FlightRisk

It is interesting to see this different interests in this hobby like those who love collecting and will never touch half the games and those who want a curated list of games have just arcade or just the platforms they grew up with. I owned a video game arcade in the 80s, so primarily play those and imagine I am back there with the music blasting and black lights over the pinball game section. I spent a lot of time starting with huge and whittling things down, but I think I am going to start over from scratch again. So much has changed in just 2 or 3 years since I was gaming regularly and then just stepped back during Covid. Most people probably did just the opposite!

Yes, that looks great. Have you shared your build somewhere as a project for people to get ideas from? So many questions like why did you decide to mount your amp above the cabinet? And are those Sinden lightguns?

Would it be easy to add things that exist now like the popout game data feature, or has engine/method of creating themes changed and you would have to start from scratch?

Boy do I miss Pleasuredome. And silly as it was, I liked trying to reach the next level. I forget what little icon I had, but leaving my machine up for a few years seeding 24/7, it had gotten kinda hi. It was like trying for high score on a game

I'm wondering about the weight of different types of wood. I owned an Arcade in the 80s and had 5 pins and about 30 games. They weighed a ton! I kept a Tempest that I still have and don't want to re-use the case. So even if real wood costs a lot more, I am thinking about using it just because of weight. Maybe having a modular system is a good idea though. If you could take 2 or 3 sections apart, remove the computer and the monitor, it would be more manageable to move.

What I am seeing is that BigBox automatically shows the feature, since it is just a list of game options on the right (on my theme), but it doesn't give any option in Launchbox to see this same information, it has to be part of the theme. On the video for 12.1 there is a sidebar in a new LB theme with new options: But I noticed in my LB, that the default theme shows "related games" on this sidebar, but the "default plus" does not. Does that mean the theme doesn't support it or it is just turned off? I made my theme from the old default theme, but looks like I may have to switch themes and adjust colors. And back to BB, that seems to operate differently. My game details sidebar (and the one in the 12.1 video), shows that list of everything automatically in all the themes I tried. It isn't fancy like it is in LB. So all themes default to showing that list, but LB themes do not? In Unified, this list is on the right, here it is on the left from the video in whatever theme he is using: I guess I was expecting it to be like one of the competing game front-ends that originated this feature, where the entire screen is filled with 3 or 4 frames of information and one of them was a list of the names and platforms of related games you had installed (like pac-man on all the different platforms). You may remember I was one of the main nags for this feature over the years having used that other system and other poll features kept beating it out until now. Persistence pays i

Ok, I'll experiment. I guess I was expecting a themed box rather than a list on the right. I looked in Launchbox though and it doesn't display. I'll post over there.

Since Jason modified this from Unified, any chance this will be updated to support the "similar games" feature?

I am just assuming here that features aren't a "skin" in LB, but a completely programmed interface such that if something like similar games/recommended games are added, that won't appear in the GUI in an old theme? Can you modify an old theme easily to include this? If not, we are dependent on the theme makers to update their themes, right?

Do you have a screenshot of what it wound up looking like?

I want to look at the video where they went over creating themes to see what is involved with older themes that don't support the new features. I wonder at what point, you just have to get a theme built to support a latest release

LOL, Yes, I use Discord for a group I lead with a product for model railroading. It works for all the people on the development team to share ideas and talk in real time, but it is just endless threads unlike topics grouped here. Thanks for the input!

I was just curious which has more traffic. I lurk on both, but tend to like forums more, mostly because topics are easier to find. If I want to chat live, then Discord is the way to go

Well, maybe no need to mess with perfection

I jump in and see where this is about once a year. I just missed the poll I also can't find my suggestion in bitbucket, though I know I added it as a suggested feature. Should I enter it again? Or is this included in the current list "suggest similar games"? This isn't exactly the same since I don't want a similar game, I want the same game on different platforms. FEATURE: When on a game, say "Space Invaders", there is a section of the screen with images of all the other versions on all the other platforms I have installed that also have a version of Space Invaders. So if I am on the Arcade version, It will show Atarii 2600, Atari 5200, NES, etc. with an image of what the screen looks like on that platform. GameEx has had this feature for many years: