Xirvet
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And pack 7 is now out
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Here's something that is NOT an April Fools joke: Pack 6 is released!
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Pack 5 is out now, you know the drill!
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And I am upping this thread to say my pack 4 is out and I was on fire these last 2 months so enjoy a big collection of backgrounds
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And Pack 3 is now out for a few more games!
BTW @faeran have you looked into the issue of gifs for Custom Image 2 not being recognized that I mentioned previously?
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And I just now released a 2nd pack of backgrounds, all the details here!
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So this is is an interesting problem I discovered as I started batch redownloading the images I had lost due to a previous bug that I already mentionned on the forum. I discovered that the downloader will not identify or download images if say one of them has a region and the rest not. As an example, I had submitted quite a number of fanart backgrounds to the PC version of Halo: Master Chief collection and yet due to one background that had north america as a region, the rest of the backgrounds who had no region were not only not downloaded but the dialog box would show that the database had only 1 background as a result. "Non-regionalised" images will only get pulled and shown on that dialog box if none of those image types have a region. I don't know if there could be a way to fix this in the future as it would require tremendous work to give regions to EVERY single image in the database to counter that issue and really not every image type needs a region attached to it
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1 minute ago, Jason Carr said:
Wow, okay. I have reports of this happening to both @Xirvet and @sialivi, both of whom have been very helpful in figuring this issue out, and I really appreciate it. It turns out that both users are running MalwareBytes, which is (yet again) throwing false positives and murdering a bunch of processes during the image scanning operations, which is causing this issue.
My apologies to you both and anyone else who might run into this. I will have to tweak the code to handle this situation more gracefully. There's really nothing I can do to prevent MalwareBytes from ruining things, but I can stop the process at that point and tell the user not to continue, now that I know what's going on.
Hold up, I checked cause I wasn't sure if this new PC I had for a year (which is the one I run LB on) had Malwarebytes and turns out it does not so that dosen't seem to be the case for me
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1 minute ago, Jason Carr said:
Gotcha, thanks. By chance, are you running any anti-virus or anti-malware software other than Windows Defender?
Malwarebytes if anything but otherwise no, just regular Windows defender. My PC is in french if that has any bearing
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Just now, Jason Carr said:
Thanks. Do you happen to recall about how long the process took? Was it quick (less than 10 minutes), or did it take a long time?
That I genuinly cannot say because I started the process as I was leaving to do some errands in town figuring it would take a while and I was gone for 2 hours, it was done by the time I got back but for how long? can't say
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Just now, Jason Carr said:
By chance, do you remember if the items that showed up in the list to delete said that they were "not in use" or "duplicates"?
I remember it saying they were not in use for the ones I saw
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1 minute ago, Jason Carr said:
Thanks, will test with it. I deleted the data file for security reasons after downloading it.
No problem I understand it! Thankfully I am a "compulsive" submitter to the database so most of my images were already there
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7 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
@Xirvet Very sorry to hear. I'm currently trying to reproduce this so that I can get it fixed, but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet. Would you be willing to zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder so that I can test with it?
Edit: Also, do you remember which boxes you checked when you ran the clean up media process?
I cannot remember which I checked off my head but I remember having checked all but 1, I'll check later once my mass redownload is done. Also here's my data folder. The only thing to know is that my Launchbox is installed on my D:/ drive (dunno if that has an impact on it)
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So I need to report this bug as I feel it is a HUGE one but I went out to do some stuff today and decided to run the cleaning media tool since I knew I had duplicates and stuff. Process was done when I came back, I told to delete what it found based on the 2 or 3 I saw at the start which were legitimate. When I then went to edit some game, I was surprised to find out it had NO images at all only to then realise my images were essentialy wiped clean and I now have to redownload them all because nothing is left. I have NO idea why it happened the way it did but even when I checked my folders, they were gone too.
I put in an image of my images folder. Keep in mind I took this screenshot after I had redownloaded some files so some platforms folders were back but I also put an image of my vid folder which was thankfully intact to show there should be more
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3 hours ago, Scratcher said:
ok wow, over 1 GB, I didn't expect that ?
I am very happy that you have decided to share this.
I took a quick look inside that pack and I can allready tell that I will replace on my personal Bigbox setup some of my backgrounds with yours.
Awesome work!
That's funny because the opposite happened for me too a few times XD
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On 5/28/2020 at 4:21 PM, Scratcher said:
Oh I am very much looking forward to your packs! I was hoping that someday someone else would also make and share backgrounds for this theme besides me
I had been making them almost as long as you just got lazy in submitting them which oh boy, that first pack is a doozy but here it is
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Xirvet's Retrotastic Game Backgrounds Packs (Multi-consoles)
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Alright I had been working on these for a year now so this first pack is a whooping 1GB (blame my lazyness) and don't worry, other packs will come in the future and be much smaller in scale. I'll update this description later with all the games included but for now there is plenty in here, I'm sure you have some.
Of course you'll need @faeran's amazing theme that you can find in the theme manager of Big Box or over here, you'll also find the instruction on how to set these backgrounds for yourself and don't worry, my files are organized to be an easy import
Also in this pack, you'll find graphics with no backgrounds and that's because these are my own personnal addons to @Scratcher's already great contributions to this theme which you can find here if you don't already have them
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Submitted05/31/2020
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1 minute ago, faeran said:
Thanks @Xirvet. That should be simple enough to add back into this new version. I'll add it to the next update.
No problem, btw, the icon issue I had mentionned previously is no longer an issue anymore in this version. Oh and consider this image a teaser of what's to come when I eventually upload my stuff.
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What an update, that gives me the motivation to get a first pack of backgrounds out soon (I made hundreds of em so prepare for backgrounds galore). My only complain though is that it seems like gif assets no longer work and it's a shame since some of my work relies on gifs.
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1 minute ago, eatkinola said:
Great, thanks. What about testing with a fresh download of Retrotastic?
@faeran: Have you noticed any problems with these icons using current versions of LB/BB? Please remind me what version of the Ao.Bigbox.Themer library your current version of Retrotastic uses.
Can answer that second part, the theme (at least for me) uses Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_4
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8 minutes ago, eatkinola said:
Could you see how this same game looks in one of my themes called Refaktor? Maybe that will help narrow down the problem.
Alright here it is. From what I see, it works fine in your theme.
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1 hour ago, eatkinola said:
I'm not aware that NeonDeluxeArcade uses the Ao.Bigbox.Themer dll, but would you check its plugins folder? If so, that's a possible point of conflict.
That's fine; I do the same.
The default config, bundled in the DLL, sets AllowResourceOverrides to False. Since @faeran provides his own copy of Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_4.dll.config with his theme, that default config in the DLL is ignored and his setting of AllowResourceOverrides True is honored.
QUESTION: You said the ESRB icons are showing up. Are those the ESRB icons styled by faeran or the basic icons provided in the themer library. Some screenshots might help.
I checked and NeonDeluxeArcade does not use it
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12 minutes ago, faeran said:
Sorry to hear this. I should definitely update this theme to the newest themer plugin. I don't think that's the issue though. I've attempted to replicate the issue in the past with no luck.
@eatkinola Can you think of any reason why the themer plugin isn't pulling the icons, and is using the default instead?
Well in my setup, I use NeonDeluxeArcade as the theme (I prefer "fullscreen" videos for platform view) and Retrotastic is used in almost all my playlists. I do remember putting Retrotastic as the default to see if it would change anything but to no avail. My Launchbox is also installed on the D drive of my computer, I don't think it has any impact but thought I'd mention just in case. A 3rd thing I saw was that while the config file Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_4.dll.config has <add key="Setting.AllowResourceOverrides" value="True" />, I once accidentaly opened the dll file in notepad by accident and there saw that the same line was set to false. Sadly I have no idea how to edit DLLs to test so that could be something to look for. I'll attach those two files for reference.
Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_4.dll.config Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_4.dll
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On 6/13/2019 at 12:37 PM, Xirvet said:
I really enjoy this theme but something's been bothering me and that's that despite the screenshots showing icons for ESRB, genre, play modes and star rating, I can only seem to get the star rating icon, in fact the files in the latest download ONLY have the star rating so I was wondering how to get those additionnal icons back in
Just reposting here cause I still have this issue to this day and would like some sort of fix especially since I have made a lot of backgrounds for the theme and would like to post screenshots that have all the icons
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Retrotastic [Theme Stream]
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Updated my backgrounds with the final pack for the foreseeable future