Is launchbox premium worth it?

[Anonymous No.7121185]

started using launchbox a couple days ago and i really like it. They have a sale for black friday for lifetime premium for only 45 bucks. Should i buy it is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.7121229]

>>7121185
>paying for emulation
Kys

[Anonymous No.7121237]

>>7121185
>everybody is talking about this faggy launcher you have to pay for
Is there some point to this thing? I like the database of box art, but you view that in a browser here https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/
Unless the program can sort games by year/publisher there's no reason to even install it.

[Anonymous No.7121245]

>>7121185

Yes and then kill yourself, zoomy

[Anonymous No.7121253]

>>7121237
Why the fuck are their bible quotes on the bottom of all the pages on their site?

[Anonymous No.7121258]

>>7121237
Not quoted but it's nice for having all your emu shit in one place and pretty much the only alternative that seems to work with everything that can be launched straight into a game from cmd.
It used to be slow it became better after the dev took time to improve performance.
I only use the free version though. Premium seems more if you want the Big Box arcade/TV frontend, using a controller to select games, themeing and saving arbitrary filters based on game dev and stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.7121270]

>>7121253
>hurr downloading roms is stealing
Copying is not theft

[Anonymous No.7121341]

>>7121270
There are literal bible quotes on the bottom of every page

[Anonymous No.7121397]

>>7121341
Weird shit

[Anonymous No.7121490]

>>7121341
Yeah they're following Jesus' example of copying stuff and giving it away for free, which enrages the merchants.

[Anonymous No.7121542]

>>7121253
>When the Jesus fed the masses with just 5 loaves of bread, he became the worlds first online pirate. To go against Piracy is to go against Christ
It's an old & obscure meme

[Anonymous No.7121565]

>>7121542
Uh the quote I got is
>But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. Psalm 86:15 (NIV)
What the fuck does that have to do with piracy?

[Anonymous No.7121586]

>>7121185
>paying for a few extra setting on a UI
are you really asking that? then again, they thought it was a good idea to make it in the first place, so.

[Anonymous No.7121590]

>>7121185
bigbox is really fun

[Anonymous No.7121607]

I don't even remember what features the premium version has. I just remember being annoyed by the paywall when I tried the free version.

Does it even do anything that isn't already covered by Playnite? I think Launchbox is more geared towards emulators, but I know Playnite has some emulator-related features too.

[Anonymous No.7121630]

>>7121565
>when you eat free bread you are hurting the bread industry
>how will artists make new and interesting breads if they can't make a profit because Jesus is distributing it for free via breadtorrent

[Anonymous No.7121646]

Definitely worth it. I use it for my MAME attract screens on arcade machines so you can see all the attract modes of every game and it randomly
scrolls through your list to pick the next game.

[Anonymous No.7121669]

Keep in mind companies are competing for your TIME.

Yes ofcourse nobody gives a shit about you emulating Star Ocean 2.
What they care about is you not spending every free minute of your day on loot boxes.

[Anonymous No.7121680]

>>7121565
My post is the literal copypasta of the meme.

[Anonymous No.7121691]

>>7121185
Not if you're aware of Playnite/Pegasus or other modern Frontends no.

[Anonymous No.7121695]

>>7121630
>>7121680
The quote I posted isn't even related to that

[Anonymous No.7121697]

>>7121237
No. But it does have a ravenous sunk cost fanbase that explode whenever people talk shit about it, that alone makes it worth talking about.
Pic related has no premium, it's just free

[Anonymous No.7121721]

I love that thing, and would consider paying, if it didn't run so damn slow. It takes forever to load anything at all. Ive never been reassured that bigbox would be any faster either.

[Anonymous No.7121823]

>>7121697
No need to lie anon Launchbox can definitely sort with those options, at least it can now. I'm not going to try to shill this to anyone but I enjoy the program. I payed for it at a time when it was basically this, hyperspin, or trying to set up everything through Steam and I tried it free first and found it the easiest to import my romset to and I found the BigBox TV frontend appealing so I paid for it. There may be better alternatives out there now and I would recommend researching all of your options but I've never regretted the purchase and the program still gets frequent updates as well as the database, even most well known romhacks are in there with custom boxart and such. Miles better than fucking around with Retroarch playlists and manually loading roms for every emulator. At the very least I recommend a frontend whatever you choose.

[Anonymous No.7122015]

>>7121823
>Is there some point to this thing?
>No.
Clean your room, stoner

[Anonymous No.7122206]

>>7121185
if you like it, go for it, lifetime is only if you want to keep it updated permanently

[Anonymous No.7122229]

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Romans 5:8

[Anonymous No.7122243]

>>7122229
it's christmas, not easter

[Anonymous No.7122254]

>>7121229
It's not even emulation. It's just some fancy alternative to Windows Explorer that shows the game covers.

[Anonymous No.7122263]

>>7122229
Yeah I don't know what the fuck these fags are talking about this is some piracy meme, these are random bible quotes for whatever page you go to. Are the Lunchbox people Mormons or something?

[Anonymous No.7122272]

>>7122263
Based Christfags facilitating intellectual property theft

[Anonymous No.7122339]

>>7122272
That explains the lunchbox cultfags

[Anonymous No.7122347]

>>7121253
Same reason the Switch homebrew manager posts trump quotes and "trans is a mental illness" when you close it. To remind the hordes who the REAL hackers are. ;)

[Anonymous No.7122356]

>>7122347
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.7122368]

>>7122356
you can cringe it up your ass

[Anonymous No.7122373]

>>7121185
Worth it for the database integration. Can unify all your games' launchers and emulators in one program. Easy to toss in custom options for games that need 'em. Paired with an EmuMovies account it's pretty sweet to load this up on your living room TV via a Steam Link and play the retro vidya with a bro.
>The devs being based Christfags is a bonus. Love me some Bible.

[Anonymous No.7122383]

>>7121823
Using WinRAR instead of 7z...

[Anonymous No.7122421]

>>7121185
>watch one video by this faggot
>now its constantly in my recommendations

[Anonymous No.7122428]

>>7122272
>God makes software piracy possible
Thank you based God

[Anonymous No.7122469]

I just read about Launchbox for the first time, are they making people pay for a frontend that only runs emulators and modern games, or does it have any features that separates it from other frontends that are free?

[Anonymous No.7122494]

>>7122469
As far as I know, the base program is free, but you have to pay for the "Big Box" mode which is meant for things like Mame cabinets.

[Anonymous No.7122517]

>>7122494
Big box mode for MAME sounds neat but I'm sure as shit not going to pay some dudes for what passionate programmers will do for free. Is there anything else that they do differently from a front loader like RetroArch (yeah I know) other than the modern game support and the cool MAME big box mode?

[Anonymous No.7122524]

>>7122517
It's not even meant to replace something like RetroArch. Most people are actually using it in conjunction with RetroArch. It's not even an emulator, it just shows you your rom folder in a fancy interface and then boots up the emulator(s) you have set up in conjunction with it.

[Anonymous No.7122540]

>>7122524
yep, it;s what I use it for, organise all my stuff with launchbox and use mostly retroarch for emulation

[Anonymous No.7122541]

>>7122524
So people are paying money to (mostly) just autolaunch what they already have on their computer? I'm trying to wrap my mind around this, that sounds ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.7122543]

>>7122469
>or does it have any features that separates it from other frontends that are free?
Mostly that it actually works fairly painfree and has a cover art database with some extras for Mame and stuff.
Pretty much all the alternatives last I checked were outright painful & easily broken while setting up in contrast while launchbox just has you run a wizard or two and add in the categories you want.

[Anonymous No.7122550]

>>7122541
It’s a launcher frontend to have all your thousands of games/movies/etc organized and in one place and it’s free.
If you pay-up you have a hasslefree way for an arcade build frontend or playing on your couch/TV.

That’s about it.

[Father Electronics Couture No.7122769]

>>7122421
>watch one video by this faggot
>now I have a thing for bespectacled twinks

[Anonymous No.7122785]

>>7122541
If you just rename the image file of the cover to "Folder" then it will display that as the icon for that folder in Windows. Not perfect but works okay.

[Anonymous No.7123445]

>>7122541
it's a free program, you only pay if you want extra features like big box

[Anonymous No.7123743]

>>7123445
Where can I get a jagged SNES controller like this?

[Anonymous No.7123808]

>>7121185
I think I've heard it slows down quite a bit with larger libraries, so keep that in mind if you want to add a lot of games - which is kind of the main point isn't it? But I guess it's pretty user friendly as far as setup goes and quite customizable in how it looks.

[Anonymous No.7123857]

>>7121542
How is it piracy to "copy bread" when you own the entire world? If someone used the recipe and stole the credit from Jesus for it, that would fit better into the analogy. Pretty good and interesting analogy, regardless, but it would fit better if the subject was someone else giving up the bread owner's goods rather than the bread owner, himself, charitably giving away his own goods.

[Anonymous No.7124479]

>>7123857
The bread is the leaked crack/repack by Jesus, the insider at the the development studio of GOD.

[Anonymous No.7124512]

>>7121253
>>7122347
There just tends to be an overlap in turbo autists that are willing to develope these kinds of things and being a zealous idealouge. Don't care if the work is good

[Anonymous No.7124516]

>>7122383
Redpill me on why I should go through the effort of switching. Not saying 7z isn't better but why? Atm there is nothing "bad" enough about Winrar to make me want to look for alternatives

[Anonymous No.7124530]

>>7123808
7000 games and counting. Very little slowdown. Sometimes when adding and editing games things freeze up for a moment but that's really it

[Anonymous No.7124550]

>>7124479
But Jesus IS the developer and owner of the studio. Where's the cracking?

[Anonymous No.7124589]

>>7124516
>not 7zip
>2020
Have you just awoke from a coma or are you 40+ years old?

[Anonymous No.7124626]

>>7124589
What does it do that Winrar doesn't do? Lol

[Anonymous No.7124690]

>>7121229

Its a frontend launcher you ninny.

[Anonymous No.7124806]

>>7124690
>paying for frontends

[Anonymous No.7124843]

>>7124626
I don't need to run a crack to remove the nag screen.

[Anonymous No.7124864]

>>7122785
Based tip. I already keep the art and supplemental materials in a folder with the rom. Then drag and drop the rom on the emulator or associate the extension. Windows is still the best frontend.

[Anonymous No.7124987]

i love launchbox but the premium price became a bit high over the years.

the main appeal is automatically finding and downloading game information/images from databases and automating shit that can make booting some games a chore.
like i used to use batch files to mount cds and auto launch xpadder and whatnot, but with launchbox you just figure that shit out once and you're done.
i play so many more games than I used to because they became easier to get running.

another thing is the custom themes and being able to edit everything about it, which is pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.7125119]

>>7124987
>Champions
My nigga

[Anonymous No.7125131]

>>7122254
>>7124690
>paying for frontends
Imagine being this much of a cuck