Retro808

Is the zip file it is showing the game zipped file? Would you post a pic of your RA settings. In LB >Tools >Manage >Emulators then edit Retroarch. Post a pic of the "Details" page.

Yes. You just need to make a playlist called "Favorites" and set it to auto-populate with the Field = Favorites and the Comparison = Is True.

Messing around with the Startup and Shutdown. BB Theme Image as reference: Startup and Shutdown theme so far: The "Loading" and "Exit" text fade in/out and the blue glows animate as well like in the BB theme. Still got a lot of cleaning up. @IxMasterxI will send you a copy to test once I get to that point.

For the error you are getting looks like a fix is in place in our current beta. You can download the beta, otherwise you would have to wait for the next stable release. To get betas in LB tools in the updates section there is a tick box to download betas. As a workaround, if you do not have a User Name and Password in the EmuMovies section in your LB settings you should be able to put a random string of data in those and it should keep it from crashing when you then try to download the platform media. As far as the rom duplication piece not to sure. Can you provide information on when the duplicates occur? Is it during import, after closing then opening LB a duplicate appears. Need some details. Also cna you share a pic of the contents of your \Data\Platforms folder.

Oh now you are just getting greedy. 🤣 I am joking of course. I will try and get that going as well. May be a bit (probably about a week) as I have a work project to tend to. Thanks, but the real credit goes to @Juketsu for the visual style of the theme. I do not have that sort of creativity. I am just happy I have taught myself enough coding to be able to replicate his design. It will be a bit longer before I post. Need to clean up some code and refine a few minor things.

If you prefer different images in either of the two box let me know and I can make an adjustment. Let me know what image and in which of the two boxes you prefer.

So got some free time this morning before my 5am conference and got something going. Was able to get a bit more time just a bit ago and got this far. I used the TextGamesView of the BB theme as the design since it fit most with the Pause Menu and needing a text list. Alignment of elements is pretty close to the BB theme. The glows animate like the theme. Game play image is used as currently videos in Pause themes do not work correctly. Something the devs are aware of. So a concession was made to use game play image. Also font size on the "Game Paused" is larger. Just looked odd smaller. Tested on a 16:9 and 4:3 screen and layouts work. My 4K is busted so I cannot test against any other monitor right now. Only gripe is when your Pause menu does not have a lot of items we have a large amount of dead space. You can see this difference in the two images. However, it is better than no theme to use. BB Theme Text View: Pause Theme:

I would say pretty much this. Some of our more prolific theme designers have mentioned doing pretty much the whole theme in something like Notepad++. Some have mentioned using VS. Using VS though you do not always get that full view of the layout and all media, metadata, and elements like you see in the Community Theme Builder.

What platform? If this is Mame did you import your roms using the Full Set Mame import option? If so that is why. You only use that option if you actually are using a full Mame rom set. If importing a curated Mame collection you just use the file or scan options.

There have been no updates. This could possibly be done with a plug-in but one has not been created either. If you ever want to see what updates have been released you can view all changelog notes directly in LB. go to the hamburger menu in the upper left of LB and Choose >Help >Changelog.

Still could be how the theme was coded may not work well with that wider aspect ratio. If all other themes look fine, than it is not a media issue. Only difference is the theme.

Likely aspect ratio. BB themes are typically 16:9.

Likely Nahimic causing the issue. I remember seeing the OneX uses Realtek drivers which has nahimic integration. We do know nahimic services cause graphical issues and recommend shutting down nahimic. I have no experience with the device so not sure if you can just shutdown nahimic services or would need to update a driver.

I do not believe it does it as in depth as a new import with games does. If you have games imported already, but RA is not in your emulators when you go to add RA it will add all the common platforms and select the proper cores. However, it does not do the bios selection like it would during a platform import of games. At least that is what happened when I first tested it on an existing build.

That part I knew. Was just looking to see if you have a more specific idea. Cannot promise anything due to time constraints since this will have to be manually coded and work/life has me pretty busy. The overall theme design and any images I use will come from this theme so credit to @Juketsu for his work on the theme. If he has not objections I will post if I can get one done.

I do believe this feature is only for new imports and setting up RA. If you already have games imported and RA set up you would not need the feature.

In LB or BB? Or both? Might be helpful if you shared an image of what you are seeing.

What theme are you trying to edit? I have not had many issues opening a theme in VS and had to add any assemblies. Honestly I do not use VS as much to edit or make a theme so I am not very knowledgeable on it. I usually just use Notepad++. VS is not needed as you can use a text editor to do the work. I will use VS sometimes if I need to easily see a layout or test positioning.

OK. Not sure on the exact steps you did. So I tested with a couple games. MK2 for example: I have 7 version listed in the Additional Apps page. Right now my default is (Rev 3.1). So if I look in the "Launching" page it shows the path to mk2.zip. I chose Rev 2.0 (which is rom mk2r20.zip) and LB prompts me that making this selection will override some default fields. I select Yes . Now when I go back to "Launching" page the path changed from mk2.zip to mk2r20.zip. Testing this with several games even opening and closing LB several times the default will stick to the change I made. Is this what you are doing? Just want to confirm since you said you also manually change the file. What version LB are you on.

Function still works fine. 1. Select the games 2. Go to >Tools >Download >Update Metadata and Media for selected games.

Go to >Tools >Manage >Emulators. When it opens edit Retroarch. Go to the Associated Platforms tab. There you need to make sure the platform name for your Neo Geo games is listed and it exactly matches how the name shows in your LB. Also make sure you have the correct core selected for the platform.

Inside your \Data\Platforms folder do you have backup xaml files or alternate copies in there?

Your question about using the theme creator to make Startup themes was answered here. https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/63906-customizing-startuppauseshutdown-screens-for-emulators-and-games/?tab=comments#comment-395417