The Papaw

The Papaw-Pause Theme (4K Tested) View File This is a redux of the awesome "Big Fade Pause" theme. A Big thanks to Retro808 for his contribution and allowing me to share a modded version of it. It was designed for 4K, but seems to work fine on 1080 as well. I tested this with the usual emulators, if you look at the screenshots you can see the ones used, the N64 is using RetroArch. The PCSX2 is buggy, sometime it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes doing it a 2nd time will kill the process, but not always. The main changes I made to it was I changed the font to match the font I used with the Startup Theme and it pulls the Fanart Background artwork. Install: Unzip and drop the "The Papaw-Pause Theme" folder into your ..\Launchbox\PauseThemes\ folder. The Roboto-Light font is included in the font folder if you wish it to match the screenshots. To install it on your PC (just click on it and follow the Windows prompts) Choose it in the BigBox Options. That's pretty much it. I also did this remake to go along with the of the redux of my version of the "Just Simple Startup Theme". The "The Papaw-Startup Theme" Don't forget to rate and leave comments and questions! Enjoy!! Submitter Wanderer189 Submitted 02/06/2021 Category Pause Themes  

The Papaw-Startup Theme (4K Tested) View File This is a redux of the awesome "Just Simple Startup Theme". A Big thanks to BlazingRyuu for his contribution and allowing me to share a modded version of it. It was designed for 4K, but seems to work fine on 1080 as well. Features: The backgrounds are from the game itself and pulled from the Fanart Backgrounds folder Animated loading bar (it loops for slower systems) Nice small 3D Box in the upper left corner (will default back to 2D Box if no 3D is available) Nice small clearlogo in upper right corner Play count on bottom right corner There are now 3 versions of the "Default.xaml file. Small, Medium and Large. They change the size of the Boxart in the upper left hand corner. Rename the one you wish to use to "Default.xaml". The screenshots show the small cornered artwork. I added a couple more screenshots at the end that show the medium and large box arts. Install: Unzip and drop the "The Papaw-Startup Theme" folder into your ..\Launchbox\StartupThemes\ folder. (Folder name has to remain The Papaw-Startup Theme) Choose the Box art size you wish to use by picking the correct Default.xaml file aand making sure it is named to Default.xaml (will default to Medium) The Roboto-Light font is included in the font folder if you wish it to match the screenshots. To install it on your PC (just click on it and follow the Windows prompts) Choose it in the BigBox Options. That's pretty much it. If you have a platform that doesn't work, make a copy of the "Default.xaml" and rename it to the problem platform and give that a try. I also did a remake of the of the "Big Fade" Pause theme to go along with this startup theme, the only changes made too it was I changed the font to match this and it now pulls the Fanart Backgrounds artwork instead of screenshot artwork. Pause theme I modded to match this: The Papaw-Pause Theme Don't forget to rate and leave comments and questions! Enjoy!! Submitter Wanderer189 Submitted 02/06/2021 Category Startup Themes  

About once a year, I go though my collections and try to update all the media data. I download new data for everything, resize everything, combine with my older custom stuff, etc.. I am noticing that I have gotten tons of images that have extra characters add to the name. For example, Dragon Lore should be downloaded as Dragon Lore-01.ext, but I got "Dragon Lore.1dd8e7a7-1205-48dd-9a8f-13f6ea406c08-01". And many times I got multiple copies of each one with the extra characters being changed up, but they are all identical image. Sometimes 4 or 5 of them per game. I am going to have 1000's of these to find, rename and delete if I wish to get rid of them. Can anyone explain to me here what is going on with this, why it happens and if there is anything I can do to prevent it? UPDATED Info: After spending hours going through some of this, I think am noticing a pattern. It seems that when it happens, it is happening for all the artwork for that particular game. An example is Tetris in the Arcade platform. It happens to the all the artwork for the game, Advertisement Flyer - Front, Banner, Box - 3D, Box - Front, Clear Logo, etc.. I have also noticed this still using Tetris from the Arcade platform as an example. Here are the 6 files it downloaded (keep in mind, I started with empty directories): Tetris.3a1a0a30-16b3-402e-b660-5d8049086012-01.jpg Tetris.025e5225-9ada-4371-844f-19ad63f86e33-01.jpg Tetris.944c026e-ce36-4976-a3d9-317978f8ee66-01.jpg Tetris.430583ff-f44b-4beb-8cf5-ba911cd38473-01.jpg Tetris.5386976b-2997-48c3-8c30-ee6731233418-01.jpg Tetris.e3aa9b16-2527-4bb4-bdac-77ad8e2b3e82-01.jpg If it downloads 6 files into any media folder, such as the Fanart - Background folder, It means I am getting 6 files in every other folder that has an image. Say this was the Fanart - Background, I will also get 6 ClearLogos, 6 Box - Front, 6 Box3d, etc. All 6 of them in every folder will have matching extra characters that I hightlighted in red. Most of them only have 2-3 but some have 10+.

It must have came back up, I got 200+ errors but it is downloading again and site is reachable now.

Looking that way, I had LB downloading meta data and it has been running all night, since I got notified about your post, I just checked LB and it is erroring on every image it is trying to download now. That really sucks, now another 12 hours to run it again....lol

PC Board Travel (4K & 1080) View File I made a startup video for my setups, thought I would share. It is 4K (HEVC) but works fine with 720 and 1080 setups One is just 15 seconds long and the second one is 30 seconds long for older, slower systems. After a few seconds of video it also says "I am starting your gaming system now, one moment please" Enjoy! Watch 15 Second Version (youtube) Submitter The Papaw Submitted 01/27/2021 Category Big Box Startup Videos  

Thank you Sir, yeah, I kinda figured that.

No, I wound up creating a startup video for now. The Bigbox logo that appears when BB is starting up when you are not using a startup video.

Thank for the reply Jason. I can't really remember if I had done it already, but I just did it again to make sure.

I know this isn't the feature request thread, but I would still love to see a couple things added to make LB easier to work with concerning videos: 1. an option in the context menu of the game edit to go to the video folders when you click on a game, like you can with the images (Open Images Folder). 2. an option for a default video in the platform edit like you can set up default images for them. Just wanted to through it out there again....appreciate the read.

How would I go about changing the startup splash screen? Wanting to change it to something like "Starting..." or something.

Anyone know a way to remove or disable a single transition in the transitions? I like the random or sequential, but the explosion just kills the setup as far as speed

Robot Voices View File Startup says "Let the games begin" Select says "Selected" Back says "Going Back" Move says "Okay" -- Enjoy Submitter Wanderer189 Submitted 12/19/2020 Category Big Box Sound Packs  

Is there a way to force BigBox to use the "default" monitor, rather than choosing 1 or 2? I have a setup where I change monitors with a program (TVLauncher) for gaming. #1 is my Primary, but when I run the program, it makes #2 the Primary. Almost every program I'm using with this works as expected, except for BB. It always goes to 1. I know I can change it to 2 within BB, but that makes it a pain if I am needing BB for checking or testing things, I always have to change it back to 1. I have tinkered with the <PrimaryMonitorIndex> in the "BigBoxSettings.xml", like setting it to 2 or leaving it blank, but nothing seems to work quite right.

I finally got this to work with Yuzu. I was running Yuzu as Admin. I changed that and it works just fine now. But just so folks know, this can re-introduce a current bug in Yuzu concerning threaded optimization.