Layby2K Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 Hi Everyone, I'm currently running Launchbox on my arcade cabinet and it runs amazingly well. I have many systems set up in launchbox along with their full sets of roms etc. I use Launchbox for managing all the games and artwork and Bigbox for the frontend. I don't however, want all of the imported games to show up in BigBox though, especially mame games. Is there a way that I can show only the games that are marked as favorites in Big Box? I would still like the Systems selection list shown and when I select the system i.e SNES or Arcade, it only shows Favorited games. This way I can easily add or remove games displayed when the arcade boots into BigBox. I know I can select the favorites view but it combines all the different systems together which I don't want. Cheers, Leigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Hi Leigh, probably the best solution would be to mark the games that you don't want to see in Big Box as "hidden". Then you can configure LaunchBox to show your hidden games and configure Big Box to hide them. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layby2K Posted June 5, 2016 Author Share Posted June 5, 2016 Thanks Jason, that worked a treat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Awesome. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amauri Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 On 04/06/2016 at 4:12 PM, Jason Carr said: Hi Leigh, probably the best solution would be to mark the games that you don't want to see in Big Box as "hidden". Then you can configure LaunchBox to show your hidden games and configure Big Box to hide them. I would love to have a "Show only Favorites" shortcut in game selection screen. I like to have a complete rom set for a Platform to discover new games, but when I want to check only the ones I Favorited to have a more focused navigation, the Favorite list would be fabulous. Two questions: 1) This would be a feasible feature? To have a shortcut to show only Favorites... 2) In the Navigation by letter (when you move your joystick horizontally), what is the star for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 16 minutes ago, Amauri said: 2) In the Navigation by letter (when you move your joystick horizontally), what is the star for? If you have any games marked as favorites it will go that location in your Game List. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amauri Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Yes, but will not show only the favorite list... This filter would be very nice to have... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 @Amauri If you want to only show certain games, perhaps marking games as hidden would be a better option for you. You can use the Hide field in LaunchBox to hide the games. Both LaunchBox and Big Box have separate settings for whether or not "hidden" games are shown. It should be relatively easy to filter to unfavorited games, select them all, and then mark them as hidden in batch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amauri Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 @Jason Carr Thanks for your response! I understand your point. My only request would be have a shortcut to show/hide hidden/non- favorite games. This would be very helpful and simple to explore games you dont really know (in a full set) or to go directly to your favorites. Your suggestion would make me leave the current Platform, go to the menu and make this choice, than leave the menu, go back to the Platform to finally check this option. A simple shortcut would be marvelous. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Gotcha, that makes sense. I'd appreciate if you could create a ticket for that via Issues/Requests in the header if there isn't one already. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amauri Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 On 1/9/2017 at 9:54 PM, Jason Carr said: Gotcha, that makes sense. I'd appreciate if you could create a ticket for that via Issues/Requests in the header if there isn't one already. Thanks! Done! Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I "think" the games marked as Favorite show at the start of each platform game list in LB and BB. So, without even hiding anything, it should be easy to see and navigate the favorites in each platform. The enhancement requested sounds nice, but I wanted to add this just note in case you didn't know that the favorites are at the start of the game list in each platform. That said, I'm not sure how the letter navigation works with respect to the favorites vs all the others since I'm not in front of my BB to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modjoo Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 +1 for this feature. I like Launchbox very much and like to import all my complete Romsets to it so that i have it as complete as is gets. But for BixBox purposes, I'd like to show only Favourites because in a romset like maybe GBA or Mame with thousands of roms its hard to find your desired games. Apart from that it takes much longer to load 1000 ClearLogos than 100. The way of hiding Roms sounds ok. But I think a "show only Favourites Filter" wold be nicer than to hide everything. Seems more "right" to me. And shouldn't be that hard to implement I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodww Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 I realize this is an old topic, but was this every implemented? I too found myself looking for a way to 'Only Display Favorites' but couldn't find this option, and manually hiding everything isn't ideal if I want to show all titles on the fly to try a new one, vs. just ones I've favorited previously I know I like, and it cuts down on a lot of scrolling. I also know that favorites are shown at the top, but even going out and coming back into the list menu doesn't reset your selection position back to the top of the list, and if your last selection is way down on the list, it's a lot of scrolling to get to the top where the favorites are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 9 minutes ago, rodww said: I realize this is an old topic, but was this every implemented? I too found myself looking for a way to 'Only Display Favorites' but couldn't find this option, and manually hiding everything isn't ideal if I want to show all titles on the fly to try a new one, vs. just ones I've favorited previously I know I like, and it cuts down on a lot of scrolling. I also know that favorites are shown at the top, but even going out and coming back into the list menu doesn't reset your selection position back to the top of the list, and if your last selection is way down on the list, it's a lot of scrolling to get to the top where the favorites are. Create a "auto populated" playlist with favourites as the term to include. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modjoo Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) I dont think so... At least i couldnt find it. My solution to this Problem was to create new Playlists for all your systems/platforms where you Put in your favorites. In big Box you then can Switch between Show platforms and Show Playlists If you want to Show all / Just Show favourites. There are a few downsides when using this Method though. For example Some Infos are Missing in Playlists compared to platforms. Or when using Themes with custom background vids you have to manually adapt the background vids to Match the current Theme for your Playlist. At least i Ran Into These Problems.. Edit: wow, didnt know about that. Might have a look tomorrow. Edited April 12, 2020 by modjoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodww Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 11 minutes ago, neil9000 said: Create a "auto populated" playlist with favourites as the term to include. Wow didn't even know I could do this.. thanks I'll try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodww Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 An update to this post... I am using the favorites screen and it's working as designed however I'm not sure how to get it to display a custom video (platform/category/playlist?) while in BixBox, it's only blank. Is there something I need to do? I tried copying an MP4 with the same name as my favorite into both the Platform and Playlist folders but it doesn't show them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodww Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 It's all good I figured out how to direct my favorites to the specific playlist folder and placed my video there and it's working now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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