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2 hours ago, C-Beats said:
Was bad code interaction between the creator controls and Big Box. No features have been removed to my knowledge. Just tweaked how they worked behind the scenes to keep both the creation tool and Big Box happy.
This makes sense! Thanks a lot for the input! Fingers crossed this will be all good by now!
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1 hour ago, C-Beats said:
y2guru pushed out a new version of the theme creator that we believe should help with the locking and freezing you all are seeing. Could you update the creator and let us know if that resolves the issue for you?
Tested on 2 computers and everything is working so far without freezing anymore. Fingers crossed. Could we know exactly what was going on about this issue? Have something been removed in theme dev?
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On 4/13/2021 at 1:09 PM, gaialily said:
@Jason Carr @C-Beats Did you find something with the logs posted?
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I'd like to know about that also.
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Any progress on this? Did my log file was saying anything? Thanks!
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1 minute ago, C-Beats said:
@G22 Out of curiosity does your theme utilize a UCVideo control made available via the CTC?
I'm not sure what a UCVideo is, but there's a good chance that I'm using that as I have a lot of videos in my theme.
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23 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Unfortunately we have not been able to replicate any freezing with CTC themes. We're able to test with both the themes demo and attract mode running for days without issues. However, some of the CTC themes are rather intensive, so it makes sense that they could be pushing systems and we could be running into things that we haven't found in testing. For those of you running into crashes, please enable debug logs in LaunchBox under Tools > Options > Debugging and attach one here that caused a freeze. Also, if you can, explain what you were doing at the time when it froze. That should help us to hopefully narrow it down.
Here's my log and I hope there's the needed information to solve the issue! It's really easy to replicate the issue, no matter what item I click or I go back the transition freeze. In this log it have froze around 4 times.
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16 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Unfortunately we have not been able to replicate any freezing with CTC themes. We're able to test with both the themes demo and attract mode running for days without issues. However, some of the CTC themes are rather intensive, so it makes sense that they could be pushing systems and we could be running into things that we haven't found in testing. For those of you running into crashes, please enable debug logs in LaunchBox under Tools > Options > Debugging and attach one here that caused a freeze. Also, if you can, explain what you were doing at the time when it froze. That should help us to hopefully narrow it down.
I tried my theme on 3 different computers and it doesn't work on all of them. Strangely where it works the most bad is on the best computer who have a i9-9900k and 2080ti with 32gb of ram with a M.2 drive.
Trust me that if you download my theme you'll be able to replicate the issue.Unfortunately we can't do error_logs because it's not crashing. It's only freezing.
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On 4/1/2021 at 3:08 PM, Jason Carr said:
We've fixed a ton of stability issues in recent betas, so yes, it's possible that it was fixed. We also have a new beta coming out today that has some additional fixes.
Hi @Jason Carr, I just updated to the latest beta and the issue is still there. I wonder have you been able to reproduce the issue on your end? I can send you my theme so you could try and see by yourself. I'm pretty sure it's an easy fix.
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I'd like to try out the beta but I don't know where to download it.
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I saw that a new BETA was out. Any news if this issue have been fixed? Thanks!
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On 3/25/2021 at 3:05 AM, wemr97dl said:
Tried using you PS and got an error using copy, I have never used it before but looking it up online, I don't think you need anything at the end?? not sure , but putting /z at the end should allow you to restart if it gets interrupted. I m running it now with the /z, seems like its working??
I'm not sure why it's no copying on your config but here it's working. If it have to retry there may be read or write errors somewhere. Thanks for the tip of adding "/z", this may help someone out there!
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Hi, I want to expand the AKNF sets with roms that only works in other emulators. I'm starting with these lists I made based on community ratings and that it works on 4/8 way joysticks with 6 buttons + coin/start. I don't want to include gun games, racing games or other strange control games. I don't know if these games are any good or any bad. I'd like your help to update those lists to fit in the AKNF criteria.
Sega Naomi - Demul
Quoteausfache "Akatsuki Blitzkampf Ausf. Achse (Japan)"
azumanga "Azumanga Daioh Puzzle Bobble (GDL-0018)"
beachspi "Beach Spikers (GDS-0014)"
capsnk "Capcom Vs. SNK Millennium Fight 2000 (Rev C)"
cleoftp "Cleopatra Fortune Plus (GDL-0012)"
cvs2 "Capcom Vs. SNK 2 Mark Of The Millennium 2001 (USA) (GDL-0008)"
cvsgd "Capcom Vs. SNK Millennium Fight 2000 Pro (Japan) (GDL-0004)"
doa2m "Dead or Alive 2 Millennium"
ggx "Guilty Gear X"
ggxx "Guilty Gear XX (GDL-0011)"
ggxxac "Guilty Gear XX Accent Core (Japan) (GDL-0041)"
ggxxrl "Guilty Gear XX #Reload (Japan, Rev A) (GDL-0019A)"
ggxxsla "Guilty Gear XX Slash (Japan, Rev A) (GDL-0033A)"
ikaruga "Ikaruga (GDL-0010)"
mamonoro "Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta! (Japan)"
mvsc2 "Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 New Age of Heroes (Export, Korea, Rev A)"
pstone "Power Stone"
pstone2 "Power Stone 2"
psyvar2 "Psyvariar 2 - The Will To Fabricate (Japan) (GDL-0024)"
sfz3ugd "Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper (Japan) (GDL-0002)"
sgtetris "Sega Tetris"
slashout "Slashout (GDS-0004)"
spkrbtl "Spikers Battle (GDS-0005)"
sprtjam "Sports Jam (GDS-0003)"
tetgiant "Tetris Giant / Tetris Dekaris (Ver.2.000)"
tetkiwam "Tetris Kiwamemichi (Japan) (GDL-0020)"
undefeat "Under Defeat (Japan) (GDL-0035)"
vathlete "Virtua Athletics / Virtua Athlete (GDS-0019)"
vf4cart "Virtua Fighter 4 (World)"
virnba "Virtua NBA (USA)"
vonot "Virtual On Oratorio Tangram M.S.B.S. ver5.66 2000 Edition"
vs2_2k "Virtua Striker 2 Ver. 2000 (Rev C)"
vstrik3 "Virtua Striker 3 (GDS-0006)"
vtennis2 "Virtua Tennis 2 / Power Smash 2 (Rev A) (GDS-0015A)"
vtennisg "Virtua Tennis / Power Smash (GDS-0011)"
wwfroyal "WWF Royal Rumble"
zerogu2 "Zero Gunner 2"Sammy Atomiswave - Demul
Quotedemofist "Demolish Fist"
dolphin "Dolphin Blue"
fotns "Fist Of The North Star"
ggisuka "Guilty Gear Isuka"
ggx15 "Guilty Gear X ver. 1.5"
kofnw "The King of Fighters Neowave"
kofxi "The King of Fighters XI"
kov7sprt "Knights of Valour - The Seven Spirits"
mslug6 "Metal Slug 6"
ngbc "NeoGeo Battle Coliseum"
rumblef "The Rumble Fish"
samsptk "Samurai Spirits Tenkaichi Kenkakuden"Sega Model 2 - Model2
Quotedoa "Dead or Alive (Model 2B, Revision C)"
dynamcop "Dynamite Cop (Export, Model 2A)"
fvipers "Fighting Vipers (Revision D)"
lastbrnx "Last Bronx (Export, Revision A)"
schamp "Sonic Championship (USA)"
vf2 "Virtua Fighter 2 (Version 2.1)"
zerogun "Zero Gunner (Export, Model 2B)"Sega Model 3 - Supermodel
Quotefvipers2 "Fighting Vipers 2 (Japan, Revision A)"
spikeofe "Spikeout Final Edition (Export)"
vf3 "Virtua Fighter 3 (Revision D)"
vs298 "Virtua Striker 2 '98 (Step 2.0)"Thanks in advance!
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1 hour ago, gaialily said:
I don't know what are the differences between create a theme with the community theme manager and visual studio, but the code in the xaml seem a little different.
I'm pretty sure it's in how the code is generated from the community theme manager. Have Bigbox or community theme manager updated the XAML version? Maybe some code from the community theme manager isn't supported. Maybe there's no version for XAML but I remember there were versions on XML with Retropie and Recalbox when I was theming for the community.
Unfortunately haven't got the time to test the new beta but I can confirm that pressing the Windows key unfreeze bigbox thus confirming I have the same issue as others.
I don't run Bigbox in Admin mode. I think it could be great though for the reason mentionned above. I can't remember which one, but I got some emulators back then requiring admin rights.
This is really strange!
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12 hours ago, wemr97dl said:
Just tried it out, works great. Still have to run batch file, and such but the Playlist function is a great tool
Just a tip, one of the playlist Icreated showed no games, once I restarted Launchbox the list was populated.
Thank you for your comeback! When I wrote it it was after I did it few days before so I'm always afraid that I'd forget something here and there! Glad it worked for you and thank you for the tip.
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Just now, C-Beats said:
Yeah, this beta has a lot of big changes and the current release does have some known bugs in. Why I said I would wait until next release, or even wait for the full version to come out where we should have everything ironed out. I just have a feeling some of the changes we made to make some of the new stuff function may affect anything some of the stuff that could be causing what you are seeing and would be nice to find out for sure before making too many more changes.
This seems like the reasonable way to go! I'll wait patiently until the next official release! Thanks for your reply!
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4 minutes ago, C-Beats said:
I would wait until next beta version comes out first and then update to that to see if the issue changes at all. We have a LOT of upcoming changes to Big Box theming and some of them may help resolve some of the issues you are seeing.
Excellent then! Is there a changelog I could read somewhere? I'm also a little bit afraid as I've heard that the next beta is really broken atm.
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Thanks for everyone's feedback. I think there's something somewhere between both our themes that Bigbox doesn't like and crash.
Also is the Retrostatic theme built from Community Theme Manager? If yes, there must be something that software can do that isn't compatible with Bigbox.
@Jason Carr would you like me to upload the theme version that have the issue? If yes, where would you like me to send it?Thanks a lot!
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So many of these games are garbage. You can download the new dll plugin on the forum that let you sort the Mame set by .ini files. Download controls.ini and sort all the 4 way games!
Look STEP 3 of my Mame tutorial!
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9 hours ago, CMOSS said:
It's not only with this theme, apparently. I don't really have a clue what the issue is. In my case, it happens quite rarely, but sometimes it does mostly when opening the options view.
So I'm not the only one ? For my dev computer it makes Bigbox completely unusable. @Jason Carr any ideas?
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UPDATE: I tried the theme on my arcade for the whole night and it finally froze just like on the dev computer. So something in the theme seems to not be working well with Bigbox.
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I've been developing a theme on the community theme manager for more than a year now. Came back at it this week to update it and integrate coin ops theme.
I'm not developing my theme on my arcade machine where strangely is less powerful and where the theme is working on it.There's a strange overlapping freeze when I switch from a view to another. Like in this screenshot you can clearly see the Platform list overlapping on the game list view. It gets stuck there and strangely my video background continue to play and will eventually freeze too.
I've asked y2guru who made the community theme builder and he told me that everything seems fine on my theme and he suggested that I should ask Jason.
Could it be because I have 4 screens plugged on my 2080ti? It was working before though but lately had an issue with a software because of my 4 screen monitor setup. I tried changing the screen and it does the same thing.I'm running Bigbox on a i9-9900k, 2080ti, 32gb ram and 3200read/write m.2 ssd.I'm lost here and loosing a lot of my dev time for the community on this strange issue! I would be really please if someone can help me! ?
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52 minutes ago, devsfan1830 said:
Is there a particular text editor you are using to make it easier that just tediously deleting each line of description and adding the apostrophes and commas?
Unfortunately no. As of now it's done manually. We would need help from someone that could do a custom search and replace searches command that would automate that in an editor like Code. Unfortunately it's out of my knowledge. Hope someone will stumble across this guide and do this for us! This would help to update our Mame set more regularly.
54 minutes ago, devsfan1830 said:I am also noticing that my custom filter ends up containing many games that MAME marks as Overall Not Working. Shouldn't these be filtered out as well?
I guess you're doing the part 1. of the guide since the part 2. isn't written yet. I'm not sure on the reliability of the LB Mame importer. Although if Mame says that a game isn't working it's more likely that it wont work. I would try few games and check if they work or not.
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7 hours ago, Jason Carr said:
I have added it to my list of items for the next poll.
In the meantime I just made a huge Mame tutorial about this. At least we'll have a solution until it gets developed or in case it never gets developed! Hope this helps someone out there!
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70% of the tutorial is done. I have to go to work and will continue tomorrow.
100% - 1. PLAYABLE FULLSET
25% - 2. ALL KILLER NO FILLER
100% - 3. KEEP GAMES COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR CONTROLS
100% - 4. CHD AND BIOS CLEANUP
100% - 5. FINAL WORDSManual part of the tutorial that needs automation:
- 4.3A - COPY/MOVE FOLDERS FROM A FILTERED LIST
- 4.3B - COPY/MOVE FILES FROM A FILTERED LIST
Any help to create custom search and replace string in Code would be greatly appreciated!
Exit button doesn't exit in pause menu
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Hi, I've only tried with Mame games but when I go in the BigBox pause menu where I can resume, view artwork, etc. When I press Exit game, I get the game over screen but it goes back to the Mame game and it can't be exited unless I press the button I've map in Mame.
Any ideas? Thanks!