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

just kidding, I like it a lot! Seems to me it's also faster than the old ones.

[adding box art]

Right click on your game, then select Edit, a window with details and images should appear, right click where the images are and select "Add images" after adding them don't forget to right click them and change the image type to the correct one.

[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.

[Not Getting Clear Logos on Game Wheel on Unifed Theme]

Clear logos and other images are cached for performance reasons, if you downloaded new ones you need to refresh the cache for them to be displayed.

To refresh BigBox's cache Open BigBox, go to Options -> Image cache, and select Refresh All Images.

[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.