in need of a little help please

[diamondgeezer]

hi all can anyone help me please i am wanting to turn off the arcade machine in the center of the screenshot i have provided with this message  i have gone into options on bigbox but cant figure out how to stop it from showing

[SentaiBrad]

That's an image for your platform. If you go in to LaunchBox, then Tools -> Manage Platforms, you'll see all the images for that platform like you would see for games. Use the arrows to find the image you want, right click it and remove it. Or, you can also change it to something else you'd want. This will remove that image from any view that uses it. Once you reboot Big Box, if it doesn't go away, you may need to refresh your cache in the options menu.

[DOS76]

Isn't there a way to just turn off platform banners in the BigBox settings.

[SentaiBrad]

I honestly don't remember.

[diamondgeezer]

thanks guys for trying to help but i tried to do brad  said about going into manage platforms and remove banner the restart launchbox but when i restartg it and go back to manage platforms the banner is back in there 

[SentaiBrad]

Really? You went to the image, right clicked and removed it, and it removed it from that image viewer? After restarting that shouldn't come back. Some stuff does, but I don't recall the images doing that. If it didn't go away in Big Box, that's why I said you should clear cache, but the cache (I don't think) has anything to do with the image viewers. You can do it the slightly harder way by going in to your LaunchBox/Images/Platforms/<Insert Platform>/Banner folder and deleting the image. You should probably delete it with LaunchBox closed.

[diamondgeezer]

i have a feeling it might be the way i have my launch box platforms named  ( eg) atari arcade games it could be that anything that has the word arcade  in it will use that arcade banner  , what do you think?

[SentaiBrad]

No, the folders will be named to what ever you named the platform and have images inside. Regardless of what you called it, you'd still open the Manage Platforms screen or go in to that specific folder and delete the image. Since you use Scrape As to scrape it as a different platform, it's pulling the default images for those platforms. I re-did all my Clear Logo's to be a unified set, and I had to go through editing them in the UI; removing the old ones and putting in the new ones.

[diamondgeezer]

ok i closed down launchbox and deleted all of the banners within the folders and then started up big box and guess what!! lol they all came back again grrrrr

[DOS76]

make a txt file name it after the platform and then change the extension to jpg or png and put it in that folder see if it tricks it into thinking the image exists and then displays nothing

 

[SentaiBrad]

Maybe @Jason Carr changed this so the images automatically download now?

[diamondgeezer]

thnx guys  all is good , i did what dos76 said about changing the extension and that got rid of it thanks a lot

[DOS76]

I'm glad that worked as it wasn't tested and was really just a theory.

[SentaiBrad]

Yea, but you shouldn't have to. Choice is the name of the game and no image is a choice, so I'm stumped.

[DOS76]

I agree it should be an option but nothing wrong with the work around until that time comes.

[SentaiBrad]

Oh no, of course not, I give workarounds all the time, I'm more just expressing my confusion.

[diamondgeezer]

thnx guys for all the help given

[Jason Carr]

Those images are built in to LaunchBox and will regenerate if removed and not replaced. An empty image is currently the best solution. Thanks @DOS76.