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I sign below your comment and I totally agree with your point of view. I think there are many people who think alike, we all want to give this product a chance to improve and we know that a lot of time, money and effort has been invested to get to this point, but the results today are disappointing for any lover of video games that you intend to spend an afternoon admiring your virtual collection. Recently one of the new administrators of the forum commented in one of my messages that they know perfectly well that this is a serious problem that they have been trying to solve for a long time, but that the most appropriate solution should involve a complete reconstruction of the program with another type of more appropriate programming. Of course, I understand that this is a monstrous job and that it surely does not cross the minds of the Launchbos developers, having to leave behind all the effort made to date to start over. It's sad, but sometimes drastic decisions have to be made in order to move forward. There are many of us who see that it makes no sense to continue making improvements or adding functions to the program without first fixing its base. I totally agree with your comment in this regard. And of course, there are also many of us who have studied frontend alternatives to be able to carry out a migration of all our systems, but like you we have the same problem, that is, it has also cost us a lot of work and effort to leave this frontend suitable for our needs, many hours of filtering roms, adding multimedia, managing launchers. For us end users it also means a great effort to have to start again from scratch and this has to be seen by the Launchbox/Bigbox development team. Someone has to take the definitive step at this moment and if Launchbox does not dare to do it, there will come a point where many of the loyal users who help keep this community active will end up migrating to other solutions that do offer at least 90% of what they have been promised. Your example with the car is perfect and if you buy a vehicle but then they tell you that you cannot go over a certain speed because the car "starts to shake" I am sure that you would file a claim with the manufacturer to get your money back or to get your money back. They would give you a vehicle with which you can drive normally like the rest of the vehicles. It is true that there are premium vehicle brands, with many extras and cool things and other more modest brands that do not include most facilities, but in the case of Launchbox/Bigbox we have a Ferrari that cannot accelerate because its engine backfires when you try to start it. under way. Sorry, but I'd rather have a Ford that gets me from home to work safely and without problems than a Ferrari that backfires. I still have hopes for the Launchbox team to soon announce a profound change to the frontend aimed at improving stability and fluidity when browsing the list of games. We are at Christmas and wishes can come true.

Posted this problem on february.... As you can see... No solution.

Hello AstroBot, I personally appreciate your explanation about the current situation of Launchbox and that at least the team recognizes that there is a problem and that future measures are being taken to solve it. Until today, the Launchbox team has not been clear at all in this regard and the only responses that users of other languages received were like "Launchbox does not consider having other languages in its database" or "Launchbox was made to be displayed only in English". I think that for a product to become a great, noteworthy product it needs to listen to its community, its customers and at least try to satisfy their needs as long as they are realistic. We all know that most launchers on the market allow the scrapping of their metadata in other languages, and also allow the complete translation of their content into the user's language. If Launchbox does not allow these options, we cannot expect users to think that we have before us an engineering masterpiece, honestly. I think that all of us users who read these types of comments from the Launchbox designers are happy to know that the problem has finally been recognized and that a solution will be attempted in the near future. Now all that remains is for this not to be just empty words and for it to finally materialize with changes in the next versions of Launchbox. Thank you at least for paying attention to your community.

Nunca. Los creadores de Launchbox no quieren aceptar que existen otras lenguas con gran influencia mundial que necesitan tener su producto en dicho idioma. Se ha discutido cientos de veces y la respuesta siempre ha sido la misma. Nunca se hará. Si quieres traducir los textos de las notas puedes seguir este tutorial: https://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_tutorial-para-poner-descripciones-de-launchbox-en-castellano_2484901 O también puedes cambiar de frontend por uno que permite el multilenguaje tanto en sus elementos de menú como en el resto de elementos. Un saludo.

Thank you for the comment and your recommendation to read the post with the frequently asked questions. As I mentioned to a colleague in a previous message, the problem with Launchbox/Bigbox only has one solution and it is not simple. I quote verbatim the answer to the second question that you indicated to me in your message: "full rewrite might be necessary to fully resolve these limitations" Greetings.

Unfortunately the performance problem is also still present in this beta, so we have not said anything that is not true. Unfortunately for us, it will also continue in the next beta, and in the next of the next, and in the next of the next of the next... If moderators feel this message is inappropriate, they may delete it. They can also respond to our requests and at least let us know that they will try to solve this problem in the future. This would be something very positive for us.

Totally agree with your message. Launchbox and BigBox take away your desire to enjoy your game collection with infinite slowdowns. All the systems you mentioned in your message allow you to navigate your collection fluidly, something I have NEVER been able to have in BigBox. The worst thing of all is that I find it difficult to solve this problem unless the programming base is changed completely. The different themes created for BigBox are impossible to optimize and it doesn't matter if you have a state-of-the-art computer, as soon as an image or video appears you will have slowdowns. The Launchbox/Bigbox team should definitely focus on fixing these performance issues before adding features that are in most cases useless. We want to explore our game collection fluidly just like the rest of the frontends on the market. This problem and the denial of wanting Launchbox to be international, preventing those of us who do not speak English from having ALL the frontend content in other languages, means that this is not the best frontend today, and it is a real shame.

Thanks. Is it not possible to translate the Discovery Center texts? It would also be nice to be able to change the time format in Discovery Center to 24h format. In Europe we don't like the PM/AM format

Can't download latest translation files from first post page.

The name of core is PCSX2 not LRPS2. Search for it.

This wizard screen doesn't make any sense to me. If I want to have my roms in the Launchbox games folder I copy them directly there before importing them. I think that no user wants to have their roms duplicated in several folders and everyone puts the roms in the game folder on their computer that they like the most. I understand that this can be useful when you want to import roms from a USB device, but I still always prefer to put the roms in the folder that I decide, not in the Launchbox games folder. This problem of this screen disappearing in the latest stable version of Launchbox has also happened to me and I have been grateful for it, honestly. I thought it was an improvement, but now I see that it is a simple mistake.

Muchas gracias, es el tutorial que he seguido siempre para traducir mis juegos. Un 10 para ti.

Can you share how to achieve this?

I know a guy who works at NASA and he says that Launchbox doesn't work well on his work computer either... Joking aside, it is a reality that Launchbox has VERY SERIOUS performance problems. This has always been the case and always will be because there is no hope that it will ever change. The developers' closed thinking on these issues does not give much hope that something will radically change in this frontend. I have €50 Chinese portable consoles with more than 2000 roms installed that run faster than Launchbox on a latest generation PC... It's sad, but it's a reality. I have commented on it on several occasions in the forum, of course without hope that my complaints would reach the ears of the "bosses" of this project, Launbox is far from being a state-of-the-art, top-level frontend. Why do I still use Launchbox? Well, like the colleague who commented previously, I don't have the strength to start again from scratch to configure another frontend... but I don't rule out that in the future when I find something that is 50% similar to Launchbox and that its developers make Truly based on the needs of your community, I dare to take the leap into the future.

How are you supposed to force import the game to get it to appear in the list?