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1. When entering a platform and scrolling through games if I exit back out I get just a black screen instead of the platform video playing again. It will stay like tis until I change to a different platform and that video plays then I can go back and the original video will start playing? How can I make the video play again when exiting the platform games wheel back to the main wheel?

2. Wheel (especially in Mame) seems to go pretty slow. I tried putting it on fastest. Specs are i7-11700 with Geforce 3060.

3. When scrolling through game wheels, the wheels disappear and take a while to load and show up.

4. I have video themes showing (like Hyperspin), in Mame that's great because there's a lot. Can I change this setting per platform so like NES and other systems that don't have a lot of game themes don't play a whole video on the screen?   

5. And last, I used the bezel project but am noticing a lot of games have a bezel but aren't showing up. I know this is because of naming issues like Mike Tysons punchout was "Mike Tysons Punch Out USA, Japan" but the one Launchbox was using was "Mike Tysons Punch Out Europe" I must have all the different versions in my roms folder but in the Hyperspin databases everything was named like the bezel project and show up. Do I have to rename all my bezels to match the rom name Lauchbox uses?

6. When downloading a file why can't I download the whole file in the downloads section?  It gives me a bunch of files to download separately. 

 

Any help would be appreciated

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1) I've seen it reported a few times now and is on the short list to see if I can replicate and correct for next version. What theme are you running? May help in identifying the cause of the issue.
2-3) This is caused because you are still caching images. You can force the image cache in the options menu to help reduce this. I will warn you that depending on your setup this can take a WHILE and should treated as an overnight task in most cases
4) That is all determined by your theme. Typically though no they play the videos in the video section and treat it the same regardless of the type of video
5) If manually correcting yes, but our process should be able to find those regional differences and name the files appropriately. That being said we expect region data to be in parens so if it isn't that could cause issues.
6) that is set up entirely by the uploader

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Thanks for taking the time to answer some of these questions! I'm using Unified Redux at the moment and have attached a screenshot as it just happened.   As far as the naming goes for the bezels, the rom name I use in Hyperspin is -  Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Japan, USA). This was also the name of the bezel but it wasn't showing up. When I checked in Lunchbox it was Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Europe) but looking in my roms folder I don't even have that rom, only the Japan,USA is in there. Again, appreciate the help!

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So I did force the image cache and most systems seem to be better but still slower than I'd like. Mame still goes really slow though, like it would take forever to go through the whole wheel, not that I wouldn't use the search option but having the wheel spin freely and easily is a lot nicer instead of a stuttered wheel.   Any other options or settings to get it to spin without the little studder?  

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