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Thanks for the quick reply. That fixed it and looks really cool! Different take on the full screen with logos. It's weird that only one of my setups had the Acorn background issue.

For some reason game view 4 on the main theme is not giving me full screen videos. I've redownloaded and extracted everything twice now. It always shows the microcomputer system (acorn bbc) instead of the system logo. This is what view4 looks like on my main LB build I know nothing about xaml but in looking at the wheel4gamesview.xaml, i found references on line 109 and 129 to this system. I have a second setup with no game videos and when i plug in a video the view is correct on the other system. Any ideas/suggestions on the issue? i feel like something was overwritten somewhere, just not sure where. This is what it looks like on my minimal build with no videos.

You can keep that image of him, or if you want to spoil it, Drewtalks did an interview with him. search youtube for "ETA PRIME Interview (The Show That Has No Name) Episode 3". Didnt want to put the link in since it posts a screenshot with him in it. leave the mystery for some.

I am curious, those with living room setups, how did you make sure all your games functioned and had controls set up. Mainly for MAME, did you go through each game to set the controls? (potentially a lot of games!) It seems like every time I want to show someone my LaunchBox setup, the game they want to try either has issues or i have to manually go in and set up the controls. It detracts from the experience. I know for consoles, the set up is a lot easier because all the games use the same buttons and its just a matter of knowing what does what. MAME is a completely different animal. Suggestions, feedback?

Thanks for the replies. Finally got to test out. Using Find=Games and Replace L:\Games for the mapped drive, worked perfectly. Opening all the platform xml files in Notepad ++ and using the "replace all in open documents" worked. For some reason one platform didn't get updated even though it met the criteria. Can't complain though, it beat doing each one individually. To confirm, the videos from a network location (at least for me) have a decent amount of lag in Big Box. When i scroll and stop at a new game, the game either one up or down (depending on scroll direction) from the original starting spot plays for about 2-3 seconds before the correct video plays. Guess i will have to leave those locally for each pc. The games were the biggest space eater and thank you for the assistance. GREAT COMMUNITY!!! I did want to add one note. Using the above search and replace all did rename a few games that had "Games" in the title. Example: '88 Games was renamed to '88 L:\Games. In retrospect, using <ApplicationPath>Games as the find, probably would be better.

Still a little confused by i think i got it. Currently my games are in C:/LaunchBox/Games, i want to move them to my network drive. I have mapped the network drive folder as Drive L: on my pc where the games currently reside. When i use the replace in notepad ++, i would open up a platform.xml file and search for the current path which is "Games\platform name", I will only need to search for the keyword "Games" and replace that with the new path of L:\Games? So find Games replace L:\, or do i need to replace with L:\Games? I plan on keeping the shared drive folder structure as it currently resides on my C: drive but just with the shared drive letter. Does this sound right? Worse case, i can back up a platform and test it.

THanks for the quick reply. Ok, so in each platform i need to basically do the "find/replace all" for all instances in each platform "Games\Arcade\'rom name'" So potentially if i did each one individually, it could be hundreds of changes depending on the number of roms? I have to update every instance in each .xml, or potentially that rom will come back as "cant be located" when it is attempted to be played. The last thing I want to do is have to go back and find some game images/names again manually for the network pc. It took a while to get the correct images. If i understand right, I CAN have launchbox on my network pc but its not recommended to have the videos on the local pc, correct?

First off, I want to say thank you for this awesome piece of software! So much easier to set up than HS. I have read a number of posts about moving games dir to another pc but all seem to mention the Launchbox.xml file which I do not have since I am running the most recent beta. If I understand correctly, that has been replaced with individual platform files in the Data folder. Currently my games are in C:/Launchbox/Games along with my Emulators and media that has been scrapped. I would like to move them to my main pc that houses all of my movie/tv content and allow access to the Games library via the network. I am unsure what portion of the .xml file to edit or what to change it to. Would it be better to map a network drive to each pc and utilize the same letter of the drive? (z:/Games for example)? I think this is the line in the Arcade.xml i should be editing but not 100%, and if it is, not sure what it should be changed to. <LaunchBox> <Game> <ApplicationPath>Games\Arcade\xmen.zip</ApplicationPath> Thanks