LaunchBox 13.28 Beta Thread

[JaredN]

Hello,

In the screensaver, the Nintendo DS videos aren't centered.
Strangely enough, the vertical arcade videos—which have relatively similar aspect ratios—are centered.

Thank you so much for all your hard work!

[Retrofrogg]

When opening PDFs in the internal viewer, it sometimes renders the aspect ratio of the PDF incorrectly, in particular if there are a mix of portrait and landscape pages in the PDF.

[Juganawt]

I have a few minor nitpicks in regard to the new In the new clear cassette model (which, as a massive ZX Spectrum and C64 fan, I am extremely thankful for!).

There is a weird issue with the transparency and the reflective layer. There are these weird triangles on the corners of the box which are completely transparent and are not consistent with the rest of the model. When looking through the transparent sides of the model, you can clearly see a mirrored version of the inlay, which looks a bit off. It'd be a nice feature if we could add a new type of image that shows what was actually on the inverse of the cassette overlay, or maybe even populate the model with a cassette in various colours. 

Also, I'd love a double cassette jewel case model - many games had 2 cassettes side by side inside the jewel case, with 2 separate sets of cassette-holding prongs on the inside (4 prongs in total). Also, I'd like to see clam shell models. The ZX Spectrum and C64 had a variety of clam shell boxes from various companies, most notably the small, hard clamshells used by Imagine, Ocean and Datasoft, but also wider, softer clams from companies such as Mind Games, Mirrorsoft etc.

Finally, in the Images section of media, we currently have to assign cassette images as "Cart" or "Disc"s in the "Cart Front" and "Cart Back" image categories. It'd be nice if there was a properly labelled subcategory  for cassette tapes as well.

Still, as I said, these are very minor nitpicks, and aren't deal breakers in any way, but it'd be nice to clean things up a little and give us more versatility in accurately showing off the games in Launchbox.

[erebus316]

13.28 Beta 6, videos don't appear in Launchbox, i just did a fresh install for all media. I confirm I have the videos but they just don't show up in Launchbox

[JoeViking245]

18 minutes ago, erebus316 said:

13.28 Beta 6, videos don't appear in Launchbox, i just did a fresh install for all media. I confirm I have the videos but they just don't show up in Launchbox

To clarify:

Do they not show in LaunchBox?
Tools < Options < Visuals < Game Details - Show Videos

Or are they not playing?
View < Media < Auto-Play Videos (Ctrl+Alt+V)

[erebus316]

thanks again Joe that first fix did it.  I had turned on show videos under view > media > autoplay. In previous versions that was all you needed to do.

Thanks