Retro808

No, it is a static image in this theme. Do you have box art for all your games? Like the clear logos these are not included in the theme. These are downloaded media that support your games in Launchbox and in theme views in BigBox. You have to download these like other images and videos.

Do you have a clear logo downloaded for it? The clear logos are not part of the theme. Also if you called the platform "Mame" instead of "Arcade" you would need to make sure the file is named Mame.png or Mame.jpg and stored in the correct \Images\Platforms\[Platform Name]\Clear Logo folder.

That's an old setting. BigBox now plays through the length of your videos before dropping you into the UI. I believe you can hit a button during the video as well to go straight into BigBox instead of watching the whole video.

What was the issue in case someone else has a similar problem and sees this thread?

So is this correct? You can run games in Demul outside of Launchbox? If so you have a setting incorrect in Launchbox, Share pics of below: 1) In Manage emulators edit Demul and show a pic of the Details tab and the Associated Platform tab. 2) Right click a game and edit. Show a pic of emulation tab. 3) Also make sure how the platform name appears in Launchbox is exactly how it appears in the associated platforms tab. Spelling and Capitalization have to match. So if you have Naomi 2 as the platform name but have Sega Naomi 2 in the associated platform it will not work.

Yeah if you are using preloaded builds from something like the ColPipes set we do not really support troubleshooting those. It is hard to know how that was set up and if you did not do the setup yourself it makes it even harder to tell you where to look and what to fix. The best course of action if you used the ColPipes build is to request help on his discord. I will tell you looking at the video you are not actually changing "views" you are just changing "themes" in that video. Each "theme" has multiple "views" you can choose from. You need to set a button/key for "Switch View" which is different than "Switch Theme". There is an option for it in both Keyboard and Controller mapping section in BigBox. Outside of this, any issues you have if you are using the Pipes build should be referred to his discord for better help.

What is difficult to use? You open the emulator of choice. Look for where the settings are to bind the controls. Then typically you click a control (Let's say "UP") in the emulator setting then you move the joystick on the Tankstick "Up" to bind it. Same with buttons. You choose which button you want mapped to do what control. It is a simple as (1) clicking on the control item and (2) clicking the button on the tankstick you want it mapped to. Repeat step 1 and step 2 until done. Some emulators can be a little more involved, but not by much. There is no diagram because the user sets the controls how he/she wants. In order for my Tankstick to be able to move around in BigBox I had to tell it which button was select, back, and so on. In BigBox here are examples of what I mapped controls and Select/Back to on my Tankstick.

Do you have each of the default command line parameters for the different platforms Demul can run in your Demul emulator setup in Launchbox. Also do you have the associated platform names listed in? For example:

The video you linked does not work. Adding roms to an existing platform does not affect the platform view. What do you mean "the pre installed types"? Are you using a drive that had preinstalled Launchbox and games? Or did you download on prebuilt set-up?

Change the view in the 7800 platform. If you check your BigBox keyboard mapping or controller mapping see if you have a key/button set for "Change View". Each theme offers multiple views so looks like you just need to change it for that platform and BigBox can allow for different views as well as different themes per platform.

@thogar480 When the polls are live you are able to vote for as many items as you wanted. You were not limited to just one item, only one time choosing your top items. Jason keeps making it better and better and I am confident it will fit your needs in time. Jason does great work and has mentioned updates to marquee support is something that will get added at some point. edited: So I just had a quick mess around (I am no coder, but having been learning as I have been tweaking some marquee stuff, so this is all with elementary knowledge) and here is an example of marquee image moved to the top. The scrolling text in the bottom is to show there is real estate there and the image is in fact positioned in the upper most part of a 16:9 monitor.

This should already be possible you would just need to know how to code and then edit the GameMarqueeView.xaml and PlatformMarqueeView.xaml to position the image where you would want on the view. Similar to how you would position any other image or video in a BigBox theme on the canvas. You dictate the proper grid size for your monitor and set the image to be positioned in the required row/columns. So there is a way to accomplish this. Maybe not the easiest way, but at least a way exists. I have tinkered with it and got it to work and I even think Retrohumanoid has done that same. I recall seeing a couple posts from him on it. Unfortunately, even though cabinets may be pretty common, cabinets with video marquees do not seem to be as common with at least those users voting and posting in our forums. It was the only thing I really have been looking for since I joined and it just missed out last year and this year. I can say from my own direct talks with Jason he will get to this, it just is not high up with many users at this time.

Yeah, Jason does require the theme creator to state what it was tested and works on. Not sure how Jason would go about ensuring they are accurate and do in fact work on those aspects short of making sure he owned 1 of each aspect ratio monitor and tested the themes on each prior to it being approved in the downloader. So we are sort of going on the word of the creator. Hopefully we can get more 4:3 and 5:4 themes. We do have a member working on a theme creator UI that when ready should speed up theme creation.

Welcome to the forum and we look forward to more user created content. 5:4 themes are likely to be a bit one off for a while so we definitely welcome one. "Lack of feature rich options" though I am not sure of. Launchbox and BigBox are very feature rich and Jason is adding new stuff regularly. Not bad for a one man show. I do believe the themes loaded into the BigBox theme manager does have to specifically state all aspect ratios it was tested to work on.

There is not really a set mapping that works with all emulators. You just need to open each emulator and go to its control configuration setting and set each Tankstick button/control to the emulator. The Tankstick is seen as keyboard inputs and works with pretty much a majority of emulators. The newer version of the Tankstick has a switch you can change it to either D-input or X-input. You can also buy the new encoder to update to this if you have the older version of the Tankstick.

Downloading from the theme manager in BigBox will only recognize a new version after its approved if the creator uploaded it through the theme manager upload. If it was only added directly here to the forum you have to download the zip from the forum and just extract it.

Bass Angler games need chd files. Battle Arena 2 and Bonze Adventure do not appear to need chd and work in the romset I have. I think mine is on .206. I know they need it but did not check what bios file it is. Battle Arena may also need the Capcom qsound_hle.zip file.

Unfortunately they are mixed since the Playlists pull images from each specific platform and box image shapes/sizes vary by platform. I am not sure there is much that can be done right now as is. Pretty much any image type varies platform to platform. Even looking a screenshot gameplay, fanart, flyers they all vary. Steam Banners would be nice since they are uniform, but I am not sure Steam has a library of banner images for all the systems in emulation.

That feature is not new. It has been there for a while. Those options are not to set game images for platforms. Those 4 images are for the platform itself (Such as a clear logo, banner, fanart say for the Sega CD console itself). Steam would probably not have a banner for hardware. Images for games within a platform are controlled by the Image Priorities. What Jason did add to that specific section was the ability to add a "Default Box", "Default 3D Box", "Default Cart" and "Default 3D Cart" for games that are missing those image types so you don't have just a blank square with a name. Is that what you are looking for? To set a "Default Steam Banner" for games missing Steam Banners?

Unless I am misunderstanding exactly what you mean by "set steam banners as default box type" you can actually do this. In image priorities in the Launchbox >Tools>Options just tick steam banner and move it to the top of the list for Box Front (you may have to refresh the image cache to affect a change). Additionally under Image Group you can set the default view in Launchbox for any platform to "Steam Banner".

I know, that's why I get tempted more and more to ship you one. ? I am here for the long haul with Launchbox so I never really fuss about things.

Aaaand marquee support missed out again by only a couple places. Missed the cut this time by 14 votes. ??

The theme is coded to show both User and Star Rating up in the metadata/details section of each of the view. So you will see code referring to that. The Star Rating image in the bottom right of the views is controlled by the code below. I could not tell you how to alter it as it is using an Image To Source Converter to convert the metadata it reads to display the correct image. I think User Rating is scaled in .25 increments and Community Rating is more refined so it may need a bit more changing in the code than just a simple Binding change. My code knowledge is very elementary so I am not too sure. <Image Name="RatingImage" Source="{Binding Path=SelectedGame.RatingImage, Converter={StaticResource ImageToSourceConverter}}" DockPanel.Dock="right" Margin="5"/>

Keep in mind because you are using a very old version of Mame and Roms new features in LaunchBox may not work well or work at all. We know Pause screens do not work as there is a keyboard parameter that has been added that is required to work with Mame. Older versions of Mame do not support this so you either cannot use the feature or need to update Mame and Roms.

What version Launchbox/BigBox are you on? If you are on a current version that has the Startup screen feature try turning off Startup for that Mame emulator if you are using it. In Launchbox go to >Tools>Manage Emulators and edit Mame setup and untick "Enable Game Startup" and see if that helps.