Retro808

edited: Did not read enough to see you edited your post that you found it. Direct links to themes downloads

Wow. Those last pics really look good. The branding tone down really made a difference. Well, for me it did at least. I cannot wait to download a version when it is ready.

Man that takes me back to my dresser back in the 80's. That thing had so many decals on it. I think you just made retro gaming even more nostalgic! Oh and that A-style sticker is classic! ????

You can hit the details button on the top right of LB. It will open up a pane on the side of LB that displays metadata and the multiple images related to the rom. ((unless that is only a premium feature - not sure on that part as I have premium))

If you choose a game and right click then edit the edit game screen in the bottom right side will show how many images are associated with that game. It will show something like 1/15 and you can click left/right to scroll through the images. Are all your games only showing 1/1?

Hey look at that I was kind of helpful. I will take it over not being helpful at all. Thanks @DOS76 sharing your knowledge. It helped me learn a couple things.

My answers will probably be basic as I am still learning, but here goes... 1. Does mame run the games fine without using launchbox? (the romset version has to match your version of mame). If so I would probably share snaps of an edit game detail (right click a game and choose edit). Show the launcher and emulation tabs. Then also go to edit emulator and share snaps of the emulator detail and associated platforms tabs. Maybe the experts can see if you have something missing or not linked correctly. 3. If you have videos already they can be placed in the correct system folder in the videos folder of your launchbox drive (\\LaunchBox\Videos\<system name>). Also in view menu make sure "auto-play video" is checked. I do not think it is defaulted to auto play. 4. Mame chd files go in a folder named for each rom and is placed in the main folder you have your roms. example: /mame/roms/carnevil.zip /mame/roms/carnevil/<carnevilchdfiles> 5.. They can be on different drives as long as you are directing launchbox correctly.

I recommend using some the of tutorials. It really is easy, plus this forum is amazing at helping when you get in a spot. Here is a specific video tutorial for SNES. Example: Using Retroarch to emulate SNES. First you have to download Retroarch and the needed core for SNES you want to use then in the input setting of Retroarch set up your controller and your hotkeys. Then in Launchbox/BigBox import you roms and set the default. You also will need to set any specific controller/keyboard commands in LaunchBox/BigBox you want for use in LB/BB. These are separate from what you set in the emulator. Now both should run as you set them up. The retropie/retroarch/emulationstation is a bit different as most users are downloading an image where someone has already done the basic set-ups and all the user needs to do is connect a controller and set it up in Emulationstation. I know for me that's all I did.

Nice! I really have to get into using bezels in RA. Thanks to this download it looks like I will.

@SentaiBrad Thanks. I will have to put a ticket in. Figured I would see if I was missing something first. I will search bitbucket and vote on the wheel images request as well.

Now that we have platform categories in 7.9 I have set BB to default of platform category. I use vertical wheel style in my platforms, but since I only have 3 platform categories using the vertical wheel view looks ugly in platforms category since you see the same 3 icons repeated. I would like to be able to change this view. Currently if I do it also changes platforms to the same view. Is there a setting I am missing? BB does have the option to "Remember Separate View for Each Platform". With the new features there does not seem to be an option to apply this so platform categories remembers a separate view from platforms. Or am I missing it somewhere?

-You can move Launchbox to any drive you want. It is portable. EDIT: ninja'd by @massatomic -Did you test the games in Retroarch with it running outside of launchbox and does it work that way? -DId you set your controller button mappings in snes9x? Each emulator needs to be set in its input options. Setting up button mappings in LaunchBox/BigBox is for the frontend only. As far as mame goes it you can set up an exit hook in mame directly. Run a game in mame and hit tab to bring up the options to set controls. Using the controller automation settings in Launchbox works as well. -If your dreamcast roms work in reicast the why not use the reicast core in retroarch? Demul is better, it can be a pain to get working right. -emumovies.com is working. Did you check your spam folder? On the emumovies forum there are some posts of registration issues due to specific email providers not allowing users to receive emails from emumovies account. I would email them directly. -PSP can be run using ppsspp-libretro core in retroarch or using standalone ppspp emulator.Both work, the standalone is best. -Have you tried different roms in epsxe and do any of them work/not work? Not all PS rom work correctly. I recommend properly setting up your emulators outside of Launchbox first and test. Then import your roms into Launchbox.

@Grila The controller icon, can that be set differently for each platform? I have been wanting a way to show the user on a certain platform if they would use the arcade controller or a specific game controller. Your ComixBox theme has been my favorite so far, but if the above is correct this may take its place. As others have mentioned countless times thanks for all the amazing contributions. Launchbox just keeps getting better.

He just means it simply refreshes the stored cache that way if you downloaded any new images the cache will have the most recent data so Launchbox/BigBox can quickly access it. Refresh does not download any new metadata.

Not sure if you fixed your issue but I tested on 1.3 and 1.4 as well and no issues with crashing on about 6 games with controller automation.

Agree with @lordmonkus One of my systems has similar specs only difference is running an AMD RX480 GPU. Pretty much on that machine what lordmonkus described is true for me as well with the AMD GPU. For modern system emulation the biggest hurdle is how far developed the emulator is or rather is not. I will add that Launchbox/BigBox runs smooth on that machine even with a lot of images and video playbacks the front end deals with. So performance of the front end is not much of an issue as your library grows.

I would probably still run it first with media player instead of VLC. If it doesnt crash then try VLC. If it does crash on VLC you can at least narrow an issue. Then redo the .xml and set BigBox to media player after that.

@jaythompson Try a clean BigBoxSetting.xml. I had a crash a while back out of nowhere. I could not get BigBox to even run. So I deleted the BigBoxSettings.xml and was able to get it running right. Go into Data folder and first make a back up of your "BigBoxSettings.xml" just in case this does not work you can revert back to the original. Once you make a copy then delete the original from the Data folder. Open BigBox and it will make a new .xml. You will need to redo your settings though like your control automations and such. I would run the default theme and see if it crashes or not.

Have to chime in and agree on the retroarch option. I used to shy away from it as well and use a lot of standalones. With Launchbox once you have Retroarch set up for your specific cores Retroarch is out of sight out of mind.

Just want to add I had crashing on 7.7 with VLC set. Changed to media player on no crashes. Tested it on 7.8 Wednesday and with VLC set it crashed within 4 hours on attract mode. I cannot confirm exactly how quickly it crashed only that after I returned 4 hours laters it had crashed. Set it to media player last night and it did not crash at all when left running overnight.

@neil9000 Still learning. I had to get check on my arcade before I posted. Trying my best to be of some kind of help when I can.

Edited: Ninja'd by @neil9000

Have you tried switching from VLC to media player in the BigBox settings?

I may be wrong on this but I think the issue really is how a theme is set up to use the image folders. In each platform there is a "device" folder and a "banner" folder. I would assume you could place the system picture in device folder and marquee pic in the banner folder. As long as a theme is built to utilize those folders then it would display I think the way you are wanting. I think the functionality is there just the theme needs to make use of it. I am sure the experts will correct me if wrong.

For platform images I believe they go in the "banner" folder under the platforms level "/Launchbox/images/platforms/<system name>/banner" and I believe can be named anything as long as it is in that folder. You can have the marquee rotate through images when you cycle back to the platform by naming the images ending in "*-01.png", "*-02.png" and so on. The marquee for each game I believe could be named in several ways to match your library/rom name and go in the "marquee" folder of the system. Here is a post on Media File Naming. edited to correct a misunderstanding after I read the above link.