An Idea: setup and configuration over network.

[Cityhunterxyz]

Hi, I've been using Big Box shelled on my Home Arcade machine (A Konami Dark Adventure Cabinet, that was converted to a 2P Sega Spider-Man before the board died and the person who owned it before me gutted it and converted it to Hyperspin emulation cab) and I've been loving launch box, I've been setting up all my emulators and ROMS from scratch and love the tools available for finding artwork and DB information for games. I also have a Vpin cabinet and one of the things i love about Pinup Popper on my vpin is the -network command line flag, I can have a shortcut set up on my desktop PC and remotely change settings and artwork edit meta data and change any of the settings without needing to do it from the machine itself. when trying to do a bunch of stuff at once this is much more convenient and I'd love to have something similar for launchBox/big box. ( I know I can set up a remote client which is fine but something about not having to set up a remote control session to go in and change settings would be nice.

 

[jestermgee]

Yeah as another PUP user who also runs LB, while PUP is nowhere near close to managing the metadata as good as LB is, it does have some really powerful features over LB. Remote management is definitely one of them as is the more flexible display of videos and the generation of auto playlists. I struggle to generate more than just basic playlists due to the fact you cannot filter using any kind of AND/OR function and often I will filter things then just want to remove one genre or something and it treats it as an OR statement. I also like the way the PUP attract works more where you can exclude playlists and content from attract and fix it only to a certain selection.