Feature request: BEZELS

[antony patterson]

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[antony patterson]

I have been using launchbox and bigbox for years now, and I really thought we would have a bezel/overlay option by now. I know we can in Retroarch, but thats not good enough! I simply want to accurately emulate an 8 bit machine with a bezel to look like a TV, I dont think thats too much to ask for in 2020.

Rocketlauncher doesnt quite manage it, and Retroarch although a great frontend doesnt run even half of the emulators I want to use.

Now we have a Pause menu implemented, surely it would be easier to adapt it show a screen bezel if required, according to your screen ratio.

Just saying we are not going add a bezel feature because retroarch and mame supports them, doesnt mean that its not the single biggest feature missing from launchbox, and one that everyone wants!

[Jason Carr]

The reason that we’re choosing not to implement bezels is because it’s impossible to do without terrible hacks. If there was a good solution, we would tackle it. But there isn’t. It’s something that Windows is simply just not designed for. It can only be done with crazy hacks, and even then, it’s often broken and unstable.