Please add game bezels feature to launchbox
Issue #5086
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Hello,
I’m a LBP ownder and i propose to add game bezels feature to launch box. This feature is GREATLY missing.
“TheBezelProject” is a proper solution only for mame arcade roms. It is a bad solution for non mame arcade emulated roms. For consoles, the integration between cfg files and rom names is very bad even after using a renaming solution like “fatmatch” so the resault is that a lot of games stay with no bezels. The best thing to do is that bezels feature will be added to launchbox itself. This feature is the MOST missing from LB as far as i’m concerned. Dragon 57 (TBP creator) has no solution for this.
Would be lovely to get a reply back,
Amir
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I understand, though this is still greatly missing imo.
TBP adds bezels when going fullscreen so its possible. I think adding bezels to LBP would be worth the performance hit and time invested in implementing it. Moreover, TBP has a very weak integration or non existent one. All they do mostly is just adding more and more bezels which is a bit pointless when there is a bad integration between cfg and rom names. Many games won’t show bezels after name matching. Its a mess. I still hope bezels will be added to LB in the future.
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There is a difference. TBP is adding bezels using Retroarch’s interface by creating a config which is why it is so important to have naming exact. So it works inside of Retroarch. Launchbox, like RocketLauncher would have to do it on top of Retroarch which is why RL does what it does taking the game out of fullscreen. So, not as simple as you are thinking it is. Two different types of functioning that is being done.
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Thanks for the explanation. I hope You guys would adopt TBP approach sometime in the future and i’m sure you could make much better bezel integration. The problem with TBP is that they focus on adding more and more bezels while the integration between cfg files and roms is very bad. TBP offer not solution to renaming match and ask users to rename cfg’s using fatmatch but fatmatch will ignore some names for no reason and the resault is that many games keep not showing bezels and renaming so many cfg files manualy is not realistic. If you ever start to add bezel feature to LB then it would be the best if you adopt TBP approach but aim for 100% showing bezels and focus less of adding more and more bezels. Quality first, quantity later.
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Duplicate of #4582.
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This has been asked about several times and Jason advised it is currently not something on the list. He did mentioned this would be a pretty hard item to implement due to most emulators using exclusive fullscreen mode for games. You can see his original response about it here. Yes, Rocket Launcher does it, but it forces games out of exclusive fullscreen and use some other trickery to get it done which requires modules for each emulator to constantly need updates as emulators update.