Adding "Microphone" Controller support & Icon

[5thWolf]

I just need a little help getting the "Microphone" I added as a supported game controller and the icon to show up under the game.
I added "Microphone" in manage game controllers and I added the 60x60 mic icon titled "Microphone" in the "Badges" folder. It does appear as an option when adding supported controllers when adding a game, however the badge does not appear under the game.
I did notice all the other icones in the badges folder for controllers and such are titled controllesupprt.png mousesupport.png keyboardsupport.png. and so on. I did try naming the image Microphonesupport.png but that did nothing.

Thanks in advance!

[JoeViking245]

Does the Enable microphone support appear under View < Badges < Controller Support?

I'm not sure if you can simply add them like that.  May need to create a custom badge.

[5thWolf]

On 2/1/2026 at 6:28 PM, JoeViking245 said:

Does the Enable microphone support appear under View < Badges < Controller Support?

I'm not sure if you can simply add them like that.  May need to create a custom badge.

It doesn't 

Sorry for bad pic menus disappear when trying to use snip tool.

Edited yesterday at 01:33 AM by 5thWolf

[5thWolf]

Still shows in context menu to add

And also added properly in the Manage Controller Support, the 1 game is :Life Line" game that it's associated with.

[JoeViking245]

29 minutes ago, 5thWolf said:

It doesn't

Did some testing, configuring, messing around and looks like you'll need to create a custom badge for it to show.  

You can create it Visual Studio along with the LaunchBox API or use @jayjay's Custom Badge Creator app.

[5thWolf]

So png like all the other badges is encoded different? 🤔
I did make a 60x60 png badge

Also you have a link to his badge creator? Files under his profile doesn't seem to have anything like it.

Edited yesterday at 03:16 AM by 5thWolf

[5thWolf]

Also I made a feature request. Once the request is approved this link will be available for up-votes for anyone interested for it to hopefully have it added in LB updates so others don't have to go through all this to manually add Mic controller support badge.

https://feedback.launchbox.gg/p/microphone-controller-support-icon

[JoeViking245]

34 minutes ago, 5thWolf said:

lso you have a link to his badge creator?

 

[5thWolf]

So far I have not been able to get it to work. I compiled it like the instructions, put the Microphone.dll into the plugin folder, enabled the plug in under plugin badges, made sure its added as a controller supported in game, made sure the image was in the badge folder. And nothing.

[JoeViking245]

Can you share the .dll file you created?  What folder exactly did you put the image in?

[5thWolf]

Badge Microphone.dll

Here it is.
Also if I remove the manual addition I did before this app, then add the dll, enable the plugin badge, reboot LB. Under controller support Microphone doesn't show up.

[JoeViking245]

8 hours ago, 5thWolf said:

made sure the image was in the badge folder.

The LaunchBox Custom Badge plugin support is [still] partially broken (since at least LB version 13.21).  A bug report for it was submitted July 2025.

The good news is that it does work.  You just need to manually add the badge image to the proper folder and name it correctly.

• place your dll file in the /Plugins/ folder. 
• place you image file in
  • \Images\Media Packs\Badges\Nostalgic Platform Badges\
• The image file needs to be named the same as the UniqueID you gave it in the plugin.
  • mic.png

 

One thing I noticed with the plugin you created is that for the individual games, the Support value has to be blank (or select "(Empty)"). Otherwise it will not show. Not sure if that was intended but thought I'd mention it.

 

[5thWolf]

I originally had name and unique id as "Microphone" tried "mic" just incase the two names needed to be different.

I redid everything with "microphone" as both names, created the folder "Nostalgic Platform Badges" as you showed, put the Microphone.png inside and it doesn't show as an option to add to the game. Do I still have to manually add under manage controller support? Was assuming the DLL would have made it show up.

 

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, 5thWolf said:

it doesn't show as an option to add to the game.  Do I still have to manually add under manage controller support?  Was assuming the DLL would have made it show up.

Yes. The dll is just a Badge plugin.  Nothing more.

Then, add Microphone as a supported controller to your games.

 

1 hour ago, 5thWolf said:

created the folder "Nostalgic Platform Badges" as you showed

That folder didn't already exist??  What version of LaunchBox are you on?