LaunchBox 12.12 - Bezels & Image Packs
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- LaunchBox 12.12 is out now with the top two features from our recent community poll. Bezels from The Bezel Project have been integrated into LaunchBox, allowing you to download and set up bezels during imports and media downloads, and a new Image Pack tool can be used to easily import image packs, and create your own!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - The Bezel Project Integration
01:06 - Bezel Download During Import
04:34 - Bezel Download After Import
06:11 - Image Packs
06:29 - Image Pack Importer
08:30 - Image Pack Creator
10:03 - Export to Android Improvements
11:19 - Ending
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The Bezel Project team is super excited for it to be integrated!
Thank you Bezel Project team! :)
Definitely a nice addition for those that like bezels. I personally find bezels to be distracting but I appreciate the constant improvements and hard work that goes into launchbox. Every single person I've shown my setup to is blown away by it.
Nice! I've been looking forward to the Bezel Project integration!
LaunchBox just keeps getting better.
I am incredibly happy for these additions! Big props to Jason and all the team! I'm a big fan of consistency and spent lots of time trying to build libraries on launchbox that are matching size and format, too much time... The fact that these came out as the most voted features makes me incredibly happy and it's a sign that consistency is very important in the emulation front-end world! 🥳🥳
Been using the bezel project for years. This addition is so great. LaunchBox/BigBox only gets better and I love it. Nothing compares to it.
Im telling you now this is the best frontend ive ever used!!
Amazing collaboration. Thanks all involved. Such a great feature.
I added this to my set up and it makes it look so much better. A nice touch is some of the games show the controls and what button is what, takes the guess work out of it. Great job adding this!!!!!!
Thanks again. This is an amazing addition to Launchbox!
This is really awesome. The fact that Launchbox automates the process now. Amazing!!!
pretty cool guys. Thanks. I still hope that eventually high score leaderboards will work also for Retroarch, or that a way is found to do it. If not, no worries.
Very nice update. Thank you.
Can't wait to try this!
I run to my computer for a new Launchbox update like Billy Madison running to the mailbox on nudie magazine day.
Who’s Billy Madison? NEway, thx Unbroken Software, LLC and thx ETA PRIME!
I love the idea of the bezels. Would be good to have a section on the bezel with basic game instructions.
Great new features. Thanks for the video.
Would love a video on the best Android devices to use for LB on your main living room TV along with instructions on getting them set up. Maybe three choices to suit different budgets? 👍
super mise a jour! merci
And...like always......GREAT UPGRADE!!!!
Very nice!
very cool!!
As much as I personally prefer using non-specific console-based generic bezels instead of game-specific bezels since a lot of them use weird or mismatched artwork (WHY DOES THE SONIC 1 BEZEL HAVE METAL SONIC IN IT), the Bezel Project integration is a super neat feature, especially for arcade stuff!
I personally only use bezels for games that literally were categorized as Arcade, like NeoGeo, of course the Mame set, CPS1, and 2. My reason being is because consoles never had bezels because they were never arcade, you played them on your little 4.3 CRT and call it a day, LOL. It doesn't capture me since they simply never existed whereas arcades did have their bezels, to each their own. Nonetheless it's amazing that this is available to quench every taste. Amazing job from Launchbox as always. On a different topic I managed to do this, but I find myself having a hard time setting each overlay and bezel for each game individually, for a set of over 500 I can't see it working out, there's got to be a more efficient method to do it.
Hey, i love this front end, i even got the definitive prime license.
This works guys!
Gracious Amigo
Super!!
Is there any chance to have integer scale bezels?
Thank you so much!
I've tried this with my 3DO games yesterday. While it works great, I do not like that the game display portion is covered around the edges. Is there an option in Retroarch to shove the game display area one layer above the bezel image?
Do the Reflection Shaders and Mega-Bezel packs alsways have to be applied to the actual emulators? Every tutorial I find is about Retro-Arch. Fine and good, but what if I use Spectaculator for the ZX Spectrum games? Isnt´t there an option within Launchbox/Bigbox to apply those within Launchbox, so that every emulator can use them - especially the cool TV overlays?
Sorry for the noob questions, I appreciate any help.
I love the bezels, my only issue is I like to see the buttons somewhere , as playstation asking for certain buttons, and I'm like, no idea what that corresponds to on my controllers
Any plans to design a process to somehow gets bezels into say Daphne, Model 2 and Model 3 etc.? I understand they don't have them natively I don't believe, but see that Rocket Launcher (scary thing to work with) has them functional.
That looks exciting but how come I am seeing gameplay over the bezel in you video?
I got this to work with first install but I had an issue with conrol mapping so installed a new launchbox and retroarch. All my box art transfered over just no bezels. I don't know how to synch my bezels between the 2 but everything else sets up fine. Any pointers?
The topic was discussed on a past update but no visual for bigbox which I use for my pc platforms and also epic has just started achievements for there games any chance in a further update will we see that added as well to bigbox with a tutorial?
I followed step by step what you did in the second half of your video. Highlighted all of my existing arcade games and downloaded bezels for them. Bezels load just fine for 4:3 games but do not load for any vertical games. An example is 1942 just as you did in your video. No bezel loads for it. Image is in the artwork folder and named properly. Ini file points to that folder as well. I am using MAME without Retroarch and bezels are enabled in MAME. I can’t for the life of me understand why they work on 4:3 games but not vertical games. Any ideas?
Definitely a great featire bezel project!
Is there a way to add batocera videoscrapper un launchbox? Thx guys!!
Not sure, haven't looked into it. But we'll keep it mind. :)
Someone who can guide me please, it does not give me the option to download for various platforms, for example arcade (mame), it is necessary to delete and re-import, additional in some such as Atari 2600, Atari Jaguar, if I download the Bezels but does not show the emulator in this case all mentioned are with retroarch and this already updated from their respective option in the menu thinking that could be the problem but there was no change.
needs to have it automatically change the ini files Opacity from 0.75 to 1.00 like other FE's do to remove the see through parts (also makes the art brighter, not dark)
one question do you perhaps know where the bezels are stored?
Great, i do have one problem, i do exactly what you do (same system, same game) . now when i open retroarch and the game (with pico core) i see the bezel, when i open the same game with the same core in Launchbox i do not see the bezel. do you know what this could be ?
Hi, great update with the Bezel Project. Got a litte problem though. I already got most of my systems set up with the stand alone version of Bezel project. When i try updating a game via LB nothing happens an the old Overlay/Bezel is still there when i start the edited game.
This is due to the settings during either the import or download metadata/media wizards. There's a spot during the wizard where it asks you how you want to handle already existing data. You can either replace all of it entirely, add media/metadata that do not currently exist, or do not update games with any existing media/metadata.
Even tho i have downloaded the bezels for many systems, they won't show in BigBox. Am i doing something wrong? i followed exactly the steps in the video.
AMAZING!!! T H A N K YOU ETA PRIME! Launchbox/Bigbox is such a satisfying piece of software! Thank you for all improvements, for bezel integration, MAME import help, Image Pack Tool, Android Export and many many more. It´s just amazing perfect what you do here for us and all your videos on your channel.
For future maybe as someone already said a profile with age restrictions would be fine. And a romset export option! I mean: export full existing romsets (because for some reasons i have different folders for my roms etc) or export with filter for example: export all fighting and racing games from region xy from PS1 to folder xyz. Or: Export Roms + Roms Media for Backup. Or a "making this actual Launchbox Setup portable Help" . This would be a great help for organization. But it´s almost perfect for me as it is! As a l w a y s : Thank you!!!
Thanks. Just to let you know that there's already an export romset option. Find it under Tools > File Management > Export/Copy ROM files from Selected Games to New Folder
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC Thank you!
How do I disable the frame/tv outline? Because the crt bezel seems to be covering many parts of the game (corners and some).
You'll need to reach out to the bezel project folks and see if there are versions without the crt part of the image.
How do I remove the bezzels if I wanted to not have them after I've downloaded them?
But what if you use mednafen for sega genesis? Does launchbox set that up when it downloads from the bezel project? Or are these features only really happening for retroarch?
Yes, the features require either RetroArch or MAME. That's all The Bezel Project supports.
Bezel Project is awesome but only for US games (except mame) because the bezels go by rom name (if you use the packs)... so "Super Mario World (USA).zip" gets a bezel but "Super Mario World (EU).zip" etc. don't get a bezel. Does Launchbox maybe do any fuzzy matching? If not it would be awesome if that could be added. (pretty pls @Jason) :D
LaunchBox does use fuzzy matching, so in your scenario, it will pick up a bezel for that game.
hi, which is the path/folder where LB download the bezels? I would like to use, when availbale, the "RetroLust's - Mame 4K - Lights Out - Realistic Bezels 3.2" and they are saved into the artwork folder, into the MAME installation folder. Does LB save the bezels automatically in that artwork folder too? If so, i can overwrite with "RetroLust's Bezels" the bezels downloaded from LB and keep the bezels downloaded from LB when the Retrolust's aren't available. Thank you
Yes. LaunchBox saves bezels in the default location that the emulator expects them to be. So for MAME, it would be under your MAME's artwork folder.
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC ok! in this way first of all i will download bezels during the import phase on LB and then i will overwrite them with the one present into the Retrolust's collection. As MAMEUI isn't no longer supported, i switched to Arcade64 frontend: in order to add it into LB, i removed the MAMEUI installation and now i have to add Arcade64 collection: is it better to perform a full import or an update? Probably, as the romset is partially changed and the .exe file is different, it is better to perform a new full import and into the end, remove all the unneeded extra-files, is that correct?
Are the bezels also available in Android?
Is there any way to import the bezels for an unique game?
I downloaded all the bezels, i can see the files in the retroarch/overlay/gamebesels/psx folder but none of them show up for psx, they do work for nes and my mame set. why are they not working for psx, i used the launchbox automatic import method you showed in the video..,.
The most likely cause is an old game, core, or game folder override file for that system.
Hey, it's ETA Prime! Recognize that voice anywhere......
is the bezel project dependent on the name of the rom file still as it was in the past, or does the import process rename everything?
thanks as always for these videos
There's a few different passes when trying to match your games with the bezels, one of which is a rough matching system, and if a bezel is found, it will rename the bezel to match the name of your ROM file.
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC ah brilliant, thanks for letting me know.
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC That’s great to know because I renamed so many of my games 😂
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC "and if a bezel is found, it will rename the bezel to match the name of your ROM file" Oh, what a godsend! You have NO idea how much I personally appreciate that ability. Thanks to EVERYONE involved for this feature.
I followed the steps and downloaded just the bezels and nothing shows up when playing a game. What did I miss. Thanks
Edit..I re imported my arcade roms and there is a check box asking you what type of bezels you want. After they downloaded I can see them when loading a game.
If you already have the bezel project setup from before it was integrated, would you recommend removing all the old bezels before using this feature?
Shouldn't need to. It should just fill in any missing gaps.
Hi @all, thanks for the Video. But i have a Problem with the beezels in N64. They will be Downloaded but they didnt will Show when i start a Game. What do i wrong? I Hope Somebody can help me. Thanks a lot
Hello, Good Morning/Evening/Night my Dear Friend! Friend, I am having a problem adding the Bezels to Arcade Games through Launchbox. Would it be possible for you to help me?
I already have the bezel project and the bezels work from the Rom name. Has this been changed to work from the game name in launchbox?
We can't change how the emulators function, so they still require that the files match the rom names. However, we did add a rough matching system, which means that if we find a match, and your ROMs are not exactly the name of the bezel, then we change the bezel filename to match your ROM filename.
Tried to download bezels as a test on Sega 24 (my emulator for that is Mame 0.210), but didn't get the bezels option. Any ideas why?
It doesn't look like The Bezel Project has any bezels for Sega System 24.
Great work. This is amazing. Launchbox continues to get better. My number one request would be profiles with age restrictions. I don’t want children being able to access m (or ao 😳) games
ETA PRIME VOICE 👍
On an unrelated topic how can we see gog achievements in bigbox
What if I had mame with Bezel project already set up and I would like to update and manage it through Launchbox from now on?
It should just work. :)
Why use 2 frontends? isn't Launchbox enough? Why use retroarch?
Any chance to make a 3rd Party App or feature to trim MAME Arcade Full Set to save a lot of space?
The best option is to skip the CHD files and use the wizard to skip games that require a CHD. Then the full set is only ~50 gigs.
Unfortunately the bezel project uses a different naming convention to rom packs and can't be changed so you have to rename your romfiles.
The LaunchBox integration does use a rough matching system. Your file names don't need to be exact. We will make a match and generate the necessary config files.
This is not working for me. So I downloaded Bezels for the SNES to test, but when launching the game nothing happens. I use retroarch (bsnes) so Either is not compatible with that core or something needs to be activated inside retroarch.
Any thoughts?
Couple things could be the issue. Either the core used isn't supported (or doesn't have bezel support), or you have a core (or folder) configuration override created in RetroArch, and that file is stopping bezels from appearing.
What if I play vertical MAME games on a vertical monitor? I don’t want “horizontal” bezels rotated 90 degrees.
Then you wouldn't need a bezel at all
@@coinjunkie3906 A 3x4 game on a 9x16 screen will be centered with black spaces up and down. It would be nice a bezel project aimed to 9x16 screens.
How about none mame, retroarc emulators, like denise delphin...etc.?
just updated.
I don't get the "bezel project " option when updating media, does BP need to be in the same folder as LB, or is there an option to check somewhere?
The option would only show up if you are updating media for games that use MAME or RetroArch.
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC MAME is running my arcade games, I have run BP previously, and do have bezels for the majority of them already
It does work if I import new stuff, just nothing existing
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC Same here I'm using MAMEUI64 as the emulator but not getting the bezels option when selecting update media on my Arcade games?
Hi, Can you exit an emulator with a controller and return back to lauchbox like we do on the windows version ?
You mean with LaunchBox for Android? Yes you can, but it does require configuration in the emulators.
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC retroarch has a exit controller hotkey but not all independent emulator apps do. So I was curious if it could be done with lauchbox like in the windows version where we pause and exit the game. Which basically brings us back to lunchbox.
How about for android 🤔
Is there a way to add scanned gaming magazines or instruction manuals in launchbox?
There's a manual field for every game. Edit any game, and click on Media to see it. You can also associate more documents to each game via the Additional Apps section of the Edit game window. Like, adding a game map or other documents can be added there, and they will show up in the additional documents section when you right click a game, or even in the pause menu. If you want to just create a section of gaming magazines, drag and drop the magazines over LaunchBox and run through the import. You will have to provide your own metadata and media this way though.
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC thank you sir
Wish I could afford it.
I must be doing something wrong. I selected all arcade games, tools, download, update metadata data and media for selected games, go through all parts but no option for bezels? And yes I have latest update.
No option for bezels would mean you are running through the wizard for games that are not set up to run in either MAME or RetroArch. The new beta should increase support for people using older versions of mame (that use mame64.exe), or people using MAMEUI.
i just purchase LB premium ，i will give it a try
Is it possible to use bezels if you use a vertical screen. Have them top and bottom?
Doubtful (generally), but I'm not sure.
Honestly not sure. I doubt The Bezel Project supports it, but it might be worth a try.
Vertical bezels are supported by Mame and Retroarch. In Retroarch, they can be specified per platform for a global bezel, or per game. I don't think the Bezel project does vertical bezels though so its a manual process. forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2639-vertical-aspirations-console-bezels/
How can i Remove bezels? Please reply 🙏🏻
this video not subtitle?
how do you enable the bezels. never done it before seeing this video
Just by going through the process of importing or running the Download Metadata and Media wizard, you will see the option and set up bezels. no need to do anything else, as long as the game is using either MAME or RetroArch, and the core is supported. For any troubleshooting, we recommend you head to our community forums: forums.launchbox-app.com/
Can you turn the Bezels off?
Can you download theme and system? then switch between?
Unfortunately, no. You would need some kind of file injection or file manipulation to accomplish something like this. You can select certain games, then run the download metadata/media wizard to download a different bezel type for the selected.
Is it possible to remove the TV portion of the bezel?
That is all controlled by the Bezel Project. It's the aesthetic they have chosen to go with.
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC Oh okay wish there was a option to not have it show
Why I can't launch PCSX2 Nightly Build with Launchbox everytime I open a game?
Because they changed the command line parameters used. Specifically the one that makes it go full screen (although possibly others since their nightly is still in flux). Remove the ones inside your PCSX2 emulator entry inside of LaunchBox and it should launch.
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC thanks. Now it's worked.
This has got me stumped. I have the latest LB and mame .244 exe and roms. No retroarch. LB opens but refuses to play any games.
If you have a full mame romset (between 60-120GB depending on which type), then that's all you need to start the MAME Fullset Importer. LaunchBox will take care of downloading MAME and setting it up to work properly. I'd recommend heading to the community forums if you require any assistance with setting it up: forums.launchbox-app.com/
i still cant get most of my mame games to work. must be the version i found.
Link for ps2 bios please anyone?
Can anyone tell me where the mame bezels are stored in launchbox?
They are stored in your emulator. Inside your mame\artwork folder. If you got LaunchBox to download MAME for you, then it would be inside LaunchBox\emulators\MAME\artwork
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC 👍 Thank you
can you play with no bezels
This release brought bezels as an optional download during import and metadata and media wizards. Bezels are not required to be used to play games.
I wish you can transfer wirelessly and remote play.
Good to know!
@@UnbrokenSoftwareLLC Great software btw.
I dislike how Retroarch handles its overlays. You can't globally set overlay info with a few lines of code, instead you need thousands of cfg files to do the job. Plus the overrides cause issues for trying to save hotkeys for example.
How do you remove them. Please someone, I need to remove these horrible Bezels asap haha
75$ very expensive🙃
First? Moi? Hell Yeah! lol
I am going to be a villain here, but those bezels and the artwork look disgusting, who done them, five year olds? A lot of this you are going to swap out for better bezels, but just for something quick and easy, then yeah this is great. Sadly, a very poor standard from Project Bezels, I would not put my name to something unless it was superb.