2 questions about BigBox setup

[djdaveoc22]

Hi all,

I purchased the software and have a cab setup but I haven't used it much yet.  I'm trying to change that and have a couple questions.  If anyone has time to answer, thank you in advance!

1. Is there a tutorial video or written instructions with a step-by-step for newbies like me that explains how to list games by star ratings per platform?  For example, when I go into the arcade platform, instead of showing games in alphabetical order it would start with the game with the highest user star rating and go downwards from there with the worst-rated games being last.

2. How do I find and download as many themes as possible for Bigbox?  Is there a way for the program to see and update/download themes from some central source?  if so, where in the menus do I go and what options do I select to do that?  If not, how do I find and download themes into Bigbox manually?

Thank you

Edited 18 hours ago by djdaveoc22

[AstroBob]

Hey @djdaveoc22 🙌 Welcome to the community, time to put that cabinet to good use 🤩
 

6 hours ago, djdaveoc22 said:

1. Is there a tutorial video or written instructions with a step-by-step for newbies like me that explains how to list games by star ratings per platform?  For example, when I go into the arcade platform, instead of showing games in alphabetical order it would start with the game with the highest user star rating and go downwards from there with the worst-rated games being last.

Within LaunchBox, you can easily change the sorting by going to View from the top menu and then selecting Arrange By > Star Rating. Note that you may also want to go to Tools > Download > Update Community Star Ratings which will download community star ratings for all your games.

Note that this sorting affects all of your different platforms within LaunchBox, however you can set a sort order on a per-playlist basis. Just edit the playlist, and under Sort Games By, you can choose a custom sort from there.

For Big Box, there isn't a way to change the default sort order across all of your views like you can with LaunchBox. However, any playlists that you've created and the Sort Games By option that you've selected will be respected in Big Box. So if you want to view your arcade games by community star rating, I would suggest creating an auto-generated playlist, set the Sort Games By option, and then use that within Big Box

6 hours ago, djdaveoc22 said:

2. How do I find and download as many themes as possible for Bigbox?  Is there a way for the program to see and update/download themes from some central source?  if so, where in the menus do I go and what options do I select to do that?  If not, how do I find and download themes into Bigbox manually?

To download themes directly from Big Box, under the System Menu go to Manage Themes. Here you'll see a list of LaunchBox-vetted themes that you can install directly from within Big Box. To download external themes manually, head to our themes section on our forum, download the theme that you want, and pop it into the Themes folder of your LaunchBox directory. Then you can manage them from the same Manage Themes section, much like any other theme.

We recently hosted a stream all about themes in Big Box, if you want to learn more or give it a watch, I'm attaching the recording at the correct timestamp where we cover themes in more detail. 

Hope that helps, let us know if you have any questions and definitely let us know how your cab build gets on, would love to see how it turns out 🕹️