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Jason Carr said Hey all, been a few days, I know. Been working hard at getting an options management system going for Big Box. I'll be putting out a beta tonight with a few more options. ;)
The options are working great! Could you add an option to change which screen it will show on or allow alt+enter so that I can move it myself? Where are the platform-images located? I can't seem to find them anywhere. Edit: I have also noticed that BigBox mode does not update "last played" or playcount.
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OK, I tried beta 6. I like the new options menu, it is convenient and it feels like it is in the right place. Great work. A few things: All Capcom CPS clear logos are missing. I think somebody mentioned this already, but could the "Backspace" perform the same actions as "Esc". I keep hitting backspace by mistake, I guess that feels more natural with home theatre apps. Does the recently added list show games that were added in a period of time, like the past month? If so, could it be changed to show the last 5 games that were added, period. I only ask because most of my platforms were added ages ago and they don't show anything for recently added. It leaves a big space that doesn't look right. Most of them will never have anything else added either, because they are complete. Or replace it with something else if the platform has no "recently added games". Something like top-rated games, or favourites, or something other than a blank space. Also, if a game does not have cover art, the recently played/added lists show blank spaces, which doesn't look right. Lastly, I encountered an error. I left the room and when I returned BB had crashed, I got the "program has stopped working" windows message. It wasn't doing anything, it was just sat idle on the platforms list. It has not happened again since, but I thought I should probably mention it.
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Fluffo said The options are working great! Could you add an option to change which screen it will show on or allow alt+enter so that I can move it myself? Where are the platform-images located? I can't seem to find them anywhere. Edit: I have also noticed that BigBox mode does not update "last played" or playcount.
Thanks @Fluffo. I'll look into a screen option. The platform images are all located under LaunchBox\Images\Platforms. This may change before the official release though; I'm not quite sure. They may end up going in the platform folder (which is not yet fully realized). Good find on the play counts/last played.
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bd000 said OK, I tried beta 6. I like the new options menu, it is convenient and it feels like it is in the right place. Great work. A few things: All Capcom CPS clear logos are missing. I think somebody mentioned this already, but could the "Backspace" perform the same actions as "Esc". I keep hitting backspace by mistake, I guess that feels more natural with home theatre apps. Does the recently added list show games that were added in a period of time, like the past month? If so, could it be changed to show the last 5 games that were added, period. I only ask because most of my platforms were added ages ago and they don't show anything for recently added. It leaves a big space that doesn't look right. Most of them will never have anything else added either, because they are complete. Or replace it with something else if the platform has no "recently added games". Something like top-rated games, or favourites, or something other than a blank space. Also, if a game does not have cover art, the recently played/added lists show blank spaces, which doesn't look right. Lastly, I encountered an error. I left the room and when I returned BB had crashed, I got the "program has stopped working" windows message. It wasn't doing anything, it was just sat idle on the platforms list. It has not happened again since, but I thought I should probably mention it.
I think Capcom CPS is because of differing names; I haven't yet added an alternatives list for any of the Capcom platforms. I have the default names like this: Capcom CPS1. I think that should work, though we need platform name alternatives lists for all of the platforms. We currently only have them for the platforms that are on TGDB. Good idea on Backspace, that should be an easy but important add. I like your idea for recently added. Yes, right now it's the past month or something. I do eventually plan on showing what makes sense there, so there's always something showing, with favorites, recently added, recently played, recently changed, whatever. Yeah, I'm still seeing the occasional random error myself. Trying to identify what might be causing the problem.
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Alright, new beta is out. There's a bunch of random crap in this one that I can't remember. ;) Really, though, primarily I'm hoping that this release fixes all outstanding errors/crashes. Please let me know if anyone is seeing any remaining errors or crashes. I improved the input engine with wrap-around and fixed some performance issues with the Platforms favorites and recent games. Also, changed the logic for recently played to show the last 10 played or updated games (though Last Played still isn't working properly in Big Box Mode, gotta fix that yet).
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Just want to let everyone know that I'm taking my family to family camp this week. I'm hoping to be online at least once a day but I'll be more spotty than usual for the next 6 days or so. I'm also hoping to get some peaceful development time in, but I'm not sure how things will go. I know everything is in good hands here at the forums. Just wanted to keep you guys in the loop. :)
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Jason Carr said Just want to let everyone know that I'm taking my family to family camp this week. I'm hoping to be online at least once a day but I'll be more spotty than usual for the next 6 days or so. I'm also hoping to get some peaceful development time in, but I'm not sure how things will go. I know everything is in good hands here at the forums. Just wanted to keep you guys in the loop. :)
Enjoy those days man! And try to disconnect some days from the Internet, its not that bad!
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