LaunchBox Plugins

Various plugins for the LaunchBox frontend for PC games and emulated console platforms.

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Installation details

To install any available plugins, download its corresponding DLL file from the latest release, and add it to the Plugins subfolder from your main LaunchBox installation folder.

Online Video Links

This plugin allows you to add online videos to your game, which will appear on the game's menu both in LaunchBox and BigBox. Mainly, it supports YouTube and Steam videos. The videos get played by LaunchBox's portable VLC distribution, so you don't have to worry about having the right video player installed.

LaunchBox Interface

There is a new menu item on the game's menu in LaunchBox, allowing you to manage your game's video links, which can be seen in the following screenshot, along with two sample video links. Once you open the video manager dialog, follow the on-screen instructions (and click "More info") to add, edit or remove your video links.

BigBox Interface

In BigBox, the video links can be played from the game's "Additional Apps/Versions" menu, as exemplified here:

Bulk Genre Editor

Currently, LaunchBox allows you to edit genres for games, however if you use the default Bulk Edit Wizard to edit them for multiple games then they will all be overwritten with the same exact set of genres.

This plugin allows you to add or remove genres to multiple games, while keeping each game's existing genres.

The new menu item is available for one or multiple selected games:

The menu item opens the following dialog form, where you can select the genre(s) that you want to either add or remove from each game:

You can also type in new or existing genres into the search box, which allows multiple entries separated by semicolon (;) and provides real-time suggestions:

Example:

Let's say I have 3 games: Game 1, Game 2, and Game 3. To start, they have the following genres:

Game 1 has genres: Action;
Game 2 has genres: Role-Playing;
Game 3 has genres: Action; Adventure;

After using this Bulk Genre Editor to add the genre "Beat 'em up", the result is this:

Game 1 genres: Action; Beat 'em up;
Game 2 genres: Action; Beat 'em up; Role-Playing;
Game 3 genres: Action; Adventure; Beat 'em up;