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I'm a bit late concerning the move from VLC to WMP, it all works well for one exception; the videos are not really black but more of a dark greyish color. In my experience this is caused by setting it to limited color range 16-235 instead of full range 0-255. I have tried to go into the settings of both WMP and K-Lite but it doesn't make a visual difference, what should I do?

I got an issue with the Aetherial theme too. I downloaded it and applied it as my main theme and now I can't get into Bigbox any more (it just hangs right after the startup video). Not sure how to fix this sadly.

As someone running Windows 11 23H2 (on a Ryzen 9 5900X with RX 6900XT) and Feature-Locked the system using Group Policy Editor to prevent Microsoft from shoving updates down my throat that are more likely to gimp my system than to help anything - I have just updated to LaunchBox 13.22 and had to set it to use VLC as I am unable to get Windows Media Player (Legacy) to install due to the various lockdowns I've had to apply to prevent Windows Updates from gimping my system and hogging my limited-bandwidth connection (barely 25/5mbps on a good day. There are literally no better options where I live than Optus 4G "Mobile Broadband" with a bandwidth cap of 25/5mbps in exchange for no data cap in my part of Rural NSW, Australia). I'd happily finally drop Win11 23H2 to go with my Linux Mint Cinnamon 22 install full-time, if there was a Linux version of LaunchBox (that didn't need bodging with Lutris or Protontricks), as otherwise I'm doing my best to keep my gaming system free of Microsoft's forced junk like CoPilot, which would gimp the performance of my system if I loosened the lockdowns enough to allow for WMP (Legacy) to be installed.

I rolled back to 13.21 and the installer doesn't offer any input once it's done, it simply opens LB after it finishes and everything is back to working for me. If I recall this is the normal process when installing all versions of LB. There's not much happening with the installer itself. It's just extracting files and folders to the specified path and it puts a couple icons in the start menu like a shortcut to the LaunchBox.exe and uninstall .exe. It also checks to see if the .net and codecs are installed and if not it installs either or both. Since LB was designed to be portable they didn't have it installing tons of registry keys or registering .dll files all over your system drive. When I went back into 13.21 I started doing a couple changes as I wanted some different icons for a couple of my systems. Totally unrelated to the discussions we've had here today. I noticed each platform I edited and saved caused seemingly random fields in the platform such as the path to "Square" to become a UNC path but the rest of the fields were still relative paths. I don't know what "Square" is, and I never touched that field! It caused me to have to go back into my Platforms.xml file and remove the UNC paths yet again. There's definitely a few strange items happening when LB is sitting on a network drive even aside from the latest 13.22 issues. Hopefully this thread will get some attention and we'll see some updates. Until then, I hope everyone has a great and safe July 4th!!

I just updated BB as well, selected that theme to see how the Hybrid View acted, and applied it to all of my views. Same thing. It hangs as soon as it starts. It shows the platform view and hangs. If I press escape to skip the opening video that I have configured, then I can scroll passed 1 or 2 platforms OR select one real quick before it hangs. Once I select a platform, I can scroll through the games. Going back to the platform view will hang it again (windows says it's not responding and wants me to close it).

After watching it install on C:\ and it running LB right after successfully I would guess it installed properly on the net drive. It installed and went away with no install confirmation or anything just went straight to LB. Same as when installing to net drive except that the exe failed. So bet install is good using net drive.

Looks like the same thing with ESRB ratings as well for you too. Notice you changed the ESRB of Pinball Dreams to E yet it still reads as Not Rated... Chainging dead links (or wrong videos) in the video link field also comes up not changing

Same for ESRB ratings (at least for me), I'm after changing false wiki links (wiki links that are either non-existent, or for the wrong game), and they have been approved, but will not change. I've also removed a lot of false ESRBs (for games not even released in NA, or games release BEFORE the ESRB rating system existed), and they have all been approved, yet, the rating is still present after approval There are even phony ESRB ratings listed for ZX SPECTRUM and arcade games FFS.

Can we get this...

Console Style 02 View File Another console style Startup Video, enjoy. Submitter PhilYHC Submitted 07/04/2025 Category Startup Videos  

Done! All I did was point zinc to my mame roms folder. It automatically grabbed games only zinc supported, from there it was a simple matter of grouping sets between 11 different playlists and voila! Again, I am grateful for the help. You've been great!!! It looks like they'll let me add pictures to each playlist pretty self-explanatory. I wanted to add icons but it looks like I'll need to pay a premium? (which I am certainly not against! Perhaps one day I'll make the jump and fork over $100 to get lifetime premium. You know support the project! 🙂 ) I feel like I should share this after all of the work I went through. Outside of your suggestion regarding the mame plugin... it doesn't look like there's a way to distribute these playlists. I'm going to add art and details (right hand panel) to complete the set! This is fun. ☺️🤓🧐

Same issue here. When trying to run from a mapped drive on my NAS, the launcher never starts, there are no entries logged, and the splash screen never appears. Literally, nothing happens when Launchbox.exe is opened.

No worries. It's just a hobby. You didn't get an email because I didn't quote you and also you're not following this post. No biggie. If you're talking from within LaunchBox, you'd either put them into their own Platform or Playlist. You could then put those into whatever Category you want. (semantics matter) ONE WAY you could attain what you're after is, with the games all already imported, go through them and add accordingly to a playlist. Creating and populate them as you so desire. (right-click a game and in that menu somewhere is Add to Playlist.) Once you have a playlist to your liking, select all the games in the playlist and press Ctrl+E to start the Bulk Edit Wizard. In there, change the Platform for those games. Now they're all in one platform and you can delete the Playlist.

It doesn't matter if I go to platform view/ platform category view, or open up a platform from the game discovery page. it hangs BB.

Sorry am getting this late. My e-mail failed to notify me of this response. Had to come to the forum, I'll know that going forward. Oh wow! So the games were never broken out for this rom group, huh? That means that anytime someone wants to do ZN1, ZN2, Namco System 11 and god knows what else is included with that emulator they'll need to play them smushed together! It's not like Demul which has breakout rom groups like Naomi and Atomiswave, allowing you to make a section for each on frontends like Launchbox. Thanks for the advice and especially the pics! (I am a visual learner, I don't do well with reading). I wouldn’t mind curating these myself, but as soon as you mentioned an XML file, it got intimidating, lol! I could easily look up which ROM matches each Sony board and add them manually. If I go through with this, I’d want to share it with everyone so nobody else has to deal with this hassle. After all I added the pictures for each zinc game manually at one point may as well give them sections! Could you remind me again how does one seperate each individual game manually into it's own category? From there I'll go ahead and match the rom name with the board and give it it's own chill section

Well it installed just fine on C:\ and ran just fine. Moving over the EXEs did nothing. Whatever changes in this version has completely killed the app from functioning on a mapped drive. I hope this gets looked at for I been using LB on my mapped drive since I began using LB many many years ago. Never had an issue. I even spent hundreds upgrading my network to be 10g specifically to run everything faster and it has been wonderful! Please devs, look into this. I think the change from XML to SQLite may have something to do with this and as @Zarach mentioned about UNC vs Relative pathing. This is a problem since update 13.19!

I remember in the past sometimes the exe would install corrupt. I am going to try to install it on C: then just copy over the 2 exe. and see what happens! Just hope all others files installed properly.

It's weird but BB hangs when I load the platformview with the new Aetherial Theme, anyone else have this ?

My update to 13.22 has the same results yours does. The installer just disappears. Usually the update finishes and it launches the new version with the news window in the foreground to see the goodies they added for the version. Mine doesn't do anything, it just disappears. No errors, no logs, no AV behavior, nothing. Clicking the .exe from my network drive - either LB or BB does nothing.

Yeah. Its pretty annoying having to change the path after selecting a rom. @Zarach I guess I know now how to explain the pathing "UNC" vs "Relative"! So I take it your update to 13.22 was fine then? Also after you ran the installer, when it was done did it just disappear or was there a confirmation/OK button to hit when it completed? Mine just disappeared after the green bar hit 100% and seemed like it just didn't install properly.

Click on more options and report it as a false positive. I've done it myself, if they get multiple reports hopefully they will stop flagging it.