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Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to Navigate to Platforms/Playlists

📋 Summary
Enable users to assign custom keyboard shortcuts to immediately open a specific Platform or Playlist in Big Box and LaunchBox.

🎯 Feature Overview
Currently, Big Box allows general navigation via keyboard or controller input, but does not support direct access to specific Platforms or Playlists through configurable hotkeys. This feature request proposes:

  • The ability to assign a global keyboard shortcut to any Platform or Playlist

  • Pressing the shortcut in Big Box exits the current menu and instantly navigates to the corresponding Platform or Playlist

  • Each platform’s shortcut could be managed in LaunchBox under “Edit Platform/Playlist → Details → Shortcut”

📦 Benefits

  • Enables faster access to favorite collections without manual navigation (e.g. a “GameCube” button)

  • Opens the door for external automation (I intend to use a NFC scanner to load a particular playlist: e.g. tapping a Kirby amiibo on the scanner pulls up my Kirby playlist by calling a keyboard shortcut)

  • Improves accessibility and usability for users with large libraries

Status: Open To Community2 comments

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  • zombob

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    Nov 5, 2025

    My arcade has a streamdeck attached to it. The ability to switch platform with a push of a button is ideal, make this happen.

    • BatesArcade

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      Jan 12

      I’ve discovered that this is achievable with a plugin called CLI Launcher by superrob3000. Simply make a Windows shortcut pointing to:

      • “/filepath/Launchbox.exe” platform “<platform_name>”

      then map the shortcut to a hotkey!