Retro808

Can you also post a pic of how the image looks? If you change the Stretch=“Uniform” to Stretch=“Fill” (this may stretch some images badly) or “UniformToFill” (this will fill the space but crop some of the image) it should fill the screen. Uniform is keeping the image as it is intended and since marquee images are not uniform in aspect ratio across the board some images may not properly fill the screen.

Um that because the game title does not match the video file name. Please see my previous post. Specifically this piece below: Your game title is Alien Vs. Predator. Your video file name is Predator Hunting Ground.

Can you post the xml files you are using. Should be able then to see what needs adjusting in it.

If you look at the documentation pdf located in the \Themes folder it tells you what all the views are. You should be able to then go into the default theme’s view folder and find that view file and copy into your theme and try and edit it. Not sure how much those menu items can be edited but that’s how you can try.

On Mame’s site when you go to download the latest version just scroll down a bit you will see the whats new txt link. If you wanna see it for any past version just go to the Downloads > Previous Versions page and each version has the txt listed as well.

True. It was more just a response to his statement of it being hard to find a list of new emulated games.

The whatsnew_XXXX.txt tells you exactly what is new and is broken into categories like New Working Machines / New Working Clones and other changes. Every release gets this txt file and you can easily see the changes. I usually just look over that and if nothing stands out I do not upgrade. https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0228.txt

You can have any video you want play for a game. It is a premium feature though, so not available in free version. Just make sure you name the video how the game is named in LB and store in it the correct folder. Using Predator Hunting Grounds as an example and let's say you have it in a platform called Windows. Video file name: Predator Hunting Grounds.mp4 Video file location: \Launchbox\Videos\Windows\Predator Hunting Grounds.mp4

With recent LB versions antivirus has been the problem. I know you said you are sure your firewall is not blocking, but I would look to see if it has already quarantined the LB exe or the dll. We have had users say they checked it is not blocking but never looked to see of it had already quarantined it and it was. If this is not the case and nothing is quarantined go into your \Updates folder and rerun the latest installer. You can run it right over top of the existing build. Just make you confirm it installs to a \Launchbox folder and not a \Launchbox\Launchbox folder. Double check that as many users have made that mistake.

The wizard would have also warned you about what Neil mentioned.

@albert666 When uploading a theme please use our downloads section for BigBox Custom themes. In the top right of that page is a button to submit a file. It would also be helpful if you provide images of the theme for users. This will help users better find/download your themes. https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/category/2-big-box-custom-themes/

Close Active Windows is not missing from 11.8. I just reinstalled 11.8 and it is there. If it was missing it definitely would have been caught when it released.

That Arcade - Copy.xml and the MAME - Copy.xml is your issue. LB will try to read that as well. You cannot create any other files in this folder with a platform's name in it. This is why LB does its backup in a separate folder. Remove those files with copy in the name. There can only be one file in there with a platform's name in it. Even if you rename it slightly.

In your \Launchbox\Data\Platforms folder do you have any files named backup in there?

Make sire you set your exit button or button combo to “Close Active Window” option and not “Exit”.

You would have to code it into the marquee xaml. Its been a while since I messed with it so I doubt I have anything saved. Problem is the video is choppy and muting the video did not always work. I spoke with Jason about it a while back and he recommended a plugin would be needed for better control.

It is possible for the marquee to play videos. Without using a plugin though BB starts to run very poorly. So it does start using up a lot of resources.

Unfortunately there is no user settings for marquee image priorities like other image types have. It is coded into BB that in the absence of a marquee image BB will use your box front image priorities. Marquee priorities is one of the things I have been looking forward to in BB. So hopefully next poll marquee support upgrade can make the cut.

Just tested and the theme works fine on several cabinets on current BB stable version and current beta. Are you getting any type of error or anything? Also can you confirm where you put the theme's folder and did you unzip it properly (correctly named folder and dll is unblocked)?

What theme are you trying to use? Did you download it from the BigBox UI or from the forum? If from the forum where did you place it (folder location) and did you unzip the file properly (is it in the correctly named folder and did the dll get unblocked)?

Anytime!

What do you mean by buy another Launchbox? Launchbox is free unless you buy a premium license. Even then if you delete your LB build you can download another version and drop your license in. What drive did you install LB on? Is it on the one you forgot to change or a different drive?

What Startup theme are your trying to use and where did you put the theme when you downloaded it (the folder location)?

Is this only affecting certain roms or all of them? If all, how old is the Mame version you are using? It could be if it is old the command line -keyboardprovider dinput is causing the issue. Edit your Mame setup in Launchbox and in the details tab delete the line below form the default command line parameters box and test. -keyboardprovider dinput