8.0 feature list

[Drybonz]

1 hour ago, teeedubb said:

I really like this idea, with one change - instead of the 'no boxart' text, have LB generate the covers on the fly with the game name on there, so instead of 'no boxart' it would be 'mr do'. I have seen some kodi skins do this for disc artwork.

I've requested this feature several times... I hope it happens.  As much time as people are spending on themes, it would be nice to have a decent looking image for games with missing art.

[Coptimus]

On 4/6/2017 at 0:01 AM, Kriven said:

He's going to do a poll I think, right? Like before?

Some kind of parental control system, you guys. Like, hiding certain tagged games unless a password is entered.

Vote PC!

 

I'm starting a campaign. Consider this the Ratings Matter Party.

I'd like to throw my name in the hat voting for this kind of feature.

[neil9000]

5 minutes ago, Coptimus said:

I'd like to throw my name in the hat voting for this kind of feature.

well Jason is live on youtube right now taking suggestions for the next poll!!!

[JaysArcade]

I just mentioned it on the stream. We'll see if he adds it to his list.

 

[neil9000]

Who are you on the stream?

 

[JaysArcade]

Jays Arcade

[JaysArcade]

He just said it is already on the list so we'll see if it makes the official poll. He has a lot of ideas to go through.

[neil9000]

Just now, jaythompson said:

Jays Arcade

Ah, I guessed right! lol Didn't see this name scroll by so made a leap. So he has about 90 suggestions at the moment which he needs to whittle down. So fingers crossed for you.  

[JaysArcade]

I want launching an app like KODI or Jukebox from top level menu more than anything else. Hey, you're a mod, do you know if my username can be changed or am I locked in? I'd like to change to JaysArcade if possible. If not, no big deal. I just don't see a way to do it myself.

[neil9000]

I'm a 100% with you there I have a windows apps platform that has KODI and the xbox app to stream from my xbone, that's it. If I could have them top level I would love it.

[neil9000]

Yeah you can change your name, I did. This isn't my OG name I changed it after a couple of months, wasn't a mod back then either. Its in your account settings somewhere.

[neil9000]

Click the little down arrow next to your name top right and choose account settings.

 

 

[JaysArcade]

Got it thanks. I was looking at profile instead of acct settings.

 

[neil9000]

Cool, glad I could help. Fingers crossed for top level app launching.

 

[neil9000]

6 minutes ago, JaysArcade said:

Got it thanks. I was looking at profile instead of acct settings.

 

Sorry who said that, @JaysArcade never heard of him  

[Layby2K]

On 4/12/2017 at 6:48 AM, Kriven said:

What do you mean by this? Global Menu Items?

Adding menu items that go on the main menu like Kodi, with 'Global' meaning that these items could always be listed on any menu/view.

[Feez]

I personally would love to see some sort of "game caching" feature, akin to steammover.  My scenario:

I keep most of my games/roms/isos .7z compressed on my file server to save space.  I know LB can decompress these files to play the game/iso, but that takes time.  If i'm repeatedly playing a game, that would mean a wait each time.  What if we could create a launchbox "game cache" folder on my emulation machine's SSD, temporarily decompress the game to that folder, and launch it from there, then _leave the uncompressed copy_ for future launches, either until i clear the cache, or "unmark" the game from caching?  Or, something like "favorite" games get cached, others don't, or files below a certain size don't get cached because decompression would be so quick, that kind of thing.

This would give us the "best of both worlds" for space-saving as well as launch speed for our frequently played games.

Thoughts?

[cZ8tL]

1 hour ago, Feez said:

Thoughts?

 

[Lmagnus87]

On 4/8/2017 at 11:43 PM, bundangdon said:

As mentioned above, something like this (a "before and after" example below) with a generic boxart being available for each platform would be very nice  

 

Also it could be just an Icon

 

https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/237/icon-view

 

[Feez]

58 minutes ago, cZ8tL said:

 

Oh snap, hadn't seen this.  I'll have to check it out when i get home.  Thanks!