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They are not, which is why they each have their own setting page. The emulator specific setting will override anything you have set in the LB/BB global setting. That's not what I was thinking at all. The emulator setting is an override. As mentioned earlier, this setting overrides the global Startup setting in both LB and BB. Correct, I do not have this issue as I have individually adjusted Startup delays on any emulator that needed it. For Mame I only have it set for only 1.25 seconds as after trial an error this gives me the cleanest transition from the Startup theme to the game. You need to play with the setting to find the right delay. Also, the delay is how long LB/BB will keep the Startup theme on screen before transitioning to the game. So if your emulator is taking longer you need to increase the time not set it to "0". Keep in mind, from the onset of this feature it has been advised it may not be perfect in all scenarios.

LB does not download images upon launching nor does it rescan on next launch to search for new images. When you import your games you can either manually download and add images from sites or use the LB media downloader. After import you can always run the media downloader again to add new images.

Followed this exactly on a game for the 1997 - TG16 platform I had pics of earlier. After deleting meta and re-downloading it changed it to “NEC- Turbo Grafx 16”. So I then changed that to “1997 - Turbo Grafx 16” and ran media downloader. Again, no issues with EmuMovies finding it. My only thoughts are either your Sony PS platform you provided pics on does not have the correct “Scrape As” name listed, I know your Dreamcast does since you gave pics, or perhaps it is an issue with the translation build LB you are using.

You said it does this when you download the metadata for the game. What exact steps do you take to do this? Want to replicate exactly what you do to test it.

Can you edit the platform like I mentioned and post a pic of what you have in the Details tab. In LB Right click a platform name and edit.

Worked perfectly fine here. Even tested importing games without media, then editing a single game and downloading media.

Are you talking about mapping those controllers for actually playing in game? LB and BB have nothing to do with in game functions. Those controls need to be mapped in each specific emulator you use.

Put what? The new no nag exe replaces to original one in the root folder.

If you created a "wheel" view in the Community Theme Creator it will automatically show clear logos as long as you have them downloaded. The thing to understand if BB has an actual "Text" view that is specifically designed to show games and platforms in font text. This is completely different then when in a "wheel" view someone is missing clear logos and BB shows a .png image of a text. You can tell the TextListView as it will look like clean text spaced closer together. If your list is showing all font text you need to change views. This is done best by mapping a button/key to the option for "View" and then when in the list of games hit that button/key to see real time change of view.

You have to create it. You can do so buy command line or by simply running the mame.exe without a game. Click on "Configure. Options" then click "Save Configuration". Once you exit Mame the ini will be in your Mame root folder.

You can set a custom delay per emulator in LB. In >Tools >Manage >Emulators select Mame and edit. Then in the "Startup" tab adjust the startup delay there. This will affect only Mame.

In LB in the left pane where your platform names are right click on a platform name and edit it. If your "Scrape as" is set to the common platform name it will search EmuMovies just fine. That is the point of the "Scrape as" field. This is what allows a user to name a platform any custom name, but scrape the correct platform name.

You have always been able to name a platform anything you want. To ensure it scrapes correctly all you need to do is make sure the “Scape as” field is the right platform name. This is not something that has changed in any recent versions.

If you are talking about for the Community Theme Creator then there are none. That theme was not made using the CTC. Not all themes are. Especially older themes.

What emulator are you using and do the games run directly in the emulator without using LB? If no, that is your issue. You need to make sure the games run there first. A common error here is if you are using Mame for arcade roms and you stored your roms outside of the Mame folder you need to edit the rom location path in Mame. You can do this in the UI or edit the Mame.ini file. If yes, below are 2 of the more common errors: 1. Check the associated platforms tab when you edit the emulator in LB. Make sure the platform name is listed in the Associated Platforms tab and it matches exactly what you called the platform. 2. If using Retroarch for Mame roms make sure in the details tab you do not have the option for "Extract Rom Archive" checked. (>Tools >Manage >Emulators then edit Retroarch).

I think you misread what I stated. I said they are useless to LB as you only need the .cue file to launch a game. I also advised to remove them from LB, not from your game folder. Of course you need to keep them in the game rom folder as the emulator needs them to be there. You do not need those files in LB at all. So why would you even bother renaming them or importing them. Only the emulator needs all those extra audio files or .bin files. They never need importing into LB at all.

LB does not know which files an emulator needs to run so it just imports files it sees in the folder you point it to. For the PSone import you should not have imported both the bin and cue files, the bin files as useless to LB. So those extra entries it added into one file will not launch a game. You would just import the cue file. So you really should remove those bin files from the LB import. Why LB did not import the DC tracks into a single file is because the track files are not named after the rom file. LB knows to combine files when they are named the same. In the case of .bin and .cue file games those files are both named after the rom. So LB knows it can combine them. Games that would have a rom file named after the game and then audio tracks named something like track01 will not get merged since LB cannot match the name. It all has to do with file naming.

Controller mapping section of Big Box. Set it for the option labeled "Close Active Window".

I do not see an issue with naming. So does not look like that is the issue. I did not need to see the image itself as I more wanted to see it in the folder location. Looks like you are trying to add them to the theme only. What folder do you have that Microsoft MSX.png image in? Also did you try refreshing the cache like I mentioned?

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Neil was asking more that actual file name not file type. Some rom dumps have really poor named files that can screw up scraping.

Not from a Category selection no. Platform Category is to list your various platforms. A "category" cannot have games in it. You could create an "Arcade All" playlist and then have that playlist show all games from all your arcade platforms.

Are you having an issue with Windows license or Android license? They are separate purchases. So if you bought LB/BB that is for Windows. You need to purchase an Android license. I ask because you mention limits. Only the free android limits how much you can install.

Can you post a pic of what you see in BigBox. And the png in the folder. Pics always help. Images for platforms and categories have to be exact name matches to how your life platforms and categories are named. If they do match and are in the correct folder try refreshing BigBox’s image cache in the BB settings.

It is likely you do not have a clear logo for those categories. You can download some category clear logos in different styles from our forum downloads section. The text you are seeing is an image text generated by BB in absence of a clear logo. You cannot change that font style.