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Also I want to point out that I'm seeing the upgrades in performance going from updates comparing the a few years ago. Unfortunately some parts are still very slow and hard to work with.

Long time Launchbox user here and I don't when this started happening but when I'm deleting games it's resetting the Sort By I have active. This is very annoying and makes trimming down your library painful. I believe the main people working on the project already have their libraries like they want. New users find it kinda hard to navigate. It's very slow and those resets in the UI are killing all the fun I have to do this. Please consider this message. I would love to keep using LB forever but I can see how people have moved to BB from HS and how they could move from BB to something else in the upcoming years. I know no one wants to hear it but LB/BB needs an entire rewrite focused on speed. The main thing about the hobby as always been to use older/decommissioned computers and give them a new life in a cab/emulation project. Mad respect to LB, Jason and the team. I believe it would be great to have a side alpha version focused on speed and reliability, ideally open source with bounties where people can pay for the features they want the most and people willing to participate would get paid by filling bounties. Eventually migrating everyone from the current version to the new version. Just for information I'm running my build on a top tier enterprise nvme, 2080ti, i9-9900k, debloated win10 ltsc and it's still rushing. Unfortunately this is abnormal when I think of all the optimized games I can play with this computer. Also running the same build on my second computer which as worst specs and the speed is exactly the same. This means to me there's just a limit where LB can go in terms of snappy UI and it doesn't matter the specs you have past a certain point. This message is for constructive criticism, please don't get me wrong, I love Launchbox.

@viking I would be interested in customizing this theme to my liking. Can you please update those links? Thank you! Colorful Light - COMMUNITY Theme Creator Files - Colorful - Light - 2.02 - COMMUNITY Theme Creator Files.zip Colorful Dark - COMMUNITY Theme Creator Files - Colorful - Dark - 2.02 - COMMUNITY Theme Creator Files.z

I just found this website which seems like the best ressource so far to find exclusive games and original exclusive/first system released on. https://www.mobygames.com/game/

This is one of the most useful thing I've seen in the last decade of emulation. It might be niche since a lot of people are into full romsets. This tool really helps trimming down my systems to the best games. I would really like to see this integrated in Launchbox as a plugin or a core feature. The only negatives I can think of is that there's no way to know if the games are exclusive to the system or exclusive at the release date to the system. I wouldn't put the fault on this tool since I think it's actually missing data from the Launchbox database. It wouldn't be fair to ask this tool to do something that isn't in any database. The other thing I would like to be able to is discard games using non-standard controller type. This would help a lot trimming down the games to what can be played. Wii is a good example where you're required to use the Wiimote for many top games on that system. I hope that you'll keep updating and supporting this tool. Thank you!

No problem, I completely understand. I'm quite busy with numerous projects myself. Considering this, it would be beneficial to add this theme to Github, allowing the community to contribute by submitting pull requests to address bugs. Bugs reported in comment sections often get overlooked and may never be resolved in a stable version. When you find the time to focus on the theme, you can review and merge pull requests on Github. While I'm willing to host the theme on my Github, it seems more logical for it to be on your Github, given that you're the creator. Let me know if we can proceed with this, and I'd be happy to assist

It would be really cool to be able to view all the games from a chosen system in order of Star Ratings. I'm trying to get the best games for all my systems to discover and play but there's currently no way to get this information without downloading a complete romset.

Any chance in releasing this on Github? I would really like to be able to find the top Star Rated games from the community and get those games. Right now the only way is to add in a full set and sort by Star Ratings and then get rid of the crap. This is quite a challenge for systems like PS2/PS2/Wii/Gamecube, etc.

Took me quite a while to make the Xbox One controllers to register correctly in Big Box using an Apple TV with Moonlight connecting to a computer with Sunshine and Big Box installed. * First of all the Xbox Guide button is hardcoded on the Apple TV and you wont be able to map it to anything. ** The Share button seem to be the best button to use to bring the Pause Screen in Big Box but it doesn't work in Big Box Install Steam on your computer that has Big Box and Sunshine installed to Configure your Xbox One controllers on your Apple TV using Bluetooth Launch Steam on your Apple TV from Moonlight Go Settings > Controller > Guide button focuses Steam (set to disabled) In the same screen scroll down to Xbox Extended Feature Support Driver (hit Install and reboot your computer) Now launch Big Box from Moonlight on your Apple TV and set the controller hotkey to bring the Pause Menu to the Share button There you have it, you can now use the Share button to toggle the Pause Menu in any game. This is practical since you can use the Select (Button 7) and Start (Button 😎 normally as intended in your games. The only downside to this configuration is that the controller driver maps Button 7 + Button 8 to Button 11 (Share button). Quite annoying since holding Select + Start will toggle Button 11 and in fact open the Pause Menu. I would have personally liked to be able to use this Select + Start to toggle the Retroarch menu. In Retroarch setup Button 7 (Select) as your hotkey button under Settings > Hotkeys. Then setup Button 10 (RS) as the toggle Retroarch Menu. This will fix conflicts with our Big Box hotkey. Additional notes for Yuzu emulator; on my setup I wasn't able to leave the Yuzu emulator within the Pause Menu of Big Box. It would only toggle Fullscreen Off, then I had to exit a second time through the Pause Menu in order to close completely Yuzu. I was able to fix this annoying behaviour by clearing all hotkeys in Yuzu and adding only Ctrl + Q for Exit Yuzu hotkey. Then from this starting point you can add only the hotkeys you want, if any. Add them one by one so that you can try and see if that breaks the exit AHK script in the Pause Menu. Hope this helps.

I got an issue where I can only exit Yuzu if I do it twice from the Pause Menu. The first time would toggle fullscreen off on Yuzu but the game would still be opened in windowed mode. Hitting the Pause Menu again and exiting the game a second time would close the Yuzu emulator for good. Quite annoying. If fixed it by deleting a the hotkeys in Yuzu and manually adding Ctrl + Q in Exit Yuzu hotkey. I believe since a few of the latest Yuzu updates they changed the mapping of the hotkeys and the AHK exit script must be doing something to Fullscreen which then broke the exit sequence of Yuzu as explained here. Hope this helps!

Hello, I really like the fact that I can use the star ratings to strip down my romsets to a collection of games that are positively rated by the community. I would like to avoid downloading the full PS2 set to see the ratings and then deleting everything that isn't rated good. Same thing for PS1 which I downloaded only the games from the V's recommendations wikia lists. I found some great games that weren't on that list and that are well rated by the community. I would like to be able to see the ratings of all the games of a given console so that I could cherry pick the best games out of the thousand of games. Thank you for helping out!

In date of 2024-01-27 this bug is still happening, your code is working as well in order to fix it. Also the device pictures aren't showing in the Platform Categories view. They need to be renamed without the "Category_" prefix. The images can be found in theme directory under Hardware folder. If this theme isn't developed anymore I can take over otherwise is there a Github page to make PRs? Thank you.

This worked so basically the theme is broken. You need to rename Category_CATEGORYNAME.png to CATEGORYNAME.png. For some reason, only Arcade was spelled right. Thanks.

Just as I thought, reinstalled a fresh version of Colorful and same issue. I only had edited color codes so I doubt it would be that. Plus before I edited the color codes the platform device images weren't showing .

Thanks for bringing an alternative. I could do like Platform Category > Platform > All Games/Favorites/Top 100. I think it's a lot of inputs for a user to get through one game. I would have prefer to be presented with the best games "Top 100", then you would have a visual cue on screen to switch left right to filter the games. I work in UI design and that's something I've spotted on in minutes while using Big Box today. I only used it on my cab before and since I only have the best games I never thought about this feature before. So for my PC build, I ended up using the killer features of LaunchBox and I was able to sort the best games by ratings and # of star ratings. Mixed with logic and what I know, I was able to delete 80% of the games which are mostly crap to me. Now it's super easy Platform Category > Platform > Games (all killer no filler)

I'm not modding the theme or at least doing any core change to it. I fixed 2x color codes with search and replace in vscode. There's something else since everyone is saying that it should be working out of the box. Is there a setting in the options that could prevent those images from showing?

Hello, I believe I tried everything but Big Box isn't clear as to giving us the information on where to put the custom data. Documentation is lacking. I'm trying to add the platform categories images for the theme Colorful. I thought they would be there by default since they're in the theme Media/Hardware Set/* folder. But they're not. I tried adding the images in Images/Platform Categories/CATEGORYNAME/Device/CATEGORYNAME.png and it's not working either. Thank you for helping out.

Yes I've found the option to show a playlist in the platforms But this is making my platform list way too long. I would want, from the selected platform, to switch to the playlists that are only for that particular platform without going all the way back in the menu.

Hi, maybe I don't know how to do this or I guess there could be improvement in the UI of BigBox. Let's take this for example: When in Bigbox in the NES platform, I would have expect to press a key to navigate through the playlists of that system. For example the left/right key to navigate previous/next playlists for that specific system. Is there a way to do this or I must go all the way back and go into Playlists, then scroll through all the playlists to finally find the one I want? Thank you.

So the current disc information is saved in a `GAMENAME.ldci` file under `RetroArch\saves\SwanStation`. Content of the file shows an `image_path` which is the current disc. ``` { "version": "1.0", "image_index": 2, "image_path": "M:\\library\\games\\sony-playstation.1\\D (USA)\\D (USA) (Disc 3).cue" } ``` There's currently no option to instruct RA to disable creation of that file. Please comment on this Git issue to get it added https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16018 --- In the meantime we could try and fix it with an AHK script. I'm not good with AHK and I'm not sure if it could check up in the `.ldci` file and lookup the disc number. IF disc=1 THEN toggle_tray/cycle_next/toggle_tray ELSE IF disc=2 THEN toggle_tray/cycle_previous/toggle_tray ELSE IF disc=3 THEN toggle_tray/cycle_previous/cycle_previous/toggle_tray ELSE IF disc=4 THEN toggle_tray/cycle_previous/cycle_previous/cycle_previous/toggle_tray ELSE IF disc=5 THEN toggle_tray/cycle_previous/cycle_previous/cycle_previous/cycle_previous/toggle_tray We would need to define variables for disc1,2,3,4,5 which would look up in `GAMENAME.ldci` Not sure though AHK can read stuff in a file. If anyone could help that would be really appreciated!

Have you found a way to circumvent this? I have the same issue. If there's a way for the AHK script to read that current disc, I could try and write a if/then/else script to swap discs based on current disc.

Haven't tested much so far but this have fixed it to me at this time. Security Warning When Opening Files from the Network Share The warning window may appear when the program is launched from a shared network folder using the UNC path. This problem typically occurs for corporate users when accessing resources in another AD domain or by IP address. In this case, it’s easiest to add the name and/or IP address of the server hosting the executable file to the Local Intranet zone in the Internet Explorer settings. This will indicate that the resource is trusted. To do it: Go to Control Panel → Internet Option; Security tab; Open Local Intranet → Sites → Advanced; In the next window, add a name and/or an IP address of a server. For example, \\10.0.0.6, \\srv.contoso.com or \\127.0.0.1\ for a local computer. You can use a wildcard character. For example, you can add all IP addresses of your local network to the Local Intranet zone using the following line: file: //192.168.1.*. .